Why Most Family Vaults Don’t Survive Their First Real Disruption

Ask any IT professional how many copies of an important file should exist and you will get the same answer: 3-2-1. Three copies. Two on different media or in different formats. One stored offsite. The rule has been the standard for digital preservation for two decades. Photographer Peter Krogh distilled it in The DAM Book … Read more

The Estate Plan Already Built Into Your Phone

A family loses someone. Then, in the weeks that follow, they lose something they never saw coming: the photos, the email, the accounts, sealed behind a password no one has and a company policy that will not bend. Two decades of pictures. The inbox that anchors every other login. All of it out of reach … Read more

When the Company Guarding Your House Gets Robbed

This summer, criminals broke into Brinks Home. Not a house Brinks protects. The company itself. SecurityWeek reported the disclosure on August 3: an extortion group called ShinyHunters got into a customer-data system, demanded payment, did not get it, and published roughly 41 gigabytes of files. Have I Been Pwned, the breach-notification service run by security … Read more

The Browser Wants to Be Your Assistant. It Has No Street Smarts.

A new kind of web browser, often called an AI browser, has started arriving on family computers. It does not just show you pages anymore: it offers to act for you. It can summarize what you are reading, fill out forms, compare prices, finish your shopping, even answer your email while you do something else. … Read more

Your Smart TV Is a Computer. It Might Be Working for Strangers.

The television on your wall is not an appliance. It is a computer: it runs apps, stays online around the clock, and updates itself on its own schedule. Almost nobody manages it like one. In 2026, that gap stopped being theoretical, when researchers found that a large share of smart-TV apps had quietly been doing … Read more