Mayor of Southern California city to plead guilty to acting as agent of China, feds say.

Consumer prices rose 3.8% annually in April, the highest since May 2023.

Once again, SpaceX has set a new record for the tallest rocket ever built.

Boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it.

Route 66 is turning 100. So I drove all 2,448 miles of it — and watched it burst with new life.

America is experiencing a productivity miracle.

Asylum in America is all but over. It may never come back. Good.

China’s Next-Generation Industrial Policy.

Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain.

Manufacturing Genocide in Gaza.

Explain to me how mass immigration is a 'left wing' concept.

Sony’s failed war against Internet piracy may doom other copyright lawsuits. Good.

I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI.

I Let AI Build a Tool to Help Me Figure Out What Was Waking Me Up at Night.

Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw.

Beating the Bounds.

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career.

Third Worldism: How Nations Commit Suicide.

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology.

Immigrants are giving up their cases and leaving the U.S. in soaring numbers.

Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world.

What the world witnessed after October 7 wasn’t “spontaneous outrage.” It was a ruthless, pre-planned, professionally executed antisemitic pogrom dressed up as protest.

‘It’s literally going to break me.’ Commuting is now unaffordable for some American workers.

The purpose of these systems is disallowing people from using hardware and software not approved by Apple or Google. This is pure deep evil.

The Greatest Shot in Television: Science Historian James Burke Had One Chance to Nail This Scene.

Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion power grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers.

Energy Prices Are Driving Demand for Solar Panels and Heat Pumps.

Putin’s shadow fleet faces fresh EU sanctions blitz.

Weirdest U.S. Labor Market I’ve Ever Seen: Supply of Labor Shrinks Further while Private-Sector Jobs Grow.

The moon's largest impact crater scattered something priceless—and Artemis may be heading straight into it.

Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027. I hate this so much.

Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine.

Spirit Airlines and the Death of Leisure for the Non-Leisure Class.

The latest migration lie is the most dangerous of them all.

Dating Is a Rich Person’s Game Now.

Farewell, Ted.

Trump Is Getting Away With Murdering an American Industry.

5ESS Switching System.

Microsoft's obsessive need for feedback.

A powerful El Niño is set to reshape global weather in 2026.

Antizionism is a totalitarian conspiracy theory rotting the West from within.

Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia.

AI Slop is Killing Online Communities.

Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers.

Let Me Convince You to Be Prolific.

Secret document reveals Russia’s plans to aid Iran.

I'm a millennial who grew up in the 90s and what boomers don't understand about us is that we're not delaying adulthood — we're working three times as hard for a third of what they had at our age.

Americans owe $1.68 trillion on car loans — more than credit card debt and as much as all federal student loans.

Ukraine’s Secret Weapon: Adaptation.

When I write about the long-run consequences of population decline, I’ve noticed that most people cannot grasp what a total fertility rate (TFR) of 1.1 means.

Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant as the US is unequipped to respond to infectious disease health scare.

How US automakers lobbied themselves into a $70B loss – and let China win.

B-1B “Apocalypse II” Out Of The Boneyard And Back In Service.

DARPA’s XRQ-73 Hybrid-Electric Flying Wing Drone Has Flown.

Ageism is still an acceptable bias among employers — and it’s costing shareholders billion.

RIP social media. What comes next is messy.

This is how the progressive sees the world around them — as an eight-year-old sees their parents or their teachers or the chairs and desks in their classroom.

Sweeping California law on single-use plastic meets with outrage from all sides as it goes live. Is an absolutely idiotic, harmful law that will help nothing and hurt everyone.

Fewer American workers are earning a living wage, according to a new study.

Amazon to carry Ozempic pill at U.S. kiosks, offer same-day delivery.

In Russia, the Public Mood Is Souring.

How AI Could Help Cure Pancreatic Cancer.

The two Europes.

‘I am trying to stay alive.’ Jobs at mom-and-pop shops are disappearing.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent.

Heavy, awkward and incredibly expensive – we don’t need hardback books.

Synology isn't the best NAS anymore.

Congress Is Doing Little to Prepare for Potential A.I. Job Losses.

Disappearing polymorph.

More Americans live with family as housing costs soar, Boomers age.

Drone Hide And Seek: FPVs Are Changing The Rules Of Urban Warfare.

Once upon a time, there was a man born and raised in China who gave the appearance of understanding English.

Housing Market’s Crucial “Spring Selling Season” Is in Tatters.

The Hidden Mathematical Dance Inside Plant Cells.

These monster black holes did not form the usual way—their history of violence is written into spacetime ripples.

Flight data bolsters claim China Eastern plane was deliberately crashed in 2022.

Robotic passenger traveling for work causes Southwest flight delay.

Freshwater mussels are disappearing—and no one is really sure why.

This Energy Crisis Is Undoing the Last Ones.

Solar on canals reduces water evaporation by 70% and algae growth by 85%.

Security Cameras Are Failing Spectacularly at Common Sense.

Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website. Evil.

