The top-selling EV in China gets upgraded with a longer driving range, still starts at under $10K.

Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan. Cool.

Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning.

The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida.

Where Are the Economies of Scale in Homebuilding?

Legislation Killed That Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock.

Social media use is linked to mental health disorders, not just low well-being. And it’s not subtle.

Once you stipulate to the problem of wrench attacks and rubber-hose cryptanalysis, it becomes apparent that your cryptography is only as good as your physical defenses.

The internet is being rebuilt for machines.

Alasdair MacIntyre was right all along.

The next Darwin moment has arrived.

The Burden of Discernment.

Why There Are Exactly Two Sexes.

Lowe's CEO says this is the 'most difficult housing market' since the financial crisis.

Homeowners insurance in Florida increased at double the national rate, report says.

YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos.

AI Datacenters Were Built for GPUs. What Happens When You Remove the GPUs?

F.B.I. Arrests C.I.A. Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars in His Home.

America built the world’s greatest research engine. Now it’s shrinking.

Inside The Effort To Build Ukraine’s Ground Robot Arsenal.

Online age checks create a pointless privacy risk.

Real wages start to shrink in developed countries.

Japan's New Hypersonic Engine.

Hydrogen puts quantum wormhole conjecture to the test.

Volvo to pay $197 million after hidden pollution device found in California truck engines.

No one wins a trade war. Or do they?

A Beautiful Theory Falls to Ugly Data.

That Methyl Methacrylate Tank.

The Forgotten Steinwinter Supercargo Is Unlike Anything on the Road Today.

Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs Frontier labs.

Power bills more than 250 per cent higher near data centres.

AI Tools Are Only as Good as Your Judgment. Use a tool in a dumbass way, get dumbass results. As it ever was.

The Stock Market Has Never Been So Good When People Have Felt So Bad.

The Midwestern Exodus Is Finally Ending.

Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? The Variable Bases for African American, Asian American, and European American Adolescents' Selection of Similar Friends.

Whatever the mirror test tells us, beluga whales pass it.

Murderousness at Macmillan.

Oh Dear, Condo Prices already Dropped by 15% to 33% in 24 Bigger Markets, Some Back to Where They’d Been 20 Years Ago.

California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages.

The Cost of Safetyism. What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard.

How to Understand and Use the Jensen-Shannon Divergence.

Gnutella Explanation. A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It.

Why is it so hard to find affordable child care? Now I know.

5 Mysterious Writing Systems That No One Has Deciphered.

The trope that America is successful because of ‘immigrant magic’ needs to be heavily qualified.

Zero Sum Problems.

10-Year TIPS v. 10-Year Treasury Securities: Bond Market Has Long Been Delusional about Actual CPI Inflation.

A college degree once ensured prosperity – but gen Z is finding ‘just not much out there’.

Indeed chief economist says we’re entering an era of ‘great mismatch’ thanks to a generational imbalance of workers.

Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs.

Selling SaaS in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH).

West Coast Cities Turn to Vacancy Taxes to Grapple with Housing Crisis.

Do drivers hate bicyclists? US sees an alarming rash of crashes.

White House Approves $9 Billion for Spy Agencies to Catch Up on A.I.

US green card applicants will now have to return to home countries to apply, DHS says.

Bond markets are not so subtly telling the Fed that interest rates aren't high enough.

Trump vows to ‘work very hard’ to enact permanent daylight saving time. Sweet.

The humanities will not make you moral.

"Empire" as Anti-Western Narrative.

Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart.

Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses.

Inside Israel’s High-Tech Campaign to Kill or Capture Every Oct. 7 Attacker. Good. I hope they kill all of them and all the financiers and enablers too.

Extreme 8.5-minute orbit reveals white dwarf being torn apart by its binary companion.

Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late.

China’s Hormuz Workaround Is Making India Jealous.

My Retirement Accounts Fail In the World I Actually Live In.

Nvidia really doesn't seem to care about gaming GPUs any more — the company won't even bother to break down graphics sales in its big investor reports.

Microsoft pushed 16GB RAM as must-have for Windows 11 for years, now sells an 8GB Surface Laptop for $1,299.

