Apple’s Creator Studio bundle, shown with a lineup of the included creative app icons. Source: Apple Newsroom I’m not usually the guy who gets hyped about a new subscription. Subscriptions are how software companies quietly move into your wallet, set up a tent, and start charging rent. But Apple Creator Studio has...

Recap: This past week wasn’t what I hoped for. I got sick right after Monday and ended up staying home the rest of the week. I didn’t get anything productive done. I mostly just slept. The vibe Sick-all-week energy. Low battery. Blah. That’s the vibe. Highlights I’m not totally sure what triggered it, but I started...

Recap: A mostly quiet back-to-routine week: school kicked off again, early tennis mornings returned, I binged some solid TV, and work was the usual security grind with one real troubleshooting headache. The vibe Back-to-routine whiplash. The week was mostly steady and low-drama, but the early mornings hit hard, and...

Content note: This post discusses child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and AI-facilitated sexual exploitation at a high level (no graphic details). Grok’s chat UI on screen, shown in soft focus. Photo: Salvador Rios on Unsplash This is not “spicy content.” This is sexual violence, and when minors are involved it is...

New year, same attackers. I’m kicking the Weekly Roundup back into gear for 2026 so we can track what actually matters: the patches worth prioritizing, the campaigns worth watching, and the patterns worth learning from. No doom-scrolling. Just signal. Cybersecurity Weekly Roundup — the week’s biggest security news,...

Split between Apple Health and ChatGPT, showing convenience versus privacy risk. (Image generated with ChatGPT) OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Health, a dedicated health-focused tab inside ChatGPT that can (optionally) connect to wellness apps like Apple Health and let you upload medical records for more personalized...

This week’s notes cover the tail end of 2025 and the first few days of 2026. It was another short week with New Year’s Day off on Thursday, then right back to work on Friday. The vibe Late 2025 stayed about as quiet as it gets. Mostly calm and steady, with a few quick spikes of anxiety mixed in. Highlights The older...

Image by 200 Degrees from Pixabay (Cropped) Direct navigation, the “I’ll just type the site name real quick” habit, has quietly become one of the web’s dumbest footguns. Brian Krebs put a spotlight on it in Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content, summarizing new research that shows parked domains are no...

Photo by BoliviaInteligente on Unsplash I can’t believe it’s already 2026. Looking back, 2025 was a real mix of highs and lows, wins and frustrations, and the usual chaos that comes with juggling work, school, and trying to build things on the internet that don’t disappear the moment a platform decides to change the...

People tend to file “AI” into one of two buckets: magic oracle or job-stealing robot. Both are wrong in the same way. They treat AI like an independent actor instead of what it actually is in a SOC: a capability you wire into your process. Used poorly, AI becomes an expensive confidence machine that hallucinates,...

TThis week’s note is shorter than usual since it was a holiday week and everything ran on “short week” mode. The vibe Last week was steady in the best way. I only worked through Wednesday, and work stayed mostly quiet outside of the usual alerts and the occasional support call. Personally, I did what I’ve needed for...

Can you believe another year is almost over? It’s been a whirlwind of learning, growth, and new beginnings. As I look back on 2025, I am filled with gratitude for the incredible journey that has brought me here. With all these services doing their “Wrapped” featured, I thought it would be fun to share my own year in...