Serial ports are older than most of modern computing—and still kicking.

Here's a clay tablet with the founding charter of a 12-partner company on it. Twelve merchants pooled 33 pounds of gold to start the firm.

Angry young women are driving men into the arms of cougars.

China is laying a technological trap. Call it the ‘Silicon Curtain.’.

The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility.

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons.

Each Blade a Single Crystal.

The Duke lacrosse rape hoax 20 years later. When #MeToo really started, long before it was called that.

Toyota built a $10 billion private utopia—what’s going on in there?

A thing I believe wrt techno-optimism/pessimism: one reason why we see technology as mostly having been good is that we’re the cultural and genetic descendants of the victors, or those which adapted to fit the new technology.

It is a literal and useful description of anthropic that it is an organization that loves and worships claude.

What I’m Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far).

About 10% of AMC movie showings sell zero tickets. This site finds them.

The Car That Watches You Back.

On This Day, May 2, 2004: Palestinian terrorists ambushed a car near Kissufim in Gaza & murdered Tali Hatuel — a 34-year-old Jewish pregnant social worker — and her four young daughters: Hila (11), Hadar (9), Roni (7), and Meirav (2).

Chernobyl Fungus Seems to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability.

California, Arizona and Nevada announce new water-saving plan for dwindling Colorado River.

The policies of left-wingers in Europe are the same as they would be if their goal was to get more rape. I do think they actually want more rape.

Welcome our new robotaxi overlords.

US solar installations fall as Trump policies hit sector. Utterly moronic.

Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years.

Unsettled Kremlin tightens security around Putin amid assassinations and coup fears, intel report says.

US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City.

A desktop made for one.

Uncovering Global Telecom Exploitation by Covert Surveillance Actors.

Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment for the physical world.

Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI.

If you think Cloudera routing applicants to an email that didn’t accept external submissions is concerning, what I observed with Uber was even more structured and entirely automated.

High Housing Costs Are Pushing Foreclosures to a Six-Year High.

Iran Is Grasping for a Solution to an American Blockade It Can’t Break.

What Happens When Europeans Find Out How Poor They Are?

China Planted 78 Billion New Trees—and Seriously Messed Up Its Water Cycle.

The financial industry understands itself to be an arm of the government. We were inducted into this service other-than-willingly through the ordinary operation of law and regulation.

Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago.

Wyoming celebrates 'nuclear renaissance' as feds approve license for a new reactor.

AI outperforms doctors in Harvard trial of emergency triage diagnoses.

What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity?

B-1B Seen Carrying ARRW Hypersonic Missile For The First Time.

Good Luck Getting a Mac Mini for the Next ‘Several Months’.

For What AI Could Do to Democracies, Look to the Petrostates.

The GUARD Act Isn’t Targeting Dangerous AI—It’s Blocking Everyday Internet Use.

Many older drivers don't see the road ahead. A survey shows that most have not thought about what will happen when they can't drive anymore.

The Era of Normie Extremism Is Here.

Inflation in the Entire US economy Is Rocking and Rolling, and It’s Not Just Energy.

China is building 74% of all current solar and wind projects, report says.

We Thought the Internet Was For Us. It Turns Out It's For AI.

You can't redistribute your way out of a housing shortage.

The moral sickness poisoning Lord Hermer’s Britain.

Where the goblins came from.

These people are the worst kind of frauds. Loudly protesting their “oppression” while perched on piles of unearned privilege and family exploitation.

How “The Fast and the Furious” Tells the Story of Hollywood.

The civilization of Europe, America, and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization.

Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass.

Trouble in YIMBYLand: What Can We Learn from Singapore's Housing Miracle?

How an Oil Refinery Works.

Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants.

Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected.

Greece to ban anonymity on social media.

Flu vaccine linked to 22% decline in risk of Alzheimer’s dementia.

Light Uncrewed Cargo Helicopters Based On Robinson R66 And Bell 505 Compete For USMC Contract.

Hedging Is the New Normal.

A Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon this summer at seven times the speed of sound.

Americans feel worse off financially than at any point in 25 years, Gallup finds.

A.I. Bots Told Scientists How to Make Biological Weapons.

Behind the A.I. Boom, a Boring Business Is Soaring With Better Ads. Ugh.

The Habitat and the Specimen.

The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track on Earth.

The Mountaintop Mirage: Why Xi’s Military Purges Cannot Produce the Force He Wants.

Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores.

Why Democrats can't win more Trump disapprovers.

How the “virtues” of neoliberal globalization paved the way to its demise.

How Much of Substack Is Actually AI?

Congress Has Become Almost Totally Irrelevant.

Colorado's Anti-Repair Bill Is Dead.

The great American data center divide.

No, the U.S. is not "a poor society with some very rich people."

Our Uncertain Uncertainties.

A New Type of Neuroplasticity Rewires the Brain After a Single Experience.

When the Internet Was a Place.

UAE to leave Opec in blow to oil cartel.

The Downgrading of the American Tech Worker.