Friday, August 21, 2026
ArchiveFelony charges for a citizen who deleted phone data at the US border
Samuel Tunick typed a duress code into a GrapheneOS phone during a search at Atlanta's airport. Prosecutors reached for a rarely used destruction-of-property statute, and no court has ruled on this before.
'Huge Breakthrough' in the Math of Imbalance
Thirty years of nothing, then the bound on splitting a set evenly drops from the square root of log N to the fourth root. For a universe's worth of atoms, that number comes out at three.
I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
An expired nameserver domain sold for five euros and came with the phone routing for Diego Garcia and two other island bases. Roughly 400,000 queries had piled up before anyone noticed.
The DeLorean Saga: Fraud, Drugs and Marty McFly's Car
Britain paid for a stainless-steel sports car factory in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, on the promise of jobs. Harford follows the money from gull-wing doors to a cocaine sting.
Walking the Length of Manhattan
Marble Hill to Battery Park, 24.4 kilometres in six hours, ending on oysters. The pleasure is in what a city looks like when you refuse to go underground for any of it.