Deep dives
The main technology topic reads hardware and platforms as power structures. RISC-V, Android forks, smartphone exits, photonic processors and cloud APIs are not isolated updates here; they are signs of who controls the stack, and who is forced to adapt to it.
MIPS, China's Loongson CPU Are Both Going All-in on RISC-V
Privacy appears as a strategic layer, not a consumer feature. A privacy search engine becoming a broader app, a data leak, or secure messaging all become evidence in a larger argument about dependency, trust and the shape of the public internet.
DuckDuckGo in 2021: Building the Privacy Super App
The eye for acquisitions is also strategic. A deal such as Microsoft buying Nuance is treated less as market gossip than as a move in a long game around voice, health data, AI and platform reach.
Microsoft acquires Nuance Communications
In the security topic, incidents are read as geopolitical events. A mass exploitation of Microsoft email servers is not just a breach; it exposes the fragility of shared digital infrastructure and the scale at which a software flaw can become a national problem.
Microsoft email server flaws exploited to hack at least 30,000 US organizations
The same logic applies to chips and supply chains. China stockpiling chip-making machines sits beside spyware, encryption and cloud procurement because all of them concern strategic autonomy: who can build, inspect, defend and replace the systems they depend on.
The feed also has a historian’s instinct. A rediscovered European intelligence pact, spyware controversies and surveillance exports form one continuous story about alliances, blind spots and the long memory of state power.
Sharing intelligence - Maximator, a 1976 European spy pact to rival the Five Eyes, comes to light
The imaging topic is where Dewost’s technical curiosity becomes almost philosophical. Computational photography is framed as a change in the meaning of a picture: less a captured trace, more a reconstruction made by optics, sensors, software and inference.
L’iPhone 12 consacre la photographie computationnelle, Apple la fait entrer dans la lumière
He follows the whole chain, from sensors to perception. An AI image sensor, optical pre-processing, camera miniaturization and smartphone comparisons all point to the same shift: machines are beginning to see before humans ever look.
Sony IMX500 - The World’s First AI Image Sensor Announced
That fascination comes with warnings. Deepfakes, 3D reconstruction and automated colorization are exciting because they expand visual language, but they also unsettle evidence, memory and ownership.
MoonShot + DeepFake = Deep S**t for Samsung
