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Crypto & markets

Richard Heart Beat the SEC on a Technicality, Then His Own Tax Office Caught Up With Him in…

On 14 October 2026, Turkish police arrested the founder of Hex and PulseChain on an Interpol red notice issued for Finland, which suspects him of gross tax evasion. He had walked away from a $1 billion SEC case 18 months earlier, not because a court cleared him, but because the judge found no US jurisdiction. I went through the whole arc, the sacrifice mechanism, the allegations, the dismissal that was not an acquittal, and a blockchain whose biggest customer was its own founder.

23 October 202611 min read

Infrastructure

You Can Build a Serious Home Server for About $1,000, and It Solves a Problem Your Phone Cannot

A used enterprise server that cost a company thousands of dollars new sells for around $250 today, and with a few parts you have a private cloud that runs AI agents, stores your photos, records your cameras, and lets you walk through an airport with a phone that holds almost nothing. I went through the exact parts, the real prices in the current memory shortage, and what to actually run on it.

23 October 202612 min read

AI & GPU compute

Anthropic Just Posted $16.8

The numbers coming out of the AI industry are the biggest in the history of technology, and a growing group of analysts thinks that is the problem. I went through the real figures behind the bubble debate, Anthropic’s revenue, the infrastructure commitments, the debt, the falling cost of intelligence, and who is actually paying, because the case for a correction and the case against it both rest on the same facts.

22 October 202610 min read

Linux & open source

The Linux Kernel Just Dropped Its AI Disclosure Tag, and the Fight Over It Says More Than the…

At the Maintainer Summit in Prague, the people who run the Linux kernel reached a rough consensus to deprecate the Assisted-by tag, the little line in a commit that says AI helped write it. I went through who proposed it, the real numbers behind it, and the argument it set off, including Linus Torvalds calling the whole idea of AI disclosure rules utterly stupid, because the kernel is quietly becoming one of the most AI touched projects in open source.

21 October 202612 min read

Linux & open source

Linux 7.3 Made BTRFS Up to 5.7x Faster, and It Did It by Deleting Code. Here Is How

The headline on Linux 7.3 is a filesystem that got dramatically quicker, and almost every gain came from stripping out a bottleneck that was quietly costing more than it saved. I went through the actual patches, the fio numbers, and the maintainers behind them to explain what changed and why it matters for anyone running Linux.

20 October 202611 min read

Linux & open source

systemd Wants to Know Which App Is Talking to It. That Is a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds

A proposed component called systemd-appd would give the Linux desktop a shared way to identify running apps and check their permissions, the thing Android and macOS have had for years. I went through the actual proposal and the debate around it, because the technical fix is reasonable and the question of where it lives is the part people are actually fighting about.

20 October 20269 min read

Linux & open source

The Linux Kernel Just Stopped Labeling Its AI Code. The Real Story Is Who Pays for the Compute.

At the October 2026 maintainers summit, the Linux project dropped its requirement to tag AI assisted patches. The maintainers had reasonable reasons. The harder question is what it means that the compute reviewing and writing kernel code is donated by the same companies betting everything on AI.

15 October 20266 min read

Infrastructure

A Gas Pipeline Is Breaking America’s $500 Billion AI Bet

Oracle just moved to defer rent on its flagship Stargate data center before it opens. The reason is not chips or compute, it is a permit fight over a pipe, and the borrowed money behind the project means one delay travels everywhere.

13 October 20268 min read

AI & GPU compute

China Just Overtook America on the Only Metric That Predicts Who Builds the Future

Note: This article discusses ongoing industry developments and government policy. It is for informational purposes only.

17 July 202611 min read

Crypto & markets

Did SpaceX’s Rocky IPO Just Expose Cracks in the AI Bubble?

On June 12, 2026, SpaceX went public in what became the largest IPO in history, raising more than $85 billion and debuting at a valuation of roughly $2.77 trillion, briefly making Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire on paper.

15 July 202613 min read