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Jordan Blake

Jordan Blake reports on cybersecurity, startups, and the business of technology for Newzlet. Articles under this byline are produced by Newzlet's AI-assisted editorial process and checked against our published editorial standards; see our AI Disclosure for how the newsroom works.

Areas of focus: Cybersecurity, startups & business, crypto & fintech

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Gadgets & Reviews

Fitbit Air Preorders Show Deals Now Drive Wearable Sales
Fitbit Air Preorders Show Deals Now Drive Wearable Sales

The Deal-First Buying Mindset: Price Is Beating Product Discovery The Fitbit Air preorder surge exposes something the consumer…

May 24, 2026  ·  7 min read

Cybersecurity

Megalodon Compromised 5,561 GitHub Repos in Six Hours
Megalodon Compromised 5,561 GitHub Repos in Six Hours

What Actually Happened: Scale, Speed, and Surgical Precision On May 18, 2026, an automated campaign named Megalodon compromised…

May 24, 2026  ·  9 min read

Cybersecurity

Supply Chain Attacks Are Now Industrialized—Here’s the Threat
Supply Chain Attacks Are Now Industrialized—Here’s the Threat

From Rare Nightmare to Routine Business: How Supply Chain Attacks Went Industrial For most of its history, the…

May 24, 2026  ·  8 min read

Cybersecurity

Trump Mobile Data Leak Exposes Risks of Vanity Tech Brands
Trump Mobile Data Leak Exposes Risks of Vanity Tech Brands

What Actually Happened: The Confirmed Facts Trump Mobile confirmed to TechCrunch that it exposed customer names, email addresses,…

May 24, 2026  ·  7 min read

AI & Machine Learning

Spotify’s AI Audiobook Tool Changes Self-Publishing Forever
Spotify’s AI Audiobook Tool Changes Self-Publishing Forever

What Spotify Actually Announced Spotify used its Investor Day event to announce an AI audiobook creation tool built…

May 24, 2026  ·  9 min read

AI & Machine Learning

World Models: The AI Shift Beyond Text Prediction
World Models: The AI Shift Beyond Text Prediction

The LLM Ceiling: Why Text-Only AI Is Running Into Walls Large language models are extraordinarily good at one…

May 24, 2026  ·  9 min read

AI & Machine Learning

rmux gives AI agents a terminal they can actually drive
rmux gives AI agents a terminal they can actually drive

The gap tmux never filled: terminals that code can actually drive Tmux was built for humans. Every design…

May 23, 2026  ·  8 min read

Consumer Tech

Flipper One’s brutal honesty about delays is a startup lesson
Flipper One’s brutal honesty about delays is a startup lesson

The anti-launch launch: what Flipper One actually announced Most hardware announcements follow a script: polished renders, breathless superlatives,…

May 23, 2026  ·  10 min read

Cybersecurity

Google Published Exploit Code for Its Own Chrome Flaw
Google Published Exploit Code for Its Own Chrome Flaw

The Vulnerability: What’s Actually at Risk The flaw lives inside Chromium’s shared codebase, which means it doesn’t stop…

May 23, 2026  ·  7 min read

Consumer Tech

asm.js Is Dead: What Firefox 148’s Quiet Change Means
asm.js Is Dead: What Firefox 148’s Quiet Change Means

What Just Happened: Firefox 148 and the End of an Era Firefox 148 shipped with a quiet but…

May 22, 2026  ·  8 min read

AI & Machine Learning

Musk Lost on a Technicality, Not the Merits
Musk Lost on a Technicality, Not the Merits

The Verdict Most Headlines Are Burying: Musk Sued Too Late The jury in Musk v. OpenAI did not…

May 22, 2026  ·  9 min read

AI & Machine Learning

Gemini 2.5 Flash Makes AI Act, Not Just Answer
Gemini 2.5 Flash Makes AI Act, Not Just Answer

From Chatbot to Co-Worker: What ‘Agentic AI’ Actually Means Most people who’ve used ChatGPT or Google’s own Bard…

May 22, 2026  ·  7 min read