Tailscale: Build a Free, Secure Tailnet for Remote Access to Your Home PCs
I built my own secure network in the cloud to access my home PCs remotely, for free Mid-trip I needed dependable remote access to two home-lab PCs without exposing RDP to the public internet. Instead of a commercial VPN or a screen-sharing service, I created a private tailnet with Tailscale so my travel laptop and […]
IBM Granite 4.2: Apache‑2.0 LLMs with Controllable Chain‑of‑Thought, 128K Context, and Agentic RL
TL;DR Apache‑2.0 LLM family (Granite 4.2) in 3B / 8B / 30B sizes with explicit chain‑of‑thought controls, long‑context engineering, and agentic RL applied to the 8B and 30B models. Granite Speech 5.0 Turbo CTC is a 470M‑param, high‑throughput CTC ASR family. All architecture, benchmark and throughput numbers below are vendor‑reported by IBM (Hugging Face model […]
Publics Prefer Cooperation — Middle Powers Can Use Institutional Levers on AI, Climate and Health
Doomsday rhetoric climbs while publics worldwide back cooperation, a political opening Nuclear threats are back in the headlines, leaders trade blunt ultimatums, and the Doomsday Clock is “moving ever closer to midnight, ” yet a large new global survey finds most people favour working together across borders rather than retreating into zero‑sum nationalism. The poll, […]
Universal adapter vs travel charger: which power gear should you pack?
Universal adapter vs. travel charger: Confused? Here’s the device you need most You land in London, plug something in, and your cheap adapter leaves the metal prongs exposed. That little jolt of panic is exactly why the right travel power gear matters. Quick decision: which to pack Travel light, few devices: A quality universal travel […]
AlphaPepe On-Chain DEX Claims: What to Verify on-Chain Before You Buy
AlphaPepe Claims On-Chain DEX Before Listing, What to Verify Before You Buy AlphaPepe presents itself as a hybrid: a meme-driven token story plus an early product rollout. AlphaSwap (an AI-enabled DEX) and AlphaRouter (a route optimizer) are available in early access before ALPE lists on major exchanges. Third-party coverage that reports presale metrics and partnership […]
Automate governed weekly finance reports with Amazon Quick Desktop and FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Governed reports with Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Weekly reporting often costs finance teams hours of file-hunting, copy/paste, and reconciliation. An AWS walkthrough by Ebbey Thomas and Eugene Thomas shows a practical pattern that keeps source files on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP) while using Amazon Quick Desktop […]
Linux at 35: A playbook for leaders on licensing, tooling, governance and scale
‘Just a hobby, won’t be big’: a 35-year look at how Linux grew up (and why leaders should care) On Aug. 25, 1991 a Finnish graduate student posted to comp.os.minix about “a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.” That modest Usenet note, part curiosity […]
Google AI Overviews: Metrics, experiments and plays for publishers and business leaders
Has AI made Google Search better, or worse, for publishers and businesses? Look at the top of a Google results page lately and the familiar list of links is often not the first thing you see. Instead you may get an “AI Overview”: a short, generative answer, sometimes with cited links, sitting above the classic […]
Datacentre boom in Scotland hits political pushback, reshaping AI infrastructure planning
Never seen this level of objection: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom A proposed hyperscale datacentre in Auchtertool, Fife, described in planning drawings as a 35-metre-high facility with a capacity of 600MW and an area the documents characterise as larger than 100 football pitches, has turned a routine planning application into a national political issue. […]
Copilot’s AI‑Generated XRP $4–$7 Forecast: A C‑Suite Checklist to Verify Claims and Act
An AI‑generated XRP number landed on C‑suite desks. Now what? CryptoNews reports that Microsoft Copilot, according to the article, generated an XRP price scenario of $4, $7 by the end of 2026, with a base case near $5. That’s a striking figure compared with XRP trading around $1.50 at the time of the report. Treat […]