Just yesterday morning, my wonderful mom and I were chatting, and she brought up something amazing she’d read in a newspaper called Ignite Media  from Zimbabwe. I always love hearing what she thinks about the news. This time, the main idea was that Artificial Intelligence (AI) should be a required subject for all kids, starting in elementary school! Hearing that made me pause. Mom saw the future clearly: AI is everything now, and teaching it early is simply the smart thing t

How many times have you been stuck in the office for an outage or an attack on a holiday or right before? Most large enterprises have a change freeze that starts sometime in November and lasts just past the New Year. Why ? Because we all take off for the holidays. Employers try to allow us not to get the late night call on Hanukkah, Christmas and other holidays. But for some reason, for me Thanksgiving Eve was the night I just couldn't get out of the office. Fortunately, noth

Last week, the atmosphere at the FAIRCON conference was all bright lights and confident talk, but then a knot of discomfort twisted in my stomach. It happened when a speaker paused, looked out at the room full of security experts, and then delivered a simple truth that silenced the entire audience. The feeling of unease disappeared quickly, but the message remained: "We need to be scared of what AI can do that we don't know about, more than what we do know about."  This simpl

How can I leverage AI to get more out of it? Get better at prompting! Think about how you plan trips. In the not so old days, we were used to breaking it down into Google searches or outsourcing it to a travel agent. Stay with me here. This is just an example since we have sites like Travelocity and Expedia, that do this for you. But if we did an experiment with an LLM like ChatGPT, you can use your AI more effectively depending on your prompting skills. Let's try a couple of

You can spend a fortune on technical security, but the greatest danger often comes from the person using the computer. Experts refer to this as the Human Layer or Layer 8. Criminals typically don't need to hack a machine; they just need to deceive a person. The shocking truth is that over 80% of all data breaches occur because someone makes a simple mistake, such as clicking on a malicious link. This method, called Social Engineering, succeeds because attackers exploit our ba

Holy cow, I just asked my computer to respond to and send an email for me and it did! No copy paste, no typing just asking it like I would an assistant. I’ve been hearing tons of commercials for Perplexities Comet Browser and thought I would take a look at it. Comet is part of a emerging wave of AI-native browsers challenging Google Chrome's dominance. The concept of an agentic browser is awesome. You get a piece of software that can do things online for you. Some examples: O

On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS)—the world's largest cloud computing provider—experienced a major global outage that disrupted thousands of websites, apps, and online services for several hours. The incident began around 2:40 AM ET (7:40 AM BST) and primarily affected the US-East-1 region (Northern Virginia data center) AWS confirmed the issue was resolved by late afternoon ET, with services returning to "normal operations." Impact The outage rippled across indu

I've got a bit more free time than I'm used to, so I dusted off this side project I put together 8 years ago. You'll find a couple of articles left over from then that I'm using to build out the page until I've got a larger catalogue. What is DO IT GURU about? IT in DO IT GURU not so surprisingly stands for Information Technology. IT articles could be about DIY projects, IT could be starting a blog website, IT could be about setting up voice activated fans or anything else t

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