OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself.

Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad?

Covid Vaccines Reduced Children’s Likelihood of E.R. and Urgent Care Visits, the C.D.C. Reported.

Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft.

The Price of American Authoritarianism. What Can Reverse Democratic Decline?

Triple-negative breast cancer vaccine shows promise in early clinical trial.

‘Einstein Cross’ Reveals Ultrabright Supernova From an Unthinkable Distance.

The Death of Charlie Kirk Led to a New Age of Bosses Policing Social Media.

What Happens to China’s Surplus Men?

Europe’s center isn't holding anymore.

Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools.

Wave of Gen-Z Unrest Fells Its First European Government.

CRISPR Fungus: Protein-Packed, Sustainable, and Tastes Like Meat.

L’Ukraine est prête à accepter une zone démilitarisée dans le Donbass, une concession majeure pour mettre fin à la guerre.

How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking.

My college loan balance. I started off owing $49,000 and made several years of payments.

Huge undersea wall dating from 5000 BC found in France.

Reddit launches high court challenge to Australia’s under-16s social media ban.

The Fed thinks the U.S. economy is actually losing jobs. And they are correct.

California’s last nuclear plant clears major hurdle to power on. Sweet.

Big Businesses Are Cashing In on Trump’s Tax Cuts.

How Japan Built a Rare-Earth Supply Chain Without China.

China Forces Reckoning in Europe as Trade Turns Existential.

The year the Big Tech job market cracked.

In New York City, Congestion Pricing Leads to Marked Drop in Pollution.

Everyone Hated the McDonald’s AI Christmas Ad So Much It Got Taken Down. It was quite bad.

Trump dominates democracy in Europe, international POLITICO Poll shows.

What the Warner Bros. Sale Means for the Art of Movies.

There are two Black Americas. Not everyone is happy about it.

A wealth manager wrote that $140,000 a year means poverty in today’s America, sparking controversy. He’s wrong, but he made a good point.

If Zelensky’s Claim Of Using Homegrown Ballistic Missile For First Time Is True, It’s A Big Deal.

We Might Not Be So Strange. Perhaps intelligent life wasn’t so unlikely after all.

FDA withdraws requirements to check for asbestos in makeup.

The Making of a Techno-Nationalist Elite.

Russia’s Blackout Warfare Needs a U.S. Counter. Deterring Moscow’s assault on Ukraine’s energy will pay off across Europe.

Trump Tariffs Have Cost Average US Family Nearly $1,200 So Far.

No sterile neutrinos after all, say MicroBooNE physicists.

Stagnant Construction Productivity Is a Worldwide Problem.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Says U.S. May Be Drastically Overstating Jobs Numbers. Oh, for sure.

Gave my junior a checklist to make my life easier. Guess who’s filling it out now. That is such a junior thing to do.

America can’t make what the Military needs.

Apple’s Slow AI Pace Becomes a Strength as Market Grows Weary of Spending.

America is going through a big economic experiment.

Japan has just rendered an entire generation of conventional submarines obsolete, and the world hasn’t fully realized it yet. Cool.

The Challenges to Europe’s Security Go Beyond Trump’s Lack of Support.

The Big Shift in Cardiology to Atheroma and Inflammation.

Aryna Sabalenka says ‘not fair on women to face basically biological men’ in tennis. She is correct.

We must protect our borders to defend our democracies. Here’s how.

There Are No Weird Blogs Anymore Cause It’s More Fruitful to Drive Them Out of Business.

New poll paints a grim picture of a nation under financial strain.

Wrong voters, wrong message: progressives’ autopsy lays bare Kamala Harris failures.

How are we ever supposed to start families if widespread layoffs are the new norm?

The reason Blockbuster failed was not that they were too stupid or slow to change, it is that the business had been looted by its parent Viacom in precisely the same way private equity does to everything nowadays.

This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires.

The Universal Weight Subspace Hypothesis.

The Lost Automats and Cafeterias of NYC.

Horses.

Trials Avoid High Risk Patients and Underestimate Drug Harms.

Traditional gender roles won’t get men what they want. The tried and true is tried but not true.

The death and rebirth of attention.

More than 75% of homes across the U.S. are unaffordable, study finds. A lot of our political problems stem from this fact alone.

