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.

Citi sounds the alarm for a deflationary spiral if AI sparks high unemployment and only benefits a small elite.

Next-Gen Spacecraft Are Overwhelming Our Communication Networks.

What Your DNA Reveals About the Sex Life of Neanderthals.

California wants millions of heat pumps. High power bills might get in the way.

AI is Making Junior Devs Useless.

Drill Baby Drill for 20+ Years: US Natural Gas Production Jumps to Record, Exports via LNG & Pipeline Spike to Record in 2025.

Construction Spending on Data Centers, Factories, Powerplants, and Office Buildings: Boom, Bust, and in Between.

The trap Anthropic built for itself.

El Nino may return in 2026 and make planet even hotter.

Past climate change: First indicators show resilience in tropical life—up to 1.5°C.

The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete. Spotify sucks so much.

Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years.

A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup. Idiotic.

Tehran Has Discovered Moscow Is a Fair-Weather Friend.

If France could lead the world with Minitel in the 1980s, surely Europe can free itself from Silicon Valley’s shackles now? Doubtful.

I Never Would’ve Guessed the Skynet Problem Would Come Before the Mass Layoffs. You don't need to worry about AI taking your job during a nuclear apocalypse.

Small B-52 Fleet Size Creates Challenges For Engine, Radar Upgrade Plans.

In Search of the Leisure Class.

‘Avalanche!’: Survivors Recount the Tragedy at Perry’s Peak.

Block plans to lay off nearly half its staff in ‘deliberate and bold’ embrace of AI.

Ten Years Ago, The Witch Gave Us the Best Cinematic Satan.

This Is What The EA-37B Compass Call Electronic Attack Jet Can Actually Do.

Worldwide Smartphone Market to Decline 13% in 2026, Marking the Largest Drop Ever Due to the Memory Shortage Crisis, according to IDC.

The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph.

Macron’s last shot to extend France’s nuclear umbrella over Europe.

The death of the CIA Factbook and Trump's war on usefulness.

If The US Wants Robots, They Need Japan.

You shouldn’t be fired for being a jerk.

Genocidal Imaginations.

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library.

Britain’s Green party is playing with fire.

India Built the World’s Back Office. A.I. Is Starting to Shrink It.

Photons that aren’t actually there influence superconductivity.

Services PPI Inflation Explodes. Goods PPI Jumps as Companies Shuffle Tariffs to Each Other. Food & Energy Plunge.

Tech Companies Shouldn’t Be Bullied Into Doing Surveillance.

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations.

WHOOSH Goes Demand for Electricity. US Power Generation by Source in 2025: Natural Gas, Coal, Nuclear, Wind, Hydro, Solar, Biomass, Geothermal, Petroleum.

How America Got So Sick. The health of a nation reflects the health of a democracy.

First vaccine targeting SARS virus family enters human trials.

Schrödinger’s color theory finally completed after 100 years.

Japan’s lost ‘tigers’ were actually a different big cat species, study reveals.

The Migrants in the Ancient Forest. Five years ago, Belarus began enabling people from high-conflict countries to attempt the crossing into Europe. Despite high walls and backlash, they’re still coming. Time for ground drones with big guns.

Russians like their women starved and abused.

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account.

Have you used the Internet today? Yes you have, you’re reading something on it right now. That means you’re depending on data centers.

Against Over-Inclusivity.

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers.

Why Most People Are Right-Handed (And Why Other Primates Aren’t).

Scientists lay out what we do and don't yet know about moths and butterflies.

Tech Firms Aren’t Just Encouraging Their Workers to Use AI. They’re Enforcing It.

On the Internet, You Don't Discover Reality. You Create It.

Net Zero Is Dead. Long Live Renewable Energy.

Agentic AI Could Tip Weak White-Collar Labor Market Into a Crisis, Warns Venture Capitalist.

I watched a flight go from $483 to $547 in 24 hours WITHOUT a single seat selling.

Germany Shows How Difficult It Is to Rewire Relations With China.

RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs.

China’s military purge larger than previously believed.

Why Wokies Can't Write.

X-BAT Drone ‘Fighter’ Will Begin VTOL Flight Testing In Kansas This Year.

Everyone Speaks Incel Now.

Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows.

The Age-Verification Trap. Verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection.

Dark Merlin Is The Name Of General Atomics’ YFQ-42A Fighter Drone.

The Rise of Eyes Began With Just One.

Iowa Farmers Are Leading the Fight for Repair.

Bermuda snail thought to be extinct now thrives after a decade’s effort.

Cities Really Can Just Enforce the Law. The huge decline in violent crime isn’t a mystery.

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Has Already Changed the World.

The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored.

Cities Are Shredding Their AI Surveillance Contracts en Masse.

6 Planets will parade across the night sky this weekend.

Democrats need to think bigger on utilities.

Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid.

Here is the sad truth: baking potatoes in the microwave is an NP-hard problem.

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents.

Age verification checks are now in force in the UK because of the Online Safety Act, but with the Discord fallout, it seems like one bad idea after another.

The price of cocoa has collapsed back to pre-shortage highs, but all chocolate formulas are forever enshittified.

Scientists Keep Discovering Mysterious Ancient Tunnels Across Europe.

Fed’s favorite inflation gauge shows there is more work to do to tame price increases.

US probably shed jobs last year, top Federal Reserve official says.

US Battery Market to Grow Despite Policy Headwinds, Report Says. Good. Solar + batteries is the future.

People say, "America has never seemed crazier than it is now." Well, no. It has seemed comparatively much crazier before.

The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis.

How the Frozen Housing Market Is Battering U.S. Manufacturers.

The U.S. Is Hunting the Shadow Fleet. This Is What It’s Up Against.

A two-child household must earn $400,000 a year for childcare to be affordable, study says. ‘It’s easy to see why birth rates are falling’.

Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine Will Persist Through 2026.

Our Intelligence Troubles.

Cosmic curveball: Distant system challenges planet-formation theory.

How I Use Claude Code.

How far back in time can you understand English?

Scientists discover recent tectonic activity on the moon.

The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest — And AI Is the Hunter.

Red Robin Died by Spreadsheet. Don’t Make the Same Mistake.

Facebook is absolutely cooked.

US Treasury Debt-to-GDP Ratio Rises to 122% in Q4, Highest since Covid Spike.

Sam Altman says not even the CEO’s job is safe from AI as it will soon perform the work better than ‘certainly me’.

Mississippi health system shuts down clinics statewide after ransomware attack.

"Canadian" is ceasing to be a thing, or at least a thing that matters, even to Canadians, because Not American simply isn't enough. Nations need something to stand for.

Only a fraction of House seats are competitive. Redistricting is driving that lower.

The world order we’re leaving behind may be replaced by no order at all.

The Dance Floor Is Disappearing In a Sea of Phones.

She was earning £65,000 before AI came along. What happened next is a warning to us all. As the first wave of job losses hits, nobody is safe from artificial intelligence’s white-collar cull. Correct.

I want England to remain English, and as a byproduct of it, then it remains a place where I want to live.

National Well-being Cannot be Pursued with a Demographic Imbalance.

New Vision To Fill Gaps After AV-8B Harrier And AH-1Z Viper Retirements Laid Out By Marines.

A $44,000 Bill Shows the Dysfunction in California’s Home-Insurance Market.