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.

What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all.

DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16.

My P-Hacking Felt Like Truth.

Russia's businesses under strain from Ukraine's attacks on Wildberries.

Technology is a slippery slope to the bottom.

Em dashes are fucking amazing. I love them dearly as well. Have been using them since I was 8. Won’t stop because of AI.

The tech-broification of American science has officially begun.

"Humanity" is a Prison.

U.S. Coast Guard Seeking Technology To Hunt And Kill Uncrewed Underwater Vehicles.

Eurozone Businesses See Wages Cooling Despite Inflation Pickup, Says ECB.

Gen Z Fell Out of Love With Work. I Don’t Blame Them.

Oracle laid off ~13% of its staff to fund a $300B computing deal with OpenAI. Now, a credit downgrade and $7B in required power grid guarantees put the massive project in jeopardy.

Wiring Capital to Compute.

Intellectual Dark Matter.

Health insurance traps a quarter of U.S. workers in unwanted jobs.

Orcas team up to ram sunfish until they explode.

ISPs’ long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over.

Ukrainian F-16 Scored First Air-To-Air Kill Against A Russian Fighter: Top U.S. General.

Russia’s Crown-Jewel Su-57 May Have Crashed Outside Moscow.

Google Hit With $1 Billion Fine for Abusing Its Power in Europe.

Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending.

LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps.

Long Presumed Dead, a Thriving Coral Reef Is Discovered in West Africa.

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop.

It’s a shame what’s happened to radio.

'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark Anne Frank copyright ruling.

If We Could Travel to the Stars, Where Should We Go First?

Trump officials kill proposed rules for Pfas-contaminated sewage fertilizer.

Fury Loyal Wingman Arrives At Creech AFB For Agile Combat Deployment Trials.

USS Zumwalt Set To Return To Fleet After Long Anticipated Hypersonic Missile Upgrade.

The benefits of GLP-1s for women no one is talking about. Whether we like it or not, appearance — and weight — affects women’s job and relationship prospects. True for men too, and one of the primary benefits of GLP-1s IMO.

A Fighter Jet That Takes Off Without a Runway Is One Step Closer to Vertical Takeoff.

When The Machines Deserve Our Consideration.

Oh Dear, Condo Prices Fell by 15% to 33% in 30 Bigger Cities Already. Some Dropped Back to 2006 Levels.

USPTO Denies MLB’s Insane Attempt To Trademark ‘Play Ball’.

LG’s changelog confirms its monitor app installs bloatware on Windows 11, exposing Microsoft’s long-standing problem.

Windows 11 bloat proves too much for Microsoft's new 8GB Surface Laptop.

Wreckage of Pan Am plane found 74 years after it crashed off Puerto Rico.

An alternative way of calculating the homeownership rate tells us how many individuals own their homes—something the most commonly used metric fails to track.

Digital Fascism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.

Philosophy of Artificial Minds.

The lonely road to Europe's Arctic edge.

Flock Safety Credibility Lost as it Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police Departments, and Public Across the Country.

The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism.

Uncleftish beholding.

The Slow Death of the Global Commons. Hormuz is a sign of worse things to come. Again, you’re all gonna miss Pax Americana when it’s gone (even if we in part kill it ourselves).

Europe Is Back in 1952.

How America’s newspapers lost their voice.

Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed.

Photos: 50 Years Since Viking 1 Landed on Mars.

The minimum wage is now the lowest it’s been in 70 years—making the federal wage floor ‘officially a poverty wage,’ report finds.

Student loan defaults hit record $233 billion with 1 in 5 borrowers over 9 months behind.

US Corporate Insiders Are Selling Stocks at a Near Record Pace.

Fuel for the 2nd Wave of Inflation: Import Prices of Manufactured Goods, Driven by Computers & Electronic Products.

Boomers Were Supposed to Downsize. They Are Buying Bigger Homes Instead.

Trump Just Made It Easier For Your ISP To Rip You Off With Bogus Fees.

Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse.

FAA lets Boeing sign off on 737 Max, 787 airworthiness certificates again.

LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without user consent.

The Sea Denial Trap: Why the Age of Unrestricted Sea Power Is Ending.

Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise.

Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers.

I analyzed 30 days of traffic hitting my homelab reverse proxy. 1.16 million requests were attacks. Here's what they're actually looking for.

India’s first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch.

Bill Levitt Anticipated Today’s Mismatch Between Job Opportunities and Affordable Housing.

Inside the Race to Electrify Semitrailers for Long-Haul Freight.

How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in.

11,700 Free Photos from John Margolies’ Archive of Americana Architecture.

The largest probabilistic machine.

The Resonant Computing Manifesto.

San Francisco has seen wealth tsunamis before. The AI boom is different.

America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows — the worst in the OECD.

Legibility of Effort.

U.S. grocery slowdown deepens as shoppers buy fewer items, raising pressure on food companies.

The massive boomer wealth transfer will mostly benefit the already affluent, Visa report finds.

TSMC to invest additional $100 billion in Arizona after second-quarter profit soars 77%.

The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science.

Europe Has to Take on China to Save Free Trade.

It's as simple as: China wants to win, and is more concerned by beating the US than by any AI safety debate.

My Former Colleagues Are Destroying the Democratic Party.

Dangerous wildfire smoke continues to blanket parts of the U.S.

Trump wants to politicize $1 trillion in grants. This time, scientists aren’t the only ones fighting back.

The Lost Joy of Music Piracy.

Over 1,600 energy department webpages on utility bill savings removed as US temperatures soar.

Ukraine Isn’t Waiting Around for Patriots.

BlackRock Hits $15.3 Trillion and Profits Soar on Higher Fees.

Two Million Workers Are Locked Out of an Improving Job Market.

New York’s Data Center Self-Sabotage.

AI Has Supercharged the Wealth Effect, Just Ask the Micron Millionaires.

Please Stop Making Me Opt Out of AI.

How Many J-20 Mighty Dragon Fighters Does China Actually Have?

On the scene of the big wildfire near Paris as Europe faces deadly climate effects.

Profits, Payouts and Equity Prices.

Period tracker Stardust shares users’ health data with analytics firm, says Mozilla research.

Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds.

Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback.

In search of life beyond our solar system: Atmosphere detected on a habitable-zone rocky world.