A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time.

The amphibious villagers of Indonesia.

‘Ghost jobs’ could soon be illegal in New York.

The Trillion-Dollar Silence: How Corporate America Chose Wall Street Over Its Workers.

Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues.

Freedom of Speech Exists So We Can Argue About Everything Else.

Beijing’s New Message to Its Citizens: Your Money Belongs at Home.

Green Economy Tops $10 Trillion as Revenue Growth Picks Up.

In some states, a push to end all property taxes for homeowners.

B-52 was in the air a very short time before crashing and killing all 8 on board.

Apple to Raise Prices Due to Memory Chip Crunch, Tim Cook Says.

Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule To Work for Renters Anymore.

Covid vaccination cut risk of adverse heart events, large study finds.

The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent.

It’s the Age of Electricity and America Isn’t Ready.

20 Years of Intel Macs: Why Apple switched, and why it switched again.

Good news—we have extra time before the Sun ends life on Earth.

Over the past 20 years, health care companies spent 95% of their net income on shareholder payouts, totaling up to $2.6 trillion.

Humanity isn’t ready for the coming intelligence explosion.

Peopleless economy? Terrifyingly enough, not technically impossible.

A Disciplined Case For The A-10 The Air Force Won’t Make.

The Iran War Permanently Altered the Global Economy.

A $40 Million Gold Heist Risks Exposing CIA’s Top-Secret Spy Programs.

Black holes unleash delayed radio 'burps' years after tearing apart stars.

US Unemployment: Hidden Crisis Deepens as 6.2m Workers Sidelined in Shadows.

The Weird Allure of Degrowth.

Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges.

The Nationalization of American Science.

Degrowth would make Europeans into "Europoors."

Cockroaches scurry around with thousands of pieces of bacterial genomes.

The Milky Way’s black hole is eerily quiet. Scientists have now found evidence of its missing wind.

China Presses Taiwan by Querying Foreign Ships for First Time. First steps of naval blockade.

Why are US consumers so angry? It’s not just high prices.

Watch a Rare Goblin Shark Filmed Alive in Its Natural Habitat for the First Time.

GOP has a new plan to kill off Medicare and Social Security.

Job interviews are becoming AI tests.

B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff at US military base in southern California.

Russia is losing the war in Ukraine, and Putin is desperate. But that’s when he’s at his most dangerous.

Work From Home Is Here to Stay—Even if Some CEOs Don’t Love It.

Nobody likes the yookay aesthetic.

Britain has imported, at scale and with minimal integration, populations whose cultural distance from the native majority is large and, in important respects, growing rather than shrinking.

The Uninteresting Question: Where does Wealth Come From?

Sovereign.

US Government Sold $646 billion of Treasury Securities this Week. 2nd Wave of Inflation Approaches 10-Year Treasury Yield.

Russia Building New Infrastructure For Major Troop Deployments Along NATO’s Northern Flank.

My diversity stress — and ours. Mass migration throws off social balance.

Home prices soar in rural America as buyers 'sick of the suburb life' seek space and affordability.

It is true that colonialism didn't "make Africa poor." But there is a case to be made for how it led to Africa's modern troubles. The story is not flattering to Africans or Europeans, so no one really tells it. But here's a stab at it.

All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology.

U.S. and Iran Have Reached a Deal to Stop Fighting, Reopen Shipping.

Coders Were Tech’s MVPs. Now They’re Fighting to Stay in the Game.

Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized. How companies are gaming the chatbot internet.

The problem with universal suffrage is that the more technologically advanced a civilization becomes, the smaller the fraction of people there are in it with the native intelligence to understand how it works.

Trees may store less planet-heating carbon than hoped, study suggests.

A drone alert blasted on my phone – we had to take shelter. This is the new reality on Nato’s eastern flank.

New CRISPR Technique Selectively Shreds Cancer Cells, Including “Undruggable” Cancers.

Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself.

Fakes of the Future. Literary credibility in the age of AI.

Years into Mr. Putin’s failed war in Ukraine, however, Russia’s dreams of becoming a great power are a fantasy. Russia is no longer even a primary regional power in areas it once lorded over.

