The Archive

Read the columns, rail

Medium. Columnar transposition. Keyword RAIL.

Playfair, Tesla

Hard. Playfair square. Keyword TESLA. I/J share. X fills doubles.

Pigpen at the chopsticks

Easy. The old Masonic alphabet. One word.

Five by five, good news

Easy–medium. Polybius square. I and J share a cell.

Five and eight

Medium–hard. Affine cipher. E(x) = (5x + 8) mod 26. A=0.

Bacon on the desk

Medium. Baconian cipher. Five a/b symbols a letter. A=aaaaa.

Blindsight human trials in the window

Elon Musk said on 24 August 2026 that Blindsight human implants are six to 12 months out. FDA Breakthrough designation is 17 September 2024. There are still zero human Blindsight implants on the public record.

VOICE is the speech trial

Neuralink’s VOICE study (NCT07224256) is recruiting at UT Southwestern. Enrollment is listed as six. Start 3 October 2025, primary completion October 2028. The speech stack is a different product from Telepathy’s cursor.

One Nation takes Secret Harbour

Luke Herdegen is One Nation’s first Western Australian lower-house MP after the 29 August 2026 by-election. Labor’s Georgia Tree conceded on 30 August.

Twenty-one Neuralnauts

Neuralink says 21 people are now in human trials worldwide. The company’s own Telepathy post puts numbers on bits per second, hours a day, and a safety line of zero serious device-related events.

XMG puts 240 Hz OLED on the NEO 16

Schenker’s gaming line finally gives the NEO 16 the 240 hertz OLED that used to sit on the FUSION 16. Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, RTX 50-series, from €3,199, order now.