Updated May 2026: Now covers virtual desktop (Spaces) restoration and iCloud sync across multiple Macs, both shipped in ShiftPlus 1.3. TL;DR A complete macOS workspace includes apps, window layouts, browser profiles, virtual desktops, and terminal state. Native macOS saves almost none of it. Most third-party tools cover one slice: Stay and Spencer handle window layouts, Shift handles browser profi
In July 2025, a developer's Claude Code instance hit a recursion loop and burned through 1.67 billion tokens in 5 hours, generating an estimated $16,000 to $50,000 in API charges before anyone noticed. The agent did not crash. It did not throw an error. It just kept calling tools, getting confused, calling more tools, and silently accumulating cost. Old software crashes. LLM agents spend. This is
You're in another app and there's a timer counting down at the top of your phone. You lock the screen and the same timer is sitting there. You swipe down to the Notification Center and it's there too, still ticking. It looks like a notification, but a notification can't tick. That's a Live Activity. It looks like three different surfaces (Dynamic Island, lock-screen banner, Notification Center ent
The email arrived on a Tuesday morning: "Your cloud bill for last month: $2.4 million." The CFO's response was immediate: "That's 3x our budget. What the hell are we running?" The answer? Nothing special. Just a standard data analytics workload that happened to cross availability zones. A lot. Turns out, 80% of that bill—nearly $2 million—was data egress fees. Not compute. Not storage. Just the pr
September 18, 2025 Anthropic just paid $1.5 billion to settle with authors and copyright holders - the largest copyright payout in U.S. history. After a judge found they'd illegally downloaded millions of books from online "shadow libraries," the message is clear: the age of consequence-free data acquisition is over. For tech companies, it's a warning shot. For enterprises, it should be a red sire
OK, let's talk about Microsoft's new Fairwater "AI factory,” (The quotes here are doing a lot of work… do we REALLY need a new name for this? It’s so dumb). They're calling it the world's most powerful AI datacenter. Cool. Millions of GPUs. Liquid cooling. Storage stretching five football fields. Here's what they're NOT telling you: the math on utilization is going to be BRUTAL. If these chips ran
The Reality Check ClickHouse just dropped a study that every executive should read: LLMs are great at some things, but basing your infrastructure on them? Too much, too soon. They tested five leading models (Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-o3, GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and the newly released GPT-5) against real observability scenarios. The verdict? We're nowhere near the autonomous operations future Silicon