Don’t Visit Ko Lipe
After 19 years, I finally went back to Ko Lipe, the Thai island I spent close to a month on in 2006. Back then, it was one of those super off-the-beaten-path destinations that few but the most intrepid travelers visited,…
Owner of ICE detention facility sees big opportunity in AI man camps
To house the hundreds or thousands of temporary workers needed to build an AI data center, developers are increasingly relying on temporary villages known as man camps. This style of camp was popularized as housing for men working in remote…
Will the Pentagon’s Anthropic controversy scare startups away from defense work?
In just over a week, negotiations over the Pentagon’s use of Anthropic’s Claude technology fell through, the Trump administration designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk, and the AI company said it would fight that designation in court. OpenAI, meanwhile, quickly announced…
Palmer Luckey’s retro gaming startup ModRetro reportedly seeks funding at $1B valuation
ModRetro, the vintage gaming startup by Palmer Luckey, is in talks to raise funding at a $1 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times. The company launched its first product, a Game Boy-style handheld device called the Chromatic, in 2024….
Ring’s Jamie Siminoff has been trying to calm privacy fears since the Super Bowl, but his answers may not help
When Ring founder and CEO Jamie Siminoff decided to use the company’s first-ever Super Bowl commercial to introduce Search Party — an AI-powered feature that uses Ring camera footage to help find lost dogs — he expected Americans to love…
MS Dhoni’s message after T20 World Cup win will melt your hearts
Image Credit: PA Images/ Jacob King via Alamy Dhoni, who usually maintains a low profile on social media, penned a special note for India, with special shoutouts to Gambhir and Bumrah. Former Indian captain couldn’t help but heap praise on…
When is India’s next match after T20 World Cup 2026 final?
Image Credit: Shubhajit Roy Karmakar via Alamy Catch India’s upcoming schedule after T20 World Cup 2026 final. The toil and hard work that Gautam Gambhir and Suryakumar Yadav put in for almost two years have finally paid off. The Men…
Sanju Samson here to stay after T20 World Cup heroics, what happens to Gill & Jaiswal?
Sanju Samson cannot be done away with that easily from the Indian cricket team in T20Is as he was done so in the recent past. At the start of T20 World Cup 2026, little did Sanju Samson know that he…
Documents Reveal Ties Between Trump Officials and Industries They Regulate — ProPublica
Thousands of companies are jockeying for billions of dollars in Defense Department contracts to build a shield designed to intercept and destroy missiles launched against the United States. But amid the intense competition, a handful of firms have an important…
ProPublica Wins Lawsuit Over Access to Court Records in U.S. Navy Cases — ProPublica
The Navy is no longer allowed to shroud its criminal trials in secrecy and must provide public access to hearings and records, a federal judge ruled last month. The order, the result of a yearslong lawsuit filed by ProPublica, forces…