20 Signs There's An Affordability Crisis In America.

As AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly: ‘We will have to work through societal disruption.’ Easy for someone worth hundreds of millions to say.

Nimda. Those were some bad days.

How oxygen first reached Earth's oceans.

AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals.

Pick Your Financial Crash.

The Sun Survived a Close Call With 2 Massive Stars 4.4 Million Years Ago, Data Shows.

Over 250 people quarantined in South Carolina as measles outbreak rages.

See How a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Could Unfold.

Amazon Releases AI Agents It Says Can Work for Days at a Time.

Bag of words, have mercy on us.

How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices.

CATL Expects Oceanic Electric Ships in 3 Years.

The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It’s Going to Be Very Painful and Incredibly Healthy.

Have you tried switching it off and on again? Mechanisms and therapeutic prospects of resetting homeostatic set points in medicine and neuropsychiatry.

The association between allostatic load and brain: A systematic review.

China’s trade surplus for the first 11 months surpassed the $1 trillion mark, at nearly $1.08 trillion.

Enshittification is the business model.

Libraries and museums get federal funding back after Trump cuts.

The power crunch threatening America’s AI ambitions.

In this cohort study including 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated individuals, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of 45 months.

Europe is under siege.

Hegseth declares end of US 'utopian idealism' with new military strategy.

How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration.

Breaking free of zero-sum thinking will make America a wealthier country.

Why Tehran Is Running Out of Water.

The past was not that cute.

ACIP Decides More Newborns Do Need To Catch Hepatitis B.

US job cuts surged 183% in October to a record 153K. Is this the end of America's ‘no hire, no fire’ landscape?

Children with better musical skills may benefit from a prolonged window of brain plasticity.

Growing Fear of Nature: Study Reveals Causes of Rising Biophobia.

For small businesses hit by soaring costs, layoffs are painful and personal.

Leibniz’s Monads Are Weird Quarks.

America’s economy is at the mercy of crony capitalism.

Europe needs to stop its magical thinking and get ready for war with Russia.

Google wants to give Chrome access to even more of your private data.

“The Crawlers”, 1877.

YouTube secretly tests AI video retouching without creators’ consent.

New England warming faster than most places on Earth, study finds.

The Supreme Court Is Poised to Revive a Key Feature of Nixon-Era Corruption.

Modi mocks Putin by speaking Ukrainian during two-day India visit.

There was recently a flurry of attention and dismay over Sarah Kendzior having been suspended from Bluesky by its moderation system.

Even modest strength training can counter age-related decline.

The last act of the feature film.

Trump’s Self-Imposed Economic Trap.

Exploding Suburban Silence.

A massive, Chinese-backed port could push the Amazon Rainforest over the edge.

Trump Tried to Brag About Black Friday. The Truth Is Far More Grim.

Health-care costs are about to spike in a way that Americans can’t afford.

As expected, Kate’s health insurance, purchased on the ACA marketplace, is going to be more expensive next year. In fact, her plan won’t even be available, so she was booted to an allegedly comparable one for…quadruple her current premium.

State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing ‘censorship.’

How Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuasion Costs.

The Age-Gated Internet Is Sweeping the US. Activists Are Fighting Back.

RAM is so expensive, Samsung won’t even sell it to Samsung. Glad I bought two machines with 128GB of RAM each (one Mac, one server) when RAM was cheapest.

A Most Important Mustard.

Trump’s boat strike playbook was written by Obama. Yes.

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking. “Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead.”

Israel’s Latest Military Tech: Tested in Gaza, Wanted by the West.

American Shahed-136 Clones Sent To Middle East Have Satellite Datalinks, Swarming Capabilities.

Two Steppes forward, one step back: parsing our Indo-European past.

The Ingratitude of the Well-Fed. Or How to Cultivate Gratitude for Progress.

Cloudflare Has Blocked 416 Billion AI Bot Requests Since July 1.

Regulators Relax Rules on High-Risk Lending for Banks.

Lithium-ion batteries, which power everything from cellphones to cars, are increasingly saving electric grids around the world.

Trump’s rollback—cutting the projected 2031 fleet average from roughly 50.4 MPG to 34.5 MPG—relaxes the math enough that microcars could comply again.

If companies can modify internet-connected products and charge subscriptions after people have already purchased them, what does it mean to own anything anymore?

