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Marshall Gunnell

  • Co-Founder, Writer, VGKAMI
  • Technical Writer, Line Corporation
Mississippi, Tokyo
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Mississippi - Taipei - Tokyo. Bylines: @CNET @ZDNET, @BusinessInsider, @howtogeek, @pcworld, @zapier, @storagereview, and more.
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7 habits that are more important than using antivirus on your phone

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By Marshall Gunnell
| MSN Verified
Using antivirus software on every device you own made sense in the early days of personal computing, but modern smartphones are built to be pretty secure. Both Apple and Google include extensive protections that make phones harder targets for traditional malware than laptops or desktop computers. Today's biggest smartphone threat often isn't malware at all. It's phishing texts, fake websites and account takeover scams.
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4 things I do on a new Windows PC to tighten my security

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By Marshall Gunnell
| XDA Developers
Many years ago, when I'd get my hands on a new Windows PC, I did what a lot of people do. I opened the browser, signed in to a few accounts, changed my desktop wallpaper, and installed a few apps. It felt ready within minutes. Then I stopped to check the security settings and realized almost none of the important stuff had been left half configured. I don't do that anymore.
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Speculative decoding made my local LLM actually usable

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By Marshall Gunnell
| XDA Developers
Local LLMs have this annoying middle ground problem. They're good enough that you can see the potential, but just slow enough to get in the way. You really feel the value in them, but the experience never quite clicks. That's usually where the upgrade cycle starts. You assume the model is the weak link, so you go hunting for something bigger, smarter, or less compromised. I did the same thing. What took me longer than it should have is realizing the model wasn't really the issue.
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