One Deal, Five Numbers: Recomputing What Marvell Is Paying for Lumentum
Marvell Technology agreed on Monday to buy optical-component maker Lumentum for what both companies call...
Six Scores for One Bug: Why CVE-2026-98432 Is 9.8 at the Kernel and 7.0 at Amazon
On October 15 the Linux kernel’s CVE team published CVE-2026-98432, a use-after-free in the IPv4...
Binance Lost 6.3 Billion Dollars in Twenty Minutes: Four Numbers That Do Not Agree
The largest crypto theft on record took about twenty minutes. Binance says roughly 6.3 billion...
One Trillion Parameters, One Terabyte of Weights: What Mistral’s Open Release Takes to Run
On 29 October Mistral published the weights of Mistral Large 4, the model it calls...
Ottawa Bought 4.5 Percent of Cohere. Here Is the Arithmetic
Canada will put up to C$1.6 billion into Cohere as part of a C$7 billion...
Fourteen Times the Patch Rate: The 2026 Bottleneck Is Shipping the Fix, Not Finding the Bug
Fixes are now arriving faster than anyone can review them. Microsoft published 1,461 patches this...
At Urda, 23 Minutes: Spain Braked for a Computer and Then Cleared a Train Into a Red Signal
Spain’s transport minister used the word “inexplicable” three times on Wednesday, and the timeline explains...
China AI Crash: $480 Billion or $2.4 Trillion, and a Multiple That Has Not Reset
Two numbers have been circulating this week to describe the same event, and they differ...
Israel Exit Polls Do Not Add Up to 120 Seats, and the Missing One Decides the Headline
Polling stations across Israel closed at 10 p.m. local time on Tuesday, and the country’s...
France Voted 5.5 Cents a Gigabyte: The Revenue Math Stops at About 5.5 Billion
The French National Assembly adopted amendment I-1358 to the 2027 finance bill on Friday by...