A report on the benefits of AI was reportedly full of AI hallucinations.

Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer’s master switch.

Meet The Neat Little Vehicles That Run A Cemetery.

Appreciating Exif.

Derbyshire police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases.

Ancient genome duplications laid the foundations of complex brains.

Knowledge Collapse. AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?

Why thousands of Americans are giving up their citizenship.

Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely.

Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time.

Does gravity create reality? A shocking path to a theory of everything.

Here’s How Much More Money Elon Musk Has Than Larry Page, Jeff Bezos, and You.

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket.

ServiceNow, Salesforce, other tech firms reveal more Bay Area job cuts.

Volkswagen to reduce workforce by 19,000 by end of year, CEO says.

Highly intelligent people are more likely to ditch old habits for better ideas, study finds.

Solar beats coal in the US electricity mix for the first month ever.

FCC Wants To Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms To Get All Customers' IDs.

How JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science.

Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude.

California’s AB 412 Still Demands AI Developers Do The Impossible.

Russian satellites linked to mysterious GPS disruptions across several countries.

The first complex cells had genes from a complex mix of species.

Some US employers to drop coverage of GLP-1 obesity drugs in 2027 as use increases.

What Homebuilder Lennar Said about the Tough Housing Market: Average Sales Price Down 24% from Peak, back to 2017.

Producer Price Inflation beyond Energy: 6-Month Services PPI, “Core” Goods PPI & “Core” PPI Blow by 6%, Worst since 2022.

Prison itself is a relatively recent innovation.

70% Of fourth-graders aren’t reading proficiently, report finds.

I have been seeing a certain archetypal commenter in the spotlight recently.

Could Switzerland Become the First Country to Cap Its Population?

Inflation jumps to 4.2%, the highest since early 2023.

The Invisible Hand Won’t Rebuild U.S. Shipyards.

The World’s Great Powers Are Learning They Have Limits.

Germany’s Cobra 600 Is A Jet Powered Interceptor Drone That Slings An IRIS-T Missile.Can I have 1 100?

This Is The Corsair Drone Boat That Plucked The Downed Apache Crew Out Of The Gulf Of Oman.

AI Is Letting Companies Cut Entry-Level Jobs. Here’s Why That Is a ‘Critical Strategic Mistake,’ According to an MIT Economist.

The European Union Has a $2 Trillion Taiwan Problem.

Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate our feeds.

Why Are Cells Small?

The Grate Cheese Robbery.

I don't want to fearmonger, but we do have something that's bigger than OOP now. We have built a matrix multiplication machine that (given the appropriate harnesses, tools, and prompts) can output useful text strings for hours in a row. This is sci-fi stuff. We should act accordingly. Yep.

As Home Sellers Grapple with Reality, Listing Prices Fall by Most in at Least a Decade.

DOGE Cut Screwworm Fly Monitoring Program From USAID Last Year. Now They’re Back In The U.S.

Gold isn’t inert, it just has bodyguards protecting it.

MacOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era.

U.S. mortgage rates are staying high – and the Federal Reserve can do little about it.

H-1B Crackdown on Indian Workers Erodes a Texas Real Estate Boom.

The Starter Home Is Gone—Now America Is Losing the Starter Rental, Too.

Came back to America…I'm already ready to leave again.

Is the iPhone Birth Control? Causal Evidence From AT&T’s 2007–2011 Carrier Monopoly.

Prusten.

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do.

The Canada ‘genocide’ is a tale for the 2020s. The country tore itself apart over a fantasy about murdered children.

One of the more insane feminist ideas is that the 4,000,000 Western women on OnlyFans, and 2M (?) female blue-checks on PornHub are "trafficked" by Evil Men.

Our systems editor flew all the way to Taiwan and still couldn't get away from AI.

Nearly 2 Million Americans Have Been Out of Work for Over Six Months, the Highest Toll Since 2021.

The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy. Jesus Christ.

Non-Compete Agreements Were Invented to Protect Corporate Secrets. Now They Are Used to Trap Sandwich Makers.

A Falcon 9 booster turns 5 years old—and just set a remarkable reuse record.

