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One building, one destiny: with the Corinthian, the Orient Express legacy leaves the rails to sail the seas Checkpoint

One building, one destiny: with the Corinthian, the Orient Express legacy leaves the rails to sail the seas

What Georges Nagelmackers first imagined in 1867, sitting in an uncomfortable American railway car, has become one of the most desirable brands in the world of luxury. Orient Express has survived two world wars, the Cold War, the collapse of its founding operator, twenty years of railway purgatory and two…
bubmag
April 29, 2026
‘The most powerful weapon is not always a missile’: How Iranian “Charming Kitten” hackers used old Cold War methods to steal tech secrets and plant malware on Apple and Windows users Checkpoint

‘The most powerful weapon is not always a missile’: How Iranian “Charming Kitten” hackers used old Cold War methods to steal tech secrets and plant malware on Apple and Windows users

Charming Kitten relies on deception rather than exploiting technical software vulnerabilities Fake identities build trust before phishing attacks compromise sensitive user credentials Operations extend across Apple and Microsoft platforms, affecting diverse users globally Iran-linked cyber operations are drawing renewed attention for relying less on advanced code and more on human…
bubmag
April 5, 2026
A 27-year-old just raised $450 million to bet that AI’s future runs on nuclear power Checkpoint

A 27-year-old just raised $450 million to bet that AI’s future runs on nuclear power

Isaiah Taylor was sixteen when he decided the nuclear industry had a size problem. Not that reactors were too dangerous or too expensive, though they are both, but that they were simply too big. The multi-gigawatt monuments to Cold War-era engineering that still dot the American landscape were designed for…
bubmag
April 1, 2026