Airbus, Air France Found Guilty in 2009 Plane Crash That Killed 228 People. Ruling marks rare instance of companies’ being found criminally liable for crash of a jetliner; plane maker, airline set to appeal.

Maintenance Lapses Flagged in Lead Up to Fatal MD-11 Crash.

Since childhood, Gen Z consumption patterns were designed by the best engineers in the world, working tirelessly at social media and tech startups, consulting psychology experts to make the most addictive product possible, supported by advertisers with a goal of promoting consumption at all costs.

Woke message fiction may be slowly dying, but stories won't magically get better when it's dead.

The Prehistory of A.I. Slop.

Hawaii Legislature passes first-in-nation bill targeting Citizens United ruling.

AI Fabricated Quotes In A Book About AI Undermining Truth. The Author Says This Proves His Point. The author is an idiot.

Thought I had options after my layoff. The market humbled me fast.

Russians are waking up to the economic catastrophe of Putin’s war.

The Dark History of the Smiley Face.

A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide.

At least 80% responsibility for ill health in old age down to individual, study says.

Trump calls off AI executive order over concern it could weaken US tech edge. Good.

Disney Already Facing Lawsuit Over Controversial Facial Scanning at Theme Parks.

The Missile Genius America Lost—and China Gained.

Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back.

On Google declaring war on the Web.

A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale.

I think we are in the process of discovering that humans are bad at mathematics. Correct. Humans have no business doing math themselves.

U.S. Military’s Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drone Clone Is Getting Hivemind Swarming Capability.

Germany urged to stop admiring Beijing and wake up to ‘China Shock 2.0’.

Nissan to close UK production line, cut 900 jobs across Europe.

JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away.

The Kalecki Profit Equation: Why Government Deficit Spending (Typically) MUST Boost Corporate Earnings.

FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants “data in near real time”.

Rare seals hide in underwater bubble caves to escape tourists.

Why meat-eating dinosaurs like T. rex evolved tiny arms.

Should We Teach Children That Life Is Not Fair?

In deep blue California, Dems find a villain toxic enough to rival Trump: The power company.

‘Lower-value human capital’ is what bank CEO calls thousands of workers he’s cutting because of AI.

Vox’s sale marks the end of an era for a once-booming form of digital media. Here’s how it all came undone.

Reddit’s favorite NAS advice is destroying your drives. Yeah, terrible advice.

How Wet Weather in Argentina Helped Fuel the Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak.

Credit Card Delinquencies, Balances, Debt-to-Income, Credit Limits, and Collections in Q1 2026: Americans and their Revolving Credit.

Bond Bloodbath Worsens on Inflation, Lax Fed, and Flood of New Debt. Mortgage Rates hit 6.75%.

Electrical utility megamerger is all about the data centers. NextEra’s blockbuster deal with Dominion likely means higher bills for consumers.

AI can design viruses, toxins and other bioweapons. How worried should we be?

Let me lay out the unpleasant arithmetic of the replacement rate, and why a modern society finds it so hard to reach.

Got denied for a job because I didn't have a degree that doesn't exist.

How much is Donald Trump costing America’s economy? We calculate the drag on growth from fitful presidential policymaking. Roughly agreed. At least 4% growth would be likely sans DJT.

Hantavirus Response Shows How Trump Cuts Have Compromised U.S. Preparedness.

The Virtual OS Museum.

The world's two oldest printing presses.

Disney erased FiveThirtyEight.

Claude Code Did The Heavy Lifting To Get Adobe Lightroom CC Running On Linux.

"Atrocious implementation": Microsoft's unremovable Copilot button is driving Excel users crazy with forced AI in spreadsheets.

America Needs to Build More Housing.

Student Loan Debt Defaults Hit $171B and the Average Borrower Is Now 40.

The world we grew up in no longer exists, and it's not coming back.

The First Atomic Bomb Test in 1945 Created an Entirely New Material.

The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam. Moronic.

Russia’s War Is Going Badly—on the Ground and in the Air.

Ukraine built its first-ever guided glide bomb, 'Vyrivniuvach,' as a much cheaper homegrown alternative to US-made JDAMs.

The SBU together with Ukraine’s Defense Forces carried out a large-scale strike operation against Russian military-industrial and oil infrastructure in the Moscow region.

