Signal Flares Over Yemen: Inside the Trump Admin’s Digital War Room Catastrophe
"When the going gets weird, the weird go Signal."— HST, probably. Welcome to the War Room, Mr. Journalist It was a quiet Monday in March—until Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, received an unexpected digital telegram from the bowels of the Trump administration's war machine. The invite came through Signal, the encrypted messaging app favored by anarchists, whistleblowers, and apparently the entire...
AlexNet’s Ghost: The Resurrection of Code That Dreamed in Pixels
In the shimmering, paranoid corridors of the digital multiverse—somewhere between a simulated strawberry and the face of your dog rendered as a probability map—AlexNet lives again. On an otherwise unremarkable Thursday, Google and the Computer History Museum (CHM) flung open the dusty vault and uploaded a ghost: the original source code of AlexNet, the neural network that taught machines to...
The Tesla Takedown Task Force: When Vandals, Billionaires, and the FBI Collide
So here we are. In a world full of electric cars, flamethrowers, tweets, and billionaires who name their kids like encryption keys, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has formed a 10-person task force to investigate what they call an uptick in hostile behavior toward Tesla. That’s right—America's most famous G-men are now standing guard over Elon Musk’s empire. It’s not...
Making Hard Drives Lightning-Fast: Inside Toshiba’s New HDD Innovation Lab
When it comes to high-performance data storage, solid-state drives (SSDs) usually steal the spotlight. They’re fast, reliable, and increasingly affordable — but they’re not the complete solution. With data demand skyrocketing across industries, the storage world still relies heavily on hard disk drives (HDDs) for capacity at scale. And that’s where Toshiba comes in. Toshiba Electronics Europe has unveiled a new...
Signal Rising: Why Dutch Universities Are Saying Goodbye to WhatsApp
In recent weeks, Signal has soared in popularity across the Netherlands. According to local media outlets, the private messaging app has consistently ranked among the top three most-downloaded apps in the country. But this isn't a social trend or passing fad — it's part of a broader digital privacy movement gaining serious traction, particularly within Dutch higher education. Universities and...
Blasting Through Bureaucracy: Germany’s Rocket Revival Rides Again
It always starts in a basement. Three wide-eyed engineering students, strung out on Red Bull and existential dread, hunched over rocket parts like medieval alchemists. That’s how this fever dream began — at the Technical University of Munich, where Daniel Metzler, Josef Fleischmann, and Markus Brandl decided to stop building class projects and start building history. There was no way to...
New Robotics Venture by Ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt Secures $150M in Fresh Funding
A Bold New Chapter in Home Robotics Kyle Vogt, the former co-founder and CEO of autonomous vehicle company Cruise, has raised another $150 million for his latest venture, The Bot Company, according to a report from Reuters. The round was reportedly led by investment firm Greenoaks and comes less than a year after the company’s initial launch. Founded by Vogt alongside...
The Speed of Ash and Lightning: BYD’s Quiet War on the Pump
The Battery: Iron, Fire, and Silence The man stood before the car and regarded it as if it were a creature. Which it was. Built of lithium and logic, forged in the bowels of workshops far from here. The Han L. BYD’s newest electric machine. They said it could charge in five minutes. Two-hundred and forty-eight miles in the time...
So It Goes: The M5 MacBook Pro and the March of Glacial Progress
Apple’s MacBook Pro is a strange beast. It marches on, unflinching, year after year — all brushed aluminum and self-importance — while the rest of us stumble around in the dark looking for meaning, faster load times, and maybe an OLED display that won’t blind us in bed. In the year of our corporate overlords, 2025, Apple will likely...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Retracts Quantum Computing Timeline Predictions at GTC 2025
In a candid and self-deprecating turn, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang publicly walked back previous remarks he made about the timeline for useful quantum computing, admitting his earlier comments had been both inaccurate and inadvertently damaging to the industry. Speaking at the company’s inaugural “Quantum Day” — part of Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2025 — Huang acknowledged the stir his...
