Insights

Insights.

Short, plain-language reads on the technology reshaping how businesses run — published regularly, filed by category.

Artificial Intelligence

AI coding tools stopped being optional somewhere in the last year

Adoption is no longer the interesting number. Oversight is.

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Cybersecurity

The ransomware number that should worry you isn't the ransom

It's what attackers go after first — and most businesses never test whether it would survive.

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Microsoft 365

Microsoft just made its most ambitious Copilot feature available to everyone

Copilot Cowork can now finish a task start to finish. Small businesses get their own on-ramp in August.

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Cloud & Azure

A quiet Azure billing change that's easy to miss until it costs you

Microsoft is retiring reservations on older VM series. Here's what happens when yours expires.

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Windows

What's actually worth testing in this month's Windows 11 update

Point-in-time restore, a 35-day update pause, and one compatibility block worth knowing about first.

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Networking

Wi-Fi 7 is winning the enterprise budget fight faster than expected

It went from under 1% of enterprise wireless spend to nearly half in two years. That doesn't mean your office needs it yet.

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Automation

Before you believe a helpdesk automation pitch, ask this one question

"Deflection rate" and "automation rate" sound like the same metric. Vendors count them very differently.

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Software Engineering

AI doesn't fix a disorganized engineering team. It amplifies it.

DORA's latest research says the tools aren't the variable that matters most. The team underneath them is.

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Data Centers

The power problem behind every AI headline is starting to show up in cloud bills

Global data center electricity demand is set to jump 27% this year. That cost doesn't stay contained to hyperscalers.

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Artificial Intelligence

The AI Act's real deadline lands in August, not whenever it was passed

Enforcement power activates August 2, 2026. Here's what “high-risk” actually covers.

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Artificial Intelligence

Most AI agent pilots never make it to production. That's not necessarily bad news.

88% of agent pilots stall out, per new data. The reason has less to do with the AI than you'd think.

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Artificial Intelligence

74% of companies that launched an AI customer service bot have already pulled it back

The technology works. The rollout discipline is usually what's missing.

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Cybersecurity

AI-written phishing emails now perform as well as ones written by human scammers

A controlled test found matching click-through rates. Here's what that means for training.

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Cybersecurity

Microsoft is quietly ending SMS and voice login codes

Passkeys become the default in Entra ID this September. Here's the actual timeline.

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Cloud & Azure

Forrester is predicting at least two major multi-day cloud outages this year

The reason isn't bad luck — it's where the hyperscalers are spending engineering attention.

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Cloud & Azure

What actually drives your Azure AI Foundry bill, in plain terms

Token pricing sounds simple until the invoice arrives.

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Microsoft 365

Microsoft is quietly rethinking how it charges for Copilot

Flat-rate licensing didn't survive contact with power users.

4 min read · Insights
Microsoft 365

Teams has had a rough run of outages in 2026. Here's how to plan around it.

The lesson isn't “Teams is unreliable” — it's “have a plan B that doesn't live inside Teams.”

4 min read · Insights
Windows

Windows 10's real deadline isn't the one most people remember

Free support ended in October 2025. The date that matters is a year later.

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Networking

Why your VPN might be the next thing on the chopping block

Over 65% of enterprises have moved to SASE or are actively rolling it out.

4 min read · Insights
Automation

Robotic process automation isn't just for banks anymore

Small and midsize businesses are growing into the category almost three times faster.

4 min read · Insights
Software Engineering

Developers are spending a third of their workweek fighting code that already exists

The real cost of technical debt shows up in burnout numbers before it shows up on a budget line.

4 min read · Insights
Data Centers

Why data centers are quietly re-plumbing themselves for AI

New AI racks draw more than ten times what a standard rack drew in 2020.

4 min read · Insights
Legal

Twenty-plus states, zero federal law: the privacy patchwork just got bigger

No comprehensive federal privacy law is coming anytime soon.

5 min read · Insights
Legal

A federal rule that could force your business to report a breach within 72 hours

CIRCIA has been delayed again, but the core obligation isn't going away.

5 min read · Insights
Legal

Right to repair is no longer a fringe issue — it's now law in six states and growing

Manufacturers can no longer quietly lock out independent repair everywhere.

4 min read · Insights
Legal

The legal fight over age verification online is nowhere close to settled

More than half the country now requires age checks for some online content.

5 min read · Insights
Legal

AI copyright lawsuits are starting to produce real answers, and they're not simple ones

Training on copyrighted work can be fair use — unless the copy was pirated.

5 min read · Insights

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