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.

Four Scenarios for a Postwar Iran.

Can Europe Ever Thrive Again? Not without forcing out Islam and a ton of remigration.

Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company.

Blue light filters don’t work. Why controlling total luminance is a better bet.

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Good.

A war foretold:how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them.

Syria asks Germany not to deport its citizens back home, warning it would make country ‘unsafe’. LOL.

Don’t expect lower prices now that the Supreme Court has ruled against Trump’s tariffs.

Police ‘turn blind eye’ to sharia courts in Britain.

Big Tech still dreams of mass surveillance — now people are pushing back.

Ukraine is the biggest and most consequential of all the American betrayals.

Over 65? Congratulations, You Own the Economy.

Cosmologists collaborate to sharpen measurements of the Hubble constant.

NASA moon rocket hit by new problem, putting March launch with astronauts in jeopardy.

US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere.

America vs. Singapore: You Can’t Save Your Way out of Economic Shocks.

‘We’re no longer attracting top talent’: the brain drain killing American science.

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus.

Single-Family & Multifamily Construction: Bring on the Supply just as Population Growth Slows to a Crawl.

Record Low Crime Rates Are Real, Not Just Reporting Bias Or Improved Medical Care.

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say.

‘They’ve shot themselves in the foot’: EU slammed on global stage for overregulating AI.

NASA chief blasts Boeing, space agency for failed Starliner astronaut mission.

New 'scimitar-crested' Spinosaurus species discovered in the central Sahara.

DeepRare AI outperforms doctors on rare disease diagnosis in head-to-head test.

Views from the pyre.

Programming by hand is clearly going the way of the buggy whip and the hand-cranked auger.

The U.S. Military Hardware Pouring Into the Middle East.

Email blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring.

How Canada became poorer than Alabama.

How Do You Steal an Airplane? One Piece at a Time.

Big Tech just quietly repriced the value of a college degree to near zero.

How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe.

Cistercian Numbers.

Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet.

Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours of Sleep.

The $20,000 new car is officially dead.

Wealth Creation Is Not An Act of War, Opposite What You're Told.

The 401(k) Takeover: Private Equity Muscles In on Retirement.

One Year of RFK Jr. Has Left Public Health Devastated.

Accenture combats AI refuseniks by linking promotions to log-ins.

Many people I know, especially in the humanities, continue to be in deep denial about the state of this technology. Perhaps the most common way in which they dismiss the importance of this technology is to claim that AI models are not intelligent or creative.

Sexual attraction is completely amoral. And Gen Z thinks it’s immoral.

Study: Central Asia’s Water Tower to Lose One-third of Glacier Mass by 2040.

India and Pakistan’s Water Politics Is Starting to Boil.

How the University Replaced the Church as the Home of Liberal Morality. As progressive Americans have become more secular, the academy has become their primary moral training ground. The results have not been good.

One of the rarest animal sightings in the world: chirodectes maculatus, only seen once before.

Accurate plasmid reconstruction from metagenomics data using assembly–alignment graphs and contrastive learning.

X-rays reveal kingfisher feather structure in unprecedented detail.

Man's capacity to follow meekly as he's herded to his obvious death is at least as important to understand as man’s capacity to slaughter innocents.

FDA reverses surprise rejection of Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine.

It Turns Out That Constantly Telling Workers They’re About to Be Replaced by AI Has Grim Psychological Effects.

Russia's hybrid warfare rattles Poland and NATO. We are already at war with Russia.

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs.

Microsoft’s new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass.

China remains embedded in US energy networks 'for the purpose of taking it down.'

Unprecedented ‘Jobless Boom’ Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion.

Major Deployment Of Rickety E-3 Sentry Fleet For Iran Crisis Highlights Worrisome Gaps.

They beat cancer. Then they got hit with massive bills.

What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You.

Hear the Amati “King” Cello, the Oldest Known Cello in Existence (c. 1560).

Many consumer electronics manufacturers 'will go bankrupt or exit product lines' by the end of 2026 due to the AI memory crisis, Phison CEO reportedly says.

AI Demand Clears Out Western Digital's Hard Drive Supply for 2026.

Bacterial strain from 5,000-year-old cave ice shows resistance against 10 modern antibiotics. Dang ol’ time-traveling bacteria.

Why are all the hard drives already sold out?

AH-64 Apache Is Getting Proximity Fuzed 30mm Cannon Ammo For Swatting Down Drones.

