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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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AI & Machine Learning

ChatGPT-5.6 Models Sol, Terra, Luna Explained
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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