Osama bin Laden helped plan the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 which killed nearly 3,000 Americans. To find him, the U.S. government had to put its best people on the job. Along with their counterparts across multiple agencies, experts … Read more
I always found this picture of Steve Jobs in his home office very fascinating. It’s too bad that we cannot read all the book titles. But there are two pieces of equipment that I wonder what they are. On is … Read more
We found North Korean engineers in our application pile. Here’s what our ex-CIA co founders did about it. Cinder is part of a growing list of US-based tech companies that encounter engineering applicants who are actually suspected North Korean nationals. … Read more
Let me set the right expectations first. This bug I found is actually not that complicated, it’s very straightforward once you see what’s going on. But I still think the process it took me to uncover this bug could be … Read more
Just months after Neil Armstrong’s historic moonwalk, Jim Storer, a Lexington High School student in Massachusetts, wrote the first Lunar Landing game. By 1973, it had become “by far and away the single most popular computer game.” A simple text … Read more
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While Estonia has famously introduced its e-residency which enables future founders to incorporate their company in minutes, things are still quite different here in Good Old Germany. Germany has a reputation for precision and adhering to rules. I’m not sure … Read more
A stone age wall discovered beneath the waves off Germany’s Baltic coast may be the oldest known megastructure built by humans in Europe, researchers say. The wall, which stretches for nearly a kilometre along the seafloor in the Bay of … Read more
David Lynch’s 1984 sci-fi epic Dune is—in many ways—a misbegotten botch job. Still, as with more than a few ineffectively ambitious films before it, the artistic flourishes Lynch grafted onto Frank Herbert’s sprawling Machiavellian narrative of warring space dynasties have … Read more
