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Jensen Huang's leather jacket — yes, the one he wears to seemingly every Nvidia event — sold at Sotheby's this weekend for nine hundred sixty thousand dollars. Estimated at forty to sixty thousand, the final hammer price says less about fashion and more about how completely Huang has become a symbol of the AI moment.
On a lighter note, a security engineer has ported the password cracking tool hashcat to a Game Boy Advance. The twenty-three-year-old handheld manages seven hundred twenty-seven hashes per second — roughly thirty million times slower than a modern GPU rig. It is completely impractical and entirely wonderful, which is exactly the point.
And Java, which quietly underpins much of the internet you used today, nearly died before it launched. A new documentary reveals the language required a near-total rewrite just three days before its debut at a major conference in nineteen ninety-five — a reminder that foundational technologies often arrive by the narrowest of margins.
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