Twenty HEXAGON satellites were launched from California between 1971 and 1986, with one failure. HEXAGON was a big photo-reconnaissance satellite, but often carried Program 989 subsatellites that were deployed in orbit. (credit: Peter Hunter) by Dwayne A. DayMonday, March … Read more
I try to keep marketing in check: I’ve been working on my latest book for more than a year but only posted about it once. At the time, the book was still going through layout and editing, so I didn’t … Read more
At the height of the Cold War, one very specialized computer was so secret that the world didn’t know it existed. It ran its jobs up to 200 times as fast as any other computer of its time. It was … Read more
This story is adapted from Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire, by Brad Stone. Jeff Bezos first sketched out the device that would become the Amazon Echo on a conference room whiteboard in early 2011. … Read more
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS Welcome Michał Zalewski, AKA lcamtuf! The lcamtuf Substack is where Michał is writing most these days Chris first found and geeked out about the CNC guide on the … Read more
The Secret Agent, Brazil’s Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film, is a visually subversive political thriller. The film was shot on location in Brazil using bright, saturated colors by cinematographer Evgenia Alexandrova, AFC as a counterpoint to the dark, … Read more
At the 2025 Bitwarden Open Source Security Summit, WIRED’s Andy Greenberg sat down for a fireside chat with GigaOm analyst Paul Stringfellow to discuss a revelation that turned his decades-long reporting on its head: Bitcoin became a criminal’s worst nightmare. … Read more
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It’s just normal crime https://x.com/i/grok/share/h5A4DdZwieAQWUjH20zSP9CDc Today, the Secret Service announced they foiled some big national security threat. Major news organizations (e.g. NYTimes) have repeated their claims without questioning them. The story is bogus. What they discovered was just normal criminal … Read more