The Ant Hill Just Got Jet Fuel So here’s what happened: I’m halfway through my day, probably over-caffeinated, and I realize— wait, hold up, this isn’t just some new tech cycle, is it? No. This right here—what’s happening in the open source AI world with agentic stuff— this  is the threshold moment. And I don’t mean “exciting new feature drop” threshold. I mean TCP/IP level, this-will-be-invisible-and-everywhere-soon  threshold. I’m telling you, it’s one of those “stare-off-i

This Is What the Middle Always Looks Like There’s a phase every transformative technology goes through that makes people deeply uncomfortable — especially people seeing it up close for the first time. It’s the phase where the foundational work is done, the guardrails come off, and the thing gets dropped into the open world. Not polished. Not secured. Not fully understood. Just working enough  to be dangerous. That’s where we are right now with agentic AI. What you’re seeing w

I want to be very clear up front: I do not say this lightly. I am not a Microsoft apologist. I have receipts. Which is why the following sentence feels like it should come with a warning label: Microsoft may have accidentally — or deliberately, which is even more suspicious — done something genuinely good for the future of AI. Before anyone accuses me of recency bias or Stockholm syndrome, let’s rewind the tape. A Brief, Painful History of Microsoft and “Innovation” Three-ish

We keep looking for the wrong monster. Whenever AI risk comes up, the conversation immediately drifts toward science fiction — sentience, rebellion, Skynet moments where the machine “wakes up” and decides humanity is inefficient. It’s dramatic, it’s familiar, and it conveniently pushes the danger into an abstract future. That’s not what’s happening. The real risk with AI is not that it becomes conscious. It’s that we are handing powerful systems real authority in real environ

There was a lot of noise coming out of Davos this year.Big ideas. Big timelines. Big futures. But one comment stuck with me in a very different way. When Dario Amodei  talked about being six to twelve months  away from recursive self-improvement, it wasn’t the sci-fi implication that grabbed me. It was the mundanity  of it. Because if he’s right — and I think he probably is — this won’t feel dramatic at all to most people. It’ll feel… normal. You Won’t Know It’s Happening (An

In Sunrise, Florida, a broadcast legend is being reborn. What once served as the HBO Latin America Broadcast Headquarters is now undergoing a new evolution — emerging as The Freedom Center, a Hemispheric Connectivity Nexus for AI, media, and enterprise infrastructure. Under the direction of Data Power Supply, the Freedom Center is being modernized, re-energized, and repositioned to meet the demands of the AI era — transforming a world-class broadcast facility into a strategic

Cracking a Windows domain admin password used to be the sort of thing that required a rack of GPUs, a questionable website, and a small fortune in hardware. Now? A $600 laptop and a free set of rainbow tables from Google’s Mandiant division will do the job in under 12 hours. And the kicker? This vulnerability isn’t new. It’s been sitting in plain sight since 1999 . The Ghost of NTLMv1 At the core of this mess is NTLMv1 — an authentication protocol Microsoft introduced in 1993

You know that old story about the woman in the flood? She’s on the roof praying, convinced God will save her. A guy comes by in a boat and says, “Hop in.” She says, “No, I’m waiting—God will save me.” Then another boat. Then a helicopter. Same answer. And when it’s all over, she’s basically like, “Lord, why didn’t you save me?” And the reply is something like: I sent you a boat, and another boat, and a helicopter—what did you think I was doing? I’m not trying to get preachy h

Every once in a while, you walk into a building and can feel that it’s meant for more than it knows. That’s exactly what happened this week. Our team just completed a full walkthrough of one of South Florida’s most promising data-center campuses — a facility with serious bones, strategic fiber reach, and the kind of flexibility that makes it ideal for the new AI-driven world.This isn’t a speculative project. It’s real infrastructure, live power, and scalable potential sitting

Forget the hype, the frameworks, and the “AI roadmaps.” Here’s what actually works. Let’s get this out of the way: most AI “strategies” are theater. Decks. Demos. Buzzwords wrapped in billable hours. You’ve seen it. A consultant rolls in with a 70-slide presentation full of “maturity matrices” and “transformation frameworks.” They talk about aligning AI to business objectives, governance layers, and something-something operational synergy. And yet—three months later, your tea

