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Malware in app stores (and the lawyers who try to protect it)
Google slapped a “featured” badge on Chrome browser extensions that hoover up your AI conversations.
Dec 19
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Chris Hoffman
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Windows 11 is using password managers to kill passwords
You can finally sync passkeys. Is this the passwordless future?
Dec 12
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Chris Hoffman
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Is this the end of cheap RAM?
AI data centers are eating the RAM market, and it's getting bad fast.
Dec 5
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Chris Hoffman
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November 2025
Support Me: Why I switched to US Mobile
Plus a meditation on affiliate links.
Nov 28
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Chris Hoffman
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Windows ARM laptops are amazing, actually
Thoughts from 16 months with a Surface Laptop
Nov 21
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Chris Hoffman
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Why I stopped recommending Windows utilities
The Windows software scene used to be fun. Now, it's dangerous.
Nov 14
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Chris Hoffman
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Windows 11's S Mode and Microsoft's failed closed-platform dreams
Windows is open -- but only because Microsoft failed to lock down the PC.
Nov 7
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Chris Hoffman
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October 2025
Remembering Bing Sydney, the AI Microsoft wants you to forget
Copilot Mico is not Microsoft's first digital companion.
Oct 31
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Chris Hoffman
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Web Browser Keyboard Shortcuts [NFO]
Unlike an AI browser, this one-page printable cheat sheet won't talk back!
Oct 30
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Chris Hoffman
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My favorite Windows web browser (without AI)
With a few tweaks, Brave is what Firefox and Chrome were in their golden ages.
Oct 24
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Chris Hoffman
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What if the writing was art all along?
Playing a fool in a Shakespearean play taught me a lot about tech writing.
Oct 19
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Chris Hoffman
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The best VPNs (and how affiliate links broke the web)
Confessions and recommendations from an ex-Editor-in-Chief.
Oct 17
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Chris Hoffman
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