I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data.

Treasury Yields Jump, 10-Year to 4.28%, 30-Year to 4.90%, Mortgage Rates Spike to 6.41%, on Inflation & Deficit Fears.

Uranium hexafluoride (UF₆) gas is held in centrifuges. But the moment you cut off the electricity from those centrifuges, they break, and you can’t push the toothpaste back into the tube.

Oct 7 cleaved the world in two for me. First there was the unspeakable, ever-worsening horror of what had happened. And then there was the different kind of horror as I realized that people I knew—people I was close friends with and related to— were supporting the murderers and rapists.

How China’s enormous bet on Iran failed.

Bombardment of Algiers (1816).

Angels of Bataan.

Labour hates Britain. So it’s abolishing what makes us who we are. Fairly accurate, all told.

America's First Large-Scale Offshore Wind Project Finally Finishes Construction.

The Limits of Iran’s Proxy Empire.

What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy.

Artist vs. Audience.

Poland is now among the world's 20 largest economies.

COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages.

The Iran War Is Throwing Global Shipping Into Chaos.

Iran War Hits Europe With an Energy Shock It Can’t Afford to Absorb.

‘A molten, mushy state’: scientists may have found a new type of liquid planet.

Career Paths That Look Stable Until You See the Layoff Data.

AI agents could easily send college grad unemployment over 30%, ServiceNow CEO says.

Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft from Kratos for first flight with a European mission system.

How an unappetizing shrub became dozens of different vegetables.

Earth’s first major extinction was worse than we thought.

The moralization of artificial intelligence.

TESS discovers a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting nearby star.

Microsoft has lost the plot: 5 Windows "features" nobody asked for.

He was a perfect hire — until a U.S. company exposed him as a likely North Korean operative.

From Kyiv to Taipei: Three Theatres, Much to Learn. The Big Five, 15 March edition.

You gotta think outside the hypercube.

Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock — SK hynix forced to diversify after 30% of global supply removed from the market.

New ‘negative light’ technology hides data transfers in plain sight.

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It.

I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who’s behind the age verification bills.

An old photo of a very large BBS.

The US slashed research for cancer, Alzheimer’s, mental health — and nearly everything else.

Timeline of the Online Culture War.

Forced from their homeland after Russia’s invasion, some Ukrainians fear they may never return.

How the Iran War Unraveled the Gulf’s Image as a Luxurious Safe Haven.

An Exodus of Money Endangers Wall Street’s Private-Credit Craze.

What Will Happen When All the Male Therapists Are Gone?

Why hundreds of people in L.A. are strapping cameras on their bodies to do chore.

US economy ended 2025 on weaker footing than previously thought.

China’s BYD takes on Porsche and BMW with 5-minute ‘flash charging’.

European businesses warn Brussels over push to end reliance on US tech.

America is on the brink of stagflation, warns Nobel-winning economist.

Artificial intelligence and the state: Seeing like an artificial neural network.

Berlin youth centre accused of covering up gang-rape because suspects were Muslim. Seriously, what is it with Islam and gang rapes?

Food Inflation in America.

They Came to Spy on America. They Stayed to Coach Little League.

Japan Is Rearming. Here’s What That Actually Means.

To address housing affordability, we need to consider singletons.

We visited “ground zero” for hospice fraud: Los Angeles, California.

B-1B Being Loaded With Bunker Busters In England A Sign Of Increasing Air Supremacy Over Iran.

Finland Is Ready for Russia. Is Anyone Else?

We study pandemics, and the resurgence of measles is a grim sign of what’s coming.

I am once again disappointed with the lack of balance and context in my profession.

Productive Individuals Don't Make Productive Firms.

At the exact moment that people started talking about how technology had not displaced bank tellers, it stopped being true.

The Unmaking of the American University.

Billion-Parameter Theories.

Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled.

Massive Leap In Ability To Spot Iranian Drones Headed To Persian Gulf.

Hybrid synthetic strategy unlocks previously unattainable molecular architectures.

New approach roughly predicts when Alzheimer’s symptoms begin.

Blu-ray is dying, but how did it last so long in the first place?

Multicultural Britain is becoming harder to defend.

The exodus of California’s tech billionaires from the Golden State to Florida’s Gold Coast.

A young man raged about RV dwellers outside his L.A. home. D.A. says it led to murder.

