Tech terms explained in plain English. Short, clear, and jargon-free.
People shopping for a computer fixate on the CPU with no idea what it is, only that a bigger number costs more. It's the brain of the machine, and it maps neatly onto your own memory.
Seeing was believing, and a loved one's voice was proof. That era is ending. A deepfake is a fake good enough to defeat your own eyes and ears. Here's how to spot one.
Developers say it every ten seconds and everyone else nods along with no picture of it. An API is a menu of things one program will do for another. You meet its results all day.
They're behind the chatbots suddenly everywhere. People treat them as a search engine or a person. They're neither. An LLM is the world's most well-read autocomplete.
People imagine hacking as technical wizardry. The reality is less glamorous and more effective: the easiest way past a lock is to convince a person to open it for you.
A company you have an account with had a breach, and your info may be affected. Cue dread and confusion. What leaked, whose fault is it, and what should you actually do?
Most bad software breaks something and you notice fast. Spyware is the quiet one. Its whole goal is to go unnoticed, because it isn't there to cause a scene. It's there to watch.
The news attaches it to hospitals and pipelines, but it hits regular people constantly. Ransomware is nasty because it turns your own files against you, taking them hostage in place.
People reach for this word whenever a computer misbehaves, often without knowing what it means. It's not one thing, it's the whole family of bad software.
The 'ph' spelling is a joke that's also the perfect memory aid. Phishing is fishing: casting bait and waiting for someone to bite. Seeing it that way makes it far easier to spot.
