Hardware
A deep dive into how a tiny team of hydroacoustic engineers built 44 underwater communication and navigation devices from scratch, bootstrapping their way from a colleague's unfinished veranda to international exports.
Programming
A university professor examines the alarming decline in students' cognitive abilities and abstract thinking, driven by digital dependency and information overload, with evidence from France, the US, and practical recommendations for mental fitness.
*nix
The Linux kernel is perhaps the most ubiquitous (and still underappreciated) piece of software code today. All Linux distributions are based on it (obviously), but that's not all. In addition, the Linux kernel runs a huge amount of firmware almost everywhere. Do you have a microw
Frontend Optimization
A file upload tool requires 230 MB and 2,700 files to copy a few files from client to server. This isn't bloatware or overengineering — it's absolute, complete, obvious, blatant insanity.
Biology
A deep dive into the engineering marvels of river beavers — how they redirect rivers, build fortified lodges and dams, fell trees with surgical precision, and terraform entire landscapes for their survival.
DIY
The story of Yaroslav Menshikov, a Moscow-based engineer who single-handedly designed and manufactured a full line of certified battery and supercapacitor analyzers — from concept to state measurement registry.
Energy
How Finland built an unprecedented underground repository to safely contain nuclear waste for 100,000 years — and why warning future civilizations about it may be the hardest part.
Programming
A frustrated developer's rant about modern software bloat — comparing 20 years of hardware performance gains with the ever-increasing resource demands of operating systems, web frameworks, and Electron apps.
Spam and Anti-spam
Every spam message I receive is an opportunity to file a complaint with the Federal Antimonopoly Service. Here are the highlights of their investigations — featuring lies, forged documents, and corporate dishonesty.
Information Security
A security researcher discovered that Telegram's auto-delete feature on Android left images in an open cache folder. After months of delays, Telegram offered a €1,000 bounty — but with an 8-page NDA that demanded unlimited confidentiality, even over tax documents.
Information Security
A security researcher purchased five budget button phones and discovered that four contained undisclosed malicious functionality, including tracking, premium SMS trojans, and SMS-intercepting backdoors.
UEFI
A deep dive into creating a hidden dual-boot system by modifying a Western Digital hard drive's firmware and writing a custom UEFI driver, so two OS installations are completely invisible to each other.