An overview of the background and the history of the War in Ukraine. Plus some analysis of what will happen next. Does peace between Russia and Ukraine have a chance at all?

Not much details there yet, but … woah.

A developer for a major food delivery app spills the beans on Reddit.

After the devastating Air India Flight 171 crash last year, Air India is in the news again.

It snowed this morning.

Now, here’s me thinking less bureaucracy would be a good thing. But I guess that’s just naïve of me.

Happy New Year to all my readers!

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?