China’s high-speed rail network accelerates world’s largest human migration.

Perhaps we should all be banned from social media.

Long-term unemployment is becoming ‘a status quo’ in today’s job market: It’s a ‘mental war,’ job seeker says.

The Trump administration’s research funding cuts, abrupt policy shifts, and crackdown on immigration are driving a brain drain that threatens Massachusetts’ standing as a global hub of biomedical research, its economy – and the fight against major diseases such as childhood cancers, Alzheimer’s, and sickle cell.

Russia’s Grinding War in Ukraine. Massive Losses and Tiny Gains for a Declining Power.

Four minutes of air conditioning.

Russian casualty ratios in Ukraine are in places as high as 25 to every 1 Ukrainian defender, according to the UK Defence Secretary John Healey.

HR asked potential candidate to open ChatGPT during interview & ask, “Based on my past conversations, can you analyze my behavioral tendencies?”.

New EU rules to stop the destruction of unsold clothes and shoes.

Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State.

Shingles Vaccine Linked to Slower Biological Aging in Older Adults.

A relationship on the rocks: Europe and America need each other, but trust is gone.

Maybe America Needs Some New Cities.

Natural and Artificial Ice.

One of the most troubling things about the global radical left, especially in my own country, is their choice to ignore people when they openly tell you who they are.

Once Thought To Support Neurons, Astrocytes Turn Out To Be in Charge.

Pentagon threatens Anthropic punishment.

Rampant AI Demand for Memory Is Fueling a Growing Chip Crisis.

The AI productivity take-off is finally visible.

This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like.

A new study of 1,452 students at Northwestern and the University of Michigan finds that 88% hide their real views on politics and social issues, faking progressive beliefs to get by.

Poland Should Develop Its Own Nuclear Defenses, President Says.

I sort of assumed people in the past had more freedom from their governments, but they absolutely did not.

During the Second World War, almost every motorised vehicle in continental Europe was converted to use firewood.

This Is How a Child Dies of Measles.

My daughter was raped for years by a grooming gang. Do MSPs now want to pretend this just didn't happen?

Boeing sees significant supply chain quality gains.

The Age of Defensive Democracy.

Carl Sagan’s 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney.

Medicaid work requirements will particularly hurt unpaid caregivers.

The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers.

UPS preparing to offer second driver buyout, as it plans 30,000 layoffs in 2026.

Deep in China’s Mountains, a Nuclear Revival Takes Shape.

The Tide Goes Out on Youth Gender Medicine.

Why Winter in the U.S. Is Crazy This Year, in Five Charts.

NATO Has Seen the Future and Is Unprepared.

F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like An iPhone: Dutch Defense Minister.

Astronomers are filling in the blanks of the Kuiper Belt.

Tiny, 45 base long RNA can make copies of itself.

Services Inflation Spikes in January, but Bad-Joke OER CPI Pushes Down on Year-over-Year CPI. OER is Huge and Bad.

Is It Bigoted to Post Images of a Man in a Hijab? The hijab itself is evil. Everything else is ancillary to that.

Living in the Petri Dish of the Future.

​AI slop, begone! The viral musical virtuosos bringing brains and brilliance back to social media.

Nuclear central in France's latest energy strategy.

Earth is Warming Faster Than Ever. But Why?

Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI.

A lifetime of reading may delay Alzheimer's by six years.

A wolf came to L.A. looking for love. On Valentine’s Day, she’s moved on.

The battle between bots and brains has already begun, and educators can see how it might end. Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves.

A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web.

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling.

What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: It isn't love.

NASA Study: Non-biologic Processes Don’t Fully Explain Mars Organics.

AI and the Economics of the Human Touch.

This Is The LOCUST Laser That Reportedly Prompted Closing El Paso’s Airspace.

Europe has the weapons, but still needs America to wage war.

The wonder of modern drywall.

EU needs a ‘big bang’ on regulation, says top official.

How private equity’s big bet on software was derailed by AI.

I Just Returned From China. We Are Not Winning.

A German General Prepares His Country for War—and the Clock Is Ticking.

A Memory-Chip Shortage Is Squeezing Consumer Tech—and It’s Set to Get Worse.

Americans With Higher Incomes Are Starting to Fall Behind on Payments.

AI may get you more matches. But a match is not a connection. The human things that create real feeling are exactly what optimization erases.

A consumption tax on Americans is brewing. Tariffs are the dry run. Quite likely.