Friday, October 16, 2026
ArchiveHow India deleted more than 130mn voters
A routine-sounding electoral roll review erased 130 million names, disproportionately Muslim ones. The FT traced how the deletions actually happened, district by district.
Anthropic's Claude Traces NIST ECDSA Curve Seeds to Timestamps, Debunking NSA Backdoor Theory
A 30-year-old cryptography conspiracy theory just got solved: those mysterious NIST curve parameters were apparently just timestamps run through a basic random number generator, not a backdoor.
This implant can restore sight for patients with macular degeneration
A retinal implant paired with smart glasses is actually restoring vision for people with macular degeneration—something no treatment could do before.
There's never been a better time to go into math
Grant Sanderson breaks down why mathematicians are actually optimistic right now—turns out AI is forcing the field to reckon with what math actually *is*.
Trump’s October Surprise Is a Pivot to Putin
With midterms looming and his approval ratings tanking, Trump's spending political capital attacking Zelensky—effectively campaigning for Putin. It's a striking tell about where his priorities actually lie.