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Beyond the Firewall: A Talk on State-Sponsored Hacking
Last November’s Tête-à-Tech event dove deep into a world of global tech policy, cutting-edge surveillance and cyber threats, and the essential fight for human rights online. Our guest, Ciprian Iancu (formerly of New America’s Open Internet Tools Project), offered his perspective informed by his nine years working at the US State Department on the Internet Freedom Program, a unique initiative that used technology development—specifically open-source tools—to advance and protect human rights all over the world.
Lannan’s new, office and community space in New York’s historic Bayard-Condict Building
When Lannan Foundation closed operations in Santa Fe and set up new operations in New York City at the end of 2024, Macktez was given an opportunity to help design technical solutions for its new headquarters in the historic and landmarked Bayard-Condict building (the only building in NYC designed by renowned architect Louis Sullivan) in downtown Manhattan.
AI and Consciousness: What Is Actually Happening In There (According to Mathematics)?
While AI products and marketing often use the term “thinking” we will dive into what these models are doing mathematically — probabilistic token generation and the sophisticated patterns of the Transformer architecture.
An AI loophole in your pocket: Why Apple’s Writing Tools require a second look
Most users won’t find it easy to distinguish between the privacy Apple promises generally for “Apple Intelligence” and the terms and conditions of your free ChatGPT account. The problem is that when you use free genAI tools, there is no guarantee that your input data (proprietary emails, drafts, or internal notes) won’t be used to get added to and train the large language model (LLM), which makes that input essentially public. This seamless OS integration, activated by a single menu tap on selected text, facilitates behavior we strongly advise against: sending work-related data through a free genAI application.
Redundancy by design: Engineering a high-availability infrastructure for a high-throughput creative firm
Macktez was engaged to architect a ground-up, zero-compromise infrastructure covering wired networking, wireless, compute, and storage. Every layer was designed with redundancy as a first-order constraint: redundant power, controllers, chassis, and paths throughout. The result is an environment that has delivered zero infrastructure downtime since deployment, with real-world internal file transfer throughput of 5–7 Gbps. This performance is comparable to the local NVMe storage of a modern high-end workstation, delivered over a fully shared, enterprise-grade SAN.
UniFi U7 WiFi bug: DHCP timeouts and connectivity issues
At Macktez, we’ve been tracking a suspected problem impacting the latest U7 series WAPs (specifically those utilizing the new Qualcomm chips) deployed over the last three to six months.
Macktez honored as JumpCloud’s MSP Partner of the Year
Macktez was proud to receive JumpCloud’s Partner of the Year award.