Wealthy ranchers profit from public lands. Taxpayers pick up the tab.

Traffic congestion hits a record high, spreading to more hours of the week.

Drones au-dessus de la base navale de l’île Longue : les autorités françaises assument une nouvelle fois la discrétion.

Rare set of varied factors triggered Black Death.

California unemployment set to rise as the economy continues to suffer.

Everyone in Seattle Hates AI.

Satellite captures the first detailed look at a massive tsunami.

UPS put profits over safety before plane crash that killed 14, lawyer alleges. Well, profits are forever. Lives are all temporary. Right?

Sky King. He’s probably the only human being to ever have done a barrel roll in that aircraft.

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine. Moronic.

Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes.

RSV prevention—a remarkable medical achievement finally realized.

The Middle Class Is Buckling Under Almost Five Years of Persistent Inflation. And yet econs say all is peachy. If you can afford a peach, that is.

Politics and Capitalist Stagnation.

Layoff announcements top 1.1 million this year, the most since 2020 pandemic, Challenger says.

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself.

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet. And we still all hate him for this mistake.

Gen Z college-educated men now just as unemployed as those without degrees—has the education payoff officially died?

Scientists document over 16,000 footprints in the world’s most extensive dinosaur tracksite.

AI Agents Break Rules Under Everyday Pressure. Shortened deadlines and other stressors caused misbehavior.

All about automotive lidar.

The Gender-Based Rights Conundrum.

The Junior Hiring Crisis. People who claim this is not a crisis are wrong wrong wrongity wrong. So wrong.

Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer.

A cross-cultural study involving participants from 25 countries found that participants who have children tend to report lower levels of romantic love, intimacy, and passion toward their partners compared to individuals without children.

New homes in London delayed by ‘energy-hungry’ data centres.

What Are Lie Groups?

Trump is Making Health Care Unaffordable Again.

Homeland Security Relaxes Species Requirements To Join ICE. OMG I love those images.

No, Gaza Is Not the Worst or Deadliest War by Any Measure.

Prices in the Machine. AI’s real contribution to humanity could be maximizing corporate profit by preying on personal data to raise prices. In fact, it’s already happening.

The missile meant to strike fear in Russia’s enemies fails once again.

Men are physically stronger than women…This is not a “harmful stereotype.” Unless you’re nuts.

The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course.

To Get a Man’s Attention, Meow Harder.

Wokeness as respect redistribution.

How Venezuelan Gangs and African Jihadists Are Flooding Europe With Cocaine.

The self-driving taxi revolution begins at last.

Seeing a Molecule’s Quantum Shadow.

Modern cars are spying on you. Here’s what you can do about it.

You Want Microservices, But Do You Really Need Them? Only the hundred or so largest companies in the US need microservices. The others, it’s a huge waste.

The Printer Tracking Dot Scandal.

And mainstream sources, especially those targeted to women, didn’t address obvious things, like the fact that some women were more attractive than others, and that men predictably liked certain traits in women on average, like fit bodies, curves, natural-looking makeup and long hair (the fact that not ALL men liked these things was presented as proof that these generalizations meant nothing.).

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings. Clownish.

Target’s layoff push exposes corporate America’s cold new normal.

The fight for local Windows accounts matters—here’s why.

For what he does say, i think Spengler is more or less right. Concur.

France joins Europe’s military service bandwagon.

A stranger messaged him on Facebook. It was the start of a nightmare that cost him $280,000 A dumbass does dumbass stuff and then the expected end result occurred. Also, in IT with only $280K in savings at 52?

A search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT’s first public release on November 30, 2022.

Is America’s jobs market nearing a cliff? Has already gone over, really, no matter what this article claims.

American Consumers Have Had It With High Car Prices.

Big Paychecks Can’t Woo Enough Sailors for America’s Commercial Fleet.

Analysis of a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.

It was once legal to build almost anything, everywhere. Then, in the space of a few decades, nearly every city in the Western world banned densification. What happened?

Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld.

New dark patterns added to Windows 11 in 2025.

Seeing like a software company.

Microsoft had engaged in plenty of anti-consumer action by then, but Clippy wasn’t an example of it.

A ‘great unmasking’ on X is arming Americans with digital borders. The social media platform’s move to show users’ location is a great step toward online transparency.

The common vaccines that can prevent chronic disease or some cancers.