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From Jacquard's silk looms to NSA key tapes, how holes in cardboard ran the world for two centuries — and why we can still read them.

LTFS makes tape pretend to be a filesystem — but 37-second seeks decide whether it can anchor a searchable archive.

A bad conductor and a bad insulator — and the most important material in civilization. Semiconductors explained in five escalating levels.

13.7 billion TikTok views, 42 arrests at one IBM office park, and a community at war with its own imitators.

From GSM to HDMI to LTO, why competitors form standards bodies — and what happens when the commitments break.

Magnetic tape isn't dead — it's holding up the cloud. How LTO-10 broke a 25-year compatibility promise, and why AI needs tape more than ever.

Linux 7.3 release candidates ship through a 1986 email tool. Here's why the kernel never left the listserv.

Tape on Linux needs no driver — but it also doesn't behave like ZFS. Here's how LTO really integrates, and why "pool" means something else.

Concorde, Buran, Iridium: the finest machines ever built for a paradigm that vanished while they were still on the drawing board.

A fried fiber modem raises the real question: where do you draw the line between preparedness and "done enough"?

Amazon's Just Walk Out needed 1,000 workers in India. Google Duplex, Facebook M — the pattern of selling humans as software goes deep.

What actually changes when a cybersecurity operator crosses from protecting a company to protecting a state?