The autism epidemic is a myth.

The New Laser That Can Take Down Aircraft.

Something Big Is Happening.

Researchers Warn: WiFi Could Become an Invisible Mass Surveillance System.

Consistent with our prior work, we find that the LLM adheres to the legally correct outcome significantly more often than human judges.

Amazon Ring’s lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance.

A few seconds of audio is all it takes to create a realistic audio deepfake.

A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at zspec = 14.44 Confirmed with JWST.

Measles Surges In The U.S. As Public Health Systems Falter.

Uncommon Knowledge: How Big Tech and Trump Tariffs Broke Cheap PCs.

America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs.

FDA refuses to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine. Evil.

Americans might finally be buckling under the weight of rising debt and slowing wage growth.

Amazon may launch a marketplace where media sites can sell their content to AI companies.

Football-sized fossil creature may have been one of the first land animals to eat plants.

China Secretly Testing Nuclear Weapons And Covering Its Tracks, U.S. Alleges.

Blood omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia.

Caffeine content for coffee, tea, soda and more.

Why E cores make Apple silicon fast.

Why China is building so many coal plants despite its solar and wind boom.

Ruling-Class Control of AI Is Making Things More Expensive and You Poorer. This take on AI I (mostly) agree with.

How close is AI to taking my job?

The Logic of Third-Worldism.

The Supreme Court Lives in Fox News' America.

Copyright Kills Competition.

Bad and getting worse: for students like me, the loan system is the disaster that never ends.

How a $30 Billion Welfare Program Became a ‘Slush Fund’ for States.

Here’s Where AI Is Tearing Through Corporate America.

For Every Winner a Loser.

California ballot proposal would exempt seniors from paying property taxes.

TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan in boost for its chipmaking ambitions.

Job Hunters Are So Desperate That They’re Paying to Get Recruited.

The worst fact about these tools is that they work. They can write code better than you or I can, and if you don’t believe me, wait six months.

In addition to the intrinsic badness of this, immigration at a high level also has predictable negative effects on the white population whereby they become more negatively ethnocentric, populist, etc.

Europe Accuses TikTok of ‘Addictive Design’ and Pushes for Change.

Product and design are the new bottlenecks.

Companies Hang on to their Workers, and Workers Cling to their Jobs: One More Factor why it’s Tough for Job Seekers.

Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers.

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic’s Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles.

Anduril founder says U.S. can spend billions less on defense: We ‘spend too much money on the wrong thing’. Agreed. I really like that weird scuzzbucket.

The School Engine Behind Flu and COVID — and Why Clean Air for Kids Is the Missing Public Health Tool.

Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds.

Trump’s New Tax Law Saved Amazon Billions.

Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue.

The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass.

Russian offensive appears to be slowing after Musk blocks Starlink access, Ukraine says.

The End of Arms Control? For the first time, we will live in a world without constraints on the US-Russian nuclear arsenal.

LinkedIn silently probes for 2,953 Chrome extensions on every page load.

Looking back now at the introduction of the radio, it is easy to see that the question of whether “the radio” is conducive to the good or whether it advances human autonomy is hard to meaningfully address without considering funding models.

Machines in the Alleyways: China’s Bet on Autonomous Urban Warfare.

U.S. Jobs Disappear At Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession.

Weak freight demand triggers facility closures, job cuts across supply chain.

Jeff Bezos Killed the Washington Post.

Canadians are staying away from the US — and the drop in travel is getting hard to ignore.

Florida’s plan to let companies pay below minimum wage.

COVID-19 cleared the skies but also supercharged methane emissions.

As Rocks May Think.

They deleted the World Fact Book.

Alphabet Plots Big Expansion in India as US Restricts Visas.

Why nobody really knows the scale of the U.S. housing crisis.

Donald Trump putting his name on the building was tacky and trollish and unbecoming of a President (business as usual, in other words), but it’s still just a name on a building.

Travelers have had enough. It’s time to make hotel room bathrooms private again.

What The Sunset Of Key U.S.-Russia Nuclear Deal Could Mean For America’s Stockpile.

New analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique genetic time capsule in the Balkans.

A 'crazy' dice proof leads to a new understanding of a fundamental law of physics.

Did we just see a black hole explode? Physicists think so—and it could explain (almost) everything.

Progress for progressives. The “party of science” must also embrace technology and economic growth.

Just another day in Mamdani's New York.

New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers.

Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% when confounding factors are addressed.

AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was.

The Pro-Gaza Left Is Oh So Quiet on Iran. Maybe it wasn’t about peace and human rights at all.

Taiwan passes Germany to become US' 4th largest trading partner.

Microsoft and Software Survival.

AI is Killing B2B SaaS.

Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route.

Why software stocks are getting pummelled.

To Build a Fire. How Russian military intelligence is recruiting young people online to carry out espionage, arson, and other attacks across Europe.

Miles Driven Hit Record in 2025, beating 2019, amid Lethargic RTO, Mass Transit Blues, but a Jump in Population.

What We Know About the India-U.S. Trade Deal.

The ‘Windows won’t shut down’ bug is even worse than we thought.

The CDC Has Mysteriously Frozen Vaccine Databases Without Explanation.

