250MWh ‘Sand Battery’ to start construction in Finland, for both heating and ancillary services.

China’s BEV Trucks and the End of Diesel’s Dominance.

Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN with record trapping technique.

Secret behind Temple of Venus’s resilient construction uncovered.

How ‘Stranger Things’ Defined the Era of the Algorithm.

Russians Are Starting to Feel Real Economic Pain From Putin’s War.

Europe Fears It Can’t Catch Up in Great Power Competition.

How Sociotropic Aesthetic Judgments Drive Opposition to Housing Development.

A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs.

We Can’t Diet and Exercise Our Way Out of the Next Pandemic.

Stress-induced sympathetic hyperactivation drives hair follicle necrosis to trigger autoimmunity. (In mice.)

The housing crisis is pushing Gen Z into crypto and economic nihilism.

Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia. About damn time.

PPI Inflation Bounces Back.

Pentagon contractors want to blow up military right to repair. Evil.

Solar’s growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use.

Dramatic irony.

OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates.

53 Hours and No Wi-Fi: Why I Loved Amtrak’s Slow Train to San Francisco.

Germany’s Secret Plan for War With Russia.

The US is deregulating banks. Will the rest of the world follow? I hope not.

Private payroll losses accelerated in the past four weeks, ADP reports.

Why ‘hold forever’ investors are snapping up venture capital ‘zombies.’

Space Truckin’ – the Nostromo.

A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science.

Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing.

‘Forever Layoffs’ Are A New Corporate Buzzword, In Reality, It’s Just A Way For Them To Skirt Regulations Around Mass Layoffs.

USPTO Wants To Make Bad Patents Unchallengeable. You Have Until December 2nd To Tell Them No.

The death of the living room: ‘It’s hard to invite people over – not everyone wants to sit on a bed.’

Why ‘Gender Dysphoria’ is a lie.

China is making trade impossible.

Research shows that in 2024, it took candidates an average of 247 days and about 221 applications to finally secure a new role.

The logical triumph of English.

The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your data.

Researchers Uncover How Sea Turtles Learn Locations Using Earth’s Magnetic Field.

Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world.

First recorded eruption of Ethiopian volcano sends ash plumes across Red Sea.

People with more muscle mass and less visceral fat have younger brains, study finds.

A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much.

Health Issues in Middle Age Can Be Linked to Pregnancy Years Earlier.

Warmed by Japan’s Support, Taiwan Takes Up Sushi Diplomacy.

When Home Sellers Set Prices Too High, They’re Paying for It.

Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy.

New limits on school loans could narrow physician and nurse pipeline, educators warn.

Without a siren, toddler’s 39-mile ambulance trip still cost more than $9,000.

Landlords’ go-to tool to set rent prices to be gutted under RealPage settlement.

French Muslim boy jailed for rape of 12-year-old Jewish girl has sentence commuted in retrial. A French court reduced the sentence of a teen convicted in the 2024 antisemitic rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl, citing reintegration needs, sparking renewed outrage. Europe is toast; already effectively Islamicized.

The signs of educational decline are now impossible to ignore. Smartphones, social media and Covid disruptions. Bad mix.

How tech broke the job market.

She’s the internet’s sexual historian. Her book will give you dinner party fodder for days.

The surreal 45-day trek at the heart of Nato’s defence.

US Border Patrol Is Spying on Millions of American Drivers.

Trump Cancels Release of Crucial Economic Report to Hide His Failures.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.

The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting.

The realities of being a pop star.

It’s fairly telling of the state of the software industry that the exotic craft of ‘fixing bugs’ is apparently worth a LinkedIn-style self-promotional blog post.

Japan’s high-stakes gamble to turn island of flowers into global chip hub.

New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly two centuries.

Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts.

X’s new country-of-origin feature shakes MAGA and Democrat circles as many ‘US’ accounts revealed to be foreign-run. Which has always been completely obvious. Tons of foreign propaganda operations out there.

How billionaires took over American politics.

Kodak Ran a Secret Nuclear Device in Its Basement for Decades. It Was a Scientific Marvel. I need me one of them.

Sharper MRI scans may be on horizon thanks to new physics-based model.

Childhood Friends, Not Moms, Shape Attachment Styles Most.

Got offered what I made in high school.

Some second-order effects of unaffordable housing.

How Spoofing Is Diverting Russian Missiles Into Empty Fields.

America’s huge mortgage market is slowly dying.

The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered.

Major Music Labels Strike Deals With New AI Streaming Service. Ugh.

U.S. employee well-being hit new low in 2024, survey reveals.

Dusty star-forming galaxy at high redshift discovered.

Why top firms paradoxically fire good workers. So, basically, evil?

Hilbert space: treating functions as vectors.

The Banished Bottom of the Housing. Market How America Destroyed Its Cheapest Homes.

Amazon cut thousands of engineers in its record layoffs, despite saying it needs to innovate faster.

Without US satellites, ‘we go dark’, climate monitor tells AFP. We are doing some incredibly idiotic things that will hurt us and everyone for decades.

The Middle Class Is Buckling Under Almost Five Years of Persistent Inflation.

