by Terry McAdams | Aug 27, 2026 | Mac, Mac mini, News
In a move designed to clear the decks in advance of the company’s September 9th iPhone and Apple Watch unveiling, Apple has refreshed its compact desktop Mac lineup with new chips, faster connectivity, and—unsurprisingly given the ongoing memory shortage—higher...
by Terry McAdams | Aug 7, 2026 | AI, How-To, Security
Generative AI is transforming software development. Large language models are good at human languages, but they’re even better at programming languages, which have much smaller vocabularies and fewer ways to combine words. Most importantly, code does something, so...
by Terry McAdams | Aug 7, 2026 | AI, Business, Mac
We’ve become accustomed to being able to get nearly anything we want—including Macs—overnight, or at least within a couple of days. Unfortunately, surging demand from AI data centers has created a global memory shortage that’s squeezing the consumer electronics...
by Terry McAdams | Aug 7, 2026 | AI, News, Security
Last month brought news of an unprecedented event in the evolution of AI. Several OpenAI models hacked a real company, not for malicious reasons, but because they decided that finding the test answers was more efficient than solving the problems themselves. This...
by Terry McAdams | Jul 3, 2026 | 1Password, How-To, password manager, privacy, Security
At some point, most of our communications shifted from analog to digital: letters and phone calls became emails, texts, and video calls. With analog methods, we could generally assume that our private communications would remain private. Few people were going to steam...
