The Feds Are Coming for John Deere Over the Right to Repair. Good.

Team develops promising new form of antibiotic that makes bacterial cells self-destruct.

This list is for physicians who are willing to perform a tubal ligation on patients ages 21+, no matter their marital status or number of children.

The American Who Waged a Tech War on China.

The Individual In Contemporary Society.

How to Prep Hospitals for a Shooting War.

Public Intellectuals Have Short Shelf Livesโ€”But Why?

Leaked documents show US intelligence on Israelโ€™s plans to attack Iran, sources say.

End of an era for Kmart in the US.

We watched 20 Trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker. A POLITICO analysis of more than 20 of his rallies and campaign events shows Trump has demonized minority groups in all of them.

The Supreme Court May Use Dobbs to Take Down Trans Rightsโ€”and Beyond.

Make electric vehicles lighter to maximize climate and safety benefits.

Yahya Sinwar Finally Got What He Deserved.

Before Hurricane Helene, had you stopped by one of the many breweries, art galleries, or award-winning restaurants in Asheville, North Carolina, and spoken with anyone who lives in these parts โ€” including me โ€” most would have told you they felt pretty safe from climate disasters.

Generated images have become a new form of propaganda this election season.

US suspects TSMC helped Huawei skirt export controls, report says.

According to Yonhap news agency, North Korea has sent 12,000 troops, including special forces, to support Russiaโ€™s war in Ukraine, per their source in South Koreaโ€™s Intelligence. This aligns with an earlier statement from Ukraine’s military intelligence (GUR).

Meet the Chinese โ€˜Typhoonโ€™ hackers preparing for war.

The Proximity To Genius Effect.

LA woman is being dropped by her home insurer over an oak tree in her yard โ€” the city says itโ€™s protected and canโ€™t be removed or damaged. Now sheโ€™s stuck, may never be able to sell her home. Cash buyer doesn’t require home insurance.

Beamter.

Home-Purchase Demand Destruction Accelerates, Prices Too High, Buyersโ€™ Strike Deepens: Sales of Existing Homes Head for Worst Year since 1995.

Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents.

Diabetes Breakthrough: New Treatment Eliminates Insulin for 86% of Patients.

Salt Typhoon Hack Shows There’s No Security Backdoor That’s Only For The “Good Guys.”

Kids are sucking down baby food pouches at record rates. โ€˜Weโ€™re going to pay for it,โ€™ experts say. What the actual fuck.

The October Surprise May Be Arriving Shortly.

Astronomers detect ancient lonely quasars with murky origins. Look at it, just skulking around out there.

Let Google Decide. When โ€œpersonhoodโ€ is decided by the Big Five.

Federal Trade Commission Announces Final โ€œClick-to-Cancelโ€ Rule Making It Easier for Consumers to End Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships.

Irelandโ€™s big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives.

Accountability sinks.

Storm forecasts have never been more accurate. Meteorologists say they’ve never faced so much pushback.

How Hurricanes Are a Profit Center for Insurers.

CVS and Walgreens are ailing. Hereโ€™s why.

Insurance ‘nightmare’ unfolds for Florida homeowners after back-to-back hurricanes.

How Everyone Got Lost in Netflixโ€™s Endless Library.

The GOP assault on election integrity has already begun.

Scale of Chinese Spying Overwhelms Western Governments.

Mystery Drones Swarmed a U.S. Military Base for 17 Days. The Pentagon Is Stumped. Chinese, guaranteed.

How Climate Disasters Are Making Mobile Homes a Huge Risk.

The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology.

Filtered for time and false memory.

The Little-Known Factor Driving up Housing Costs: Dirty Money.

Young menโ€™s economic prospects are shifting, along with their politics.

Even a Single Bacterial Cell Can Sense the Seasons Changing.

Should we be thinking about luck differently?

AI Is Threatening the Social Safety Net.

Mossadโ€™s pager operation: Inside Israelโ€™s penetration of Hezbollah.

Russiaโ€™s First Secret Influence Campaign: Convincing the U.S. to Buy Alaska.

Americaโ€™s hurricane crises should not be a surprise. The human and financial repercussions are a wake-up call about the realities of climate change.

Climate change boosted Miltonโ€™s landfall strength from Category 2 to 3.

Counter-Drone Stryker Armored Vehicle Armed With Lasers, Rockets, Guns Unveiled.

The Hunt for Life on Europa Is About to Kick Up a Gear.

Inside the Nasty Rivalry Rocking the World of Private Jets.

They Came to Florida for a Slice of Paradise. Now They Are Packing Their Bags.

Four Ways Ukraineโ€™s Drone Innovations Are Changing Warfare.

Against steelmanning.

Inflation is trending down. Try telling that to the housing market.

How a break-up of Google could transform tech.

Working From Home Is Powering Productivity.

Jupiterโ€™s Great Red Spot Moves Like the Solar Systemโ€™s Biggest Kickball.

Whatโ€™s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis.

America Is Lying to Itself About the Cost of Disasters.

Deebot Robot Vacuums Are Using Photos and Audio to Train Their AI.

