After the Graham Linehan debacle, London’s Metropolitan Police is now set to stop arresting people for non-crime hate incidents. This policy obviously was a bad idea in the first place.

Wishing all readers of this blog a Merry Christmas!

A recent patent application that made the news in Germany looks suspiciously like someone with chatbot delusion tried to vibe code a threat to NATO’s nuclear deterrence strategy.

The EU still wants to read through every digital message every one of its citizens ever sends. After some pushback, the newest idea is that platforms should now do the dirty work for the police.

How a programming mistake in an avionics software update combined with a stray neutron from outer space to take down the best-selling passenger jet in the world. And no, it wasn’t a solar flare!

I will be removing all AI generated images from my website. My writing, as was the case before, will not be utilising any AI tools.

There is a big difference between the German freedom to have an opinion and actual freedom of speech in the American sense, as a new report on the German state’s speech crackdown clearly illuminates.

I played ARC Raiders for the first time tonight.

I’ve managed to get a second satellite into orbit with a slightly modified launch vehicle.

A second portrait of a character from my novel

On 4 November, an MD-11 cargo plane operated by UPS crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, killing fourteen people. We know that the airplane lost its left engine on take-off. But why did that happen?

How a well designed safety feature can potentially doom a jetliner

Woke Zelda, here we come…

Putting a satellite into orbit in Kerbal Space Program

Canadian officials killed over 300 ostriches, a full year after they recovered from the avian flu they had suffered from. Out of pure bureaucratic spite. And the media did its best to cover it up.

The first pre-alpha version of what could finally be a worthy successor to Kerbal Space Program has been released by DayZ creator Dean Hall.

As it turns out, the expedition to locate Amelia Earhart’s plane has been postponed to the coming year.

Norwegian public transport authority Ruter has discovered undocumented cell modems in electric buses built by Chinese company Yutong, which enable the manufacturer to turn the buses off remotely.