How a ZFS Home NAS Protects Data, and Why It Is Not a Backup
Checksums, scrubs, snapshots and RAID-Z explained from the OpenZFS and TrueNAS docs, with a mirror vs RAID-Z1 vs RAID-Z2 table and the reason ZFS is…
Peter Kalafatis
The Social Reckoning vs. the Research: What the Evidence Says About Facebook and Social Media Harm
Sorkin’s new film opens today. We check its four biggest claims about Facebook against internal documents, Science and Nature studies, and the Surgeon General’s advisory.
Apple’s “Welcome Home” Launch on October 13: What’s Confirmed, What’s Rumored, and What the Home Hub Has to Prove
Apple has confirmed a date and two words for October 13. Here is what is confirmed, what is only rumored about the home hub, Apple…
Measure Earth’s Magnetic Field With a Phone Magnetometer
Answers to common questions on measuring Earth’s field with a phone: expected strength, a flip trick that cancels sensor offset, what disturbs readings, and accuracy.
Flax Typhoon: How Microscan and FishHub Worked, and What the FBI Takedown Changes
The FBI seized seven domains tied to Flax Typhoon on Oct 8. How Microscan and FishHub worked, the old CVEs in play, and what defenders…
A Levitated Diamond Moved by Electron Spin Force
OIST physicists used NV-center electron spin to shake a 128 mg levitated diamond resonator by over 100 nm. The numbers, and what they do not…
Kobalt TXP Battery: What Tabless Cells Change at 24V
The Kobalt TXP battery brings tabless cells to Lowe’s 24V line at $99 and $159. Here is what is confirmed, what the watt claims imply,…
Surface Laptop 15 Review: Intel Beats Snapdragon, With Caveats
Surface Laptop 15 review from published tests: Notebookcheck’s 85% verdict, Core Ultra X7 benchmarks, the 65 W cooling limit, and who should pay $2,749.
Thunderbolt 5 Bandwidth, Worked Out: Why 80 Gbps Becomes 120 and What Fits Inside
Thunderbolt 5 gives 80 Gbps each way and 120 Gbps one way in boost mode. How PAM-3 gets there, what monitors and drives fit, and…
Bolmo and Byteification: What Nature’s New Language-Model Paper Changes About Tokenizers
Nature’s October 7, 2026 paper on byteification converts existing subword language models to read raw bytes using under 1% of pretraining compute. Here is how…