Tuesday, September 22, 2026
ArchiveThe US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
Three surveillance towers had José Morales Bernal in range the morning he walked into the New Mexico desert. He died there anyway. Billions spent on detection, almost nothing on response.
OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
A wartime Enigma message had resisted the world's codebreakers since 2005. It just fell. The write-up of how the break actually happened is the eerie, fascinating part.
President Barack Obama & Malcolm Gladwell: How Reconstruction Still Defines America
Gladwell got Obama onto Reconstruction — the twelve years Americans are taught to skip past — and onto why hard-won democratic gains have a habit of being un-won.
Annie Dillard’s Subject Was the Whole World
A weasel, a total eclipse, a moth burning in a candle flame — she made each of them enormous. On the essayist who treated paying attention as a moral discipline.
‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
Hackers claim they've accessed personal details on every FBI employee including home addresses and family info. We're still figuring out if this is real or a bluff.