Shipping is the most observable large-scale economic activity on the planet. Roughly 100,000 commercial vessels above 100 gross tons are trading at any moment, most of them broadcasting their identity…
You come in off the piazza, where the light bounces off pale stone and water and hits you from every angle, and for the first thirty seconds inside St Mark’s you can barely see anything at all. The…
I’ll put my own position first, because it’s harsher than the one I’m about to argue against. Conference programming is close to worthless as a source, and not for the reasons people usually give. The…
Most renewal posts are a list of things someone paid for. This one is more useful than that, because the interesting part isn’t the seven names on the invoice — it’s the six that were on the list a…
Well-resourced intelligence services have been able to alter photographs convincingly since the 1930s and video since the 1990s. Nothing about the upper bound of the capability changed much in the…
The design assumption underneath every open-source investigation of the last fifteen years is that an image is something a person eventually looks at. Collection was hard, footage was scarce, and the…
Almost every image sensor in commercial production is a compromise negotiated with the human retina. The negotiation happened decades ago, it was entirely reasonable at the time, and the party it was…
Most people who ask me about OSINT want a tool list. They want the twelve browser extensions and the one Python framework that turns a name into a dossier. I understand the impulse, and I will give…
Event: San Francisco AI Summit 2026 Date: Friday, July 24, 2026 Location: San Francisco, California, United States Host: Government of the Republic of Korea, convened by President Lee Jae Myung…
On 25 July 2026, DeepSeek verbally informed prospective backers in its second funding round that the investment agreements they expected to sign within days would not be signed. The round was…