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AI Isn’t Your Next Employee. It’s Your Next Tool.

Lately, I’ve been hearing the same thing from a lot of small business owners: “Should I start replacing people with AI?” It’s not a crazy question. Headlines are everywhere, and according to LinkedIn News: “AI drove 25% jump in job cuts from February to March”Linkedin News That gets attention. That gets fear moving. I was […]

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Cybersecurity News Update: Confusion, Exploits, and Who’s Actually Protecting You?

A lot has happened in the cybersecurity world recently. Not theory. Not “best practices.” Real events with real consequences. And if you’re a small business owner, the takeaway isn’t comforting. The FCC Is Slowing Down Router Innovation… in the Name of Security? According to reporting from PCMag: “The FCC order targets all foreign-made consumer-grade routers,

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Notepad++ Got Hacked. This Is Why Unmanaged Updates Are a Business Risk.

If you use third-party software on your computers, and most businesses do, this week’s Notepad++ incident should make you uncomfortable. Not surprised. Uncomfortable. Notepad++, one of the most widely used text editors in the world, quietly delivered malware instead of updates for six months. From June through December 2025, users who clicked “Update” were sometimes

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When the Internet Breaks, Small Businesses Bleed: What Today’s Verizon Outage Really Means

This morning, tens of thousands of Americans woke up to a familiar modern horror: their phones had full bars, yet nothing worked. Verizon users across the country hit a digital brick wall, and small businesses took the punch square in the teeth. And this wasn’t just Verizon having a bad day. According to CNN, the

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Windows 11: Microsoft Finally Admits Everything Is Broken — And Your Business Might Be Next

Microsoft has finally done it. They’ve admitted what every IT professional has been screaming into a pillow about for years: Windows 11 is fundamentally, catastrophically, hilariously broken. And not just broken in the “oh the taskbar froze again” kind of way.No, Microsoft is now acknowledging that core features — the literal organs of Windows 11

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