October 5, 2026 Hold Off on Muse Meta has released a very powerful new AI agent app called Muse. Likewise, OpenAI has released a similar app called Dots. Both apps feature…
September 7, 2026 Use a Secure Wi-Fi Router Probably the single most important device on your home network in terms of security is your Wi-Fi router. In most cases, it’s the only…
August 24, 2026 Digital Citizen: Phase 2 As part of my celebration of the upcoming 500th podcast, I’m launching Phase 2 of my “cyber neighbor” campaign to both help as many…
August 10, 2026 AI Tech Support: Trust, but Verify One of the most underrated uses for modern chatbots, in my estimation, is tech support. I don’t mean the chatbots offered by product websites,…
June 29, 2026 We Can Do This With the 500th podcast and America’s 250th anniversary approaching, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how we can be better digital neighbors…
April 6, 2026 Routers Behaving Badly The US is planning to ban all foreign-made or foreign-designed home WiFi routers… which is basically all routers. It’s true that many consumer routers…
March 23, 2026 Spring Cleaning When we think about improving security and privacy, we tend to add things: password managers, VPNs, encrypted communication apps. But one of the most…
February 23, 2026 New Google Alternatives In my seemingly never-ending quest to replace all things Google, I’ve finally found some solid, private alternatives to Google Sheets and Google Forms. And…
February 9, 2026 Agents of Misfortune The latest craze with artificial intelligence is agentic AI – exhibited most recently in the viral AI project called ClawdBot… or Moltbot… or OpenClaw….
January 12, 2026 Private AI Chat AI has many problems, but also has promise. Today I’m going to focus on one particular problem that has some viable solutions: privacy. Chat…