How Unknowable Math Can Help Hide Secrets.

Illusions of Understanding in the Sciences.

US plan for Colorado River could cut up to 40% supply for Arizona, California and Nevada.

AI Poised to Tilt Job Market Leverage Toward Older Workers.

SNAP Recipients Fall by 660,000 In a Month.

We basically did NINJA loans again but this time with non-US citizens.

Globalism rests on a single assumption. That human beings, given the right institutions and sufficient time, will subordinate their deepest loyalties to nation, faith, language and kin in favour of a set of universal values administered from above.

French Theory married this substratum, and the child of that union is called wokism.

Struggle Sessions at Pan Macmillan.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. Me too. And most got that clownishly wrong.

How the Bird Eye Was Pushed to an Evolutionary Extreme.

The amount of meth seized at the border is skyrocketing.

The Sigmoids Won’t Save You.

Throughout the 1950s, Los Alamos advanced both the science and the supply chain that took NMR from a physics curiosity to a cornerstone technique in chemistry, biology, and medicine.

Isostasy.

Southwest Airlines bans robots from traveling in cabin or as checked baggage.

Kioxia and Dell cram nearly 10PB of flash storage into a single 2U server.

A Russian ship sank in mysterious circumstances. It may have been carrying submarine nuclear reactors to North Korea.

CENTCOM Commander Dismisses Reports That Iran Retains Most Of Its Missile And Drone Arsenal. CENTCOM actual is correct. Those reports are clownish propaganda.

Europeans primarily trace their genetic ancestry to three main groups that migrated to the continent.

Both sides in the debate between people who say “race is a social construct” and those who say “race is biological” are at least somewhat correct. Right. It is both. Genetic evidence is much stronger now and there is an obvious genetic component that libs lied about for decades.

The creedal nation model could potentially work – if it were real. But it’s not. It being real would mean we deport people who don’t share the creed. And if you say “part of the creed is we don’t do that” then that creed is a suicide pact.

Most of what households buy is non-tradable: housing, healthcare, childcare, education. When American tech firms bid workers from haircutting to coding, American haircut wages rise. Germany has no growing tech sector to do the bidding, so German wages stay flat. Exactly. Krugman is way, way wrong. As usual these days.

Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once.

On the Spanish experiment of mass migration with little investment, my friend Tano Santos (Columbia) writes me this.

The Politics of Jobless Prosperity.

Is AI putting graduates out of work already? If you are studying coding, we might have some bad news.

The war between businesses and hackers enters a perilous new phase.

Immigration, often raised as the way out, cannot realistically offset the demographic drag ahead. the scale of net inflows required to offset ageing on a sustained basis is multiples of any plausible figure consistent with social and political constraints in european countries.

El Niño is coming faster than expected and chances are rising that it will be historically strong.

Your Mattress Got Worse on Purpose.

Why is almost everyone right-handed? The answer may lie in how we learned to walk.

Volkswagen shows its first electric GTI; there’s no chance of US sales.

Putin Is Still a Liar. His Peace Talk Is Still Bullshit.

Companies Keep Slashing Employees’ Benefits for the Worst Reasons.

Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’.

‘I can’t even imagine it.’ Why 42% of adults 60 and older think they’ll work till they die.

Burned out and going nowhere: the American worker is too mentally drained to even look for a new job.

Dawn of the Electric World Order.

Engaging with the arts can slow biological aging, study shows.

We May Be Entering A Second Axial Age.

Beneath our human shallows.

The US Is Winning the AI Race.

Producer Price Inflation Explodes as the Services PPI Blows Out on Top of the Energy Price Spike.

CPI Inflation Blows Past Fed Rates as Core Services, Gasoline, Electricity, and Food Spike. Fed’s “Real” Rates Are now Negative.

Data centers are cutting power to homes, driving homeowners to solar and batteries.

The ICE age is over: gas car sales drop 37% in world’s biggest market.

There’s No Need to Fear China’s Economy.

Valve Blocks Indie Dev Game For Including IP From The Same Indie Dev In Game.

These computer voices sound human enough to mislead, but one layer of speech still breaks the illusion.

Why are some people mosquito magnets? Clues are emerging.