Gen Zers are arriving at college unable to even read a sentence—professors warn it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely graduates.

Baby boomers have most of the wealth and power in America, so why are they so angry when this gets pointed out?

The U.S. adds 172,000 jobs. Many are in restaurants, bars and hotels.

My company installed software that tracks how many minutes I'm "active" (mouse strokes) per day and now I'm being scored on it.

There’s Trouble Brewing in the Treasury Market.

The deep history of AI began 3,000 years ago.

A restaurant dinner, Chick-fil-A, and coffee somehow cost us $170. But, but, vibecession!

Your Dinner Got Worse On Purpose.

Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints.

‘Chat Is Dead’: OpenAI Reportedly Planning Radical Changes to ChatGPT.

Ocean-Observing Satellite Spots Telltale Sign of Growing El Niño.

New drug ‘functionally cures’ many hepatitis B virus infections.

Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring.

Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026.

Software engineers have spent decades in one of tech's most lucrative and in-demand roles. Now, they're watching their jobs change irrevocably.

Europe's largest Copper Age tomb, children's bones expose an ancient health crisis hidden for 5,000 years.

Safety officials finally have a good idea of what a big rocket explosion can do.

US Tech Sector Announces Most Job Cuts in Nearly Two Years.

84 Years ago today, four Japanese aircraft carriers were burning in the Pacific because of a man who went to work in a smoking jacket and slippers.

It is so, so fascinating to me how GLP-1s are colliding with something that, for lack of a better term, I'll call 'fat identity'.

What Jobs Are Safe?

How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time.

Biohub releases a world model of protein biology.

They Want to Get Rid of Your Property Taxes Because They Think You Are Morons.

The U.S.-Qatar Domination of Gas Left the World Dangerously Exposed.

Why a Single Screwworm Parasite Found in the US Is Raising Alarm.

TSMC Warns Chip Supply Won’t Meet AI-Fueled Demand for Years.

The Causes of Long Covid.

'World-first' vaccine designed by artificial intelligence.

DNS Is for People – Not for IT Infrastructure.

After 11 years at Mars, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft went out with a whisper.

OpenAI Upgrades ChatGPT Memory With New Dreaming Architecture for Plus and Pro Users.

‘My life is not affordable. No one cares’.

The Myth of Assimilation.

There Aren't Any Good Arguments Against Lab Meat.

Economics is fundamentally political.

Google is quietly laying off staff in its cloud division.

Ukraine’s Mid-Range Strikes are Wrecking Russian Air Defense and Logistics. Here’s How.

Got a bad grade because we are poor.

Donald Trump’s pledge to unleash a ‘golden age’ of US manufacturing sputters.

America’s ‘other’ economy tells a different growth story.

Warming unlocks ancient carbon in Tibetan permafrost, triggering climate tipping point.

Extraordinary fossils solve a 500-million-year mystery: Bryozoans were there at the dawn of animal life.

The Criminal, Social, and Economic Cost of Immigrants in the EU.

Let's Not Bring Back The Gatekeepers.

Expectations For Thee But Not For Me. For decades we’ve shamed men out of having any gender expectations for women. But do women get to have their cake and eat it, too?

Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition.

The American Missile Crisis.

The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds.

Gmail Thinks I'm Stupid, So I Left.

How to Stop the Affluent From Rigging the Housing Market.

Inside Trump’s Takeover of the American Regulatory Machine.

America’s Data Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule.

AI hiring algorithms reject Black, Asian job seekers at higher rates.

'Resistance is futile,' says Qualcomm CEO. AI agents will be become invisible, inescapable, follow you across devices.

Angry devs vow to flee GitHub Copilot as metered billing takes hold.

The Light Nobody Sees.

GitLab to Cut 14% of Workforce as Part of AI Pivot.

Oracle layoffs: 30,000 job cuts likely by June 15 despite booming cloud, AI growth and strong earnings.

Jensen Huang Calls AI Job-Loss Fears 'Complete Nonsense' As 107,000 Tech Jobs Vanish In 2026.

Time for a re-think of long-term antidepressant use.

Why today’s graduates are screwed.

Rich countries need to separate asylum from labour migration.