ASUS ROG Ally X: The Handheld That Thinks It’s a Console, a PC, and a Cry for Help Bylines from Taipei, Redmond, Lagos, and the back row of economy class Somewhere over the Pacific, 39,000 feet above humanity’s collective Wi-Fi anxiety, the ASUS ROG Ally X just finished downloading the day-one patch for Palworld. The…
If the world were a Bond film, Peter Thiel would be the soft-spoken gentleman sipping a protein shake in the villain’s lair, quietly buying the volcano and re-branding it as a sovereign cloud-hosting zone. From Silicon Valley to Singapore, from Washington to Wellington, the German-born, New Zealand-naturalised, American billionaire drifts like a well-funded ghost—always present,…
Hideo Kojima—part auteur, part walking meme, full-time corporate enigma—has just announced “physint,” a project whose name sounds like a rejected pharmaceutical for social anxiety. In the usual Tokyo livestream, complete with moody lighting and the faint hum of existential dread, Kojima teased a “new action-espionage” game that will somehow be both interactive entertainment and, if…
Safra Catz, two syllables that sound like a Bond villain’s accountant, has quietly become the planet’s most powerful Israeli-born woman who doesn’t run a country. Instead, she runs Oracle, the Redwood City behemoth whose cloud contracts determine whether your local tax authority can process your return before the next ice age. From São Paulo tramways…
iOS 26: A Global Soft-Power Coup in 6.1 Inches By Dave’s Locker’s Bureau of Late-Stage Capitalism Correspondence GENEVA — While the United Nations was busy drafting yet another sternly-worded letter about somewhere being on fire, Apple quietly dropped iOS 26 last week, instantly redrawing the planet’s cultural map faster than you can say “non-binding resolution.”…
Dispatch from the Global Swipe-Right Industrial Complex by our correspondent in exile, still waiting for someone to reply Whitney Wolfe Herd is not, despite the headlines, the patron saint of empowered single women from Jakarta to Johannesburg. She is merely the woman who figured out how to monetize the universal human fear of dying alone—then…
EA Play: The Subscription Service Quietly Colonizing the Planet, One Micro-Transaction at a Time By our man in the cloud, still buffering in Ulaanbaatar If you woke up this morning in Lagos, Lima, or Lahore and noticed that FIFA 23 now costs less than a cup of coffee—provided you rent it by the month—you’ve already…
**Andreessen Horowitz: The Venture Capital Empire That’s Quietly Reshaping Your Digital Future (Whether You Like It or Not)** In a world where billionaires casually purchase social media platforms for fun and your grandmother now asks about cryptocurrency at Sunday dinner, one venture capital firm has mastered the art of being everywhere while remaining largely invisible…
The Man Who Taught Windows to Apologize: Satya Nadella’s Grand Tour of Global Contrition By Our Correspondent in a Café with Suspiciously Fast Wi-Fi When Satya Nadella slipped into the CEO seat at Microsoft in 2014, most of the planet assumed the corporation would keep lumbering along like a T-rex on lithium—impressive, but doomed to…
**When Your Secrets Aren’t Worth Stealing—Just Borrowing: AT&T’s Global Masterclass in Digital Apology** By the time AT&T’s $13 million settlement hit the headlines, half the planet had already updated their passwords from “123456” to “123456a”—the cybersecurity equivalent of installing a stronger screen door on a submarine. The breach itself, which exposed roughly nine million customers’…
RUMBLE: THE WORLD’S NEWEST GLADIATOR RING, SPONSORED BY YOUR AUNT’S FACEBOOK FEED Dave’s Locker – International Desk PARIS—If you squint at the Place de la République on a Friday night, you can watch two realities collide with the grace of a shopping cart down a flight of stairs. On one side, a gilet jaune live-streams…
Patch Notes from the Sprawl: How Cyberpunk 2077’s Latest Hotfix Became a Global Rorschach Test By Dave’s Locker International Desk Warsaw—The patch notes hit the inboxes at 03:17 CEST, the hour when most of Europe is either asleep or doom-scrolling. CD Projekt Red’s changelog for Cyberpunk 2077 v2.12—barely 700 words—was shorter than the average UN…
