Society
There comes a point in a technical career when you realise two things at once. First, that you no longer need a degree to do your job. Second, that the world is quietly punishing you for not having one anyway. You already earn enough money that food choices are no
Security
So, we’re sitting here in 2025, and everyone is patting themselves on the back because we’ve finally got a "British" tech unicorn that isn’t just a food delivery app. Enter Anduril. It’s got the cool name, the "defense disruptor" branding, and it’
Anthropology
The early internet was sold to us as a triumph of Enlightenment values: a frictionless marketplace of ideas; a global coffeehouse where facts would politely elbow superstition aside, democracy would flourish, and everyone would finally admit you were right all along. What we actually built looks less like a salon
Society
Remember when having more friends was supposed to make you a better person? More friends = more perspectives = more empathy, right? Well, a new study makes precisely the sort of claim that feels like your dad yelling at a cloud: greater social connectivity has paradoxically made societies more polarized. Not “we
Technology
Redhill is the sort of English town that exists primarily to prove that not everything needs a backstory. It has parks, polite brick houses, a station that mostly works, and shops selling items you didn’t realise people still bought. You could live there for years without suspecting that history
Surveillance
If you strip away the science fiction trappings, the massive underground generator, the retro-futuristic computers, and the spiraling concrete staircase, the television series Silo reveals itself to be less of a mystery box and more of a mirror. While we watch the residents of the Silo scramble for truth in
Security
If you’ve ever read about corporate incident response, you’ll know it usually involves a boardroom full of executives who look like they’ve just learned what a computer is, several security analysts who haven’t slept since 2014, and a consultant who charges more per hour than a
Security
Somewhere right now, a perfectly innocent-looking smart kettle in Milton Keynes is quietly participating in a global cybercrime infrastructure with better uptime than your employer’s VPN. It does not complain. It does not open a ticket. It does not send passive-aggressive emails about “workload priorities.” It simply does its
Computer Science
It starts innocently. You just want to search for something. A word, a phone number, perhaps the occasional email address belonging to your former classmate who still owes you £60 for books. You could do this the normal way, with a search box like a civilised human, or you could
Society
There is a particular species of modern myth-making that thrives in Silicon Valley, a kind of techno-spiritual folklore woven from hoodies, venture capital, and the irresistible editorial urge to attribute vast, complex achievements to a solitary man who, ideally, looks photogenic on the cover of Wired. This is the “Lone
Geopolitics
If you ever wanted proof that geopolitics is fundamentally absurd, look no further than Unicode, the global standard that decides which scribbles count as legitimate text in the digital world. You might assume this is the most boring standards committee on earth, some cardigan-wearing librarians quietly debating whether “🫠” (the melting
Cryptography
There’s a peculiar comfort in knowing that governments have always been bewildered by technology. Today they struggle with TikTok; in the 1990s they struggled with mathematics. Not complicated mathematics, either, just the sort involving large prime numbers and a few lines of code. But give a politician even a