The Real Target of Pedophile Hysteria Is Age Gap Relationships. Yep. All about female intrasexual competition.

Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds.

Moss spores survive and germinate after 283-day ‘space walk.’

The next recession is coming — and this time, you’re the collateral.

The qualitative is the foundation of the quantitative.

After three years of immersion in AI, I have come to a relatively simple conclusion: it’s a useful technology that is very likely overhyped to the point of catastrophe.

The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable.

Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent.

We worked with Reuters to measure the impacts of AI scams on the elderly.

When you pick a side and commit to it wholly and without reservation, you get things that moderate positions cannot provide. You get certainty in an uncertain world. You get a community that will defend you. You get a simple heuristic for navigating complex issues.

Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe.

The future of war is the future of society. Military technology is changing rapidly, and we’re going to have to change with it.

Trump DOE gives Microsoft partner $1B loan to restart Three Mile Island reactor.

Mysterious holes in the Andes may have been an ancient marketplace.

AI-generated evidence is showing up in court.

Explosion on rail line ‘initiated by Russian secret services’, Polish government says. We are already at war with Russia. We should act like it.

Intracellular Salmonella hijacks the mitochondrial citrate carrier to evade host oxidative defenses. Little microbe terrorist.

The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads.

More than three hundred years after the reading revolution ushered in a new era of human knowledge, books are dying.

Poland, Romania deploy jets to protect their airspace as Russia pounds western Ukraine.

The Job Market Didn’t Collapse. The Hiring System Did. Here’s What Really Changed. The reality is that both did, around the same time (which the article comes around to admitting).

3 massive changes you’ll see as the climate careens toward tipping points.

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy.’

Trump’s greatest crime is practically invisible. Estimates show that the dismantling of USAID has killed at least 600,000 to date. It could get much worse.

Europe Begins Rethinking Its Crackdown on Big Tech.

Why Trump Couldn’t Stop the Electric Vehicle Dream.

Ukraine’s kill zone: How drones ended trench warfare.

Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy. Sweet!

Medicaid Insurers Promise Lots of Doctors. Good Luck Seeing One.

Energy Companies Turn to Fossil Fuels, 10 Years After Climate Pact.

The Ukraine war is ultimately about Poland. Exactly.

Stigma is good, actually.

Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined.

Big Tech Is Slashing Entry-Level Jobs, But At the Expense of Future Growth.

Microsoft tries to head off the “novel security risks” of Windows 11. AI agents Agents with read/write access to your files create big security, privacy issues. Completely clownish.

The Limitation of GDP (As A Metric).

Silent cuts, loud consequences: How “forever layoffs” are replacing job security in America.

‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’ AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?

This is not the worst job market yet. This is the best it ever will be. Agreed.

The Enshittification of American Power.

Valar Atomics Says It’s the First Nuclear Startup to Achieve Criticality.

America’s path out of $38 trillion national debt crisis likely involves pushing up inflation and ‘eroding Fed independence,’ says JPMorgan Private Bank.

Seniors hit with 10 percent Medicare Part B cost increase in 2026.

They Rushed to Buy Homes During the Pandemic. Now, Some Feel Trapped.

Real purchasing power over time is not economic welfare over time.

This Is How Our Economy Comes Crashing Down.

The Hidden Devastation of Hurricanes. Their health effects extend far beyond official death tolls.

NIH Directors: The World Needs a New Pandemic Playbook.

Friction Was the Feature. How AI killed prose as a signal.

The top Google results for almost all services are scams.

I’d suggest ‘mankeeping’ works in much the same way. The term is operating within a theoretical framework that sees women as the full human beings whose interests are paramount. Men are regarded as lesser beings whose needs are only worth considering in the context of how they affect women. So, all feminism now?

Stop Talking Nonsense About Culture. When progressives forget how progress works.

Ending Women’s Suffrage Is Not the Answer.

A new chapter begins for EV batteries with the expiry of key LFP patents.

A mysterious new model currently in testing on Google’s AI Studio is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition but it is also showing signs of spontaneous, abstract, symbolic reasoning.

Pentagon Creating Amazon-Like Shopping Portal For Counter-Drone Equipment.

Post-apocalyptic life in American health care.

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing. This was always inevitable.

The Disguised Return of The EU’s Private Message Scanning Plot.

All Praise to the Lunch Ladies. Indeed. The lunch ladies were better to me than most of my teachers.

The era of salary negotiation is ending.

In 1990, in the last breaths of the Cold War, a delicious act of American subversion unfolded in Moscow. It’s long been forgotten. It shouldn’t be.

Australia’s Shock Defense Wake-up Call.

Microsoft’s $96.5 Million CEO Payday After 15,000 Layoffs Reveals a New Reality in Tech Jobs.

Three astronauts are stuck on China’s space station without a safe ride home.

World’s oldest RNA extracted from ice age woolly mammoth.

France remembers Bataclan attacks but knows enemy has not gone away. Best bet is to expel nearly all Muslims from Europe; might be the last chance.

“AI features” are the new bloatware.

Chinese hackers used Anthropic’s AI agent to automate spying.