The April 2026 Claude Outage: Anatomy of an AI Infrastructure Mystery
On the morning of April 15, 2026, Claude stopped working for a lot of people at the same time. Downdetector lit up. The chatbot threw errors. Claude Code stalled mid-task. The API spat 5xx responses. By the time the worst of it cleared, more than 30,000 user reports had piled into a single peak window, […]
The Disappearance of A.I. Gary McKinnon’s Discoveries
The Story Behind Gary McKinnon’s Vanishing Evidence Between February 2001 and March 2002, a Glasgow-born systems administrator named Gary McKinnon used a 56k dial-up modem in a north London flat to probe ninety-seven United States military and NASA computers. He told investigators he was looking for suppressed evidence of UFOs and zero-point energy. He later […]