Former Windows 8 boss recruited Epstein to help negotiate his messy Microsoft exit.

Ancient Alaskan site may help explain how the first people arrived in North America.

Europe begins its slow retreat from US dependence.

Why Didn’t They “Just” Film on Location?

Night owl or early bird? Study finds sleep categories aren’t that simple.

Chemical maker Dow is cutting 4,500 jobs, will rely on AI.

Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear.

Amazon and Pinterest are slashing jobs, yet corporate America’s profit margins are racing toward 15-year highs.

How Courtship Transformed Masculinity.

Private Credit Is Headed for a Software Shock.

It’s like this: Why perceptions are our realities.

The Pentagon’s “Bad-Faith, BS” Review of Women in Combat Roles.

It may seem like you cannot believe your eyes. The capex numbers really are mind-boggling.

A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked.

Rusty Dagger Low-Cost Cruise Missile Hits Its Target.

The Discourse is Getting Both Smarter and Dumber.

How “95%” escaped into the world – and why so many believed it. Yeah, that 95% is 100% bullshit.

Why Is Substack Caught Up in Australia’s Social Media Ban?

Scientists sequenced the genome of an extinct woolly rhinoceros that was found in a wolf belly that lived 14,400 years ago.

Prisoners of Fortune.

World Hijab Day is nothing to celebrate. A very evil day.

Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle.

Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers.

Two kinds of AI users are emerging. The gap between them is astonishing. Agreed.

Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work.

Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce.

MRI scans show exercise can make the brain look younger.

Oracle May Cut 30k Jobs and Sell Cerner to Fund $156B OpenAI Deal.

US producer prices rose 0.5% in December, more than expected, on uptick in services inflation.

Apple ‘runs on Anthropic,’ says Mark Gurman.

Good science on national IQs.

Apartment rents just dropped to the lowest level in 4 years.

What We Have to Lose. Our civilization is more precious, and more fragile, than most people suppose.

Germany is betting big on killer drones. In Ukraine, they couldn’t hit their targets.

How did birds evolve? The answer is wilder than anyone thought.

Europe's largest skate recovers in Scottish waters.

The great error of the classical liberal worldview is that, because history is full of tribes fighting wars over scarce resources, that it was the tribes, not the scarcity, that caused conflict.

How SSRIs Became the Female Fedora.

Stargaze: SpaceX’s Space Situational Awareness System.

A lot of population numbers are fake.

Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images.

Vitamin D & Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants.

One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals.

Stop Killing Games Gets Over 1 Million Petition Signatures Verified By EU.

I vibed an app for work… and it was good.

Interval cancer, sensitivity, and specificity comparing AI-supported mammography screening with standard double reading without AI in the MASAI study: a randomised, controlled, non-inferiority, single-blinded, population-based, screening-accuracy trial.

Norway Shrugged. How Taxing Unrealized Gains Has Caused an Entrepreneurial Exodus.

Dow to cut about 4,500 jobs as emphasis shifts to AI and automation.

I analyzed 1.6 million job applications from 2025. If you feel like the job market is broken, this data proves it.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy blames European states for Ukraine air defence gaps. And he is correct.

Satellites encased in wood are in the works.

No One Is Quite Sure Why Ice Is Slippery.

Xi Jinping and the Military Have Long Lacked Mutual Trust.

U.S. life expectancy hits a new high, as deaths from overdoses and COVID fall.

A Complete Visual Tour of the First WordPress Release Ever! Vastly better than the block crap.

Washington’s Silence in Asia Is a Gift to Beijing.

Future USS John F. Kennedy, Second Ford Class Carrier, Has Set Sail For The First Time.

Bait-and-Switch: Why you can't trust SSD reviews anymore. Or any reviews.

The Genocide Slur Is Not Just for Jews.

Google Aims Knockout Blow at Chinese Company Linked to Massive Cyber Weapon. Company targets global network employed by hackers that often use devices running in homes of everyday Americans.

On Technologies vs. Commodities.

Germany signals joint fighter project with France may not deliver jets.

Russia’s 1.2 million casualties in Ukraine dwarf all its conflicts since World War II, report says.

Algae blooms are expanding worldwide, Florida scientists say in first ever global study.

Milky Way is embedded in a 'large-scale sheet' of dark matter, which explains motions of nearby galaxies.

The origin story of syphilis goes back far longer than we thought.

Japan lost a 5-ton navigation satellite when it fell off a rocket during launch. Oopsie-doopsie.

Europe should be ‘realistic’ about tech sovereignty, says top chips exec.

Berlin’s push to favor its own arms-makers snarls Ukraine’s €90B EU loan.

Goodbye to the idea that solar panels “die” after 25 years. A new study says the warranty does not mark the end, and performance can last for decades. Arrays built in the late 1980s still produced more than 80% of their original power.

I think Docker is Bad Actually. I think Kubernetes is bad and Flatpak is bad and Snaps are bad and App Stores are bad and the Wayland security model is also bad. Specifically, they’re bad for humans and human-scale computing.

Superfluids are supposed to flow indefinitely. Physicists just watched one stop moving.

Deforestation is drying out the Amazon rainforest faster than previously thought.