There’s a weird, wild piece of tech chatter  blowing up everywhere right now — social feeds, comment threads, memes — all about what some people are calling a sonic weapon  used by U.S. forces during the recent raid to capture Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro . One widely circulated eyewitness account describes defenders suddenly overwhelmed by something that felt like “very intense sound waves” — causing nosebleeds, vomiting blood, and collapse before the main assault even hit. I

I don’t even know where to start other than this: something monumental is happening in Iran, and the world is only just starting to notice — not because the story wasn’t real, but because the story broke in pixels before it ever got to print . That’s how we got here. This week, newsrooms around the world reluctantly acknowledged what millions already knew from their phones: there is a massive uprising underway in Iran. Tehran, Shiraz, Mashhad — three of the largest cities in

The Week the World Tilted — and the Republic Remembered Itself Every era has that moment where history stops pretending to move slowly. This might be one of those weeks. We’ve seen nations topple, borders redrawn, and policies announced that could reshape global economics for decades — but among all the noise, one decision stood out for what it symbolized as much as what it did. The United States has just withdrawn from 66 international organizations  — including over 30 Unit

Every once in a while, a policy comes along that doesn’t just tweak a system — it resets the board. What we saw this week wasn’t just an announcement about real estate. It was a tectonic recalibration of how the American economy defines fairness, ownership, and opportunity. And let’s be honest — it’s been a long time coming. The Dream That Got Outsourced For generations, owning a home was the reward for doing the right things: work hard, save up, build stability. But somewher

The world just changed — and almost nobody noticed. Not because it was subtle, but because it didn’t come through the usual channels. There was no breaking news graphic, no alert from a newsroom, no solemn anchor explaining the narrative. It came through cell phones. Through lives, clips, and fragments. Through people — not press releases. The truth didn’t arrive at a newsroom this time; it arrived online. And you can feel it. Venezuela, Minnesota, Iran — three stories happe

Let’s just call this what it is. Everybody’s out here saying AI is going to “help people do more meaningful work” and “enhance productivity.” That’s the PR story. That’s the version for the public. But I’ve been in the rooms where the real conversations happen, and I can tell you exactly what’s being said behind the scenes. The first question out of a CEO’s mouth isn’t “how do we empower our employees with AI?” It’s “how do I get rid of my employees?” They might not say it th

Sony just hit a wall. The root encryption keys  for the PlayStation 5 — the hardware-level “master keys” that decide what the console trusts — have leaked. That means hackers now have access to the PS5’s BootROM , the lowest layer of its security system. This isn’t a normal software exploit. It’s not something Sony can patch with an update next week. These keys are literally baked into the silicon. They’re part of the chip. And once they’re out, they’re out. What That Actuall

In my world, resolution  isn’t a promise — it’s a setting. Something you tweak on a monitor until things look sharp enough. Static. Fixed. Done. But I’m not interested in static anymore. This year, I’m not setting resolutions. I’m setting direction and executing. The Past Two Years: The Build Phase The last couple of years have been about building — systems, tools, prototypes, proofs of concept. Some for Eliakim Capital , some for Data Power Supply , and some just because I

It’s the week between Christmas and New Year’s — that strange, in-between stretch where the world slows down, the clock forgets what day it is, and you finally have time to breathe. I was in Fort Lauderdale, grabbing lunch with my daughter, when I found myself walking straight into my own past. We were at Tate’s Comics — part art gallery, part geek cathedral. But right next door sits We Got the Beats, a record store that feels like a heartbeat from another decade. Vinyl walls

OK, so here’s the deal: Among the stuff I got for Christmas this year was one of those servo-motor kits. Five servos. A handful of DC motors. A couple of H-bridges. Basically, a little box of “make things move”  for adults who still void warranties for fun. Naturally, I cracked it open Christmas night — because what else are you going to do when you’ve got free time and freshly printed datasheets? I’d never really messed with servos before. I live mostly in the world of AI, i