America’s small businesses are giving up on health insurance.

Data Centers Didn’t Jack Up Your Bill—Utility Greed Did.

A rising number of S&P 500 companies are spelling out exactly how artificial intelligence tools are boosting their margins — and the improvements are getting larger.

DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists.

India’s Climate Stress and the Solar Power Paradox.

The fundamental problem academia has today is that since the mid 2010s, much of it–at the administrative and departmental levels–reconfigured itself away from being a somewhat autonomous body with its own autonomous intellectual goals and standards, to being a subservient epistemic support layer for a vertically integrated emergent politics whose primary goal has been reversing political developments like Trumpism, Brexit, and nationalist populism in general.

Incentives are for losers.

Illinois Just Told Every Operating System to Start Reporting Your Kid's Age.

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author’s style. Moronic.

Lake Mead hits historic low water level as Colorado River struggles.

Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.

JWST study suggests a handful of 'leaky' galaxies reionized the early universe.

Neanderthal growth hormone receptor increases muscle mass in people today, study shows.

AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon.

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Taste Is All That's Left.

Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities.

Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership.

Americans Are Richer Than Everyone Else.

Strengths and Weaknesses of Two Theories for Explaining 15 Universal Sex Differences in Cognition and Behavior.

Explosive drone found hovering near Ukrainian cargo aircraft at German airport.

Moderna’s mRNA flu shot earns FDA approval after rollercoaster review.

Employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs in a sign of a wilting labor market.

The Argentine ranch where tech CEOs plan to ride out the apocalypse.

Americans got their biggest raises in 40 years. Inflation took most of it.

A house, a car, a little breathing room: Why middle-class life feels increasingly out of reach.

Spokane wildfires are a warning to the rest of the world.

Wildfires now the dominant contributor of unhealthy levels of air pollution for pregnant women in the US.

Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo.

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls.

Goodhart’s Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust.

The internet did change in this way – there are fewer people around that can understand the structure of an argument.

Ukraine’s military hits one of Russia’s biggest oil refineries in long-range drone attack.

US Labour Participation Crisis: 720,000 Workers Exit Job Market as Tech Layoffs Fuel Dropout Trend.

My insurance price jump 45% for no reason, then I read this lawsuit about GM selling our driving data.

A labor shortage is choking off AI data center construction.

U.S. Intel Finds Putin Could Test NATO’s Resolve With Limited Incursion.

The Enemy Within.

Army Revives Giant Cannon to Advance Hypersonic Testing.

Popular imagination treats cyclical overexpansions as sudden explosions. History suggests something different. Most infrastructure overexpansions end not with disappearing assets but with changing ownership.

The AI Boom Is Transforming the American Economy Beyond Recognition.

The whole "religion of peace" thing is pure propaganda. Islam as a political-religious entity is actually extremely violent, and misogynistic + homophobic to a shocking degree.

Venus's polygonal plains could point to a watery past.

The Income Needed to Afford Typical American Home Holds Steady Near Record High of $110,000.

Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand.

Japan to cut off the supply of advanced packaging equipment to China starting August 1st.

Visa guts executives who were paid nearly $500K in latest round of AI layoffs.

For a Brief Time in the 1930s, Radio Station WLW in Ohio Became America’s One and Only “Super Station”. 500KW. Gawd-damn.

How Hollywood Stopped Making Movies in Hollywood.

Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?

The War That Could Swallow the World.

Apple launches legal challenge against UK government demand to access encrypted data.

AI Is Replacing Customer Service Jobs at CBA, Microsoft, Uber. All those jobs that econs claim aren’t being replaced by AI are in fact being replaced by AI.

With Russia at the door and the US backing away, Europe has to build its own ‘way of war’.

The Dilemma of Picking Winners.

Landmark Deal Would Officially Add Laser Weapons to US Army Arsenal.

Yes, Emily Wilson, Odysseus has been changed for the movie. Deal with it.

One of the hardest lessons for any software engineer is accepting that we are not our users.

Data centers are the most visible, physical manifestations of the AI boom. For a technology that we think of as immaterial, existing only in “the cloud,” a hyperscale data center—often spanning hundreds of acres of land—is impossible to ignore.

US military has used up nearly 80% of key missile interceptors as commanders warn stockpiles ‘dangerously low,’ sources say.

‘Cursed island’: the $100bn luxury development hosting tech nomads and scammers.

GDP Haters Aren't Making Serious Arguments.

Home Insurance Is the Stealth Political Issue of 2026.

The Age of Unstoppable Wildfires Has Reached Europe.

A New Age of Missiles Reshapes Battlefields Around The World.

Over 4 million people are no longer receiving food aid amid sweeping changes to SNAP.

Homeowners Associations Are Foreclosing on More Residents.

People Are Ghosting Long-Term Partners. Some Don’t Regret It.

Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math.

For Immigration To Be Successful You Need a Much Higher Birthrate.

People are rightly upset about the migrant situation in Europe.

US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own.

LLMs reward expertise.

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4934-4940: In the Land of the Polygons.

Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission.

Why nation-states are good.

Fleeing Opportunity. How immigration distorts internal mobility, and why it matters.

AI Lowers Wages But Doesn't Cut Jobs. Mostly wrong, but also only for now.

A digital iron curtain is threatening the global economy.

Historian Peter Frankopan: ‘Powerful Men Often Miscalculate’.

Drones Are Reshaping the Soundscape of War.

Plug-In Solar Panels Are Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards.

Why Wall Street Is Getting Angry.

Tokenmaxxing Is Dead. Now Comes the Belt Tightening.

On the Invasion of Cueta: They always tell you.

