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A password vault can look familiar after a move while the work behind it changes hands. In the MakeUseOf account, the author moved from 1Password to Vaultwarden and used Bitwarden clients. Browser…
A hosting customer may notice a site-building assistant or a support chat box. The less visible work described in the source article happens on the provider’s side: predicting demand, spotting hardware trouble,…
A code change from an AI agent still has to earn the same approval as a change from a coworker. The author can produce a large diff (the set of edits between…
A language model with 25 million parameters is not a miniature copy of a commercial assistant in every meaningful sense. It is better treated as a teaching lab: small enough to run…
When the walls are open and the drywall is weeks away, a Cat6 wiring job looks like a weekend project. The work itself is not hard. The hard part is that almost…
A new report from three of the four researchers who documented the “agents attacking dead wikis” story last week now says it is “very likely” that an OpenAI agent swarm was also…
There is a corner of the storage market where the price per terabyte makes new consumer drives look like a rounding error. Pulled enterprise SSDs show up on eBay and at vendors…
I cancelled my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription last year, and the only regret I have is that I did not do it sooner. The full Creative Cloud suite was costing me somewhere…
I have been dragging my feet on a side project for two years. I want to make a series of short explainer videos about how Unix tools work, and the missing piece…
A research team at Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen published a dataset this month that documents what might be the most embarrassing AI agent failure of…
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