Leaks say Apple’s going ultra-thin with the iPhone 17 Air—5.5mm thin, to be exact. That’s wild. But you know what else gets thin? Battery capacity. Drop resistance. Repairability. All the stuff that actually matters. As someone who’s worked on networks, hardware, and the inside of more iPhones than I want to admit—this isn’t progress. It’s polish. And for $1K+, we deserve better than a phone that needs bubble wrap and a battery bank just to

The Hang Seng Tech Index is up 25% this month, outpacing the Nasdaq 100. Companies like Alibaba and Xiaomi are rebounding fast, thanks in part to the DeepSeek hype train. Look, Brother—I’ve seen a lot of stock bubbles in my time. Remember dot-com? Crypto 2021? This has that same flavor. Quick gains, lots of chatter, very little long-term planning. If you’re a small biz leader watching this from the sidelines, the smart move isn’t to

DeveloperWeek hit Santa Clara this week and, as expected, the buzz was all AI, all the time. Chinese firm DeepSeek flexed some serious muscle with a lean, efficient model that’s giving Western heavyweights a run for their GPUs. That’s great if you’re rooting for more competition. But let’s not pretend these tools exist in a vacuum. My peeps in devops and security—you know the drill. Every new framework or model brings a wave of plugins,

This week’s been a blur. New AI tools, billion-dollar deals, fancy dashboards tracking economic impact. It all feels like a sprint. But maybe we need a little more walk. Tech doesn’t move in a straight line. Sometimes we innovate so fast we forget to ask why. Or worse—who gets left behind. So here’s my Sunday sermon: check your stack, check on your people, and make sure your tech’s still solving the problems you meant it

OpenAI just gave us a taste of GPT-4.5 in research preview form. It’s smarter, faster, and even better at mimicking human nuance. Cool, right? Except every time these models level up, so does the risk. With great power comes great potential for misuse. Misinformation, deepfakes, phishing emails that look real—this stuff’s not science fiction anymore, Brother. If you’re thinking of plugging this into your business, great. But set boundaries. Monitor output. Log everything. Just because