I finished setting up a new camera this week. The easy path was obvious: install the vendor app, connect it to Wi-Fi, and let somebody else’s cloud become part of my home network. I did use the app for initial provisioning. Then I moved the useful parts local: Frigate in an LXC for viewing and recording, Home Assistant for the integration, and an end state where the camera does not need the Internet for its basic job. This was not about turning a camera into a hobby project. It was about deciding what I actually own. A lot of “smart” products are convenient until the connection changes, the vendor changes its plan, or the service has a bad day. Then the hardware in your house becomes a request to someone else’s server. The same design question shows up in software projects too: what is the smallest useful thing that still works when a dependency is unavailable? For devices you run at home, where do you personally draw the line between convenient and too dependent on the cloud?

🚀 Coming in Q4 2026 frp®hospitality (Watchlist) for Android is expanding with a role-based web console for enterprise deployments and Self-Checkout Loss Prevention (SCO LP) plugins, while preserving our edge-first architecture. Key capabilities: 🔒 Zero Trust — no vendor access. No cloud processing of customer data. ☁️ Google Workspace integration — watchlists, users, permissions, and configuration are synchronized using the customer's own Google Workspace account. ⚡ Human-in-the-loop — selected detections can be escalated to Google Chat with a single click, enabling immediate team notification while keeping the decision under operator control. Read: https://lnkd.in/g5BtZXje Watch: https://lnkd.in/g9Xdymqz

https://lnkd.in/gzsjex49 It's always interesting to see how a product evolves. What started as an edge AI solution for small-format retail stores running entirely on Google Pixel turned out to be capable of solving problems that were once considered the domain of GPU-based systems. The best part? It does it faster—without endless cloud video processing or massive data center infrastructure. Sometimes the biggest breakthroughs come from rethinking the architecture, not adding more hardware...

After months of work, ArteraQ Desktop is live — a native Mac app for galleries, collection managers, and advisors who want the same inventory, consignment, and sales tools, but running entirely on their own machine. No account, no internet connection, no subscription. Your data stays in a local database on your Mac. What's inside: Full artwork inventory, artist records, consignment and sales workflows with commission calcs, AI-assisted cataloging (bring your own OpenAI key), automatic local backups, and dark mode. Cloud vs. desktop: Cloud is built for teams — multi-user, real-time, any device, subscription-based since we run the infrastructure. Desktop is for anyone who wants full ownership of their data and is fine handling their own backups. One-time purchase, yours to keep. Same goal either way: kill the spreadsheet, make cataloging fast, make your collection data actually usable. Get it here (Mac Silicon only): https://lnkd.in/g5zc9xEF

Tidy Review: Automated File & Desktop Decluttering for Mac Tidy is a Mac utility application designed to help users keep their computers organized with minimal effort. By automating the cleanup process for common clutter areas like screenshots, installers, and the Downloads folder, Tidy aims to improve productivity and maintain a clean workspace. Visit Tool In our review of Tidy, we cover the core workflow, standout features, pricing context, and the trade-offs that matter before you adopt it. Worth a look if you are comparing options in this category and want a clear, objective read—without marketing fluff. Category: Mac Utility Read the full review: https://lnkd.in/gFCZ8jf3 This is an objective review — not sponsored financial or business advice. #AITools #SaaS #ArtificialIntelligence #TechReview

Microsoft is installing Copilot on business PCs. Did you ask it to? Throughout this month, Microsoft is automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on eligible business PCs by default. Before you panic... This isn't the paid version of Copilot, and it doesn't suddenly give everyone AI features they haven't paid for. But it does mean a new app could appear on your users' devices without warning. The good news? You can choose whether it gets installed. We've put together a quick guide explaining: Who it affects What it actually does How to stop the automatic install if you'd rather stay in control Take a look here - https://lnkd.in/ejPKADMR

