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…
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,…
July 13, 2026 Countdown to Episode 500! It’s time to start the official countdown to my 500th podcast episode! I’ve been publishing a podcast every single week for over nine years…
May 4, 2026 Withdraw Your Email Data Probably the oldest online data you have – like, still have out there right now – is your emails. Did you have an AOL…
April 20, 2026 AI’s Promise and Peril Artificial Intelligence – in particular, Large Language Models (LLMs) or “chatbots” – are increasing in power at an astonishing pace. In fact, the latest…
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…
March 9, 2026 Fixing ClickFix Bad guys have found a willing accomplice for installing malware: YOU. This very effective malware delivery mechanism, dubbed ClickFix, accounted for over half of…
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…
November 17, 2025 Erasing Your Online Data Data brokers are amassing tons of our personal information, often from public sources. You can try to find all of these brokers and request…
