Pick a Linux backup tool in 2026 without burning another weekend
I have spent the better part of a decade running backup strategies for production servers and personal workstations. If there is one thing I have learned the hard way, it is this:…
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Age verification for social media is the first step toward a logged-in web
Age verification for social media (a system that requires users to prove their age, usually through government ID, biometric scans, or third-party age-estimation services, before they can create an account) is spreading…
Chrome hid a multi-GB AI model on your disk without telling you
I opened Activity Monitor on my MacBook last Tuesday and noticed Chrome was using 8 GB of disk space for something I had not downloaded on purpose. The file was sitting in…
My smart TV has never touched Wi-Fi, and I still stream everything
I have not connected my smart TV to my home network in three years. I do not mean I sometimes forget. I mean the TV has never had the Wi-Fi password typed…
VLC is the most powerful media tool on your PC, and most people never noticed
I have been running VLC (VideoLAN Client, the open-source media player that ships on basically every operating system) for fifteen years and I treated it like a fancy .mp4 viewer. The icon…
Claude Design, but the free tier you can actually run
Up until a few months ago, my biggest complaint with AI tools was that the free tiers simply did not cut it anymore. I have since accepted that there is no escaping…
Incognito doesn’t hide you, and the one that does costs you
Incognito windows are a false sense of security. Your ISP can still see what you am doing, and the websites you visit still fingerprint your browser. Incognito clears your local history. That…
Brave’s Shred button lands on Android, and trackers hate it
I have run the same experiment on three different Android browsers over the last six months, and the result is always the same. I open a news site, read three articles, get…
Seven viral ChatGPT image prompts, ranked by what holds up
I spent a weekend running the most-shared ChatGPT image prompts against GPT Image 2 (OpenAI’s current flagship image model, released earlier in 2026) and found something the viral posts leave out. About…
Indirect prompt injection: the AI security hole nobody has closed
I read the recent Brave disclosure about indirect prompt injection attacks on Mozilla Tabstack and Cotypist twice, and the most unsettling line in the paper was the one near the end. The…