A laptop with 8GB of memory is no longer a sensible entry point — it is a machine that is quietly being shut out of the features vendors promote hardest. Windows 11 will still install on 4GB, but the on-device AI layer that sits on top of it now publishes a very different number: 16GB. … Read more
Pasting a rental contract, electricity bill or lab report into a chatbot is tempting: it decodes the jargon in seconds. The catch is everything that travels with the document. Spain’s Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) captured the risk in its January 2026 decalogue: “Be careful what you entrust to it.” Strip identifiers first: … Read more
The Document Foundation has shipped LibreOffice 26.8 with a message that would have sounded like an apology three years ago and now lands as a deliberate market play: the suite contains no generative AI, and that omission is the pitch. Released on 26 August 2026, with the formal “no AI” policy statement following on 3 … Read more