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Software is becoming marketing.

When Did Having Fun Get So Expensive? The Summer When ‘Funflation’ Went Wild.

Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly.

Ancient Clay Tablets Show Markets Worked 4,000 Years Before Economists Explained Them.

Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo. That Should Terrify You.

Old vs. New Chevy Blazer Crash Test Shows How Much Safety Has Improved Since the ’90s.

The Case for Physical Media Ownership.

They quit the West for Russia's traditional values, but it wasn't what they expected.

Inflation in “Core Services” Surges, plus AI’s Impact on Electricity & Goods: Inflation beyond Gasoline.

What Ozempic Does to the Gut-Brain Axis.

The eerie interface of man and machine (Life Magazine, October 1967).

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‘Chock full of incredible animals’: marine expedition uncovers 31 new species in two weeks.

The U.S. government is set to take an awful lot of control over which AI models get released.

Antibiotic “megacluster” discovery provides new strategy to fight superbugs.

Ukraine’s Growing Drone Armada Is Overwhelming Russia’s Air Defenses.

No Air Conditioning, Please, We’re French.

Core inflation rate hit 3.4% in May, highest since October 2023, Fed’s preferred gauge shows.

Astronomers find 2 gigantic planets lighter than cotton candy: "Comparable to a nice blob of shaving foam."

Inside a secretive Ukrainian team launching deep drone strikes at Russia.

Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed?

Foreign Funds Help Make Housing Unaffordable.

PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts, Reminding Us Nothing Digital Is Ever Truly Ours.

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The Data-Center Boom Is Sparking a Third Wave of Inflation.

Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years.

The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance.

It’s a bad time to want a new computer.

A Common Assumption About Aging May Be Wrong, Study Suggests.

Too hot for work: why extreme heat is a threat to Europe’s productivity.

We read an entire scroll — without ever opening it.

The ‘papers, please’ era of the internet will decimate your privacy.

South Korea to train half a million military personnel to become ‘drone warriors’.

This Industrial Revolution Is Not Like the Last One. Policymakers’ approach to automation won’t work for AI.

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Air conditioning creates political divide as France records hottest day.

Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable. But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself.

Europe is debating the terms of its industrial surrender.

Our grandchildren’s AI-science bottleneck.

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom.

45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero.

Ending respiratory infections.

The high schooler who developed everyone’s forums and guestbooks in 1996 didn’t really think about security when he was building all that software. But Matt’s Script Archive was more than exploits.

Spatially distributed complex organic matter detected in an ancient river valley in Jezero crater, Mars.

Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers.

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Ancient DNA shared with Neanderthals may explain human language.

In Rotherham alone, at least 1,400 children were sexually exploited between 1997 and 2013. The perpetrators were "overwhelmingly of Pakistani origin."

With Starfall, SpaceX eyes an edge in global cargo delivery from orbit.

In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words.

Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak.

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s.

How to move a beluga across the world.

Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Are Laced with Proxies​.

Europe: The World's Fastest-warming Continent.

The West is cooked because it is philosophically dead. Its final philosophical heart beat occurred with WWI.

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'Running off the cliff': An explosion of household debt has put the US economy in a tough spot.

See How Owning a Home Is Getting More Expensive in Every Way.

America is in the middle of the biggest property tax revolt in 50 years.

The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week.

How smashing the NIMBYs created modern capitalism.

GM installs robots at flagship EV factory after laying off 1,300 workers.

It’s Well Past Time for a Four-Day Workweek.

The memory crisis is getting so bad that even retro RAM prices are going to the Moon.

The Repo Man Coming for Your Ride. As America’s auto debt nears $1.7 trillion, repossessions are reaching levels not seen since the Great Recession.

How languages recycle parts of words to avoid confusion.

Two patients with severe autoimmune disease remain relapse-free for over 15 years after stem cell transplant.

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This is what I mean by persons from these regions should be blacklisted from entering the West, as these people will inevitably re-engage in the same "cultural practices" of human exploitation.

Progressives have decided that public order crimes simply don't matter anymore, and have ordered the NYPD to remain as hands-off as possible in most of these situations.

Britain is undergoing something which, to my knowledge, no other nation in the history of the world has undergone, and that is to be conquered without having fired a shot in our defence by an enemy that we have paid to conquer us.

Windows 11's New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs.

Scientists Found Bacteria Thriving Inside Fog and Eating Air Pollution.

China Is Indispensable, But Not Dominant.

On intellectual curiosity and sacred cows. We are not actually debating whether women should vote.

‘Pretty Crazy’ Token Usage Is Testing Bosses’ Bet on AI.

Ukrainian attacks prompt Russian-held Crimea to halt civilian gasoline sales.

The Flat Curve Society.

The John Ternus Era Will Reportedly Revive Apple’s Focus on Bold Design.

HPV jabs cut risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 to almost zero.

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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You.

America’s Economic Anxiety Is Rising Up the Income Ladder.

You Were Right to Hate EV Pickups. Automakers Want a Second Chance.

Following Layoffs, GM Ramps Up Robot Usage at Factory Zero, Sparking Union Anger.

China’s Ministry of State Security Accuses ‘Spy Turtles and Spy Fish’ of Stealing Sensitive Marine Data.

Meet ERNEST, NASA’s Next-Generation Rover Designed to Be Faster and Tougher.

Rackspace cuts 750 workers as the tech company pivots to artificial intelligence.

Microsoft’s new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly on Windows.

AI has granted America vast new power.

Why Most Americans Plan to Retire at 65—But Actually Leave Work at 62.

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A Scan of a 35mm Print is Not "Ground Truth."

PCB prices are up 40% in a month because of a material most people have never heard of.

Sorry Microsoft, Windows 10 taskbar is still better than Windows 11, and here’s why.

Entry-level work didn’t disappear, PwC finds with ‘seniorization.’ It just morphed into something young workers can’t get.

America Is Headed Toward the Infinite Workweek.

USAF Orders Both General Atomics’ FQ-42 And Anduril’s FQ-44 Into Production.

Navy Finally Seeking To Dispose Of USS Long Beach, The World’s First Nuclear-Powered Cruiser.

When Did White-Collar Work Start to Look So Bleak? In the nineteen-eighties, an office job promised security and fulfillment. For graduates starting careers today, the prospect is often tinged with dread.

The End of Neoliberalism. The virtues it extolled—cosmopolitanism and competition—led to its demise.

High degree of quantum entanglement detected for first time in centimeter-sized crystal of strange metal.

Surveillance Is Good Because I Want Drivers I Don’t Like To Be Punished: Cleveland Columnist.

Key FDA committee unanimously recommends its first vaccine since 2023.

Here Is How Russia’s Skyfall Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile Actually Works.

Army’s Newest Unit Aims To “Overwhelm” Adversary With Drones In Pacific Fight.

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The Impacts of Unauthorized Immigration on U.S. Labor and Housing Markets: New Evidence from Administrative Microdata.

Biological Evolution and Information Acquisition.

U.S. science is in chaos.

Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case.

Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago. We can’t blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore.

Log off, pop up, go out.

Wall-Mounted Far-UVC.

Entry Level Tech Jobs Are Dying. They Beat The Odds.

The Generational Disaster of Trump, Bush and Clinton.

White-collar sweatshops. How did law firms and other professional workplaces become places of such crushing and soulless work?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.