US Embeds Trackers in AI Chip Shipments To Catch Diversions To China Summary U.S. authorities have secretly placed location-tracking devices in select shipments of advanced AI chips they consider at…
Young Americans Push Playback Beyond 1x as Platforms Widen Speed Controls Summary An Economist/YouGov poll finds 31% of Americans aged 18–29 use faster-than-1x playback (versus 8% of those 45+). Platforms…
New York Sues Zelle Parent Company, Alleging It Enabled Fraud Summary New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against Early Warning Services (EWS), the parent company behind…
What Does Palantir Actually Do? Summary WIRED’s Caroline Haskins unpicks the mystery around Palantir, showing that the company is not a data broker, a web-scale miner or a centralised database…
To Raise or Not to Raise: Bootstrapped Founders Share Their Views Summary At Black Hat USA 2025 three security-founders—Andrew Morris (GreyNoise), Haroon Meer (Thinkst Canary) and HD Moore (runZero)—debated the…
Just how bad will climate change get? The only way to know is to fund basic research Summary Tim Palmer (University of Oxford) argues that the single biggest remaining uncertainty…
Accuracy of rubber-related deforestation maps Summary This article presents a re-analysis and field-validated critique of recent high-resolution maps of mature rubber plantations produced by Wang et al. (2023). The authors…
Crypto-crasher Do Kwon admits guilt over failed not-so-stablecoin that erased $41 billion Summary Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon has pled guilty in the Southern District of New York to charges…
Epic Games has another win over Apple and Google, this time in Australia Summary Australia’s Federal Court has handed Epic Games another legal victory in its long-running battle with Apple…
How to attract tech talent in 2025: 7 essentials Summary In the era of the “great churn,” Carolyn Heinze sets out seven practical, evidence-based tactics for attracting and keeping top…