The 10 Ways NAS is Getting Enshitified.

Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA.

Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is a memory hog, promises 8GB RAM PC optimization by end of 2026.

Windows 10 users were right: Microsoft admits its end of support was the real Windows 11 sales driver.

Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books.

What Emily Wilson’s Iliad Misses.

Google Maps, Uber, and Wall Street Run on Socialism: How the U.S. Government Built the Global Positioning System.

Deep-sea vehicles spot ‘alien’ sharks deep beneath the waves in the Pacific. Goblin sharks have never before been filmed in their natural habitat.

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds.

N truth, increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way.

The renter-owner wealth gap is wider than ever, as many are priced out of buying.

Qantas plane flies for more than 24 hours in record-breaking flight.

Should We Do More to Fight Lookism? Discrimination against the unattractive is widespread—and widely tolerated.

Japan Has Officially Joined The Tomahawk Cruise Missile Club. when can I join?

Pentagon’s Plans To Track Aircraft From Orbit Accelerated With New $4B SpaceX Deal.

California produced over half its May electricity from solar, a world record.

This year’s tech layoffs have already surpassed all of 2025. California is at the epicenter.

The Great Lakes Are Hiding a Secret Underworld of Tardigrades and Rock-Eating Fungi.

Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on my Mac Studio. Aww hell yeah.

The most official water costs $120,000 a gallon.

A brief history of Luddism.

US economy’s growth was weaker than expected in the second quarter.

Hospitals See Massive Surge in Uninsured Patients After GOP’s Healthcare Cuts.

New Study Finds That A Minimum-Wage Worker In 1971 Had A Lifestyle Affordability Similar To Someone Making $100K Today.

The Economic Cost of Chaos Is Real and Rising.

Inflation in the Overall Economy, Hitting Consumers, Businesses, and Governments, Was Really Bad in Q2, even without Energy.

The AI Aesthetic.

The Session You Cannot Take With You.

A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return.

The Religion of Speed.

Physicists Solve a Big Quantum Mystery. Now, Old Results Don’t Add Up.

The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores.

Reaction wheel failures leave Swift rescue mission spinning in orbit.

Workplaces look for cheaper AI as ‘tokenmaxxing’ fades as a corporate fad.

AI-found bugs aren't proving any easier to exploit despite the hype.

The temporal characteristics of the geologic record: Global correlations and similar multi-million-year cycles of major geologic events with potential internal-Earth versus astronomical pacing.

A Guide To China’s Growing Long-Range Nuclear Missile Arsenal.

Who wins and who loses after US bans foreign robots?

The Productivity Mirage.

There’s never been a better time to commit financial fraud. I’m on it!

Growth of the Vacant Housing Stock in the US.

Trump Administration Halts Federal Grant Funding For Public Transit Projects Nationwide.

Hard work isn’t enough to achieve the American Dream anymore, says Wharton professor. Welcome to the ‘Great Postponement’.

Summer vacations are shrinking as costs keep rising.

AI Systems Out-Persuade Expert Humans, Including Professional Canvassers And World Championship Debaters.

Study: Dinosaurs were charbroiled after Chicxulub impact.

The Making of Lucifer: How Three Unrelated Words Became a Single Devil.

We Are Living in an Era of Resilience. That’s Not Good.

Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes.

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study.

Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification.

I’d not buy a LG monitor.

China’s exports are so huge they’re now lowering inflation in other countries.

Gambling becomes America’s favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined. Very, very bad.

Worse on Purpose.

Claude AI Shared Chats Reportedly Exposed in Google Search Results.

On Friday, New Jersey became the third state to ban the practice of using AI-driven consumer data to surreptitiously set grocery prices based on what each individual shopper is probably willing to pay.

Meet the Americans learning to go without after the biggest grocery inflation in 50 years.

Inside the Wild Rescue Mission That Took 4 Beluga Whales to Chicago.

Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?

Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat.

Astronauts returning from six-month missions describe a persistent 'observer' sensation.

How Massive AI Data Center Investment Pushes the Economy & Prices: See Durable Goods Orders.

Long-Term Treasury Yields Jump as Bloodied Bond Market Gets Edgier about Inflation & the Massive New Debt.

Though I'd sensed something was off for years prior, COVID was the first time I realized academia had been completely leveraged as an epistemic support system for one party.

Wall Street is selling more rental homes, as buying ban takes effect.

The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge.

Americans rewire their grocery shopping routines while digesting the biggest price jump in 50 years.

Donald Trump’s food-stamp overhaul is beginning to bite.

From the strait of Hormuz to the North Sea, a global maritime war rages around us – and more than the price of oil is at stake.

2026 Tesla Model Y vs. 2026 Toyota bZ Comparison Test: Two Bestsellers, One Winner.

We used to be able to buy things in this country.

The Social Security Reckoning Is Finally Coming.

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against ‘premature restrictions’ of open-weight models.

The Aral Sea Has Been Drying Up For 60 Years. New Research Shows It's Also Releasing Massive Amounts of Carbon.

Companies laying off staff this year include Meta, Amazon, and Verizon — see the list.

Cheap, Accurate and Lethal: Iran’s Best Missile Is Getting More Dangerous.

AI Chatbots Know How to Make Biological Weapons. Some Will Teach You.

See the $600 Million World of Executive Perks.

Humans Haven’t Stopped Evolving.

The paperclip maximizer + related AI doom scenarios were mainly developed in a time when “AI” did not reduce to Large Language Models. The term was a lot wider and inherited a lot of cognitive baggage from more rules-heavy approaches.

Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey home.

MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance.