August 6, 2024

The Windows laptop market is in disarray. There are some good reasons to wait a year before buying a new computer. (Or buy a Mac. They’re pretty magical.) Your next PC might be one of the latest Windows laptops with Qualcomm Snapdragon processors, which feature vastly improved battery life. They’re marketed as “AI PCs” but you should…

July 23, 2024

I’ve got a scary story about technology for you. Nope, not the Crowdstrike meltdown. Here’s one you might have missed. China has hacked into our power grid. The NSA, FBI, and CISA (“Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency”) went public a year ago with details about Volt Typhoon, a Chinese effort to plant malware in power grids,…

July 17, 2024

“I pulled the blinds down in my office so Detective Strizzi and I could watch the surveillance footage of the CEOs being murdered onstage. I was drinking these days more often than being a private investigator, but Emily knew the right way to bait a hook for me. She told me the execs had been…

July 10, 2024

Read to the end for a glimpse inside the book promotion business! I know we’ve spent a lot of time flogging our books recently, but (1) Jim and I have been working hard and the books are good enough and they’re smart enough and doggone it, people like them; (2) getting people’s attention requires repetition;…