Salt Typhoon is hacking the world’s phone and internet giants — here’s everywhere that’s been hit.

Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar.

Children’s drawings could be blasphemous under Islamic law, councils tell teachers. Fucking evil.

Surf And Turf Before The Storm.

Big-Budget Fish Tanks Are Taking Over America’s Most Expensive Homes.

MacOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses.

Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages.

Microsoft Broke the Only Thing That Actually Mattered.

The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future.

New York Age Verification Bill Requires Anti-Circumvention Tech.

Commando Raid To Secure Iran’s Enriched Uranium May Become A Very Risky Necessity.

Iranian Attacks On Prized Missile Defense Radars Are A Wake-Up Call.

US deemed "unsafe" for foreign Ig Nobel winners; ceremony moves to Zurich.

Many International Game Developers Plan To Skip GDC In US.

If you’re going to remember Iryna Zarutska, her family hopes it’s more like this. That’s a good story.

Iran Threat Exposes Britain’s Shrinking Military Reach.

Once a Beacon of Cheap Homes, Nevada Has Become a Symbol of America's Struggle With High Costs.

The battle for Paris and beyond.

The déjà vu of Europe’s energy shock.

Gen Z graduates who majored in ‘AI-proof’ careers like pharmacy, biology, and education are making less than $50,000 after graduation.

AI layoffs are coming. The problem may be compounded because nearly 75% of people don’t apply for unemployment benefits.

China may be preparing for nuclear war. Trump can’t ignore it.

20 Years ago I was a left-leaning, peace loving, all welcome, hippy gal.

Swiss vote places right to use cash in country’s constitution. Sweet.

The war that would make Iran look mild.

The Privacy ‘Zealots’ Were Right: Ad Tech’s Infrastructure Was Always A Risk.

America and Public Disorder. Our biggest social flaw should be addressed.

Chevrolet killed it then brought it back, now we drive it: The 2027 Bolt.

The United States secretly purchased a miniaturised microwave weapon from a Russian criminal network for $15 million. It has been testing it on animals at a classified military laboratory for over a year. The rats and sheep developed brain injuries identical to Havana Syndrome.

China Is Learning the Lessons of Hard Power. The Iran strikes will convince Beijing to double down on military growth.

The war on Iran is already upending the Middle East. Look to the Gulf states to see how.

Layoffs are feeling awfully tempting for a lot of companies right now.

España cae 20 puestos en el índice de países seguros para la mujer desde que llegó Sánchez: hay el triple de violaciones. Profundamente malvado y vil.

Iran Moving a Lot of Oil Through Hormuz, Satellite Tracker Says.

Why the AI Boom Will Make Phones, Cars and Electronics More Expensive.

The United States Has a $3.7 Trillion Infrastructure Challenge.

Mr. President, We Need to Talk About China.

Romi Gonen: Hamas chief offered me early release in exchange for silence on sexual assault.

America’s dating crisis is getting worse. What went wrong?

How Metrics Make Us Miserable.

Kuwaiti F/A-18’s Triple Friendly Fire Shootdown Gets Stranger By The Day.

Rug Pull of the Fucking Century.

America’s Military Is Focused on Iran. Its Biggest Challenge Is China.

In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad.

Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans.

I am a woman from Iran. Let me tell you honestly how women like me see politicians like you in America, women who speak about freedom from the safety of Congress while sympathizing with our killers under Islamic regimes.

Researchers identify 6,500 genes that are expressed differently in men and women.

Mobile genetic elements drive a fusion-deletion life cycle that shapes plasmid evolution and antimicrobial resistance.

Iranian sailor killed on Dena told father US warned ship before strike.

China Really Thinks It Is Just Defending Itself. That’s what makes it so dangerous.

Senator mocked ‘green energy crap.’ His house runs on it.

Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres.

Anarcho-Tyranny: Power Through Disorder and Control.

We had a good thing, Britain.

The AI Apocalypse.

A shocking percentage of people earning more than $300,000 live paycheck to paycheck. Why these wealthy people burn through cash.

Where Americans Spend their Trillions on Goods and How that Changed since 2015.

Mass Hysteria. Thousands of Jobs Lost. Just How Bad Is It Going to Get?

One week into the Iran war, the fallout is global.

Why the bureaucrats won’t be toppled.