Why Hurricane Milton Is a Sign of the New Abnormal.

Your Scary 2024 Election Risk Recap.

Terrifying โ€˜Human Safariโ€™ In Kherson As Russian Drones Hunt Civilians.

British Airways to axe hundreds of flights over shortage of planes.

Dietary restriction impacts health and lifespan of genetically diverse mice.

On the Nature of Time.

This is what a 15 foot hurricane storm surge looks like.

How astronauts wash their hair in space. I wish my hair would stand up like that all the time.

In a rare disclosure, the Pentagon provides an update on the X-37B spaceplane.

Big Dreams Built on Higher Education Sour Worldwide for Jobless Graduates.

The โ€˜Beautiful Confusionโ€™ of the First Billion Years Comes Into View.

After software eats the world, what comes out the other end?

Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants.

As houses would float by, with people trapped on the roof or an upper story, he would work to get them to shore. Sometimes he couldnโ€™t get to them. Sometimes they were already dead.

Timeline of the far future.

Ryugu sample analyses show asteroids may have delivered compounds needed to start life on Earth.

In landmark move, EPA requires removal of all U.S. lead pipes in a decade.

New archaeology tools unearth lost cities and other ancient marvels.

As Russia Overtly Helps Trump Get Elected, Trump Continues to Check in with Vladimir Putin.

Climate change has not led to an increase in the total number of hurricanes hitting the U.S. each year. But the storms that do form are more likely to become more intense, with higher wind speeds, heavier rainfall, and more severe storm surge.

The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth.

You can’t deliver on unrealistic expectations shaped by things just magically appearing around someone, and we’re still being told that meeting those pie-in-the-sky demands are somehow achievable if we just work hard enough to keep the smoke-and-mirrors bullshit running. That is life in IT now.

Screen Time Linked to Mental Health Symptoms in Kids.

Wars Are Not Accidents. Managing Risk in the Face of Escalation.

The Right Meets Hurricane Helene With a Storm of Lies.

Healthcare Premiums Are Soaring Even as Inflation Eases, in Charts.

An Illustrated Proof of the CAP Theorem.

Is the attack helicopter dead?

Smart TVs are like โ€œa digital Trojan Horseโ€ in peopleโ€™s homes. Hate those fucking things.

How private intelligence companies became the new spymasters.

Chinese Laser Anti-Drone System Spotted In Iran.

Hurricane Helene isnโ€™t an outlier. Itโ€™s a harbinger of the future.

Some Boston doctors are starting to unravel the mysteries of long COVID and find improved treatments.

Lending money where itโ€™s needed is what the modern form of finance, for the most part, does not do. What modern finance does, for the most part, is gamble.

Baby boomers living longer but are in worse health than previous generations.

Needles in Haystacks: The Lostwave Story.

The Beijing-Moscow Axis Is Much Stronger This Time Around.

AI-Generated Code is Causing Outages and Security Issues in Businesses. The least shocking thing in world history.

China is oversupplying lithium to eliminate rivals, US official says.

MI5 spy chief says Russia and Iran are behind a โ€˜staggeringโ€™ rise in deadly plots.

Google’s AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon.

Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars. As they should.

Greening of Antarctica shows how climate change affects the frozen continent.

Putinโ€™s โ€˜Merchant of Deathโ€™ Is Back in the Arms Business. This Time Selling to the Houthis.

A large new analysis of meta-studies finds that exercise is more beneficial for conditions such as anxiety and depression than standard psychotherapy or medications.

Hurricane Helene could cost $200 billion. Nobody knows where the money will come from. Almost none of the storm’s devastation will be paid out by insurance.

The Great Florida Migration Is Coming Undone.

Ireland is a โ€˜playgroundโ€™ for Russian intelligence, says former army chief.

As affordable housing disappears, states scramble to shore up the losses.

OK, Forget it, False Alarm, Labor Market Is Fine, Bad Stuff Last Month Was Revised Away, Wages Jumped. No More Rate Cuts Needed?

GOP operative gets 1.5 years in prison for facilitating illegal Russian donation to Trump 2016 campaign.

China is already at war with Taiwan and countries across the globe.

How the government can help increase housing supply.

You think you’re ready. You’re not ready.

Are Democrats Even a Little Serious About Stopping Private Equity? No.

When a massive asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, ants began farming fungi.

The True Cost of Losing Your Home in a Hurricane (After Insurance).

Boomers are the wealthiest generation thatโ€™s ever livedโ€”and millennials are the โ€˜biggest losersโ€™ thanks to economic crises.

On the brink: Israel, Iran and the rising threat of regional conflict.

There can be no sustainable peace in Europe without security for Ukraine. Agreed. Because Putin will come for your country next.

J. D. Vance and the Failed Effort to Memory-Hole January 6th.

Why do divorced guys dress like that?

U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack.

Near-shoring is turning eastern Europe into the new China.

How Helene became a โ€˜worst case scenario.โ€™

Mozilla’s massive lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer. Mozilla having a massive lapse in judgment? Not possible!

Truth Social Users Are Losing Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams. Looks like I need to get on that platform. For, uh, reasons.