Before cloud-based storage became the standard, desktop search software transformed how users located information on their computers. Google Desktop for Windows was Google's desktop indexing application that enabled users to search emails, documents, images, music, chat history, and previously viewed web pages from a single interface. It also introduced customizable desktop gadgets and a sidebar that provided quick access to information and productivity widgets. Google officially ended development and downloads of Google Desktop in 2011, citing the industry's shift toward cloud computing and improved built-in search functionality in modern operating systems. Key capabilities included: ✅ Fast local file indexing and search ✅ Document, email & media discovery ✅ Desktop gadgets and customizable sidebar ✅ Unified search across multiple file types ✅ Improved productivity for Windows users ✅ Lightweight desktop search experience Although discontinued, Google Desktop played a significant role in the evolution of desktop search technology and influenced many of today's file indexing and search solutions. 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/d4fXMk4R #GoogleDesktop #DesktopSearch #WindowsSoftware #Productivity #TechHistory #Google Before cloud-based storage became the standard, desktop search software transformed how users located information on their computers. Google Desktop for Windows was Google's desktop indexing application that enabled users to search emails, documents, images, music, chat history, and previously viewed web pages from a single interface. It also introduced customizable desktop gadgets and a sidebar that provided quick access to information and productivity widgets. Google officially ended development and downloads of Google Desktop in 2011, citing the industry's shift toward cloud computing and improved built-in search functionality in modern operating systems. Key capabilities included: ✅ Fast local file indexing and search ✅ Document, email & media discovery ✅ Desktop gadgets and customizable sidebar ✅ Unified search across multiple file types ✅ Improved productivity for Windows users ✅ Lightweight desktop search experience Although discontinued, Google Desktop played a significant role in the evolution of desktop search technology and influenced many of today's file indexing and search solutions. 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/d4fXMk4R #GoogleDesktop #DesktopSearch #WindowsSoftware #Productivity #TechHistory #Google

Three shifts reshaping the document stack in hybrid organizations: 1️⃣ Capture moving from on-prem scan servers to standards-based, edge-device workflows 2️⃣ Print and scan being folded into the same 2027 modernization conversation 3️⃣ Governance staying with the cloud-native app, not the hardware The through-line: print and scan keep getting more standardized, more secure, and more invisible. We'll dig into this in our roundtable next week. #CloudNative #DigitalTransformation #PrintSecurity #HybridWork #MopriaCertified

Where does the harness happen — or should I still carry the laptop half-open? I'm talking to a lot of founders and operators, and no one is quite sure yet where the harness ends up. Everyone is building the harness inside their own apps, and also opening those apps up to 3rd party harnesses — mostly Claude Desktop and Codex — via MCP, API, CLI. This is a good mapping of AI adoption: https://lnkd.in/gy5gEa_e Many companies I know are at the 2nd stage — "one engineer orchestrates 5–10 agents at once, each on its own worktree or git checkout, jumping between them." At this stage, mostly everyone runs agents locally. But as we move toward the next stages and go to 100 and then 1,000s of agents running the loop, we need to move the harness into the cloud. Claude's cloud scheduled tasks and routines are early primitives of that — they can run 1,000s of agents in a fully closed loop and kick themselves off. Scheduled tasks are general-purpose. Routines are already specialized for coding — kicked off by a schedule, an API call, or a GitHub webhook, on infrastructure built for that one workload. So a specialized harness is already showing up inside a frontier lab's own product. I'm wondering where the majority of the specialized cloud harness ends up — in super agents, similar to local, or inside domain-focused apps. The recent open weight momentum might be an additional argument for steering the industry away from one centralized frontier lab harness toward decentralized, domain-specific ones — each backed by a specialized model tuned off open weights, running inside the apps we already use.

We’re making two updates across the AuditionAI platform: • AuditionAI Request Broker is being rebranded to Sidekick Server • AuditionAI Desktop and AuditionAI Server are being updated to .NET 10 Why the changes? Sidekick is a great name for the role this product plays. It fits naturally across both Desktop and Server, and gives us a more consistent product story. On the platform side, we originally chose .NET 8 for maximum capability. Microsoft has announced that .NET 8 will reach end of support on November 10, 2026. To prepare well ahead of that milestone, we’re moving directly to .NET 10. This gives us major benefits in: • Stability • Performance • Capability • Long-term support alignment More details on timing and rollout will follow, but we wanted to share the direction now. Excited for what’s ahead!