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.

Banning Wall Street From Buying Houses? Inside the Sweeping Bipartisan Housing Bill Headed to Trump.

The Home-Insurance Coin Flip: Nearly Half of Claims Result in Zero Payout.

Squillions.

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: CA's AB 1856 Exempts Open Source But Expands Age-Gating.

Feds Begin Targeting ‘Anti-Technology Extremists’ Which Is Going To Make Everything So Much Worse.

‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library. Does “audacious” here mean “clownishly hideous?”

Nvidia unveils RTX Spark Superchip for laptops and desktop PCs at Computex 2026 – new platform promises to turn Windows into an agentic AI OS with Arm CPU, Blackwell GPU, and 128GB unified memory.

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

How Invisible Capital Gains Drive Extreme U.S Wealth Concentration: Evidence from Balance-Sheet-Complete Haig-Simons Accounting.

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

Ukraine Turns the Tide.

China’s Chip Ambitions Run Into a Global Tech Wall.

The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI.

The Digital Rush of the 2010s: Discourse reversal.

America's New Car Market Just Lost 1 Million Buyers, And It's Getting Worse.

They know it kills you. Gen Z is smoking cigarettes anyway.

How high-end credit card perks are hurting shoppers who pay in cash.

The F-7P/PG is what happens when you give a '50s vintage airframe a 21st-century brain transplant.

As Prices Spike, Manufacturing Expands at Fastest Rate in 4 Years, Orders Surge, Supplier Deliveries Slow.

The Magnitude of the Numbers Is just Mindboggling: 12 U.S. Companies, $30 Trillion.

Tiny-armed alvarezsauroid dinosaurs might have been insect eaters, fossil scans suggest.

IceCube detects break in cosmic neutrino spectrum, ruling out simple power-law model. It Was a Good Day.

I found a seashell in the middle of the desert.

AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers.

AI is coming for truck drivers. A new bill is trying to brace US workers for impact.

Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates.

From Rolling Mill to Drone Factory: The Sight of Work.

Boomers don't hate you. To hate you, they would have to have a mental image of you as a coherent entity. With thoughts and stuff. And most of them don't.

Auto-applying bots are killing honest job seekers' chances and nobody is talking about it.

The Rise of the Sensitivity Reader. Evil.

Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on California's Alameda Creek.

Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstellar Visitors.

The Genius of the Barn Owl’s Feathers.

A Famous Math Problem Stumped Humans for 80 Years. AI Just Cracked It. Another take on this.

How Japan Lost 3 Million People in Five Years.

Millions of Bees Have Thrived Under a New York Cemetery for More Than a Century.

Google Family Link exploit that locks out victims permanently.

Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation.

Mars's manganese 'bathtub ring' reveals ancient ocean timeline and its potential for life.

Wix layoffs today: 20% job cuts, latest tech company to cite AI.

The world is quietly adapting to 9% less oil.

Oil exports through the Strait of Hormuz might not return to levels seen before the Iran war.

Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products.

Domain Expertise Has Always Been the Real Moat.

Microsoft bricks peoples installs of Office 2019 for Mac, recommends “Buy a new subscription plan or use a web version” as the fix.

LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they’re false. So…just like humans?

‘A Paradigm Shift’: Supermassive Black Hole Without a Galaxy Changes What We Thought Came First.

America needs liberal nationalism back.

Russia is a Ponzi Empire.

It has never been a great time to be an infantryman. But today’s conditions are especially pitiable.

Tenerife airport disaster.

What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks.

Why the U.S. cattle herd is at a 75-year low — and what it means for beef prices.

Grifters, cynics, and true believers: The family tree of vaccine opponents.