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
243 articles · Contact the newsroom
AI & Machine Learning
ChatGPT-5.6 Models Sol, Terra, Luna Explained
The Launch: What Actually Shipped and Where OpenAI didn’t ship a single model. It shipped three. ChatGPT-5.6 is…
Jul 17, 2026 · 9 min read
Consumer Tech
How T2’s ILM Team Built the VFX Tools That Shaped Hollywood
The Problem Nobody Had Solved Before: Animating Liquid Metal When James Cameron described the T-1000 to ILM’s visual…
Jul 16, 2026 · 8 min read
Consumer Tech
Why Jest Runs Slow: The Over-Isolation Problem Fixed
The Dirty Secret of Modern Test Runners: Over-Isolation by Default Here is the uncomfortable truth: your test suite…
Jul 16, 2026 · 8 min read
AI & Machine Learning
How Anthropic’s AI Interpretability Research Builds Trust
What Anthropic actually found—stripped of the hype Anthropic has published new mechanistic interpretability research claiming it can observe…
Jul 16, 2026 · 8 min read
Consumer Tech
Why Developers Are Abandoning Vagrant for Modern Tools
The End of a Long Relationship: What Prompted the Split Benjamin Toll used Vagrant for over a decade.…
Jul 15, 2026 · 8 min read
AI & Machine Learning
Apple vs. OpenAI: What the Lawsuit Means for AI Hiring
What Apple is actually alleging — and who is in the crosshairs Apple filed suit Friday in the…
Jul 15, 2026 · 8 min read
Consumer Tech
CSS Without Frameworks: One Dev’s Case for Handcrafted Web Design
The unlikely origin: a side project born from CSS nostalgia Oskar Wickström, a developer at TigerBeetle, did not…
Jul 15, 2026 · 8 min read
AI & Machine Learning
The Open-Source Repo Cutting AI Product Dev Time in Half
The problem it solves: AI development’s ‘blank page’ tax Every developer who has built an LLM-powered product has…
Jul 14, 2026 · 9 min read
Gadgets & Reviews
Ninja Slushi Twist Review: Best Slushie Maker for Heat
The Heat Wave That Became a Product Review Last weekend, New York City cooked. The heat wave that…
Jul 14, 2026 · 9 min read
Consumer Tech
How to Choose a VPS in 2026 Without Overpaying
The VPS market has quietly changed — here’s what’s different in 2026 Two years ago, a $6-a-month VPS…
Jul 14, 2026 · 9 min read
Consumer Tech
Why Next.js Dominates Production Web Development in 2025
From Side Project to Industry Standard: The Unlikely Rise of Next.js Few frameworks survive their own origin story.…
Jul 13, 2026 · 9 min read
Consumer Tech
Amazon Fire TV 70-Inch for $350: What You’re Giving Up
The Deal on the Surface: What You’re Actually Getting for $350 Five years ago, a 70-inch television cost…
Jul 13, 2026 · 9 min read