https://unblockedtech.cyou/ Plain-English explainers on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, connectivity and the computing shifts behind modern gaming and consumer tech. en Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://unblockedtech.cyou/smart-homes-powered-by-ai https://unblockedtech.cyou/smart-homes-powered-by-ai Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Artificial Intelligence Arjun Malhotra Most "AI-powered" home gadgets are ordinary automation with a marketing budget. Here is where machine learning genuinely earns its place in a house, and where it is still a party trick. https://unblockedtech.cyou/the-rise-of-ai-agents https://unblockedtech.cyou/the-rise-of-ai-agents Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Emerging Tech Arjun Malhotra An agent is a language model with hands. That single change makes it dramatically more useful and dramatically more dangerous, and most of the difficulty lives in the gap between those two facts. https://unblockedtech.cyou/large-language-models-explained https://unblockedtech.cyou/large-language-models-explained Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Artificial Intelligence Arjun Malhotra A language model is a very good next-word guesser trained on an enormous amount of text. Everything surprising about it follows from that one sentence, including the mistakes. https://unblockedtech.cyou/can-ai-replace-programmers https://unblockedtech.cyou/can-ai-replace-programmers Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Artificial Intelligence Arjun Malhotra Code generation has genuinely changed how software gets written. It has changed the job far less than the headlines suggest, and the reason is that typing was never the bottleneck. https://unblockedtech.cyou/passkeys-and-the-end-of-passwords https://unblockedtech.cyou/passkeys-and-the-end-of-passwords Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Cybersecurity Marcus Whitfield Passkeys are the first login change in twenty years that removes a whole class of attack rather than adding another step. Here is the mechanism, the catch, and what to do about the accounts that still want a password. https://unblockedtech.cyou/ai-in-cybersecurity https://unblockedtech.cyou/ai-in-cybersecurity Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Cybersecurity Marcus Whitfield Machine learning has changed detection and it has changed phishing. It has not changed the fact that most successful intrusions still start with an unpatched system or a stolen password. https://unblockedtech.cyou/iot-security-risks-at-home https://unblockedtech.cyou/iot-security-risks-at-home Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Cybersecurity Marcus Whitfield The realistic threat from a connected doorbell is not a hacker watching you. It is an unpatched Linux computer on your network, quietly joining a botnet or leaking data you did not know it collected. https://unblockedtech.cyou/how-anti-cheat-systems-work https://unblockedtech.cyou/how-anti-cheat-systems-work Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Cybersecurity Marcus Whitfield Every competitive game is running an arms race it cannot win outright. Understanding why explains the kernel drivers, the false bans, and the growing shift toward watching the server instead of your PC. https://unblockedtech.cyou/cloud-gaming-latency-explained https://unblockedtech.cyou/cloud-gaming-latency-explained Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Connectivity Priya Deshmukh Cloud gaming does not feel laggy because your internet is slow. It feels laggy because of a chain of eight small delays, only one of which is your connection - and the fixes are mostly not the ones people try. https://unblockedtech.cyou/wifi-7-explained https://unblockedtech.cyou/wifi-7-explained Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Connectivity Priya Deshmukh The headline speeds are technically achievable and practically irrelevant. The genuinely useful part of Wi-Fi 7 is a feature that makes your connection more consistent rather than faster. https://unblockedtech.cyou/5g-6g-next-internet-revolution https://unblockedtech.cyou/5g-6g-next-internet-revolution Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Connectivity Priya Deshmukh 5G delivered roughly a third of what was promised, and the third it delivered was the part nobody advertised. That pattern is worth understanding before the 6G marketing begins. https://unblockedtech.cyou/edge-computing-vs-cloud-computing https://unblockedtech.cyou/edge-computing-vs-cloud-computing Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Computing Lena Fischer This is presented as a rivalry and it is really a placement decision. Four questions settle almost every case, and none of them are about which technology is more modern. https://unblockedtech.cyou/quantum-computing-and-encryption https://unblockedtech.cyou/quantum-computing-and-encryption Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Computing Lena Fischer A useful quantum computer breaks some cryptography completely and barely inconveniences the rest. Knowing which is which turns a vague anxiety into a concrete, boring, entirely manageable migration project. https://unblockedtech.cyou/open-source-vs-closed-ai-models https://unblockedtech.cyou/open-source-vs-closed-ai-models Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Computing Arjun Malhotra The debate is usually framed as ideology and decided in practice by four boring questions: where the data must live, how predictable your load is, how much you need to customise, and who is on call at 3am. https://unblockedtech.cyou/ai-ethics-bias-privacy-regulation https://unblockedtech.cyou/ai-ethics-bias-privacy-regulation Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Artificial Intelligence Arjun Malhotra Most writing on this subject stays at the level of principles nobody disagrees with. This is about the specific decisions that determine whether a system treats people fairly, and what the law now expects you to document. https://unblockedtech.cyou/ai-in-education-personalised-learning https://unblockedtech.cyou/ai-in-education-personalised-learning Tue, 19 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Artificial Intelligence Priya Deshmukh Individual tutoring is one of the most effective interventions in education and has always been unaffordable at scale. That is the real promise here - and the reason the marketing keeps overshooting it. https://unblockedtech.cyou/ai-npcs-and-game-design https://unblockedtech.cyou/ai-npcs-and-game-design Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Artificial Intelligence Lena Fischer A character who can say anything sounds like the future of games. In practice it creates four problems that game designers have spent thirty years learning to avoid. https://unblockedtech.cyou/augmented-and-mixed-reality-future https://unblockedtech.cyou/augmented-and-mixed-reality-future Tue, 05 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Emerging Tech Lena Fischer The obstacle has never been software. It is a set of physical constraints - optics, power, heat and weight - that all trade against each other, and every product you can buy is a different compromise between them. https://unblockedtech.cyou/web3-beyond-cryptocurrency https://unblockedtech.cyou/web3-beyond-cryptocurrency Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Emerging Tech Lena Fischer Strip out the speculation and a handful of genuinely useful ideas remain - most of which do not need a blockchain, and some of which have quietly ended up in software you already use.