Illuminating the future with technology

New column: Claude Haiku 5.5 explained — specs of the Haiku released Oct 7, 2026 ($0.10/$0.50, 1M context), benchmarks vs. Haiku 4.5 and Sonnet 5.5, real cost given the 100K tier and new tokenizer, routing across Opus/Sonnet/Haiku, and 10 breaking changes when migrating from Haiku 4.5 with code (with diagram)

New column: Lost or stolen company PC or phone — a first-hour response timeline (reporting, remote lock, password resets and session revocation, police report), when Japan's privacy law requires a report and how encryption affects it, six preventive measures (BitLocker/FileVault, MDM, MFA and more) with cost estimates, and checklists (with diagram)

New column: Mistral Large 4 requirements — estimated memory for the 1T MoE by precision (about 1TB FP8, 500-580GB 4-bit), H100/H200/B200 setups, 512GB Mac Studio and CPU offload, cost vs. the API ($1.36 in / $4.18 out per 1M tokens), and comparison with Reflection Beam and DeepSeek V4 (with diagram)

New column: Shadow IT and BYOD policy for SMBs — everyday examples and risks (personal LINE, Gmail, generative AI), banning vs. conditionally allowing BYOD vs. company-issued phones, MDM cost estimates, a policy checklist and a five-step rollout (with diagram)

New column: What is HyperFrames? — HeyGen's open-source framework that turns HTML into deterministic MP4 video via headless Chrome and FFmpeg, with setup, usage, AI agent workflows and how it compares with Remotion and Motion Canvas (with diagram)