For the first time in decades, I wasn’t excited to review a Surface device. Now that I’m finished, I’m still not.
The Surface Laptop 8th Edition (or Surface Laptop 8) for Business has two things going for it: an upgrade to Intel’s excellent Core Ultra 300 series processors (Panther Lake) and a moderately useful privacy screen, which can dim and obfuscate the display at the touch of a…
Freshly installed and straight into browsing — that’s how most users start their browser. Consequently, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox remain set to their default settings, which prioritize convenience and data collection over privacy or efficiency.
Browsers regularly prompt…
Mullvad VPN review: The ultimate privacy-first VPN
June 12, 2026
Sweden-based Mullvad has long been the privacy purist’s VPN. It collects remarkably little information about its users and continues to prioritize anonymity over the convenience features favored by most competitors.
When I say that Mullvad takes your privacy seriously, I…
‘We Wanted To Match the Original and Go Beyond’ - Alien: Isolation 2’s Director on Improving a Survivor Horror Icon
June 11, 2026
If you read any account of the original Alien: Isolation’s development process, at some point there’s always mention of how Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece was playing on a constant loop in Creative Assembly’s offices. When I stepped into those same offices a couple of weeks ago to go hands-on with the long-anticipated sequel, the first thing to greet me was a massive TV mid-way through a…
Earlier in 2026, Sony shut down Bluepoint Games, the studio behind the fantastic Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes. In an interview with IGN, Fumito Ueda, the original creator of Shadow of the Colossus, expressed his sadness at Bluepoint’s demise, saying…
Look, dinosaurs are objectively cool. I don’t make the rules. When four-year-old me got a dinosaur cast, everyone was jealous. Why couldn’t they have a cool dinosaur-patterned arm, like me, the brave little girl who courageously tripped over playground equipment so…
Big Short investor Steve Eisman said he would not be surprised by a Tesla-SpaceX deal, fueling speculation about Elon Musk’s next major move. The comments come as SpaceX IPO demand reportedly tops $250 billion.
Key Takeaways
Big Short investor Steve Eisman said a SpaceX-Tesla deal is plausible but unattractive for SpaceX investors.
SpaceX IPO demand reportedly reached $250 billion, intensifying…
Tim Draper argued bitcoin faces less quantum risk than banks, comparing its security to Fort Knox. His comments shifted attention from blockchain vulnerabilities to legacy financial systems, as debate grows over quantum computing threat to modern cryptography.
Key…
Bitcoin Treasuries Are Ticking Time Bombs as Leverage Hits Record Rates, Warns Capriole’s Charles Edwards
June 11, 2026
Bitcoin treasury companies are piling on debt at record rates to fund their BTC buying, Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards warned, reviving a year-old call that the model rests on unsustainable “fake yield.”
Key Takeaways
Charles Edwards says bitcoin…
NASA is building a new space telescope to search for life on nearby planets. What would it see on ancient Earth?
June 11, 2026
NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory is the agency’s next flagship space telescope, designed to do something no previous instrument has managed: directly image Earth-like planets around nearby stars and analyze the light reflecting off their atmospheres for signs of life.
The mission is still years from launch. But the design choices being made right now will determine what it can actually…
