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Boards of Canada, 'Tape 05': The Long Quiet, Broken
On April 16, 2026, after thirteen years of near-total silence, Boards of Canada uploaded a six-minute piece of music to YouTube called Tape 05. The track ended a wait that had become its own kind of cultural artifact. The campaign that preceded it (mailed VHS tapes, posters appearing in four cities, a hexagonal logo on every surface) suggested that something larger is coming.
by synth_error :: April 18, 2026 :: 7 min read
> ls -la /archive/latest
01MUS04.18.26Boards of Canada, 'Tape 05': The Long Quiet, Broken
02SIG04.18.26Stuxnet: The Malware That Sabotaged a Nuclear Program
03SIG04.18.26Dan Kaminsky: The Bug, the Patch, and the Mensch
04MUS04.18.26LTJ Bukem and the Logical Progression of Atmospheric Drum and Bass
05SIG04.18.26Phil Zimmermann, PGP, and the Time the US Government Tried to Classify Math
06SIG04.18.26Elk Cloner: The First Virus in the Wild Was a Poem from a Ninth Grader
07SIG04.17.26St Jude: The Hacker Who Coined Cypherpunk
08SIG04.17.26Marcus Hutchins, the Kill Switch, and the Long Strange Year After
09SIG04.17.26Mudge: From the L0pht Loft to the Twitter Whistleblower Stand
10SIG04.16.26The Cypherpunks Mailing List: How Privacy Tech Was Born in a Bay Area Living Room
11SIG04.16.26The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto: Tim May's 1988 Pamphlet That Predicted the Modern Privacy Stack
12SIG04.15.26John Draper and the 2600Hz Whistle
> tail /var/log/wire
full wire ->01STA06.03.26Terra AI, which develops AI models for mining companies to better map underground resources, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
02STA06.03.26Town, which is developing personalized AI assistants that connect to users' email and calendar, raised a $55M Series A led by a16z (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
03STA06.03.26Forage, a payments processor that helps retailers and food-delivery companies accept EBT cards, raised a $40M Series B led by Mouro Capital at a $225M valuation (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
04STA06.03.26Wordsmith, whose AI tools help in-house lawyers draft contracts, handle legal questions, and more, raised a $70M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M (Melia Russell/Business Insider)
05SIG06.03.26CISA warns of active attacks exploiting Android, Linux bugs
06STA06.03.26Lassie, whose AI agent helps dental practices automate admin work, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, a source says, at a ~$250M valuation (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
07STA06.03.26Meta is spinning off Supernatural into an independent company, Supernatural Health, after earlier saying the VR fitness game would stop getting new content (Victoria Song/The Verge)
08STA06.03.26A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt
09DEV06.03.26Textual Autograd Mechanics: Computation Graphs in Language Optimization
10STA06.03.26Digital i: YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing globally, rising from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, while Netflix fell from 100.5 to 93.4 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)