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News, analysis, and practical guides on the technology shaping what comes next. From people who build it every day.
Microsoft stops sending text and voice sign-in codes for most work and school accounts on February 1, 2027. We think the phone number is done as a sign-in key, and we'd move your whole office to passkeys this fall, admins first.
Microsoft stops sending text and voice sign-in codes for most work and school accounts on February 1, 2027. We think the phone number is done as a sign-in key, and we'd move your whole office to passkeys this fall, admins first.
GPT-6 and Intelligent UI began rolling out in ChatGPT's everyday Chat tab on Oct 7, 2026, so a cost question can come back as a comparison or a working estimator. A generated calculator still needs local prices, and we expect it to name the businesses that publish them in plain text.
We think the Google Business Profile is becoming the script Google's AI reads about your business, and Google's new four-day rule for suggested edits is the latest sign. What changed in September, and the weekly check we'd run.
UpGuard found 16,326 Supabase databases with tables anyone could read. We think vibe-coded apps will soon have to prove their data is locked, and we show how to check yours this week.
Next.js shipped eight security fixes in eight days, and two more are coming. We moved all 130 Next.js sites we run the day after the latest release. Here's how to check yours.
AI assistants are about to start filing quote and booking requests. Amazon blocked Meta's Muse, but a local business shouldn't. What's coming, and how to let agents in safely.
Google's AI now introduces most businesses before their own websites do. We searched 20 Cincinnati-area business names and 17 got an AI Overview. Where this goes next, and what to fix now.
A person reads your website. An assistant tries to get something done on it. Three levels decide how well a site handles that second visitor: readable, quotable, usable.
A few connected stories. One clear direction. Follow each path from the big picture to your next practical step.
Check the whole experience, tighten data access, then plan how you'll keep it maintained.
Understand the new audience, see how it finds your business, and make the next step usable.
Check the whole experience, tighten data access, then plan how you'll keep it maintained.
Understand the new audience, see how it finds your business, and make the next step usable.
Notes from our own projects: what we tried, what happened, what surprised us, and what you can take from it.
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