Banks have done a bad job integrating AI into the customer experience. I use Chase, and the tools they push just don’t line up with the day-to-day stuff a small operation actually runs into.
Woohoo, orders for manufacturing technology hit a new six-month record in the first half of 2026. That points straight to surging demand for equipment.
Happy Thursday, everybody — August 20th, and we’ve got a full house today: AI-powered attacks hitting Siemens shop floor controllers and what that means for manufacturers on the same network as their
An IT hire costs $60,000-$160,000 a year fully loaded — and they still sleep. The real math of in-house vs. managed IT, when hiring actually makes sense, and the co-managed third option.
Ransomware took down 1,140 factories in Q2. That is a lot of lost productivity in one of the most important parts of the economy.
Hackers keep working on a batch of 75,000 firewalls they already cracked into. The campaign is called FortiBleed, and it hit FortiGate devices sitting out on the internet.
Microsoft just flipped the switch and gave Copilot notebooks to every commercial Microsoft 365 license. No more paying extra for the add-on that used to run thirty dollars per user each month.
Happy Thursday, nerds — good to be back in the chair, broadcasting from the new South Union Street office here in Traverse City; we’ve got three stories worth your attention today: a credential-harves
Real managed IT pricing from an MSP owner: $100-250 per user/month, what moves the number, red flags in cheap quotes, and the true story of a business one unplugged drive from losing 25 years of data.
We’re halfway through 2026 — which makes this the perfect time to take a step back and ask: is your business actually secure, or are you just hoping it is? Cybersecurity isn’t something you set up once and forget about. Threats evolve, teams change, and the tools you…