My view is that the answer to "why are people often unhappy in modernity" is actually pretty clear and isn't anything especially ideologically satisfying.

NASA’s Hubble telescope detects possible ‘dark galaxy’.

Certainly, language-equipped AI models will give bad advice… but at what point will they, on average, cause less harm than the average physician? Probably now.

A Few Ways to Avoid Moral Injury.

To Save Time, Iran Appoints Supreme Leader Who Is Already Dead.

The Optimization Trap: Why the Birth Rate Can’t Be Fixed.

France may soon have a far-right president – and Europe is already scrambling to limit their power.

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say.

Most Americans think their fellow citizens are bad people, survey says.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds.

Why are vertebrate eyes so different from those of other animals?

U.S. Lost 92,000 Jobs in February.

Film is — and always will be — political.

Apple’s 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage.

Operation Roaring Lion Day 7: The Hyundai That Launched the War.

An alliance of light against darkness.

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online.

Americans are still not worried enough about the risk of world war. Still true.

Computer Simulations in Science.

Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons.

BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time.

In an attempt to understand our own fascination with the shiny minerals, researchers gave some to chimps.

Amazon’s Bahrain data center targeted by Iran for support of U.S. military, state media says.

Social media democratised public opinion, shifting influence away from elites and experts to ordinary people. LLMs will partly reverse this trend. They are a powerful, new technocratising force.

Most compact quadruple star system yet fits within an area the size of Jupiter's orbit.

The Last Time A U.S. Navy Submarine Sunk An Enemy Ship In Combat.

Seagate begins shipping 44TB hard drives with HAMR tech to data centers.

The Disastrous First Year of RFK Jr.

We URGENTLY need a federal law forbidding AI from impersonating humans.

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation.

A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction.

China Signals New Era of Slower Economic Growth.

Neutrons reveal magnetic signatures of chiral phonons.

‘The ideal number of human employees inside of any company is zero’: why AI gives company owners what they think they want.

The Iran War Is Jeopardizing the Entire Global Economy.

America’s cost-of-living crisis is entering its most brutal phase.

The Disappearing American Mortgage.

Why MAGA suddenly loves solar power.

Morgan Stanley lays off 2,500 employees across divisions.

TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant.

LexisNexis confirms data breach as hackers leak stolen files.

“Cyborg” Tissue Could Help Fast-Track Cures for Type 1 Diabetes.

U.S. Gasoline Demand Fell Further amid Long-Term Structural Shift: Plunging Per-Capita Consumption.

Software Engineering is now a closed caste. If you weren’t in by 2021, you’re officially part of the permanent underclass.

This is why our electricity bills are so high right now.

Why China Is Doing So Little to Help a Friend Under Fire.

Poland Will Eventually Seek Its Own Nuclear Weapons, Tusk Says.

What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes.

Gen Z Lives in the Archive.

California’s Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS.

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity.

The world’s largest acidic geyser is located in Norris Geyser Basin. Lately, it’s been putting on quite a show.

LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy.

I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age.

Your vinyl records aren't as "analog" as you think.

Norway's Consumer Council Calls for Right to Repair and Antitrust Enforcement – and Mocks 'Enshittification.'

This Is the System That Intercepted Iran’s Missiles Over the UAE.

Car insurance rates are skyrocketing in California. Here’s why.

Saving The Life We Cannot See.

Macron says France will increase its nuclear warheads for the first time in decades.

Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash.

Gen Z can’t afford the American Dream—so they’ve traded homeownership for paying off debt.

Why Tomahawk Missiles Use Silver (And How Much They Contain).

Smart TVs, age verification tools, tire pressure sensors, none of them were built to spy on you, but they all can. And do.

U.S. Military Has Used Long-Range Kamikaze Drones In Combat For The First Time.

Superintelligence is already here, today.

How to Build American Shenzhen, Fast.

In the Pentagon Battle with Anthropic, We All Lose.

Israeli F-35Is have now conducted thousands of sorties across Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran. In October 2024, over 100 aircraft including F-35s flew a 2,000-kilometer round trip into Iranian airspace, destroyed S-300 air defense batteries and missile production facilities, and returned with zero losses. They flew through airspace covered by the exact Russian systems that were supposed to make this aircraft irrelevant.

North American birds are dying off faster. It signals a human crisis, too.