Experts Explain How Long It Would Take Russia To Resume Nuclear Weapons Detonation Tests.

This is why the people who score well on intelligence tests and win lots of chess games are no happier than the people who flunk the tests and lose at chess: well-defined and poorly defined problems require completely different problem-solving skills.

Brain-IT: Image Reconstruction from fMRI via Brain-Interaction Transformer.

NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again.

Norway reviews cybersecurity after hidden remote-access feature found in Chinese buses.

Layoff announcements surged last month: The worst October in 22 years.

Universe expansion may be slowing, not accelerating, study suggests.

Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (1920).

The Real Reason Socialism is on the Rise.

IBM to Cut Thousands of Workers Amid A.I. Boom.

Google’s new hurricane model was breathtakingly good this season. Meanwhile, the US Global Forecasting System continues to get worse.

The Democratic Tea Party Is Here.

The Gen Z job crisis is real: 1.2 million recent grads in the U.K. competed for just 17,000 open roles. It’s similar in the US.

Loss has become a pervasive condition of life in Europe and America.

America’s first-time homebuyers are disappearing.

IBM’s CEO admits Gen Z’s hiring nightmare is real—but after promising to hire more grads, he’s laying off thousands of workers.

NASA’s Orion Space Capsule Is Flaming Garbage.

AI’s Dial-Up Era.

Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury.

The Case That A.I. Is Thinking.

There should be a guy who every morning rides his bicycle down to the main street and sets up a small glass case of beautiful cakes he has made.

An essential belief of mine is that one should treat pleasure as something of a skill — it can be learned, cultivated, appreciated.

The northern part of the planet is warming four times faster than the rest of the world, and any further changes to the landscape risk kicking off chain reactions that would put more carbon in the atmosphere.

Europe’s Role Reversal: The Problem Economies Are Now Farther North.

Why Companies Are No Longer Hanging On to Employees.

The light of 10 trillion suns: Scientists report the biggest black hole flare ever recorded.

The Democratic Party, as presently constituted, cannot succeed under contemporary circumstances.

Building Segregation: The Long-Run Neighborhood Effects of American Public Housing.

‘Godfather of AI’ says tech giants can’t profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced. Correct.

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making.

Zohran Mamdani, Third-Worldism, and the Algerian Revolution.

Often, it is fear of causing offence that stops liberal-minded people engaging with vast tracts of the world.

The Mirror Problem: A Warning About AI and Your Mind.

Russia seeds chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could game AI the same way.

How the Horse came to be Ridden.

The Alps Are Melting, but the Villagers Will Not Be Moved.

Are Body Weight Exercises Just as Effective as Lifting?

Obamacare enrollee sees premium spike over 300% as sign-up period begins: ‘This will devastate us.’

How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries.

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Hits Record 11.8%, Much Worse than Financial Crisis. Multifamily Delinquencies Soar to 7.1%.

Without Online Trolls, There Would Be No Donald Trump. And without the greatest troll of all time: Barack Obama.

Big Banks Behaving Badly.

Only 28 Out of Every 1,000 U.S. Homes Changed Hands This Year—The Lowest Turnover in Decades.

AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers.

Addiction Markets: Abolish Corporate-Run Gambling.

History’s first public hack.

In Orbit You Have to Slow Down to Speed Up.

Police cameras track billions of license plates per month. Communities are pushing back. More than 5,000 law enforcement departments across the U.S. use interconnected Flock Safety cameras to track residents’ movements.

It’s Time to Retire the Term ‘Toxic Masculinity.’

For Better Public Transit, We Need Better Stories. And fewer young women murdered thereon, and no wild-eyed stabby vagrants.

America’s Grocery Lifeline Is Fraying.

Department was told to pack up to move to a different floor, only to be laid off.

Surging Power Costs Are Putting the Squeeze on Customers.

The Growing Divide in the Rainbow Coalition. More gay people are speaking out against the gender ideology of trans and queer activists.

The Future Of Space Is More Than Human. The time has come to expand our visions of life beyond Earth.

The surprising reason home prices remain stubbornly high.

NASA test flight seeks to help bring commercial supersonic travel back.

Tales from the crypt. The lives of 17th century Milan’s working poor—their health, diet, and drug habits—emerge from thousands of bodies buried under a public hospital.

Texas Adds More Solar Power Because It’s Just Better, That’s All.

Many inventions have not only become obsolete, but their non-existence has made many old TV shows and movies incomprehensible to kids today.

Amazon CEO Says 14,000-Person Layoffs Weren’t Due to AI or Finances: ‘It’s About Culture.’ Yeah, that’s a lie.

AI browsers are here, and they’re already being hacked.

The Army found an M2 .50 caliber machine-gun still shooting perfectly after 90 years of service.

Why Tech Needs Personalization.

Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details.

Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation. Eh, that relies on a ton of unproven assumptions.

As Social Media Restrictions Spread, Is The Internet Entering Its Victorian Era? Already there.

Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy.

ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon.

Free software scares normal people.

How the Earth Invented Sleep.

YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs. Corporate power respects corporate power.

ChatGPT’s Atlas: The Browser That’s Anti-Web.

Powerful and precise multi-color lasers now fit on a single chip.

The Decline of Deviance. Great essay.

An Unsustainable Equilibrium.

Amazon Layoffs 2025: Firm ‘Trading Talent for GPUs’ to Protect AWS Margins, AI Analyst Says.

Language Models are Injective and Hence Invertible.

Why the New Leisure Class Enjoys Activism and Philanthropy.

The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me.

U.S. Signs $80 Billion Nuclear Deal With Westinghouse.

Why Bubbles Can Keep Inflating in Plain Sight.

Lithuania Will Shoot Down Balloons Crossing Border From Belarus After Dozens Detected Overnight. Good.

Why men hate short hair. I love short hair.

The Risk of a Radical Escalation Leading to Actual Conflict Between NATO and Russia Grows.

Great ‘Overnight’ Replacement: The (Federal) Express Decline and Fall of Collierville, TN.

Shutdown’s biggest blow lands in Trump-leaning Alabama — 750,000 lose SNAP, 40% disabled or elderly.

The U.S. Is on Track to Lose a War With China.

The West Needs to Come Together. And kick Putin the fuck out of Ukraine.

Samsung makes ads on $3,499 smart fridges official with upcoming software update. Pure evil.

What Amazon’s 14,000 job cuts say about a new era of corporate downsizing.

You Should Make Good Arguments for YIMBYism, Not Bad Ones.

People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the world’s economy.

Companies Have Shielded Buyers From Tariffs. But Not for Long.

Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says.

AI is driving huge productivity gains for large companies while small companies get left behind. I suspect that is likely true.

‘Make American Shipbuilding Great Again’: Korea leans into shipbuilding as it woos Trump.

America Doesn’t Have Enough Weapons for a Major Conflict. These Workers Know Why. Side note: the US Navy has no battleships. In fact, no navy in the world has used battleships since 1995.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and Zillow say mortgage rates can’t fall enough for Americans to afford a home.

California invests big in battery energy storage — and leaves rolling blackouts behind. That was “impossible” a mere decade ago.

I’m drowning in AI features I never asked for and I absolutely hate it. “You just hate change!”

Alpha-Lipoic Acid and Metformin Combination Therapy Synergistically Activate Nrf2-AMPK Signaling Pathways to Ameliorate Cognitive Dysfunction in Type 2 Diabetic Encephalopathy.

The Great SaaS-Lighting: How IT Users Got Gaslit.

The multi-billion dollar, 15-hour AWS outage that brought the internet to its knees last week was apparently caused by a single software bug.

An American Hunger Crisis Is Coming.

Apollo laser takes down 200 drones unplugged.

Getting Used to 3% Inflation.

The Economy That’s Great for Parents, Lousy for Their Grown-Up Kids.

Clinical trial of a technique that could give everyone the best antibodies.

Using entanglement to test whether gravity is quantum just got more complicated.

Earliest Arrows, Found in Uzbekistan, Were Made by Modern Humans Who Went Extinct.

What it looks like in the world’s data center capital.

Anyone fleeing an Islamic country and choosing to still wear a burqa or hijab when resettled in a Western nation is not fleeing Sharia — they are importing it. They should be deported immediately.

As Putin Digs In, a Long—and Different—War With Ukraine Looms.

Windows XP Turns 24: The Best Version of Windows Ever Made. XP was good, but Windows 7 was the best; all downhill from there.

Introduction to the Concept of Likelihood and Its Applications.

Dinosaurs may have flourished right up to when the asteroid hit.

Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests.

The Great Reckoning of the China Debate.

China’s New Strategy for Trump: Punch Hard, Concede Little.

Microsoft Teams is about to become a lapdog for your boss — automatically snitching on your live location when connected to the office Wi-Fi.

Man takes herbal pain quackery, nearly dies, spends months in hospital.

Common yeast can survive Martian conditions.

The Myth of Outrunning Your Diet.

The Body Keeps the Score is Bullshit.

Tonnetz.

Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes for the first time, as climate warms.

The key to why the universe exists may lie in an 1800s knot idea science once dismissed. Explaining why neutrinos have mass alone would be cool.

This ‘magical’ dinosaur specimen emerged from the ground like a polished jewel. Don’t put it in the Louvre.

Microsoft makes Copilot “human-centered” with a ‘90s-style animated assistant. Oh no. Blobby Clippy.

Welfare cuts are fueling the rise of the far right globally, the UN finds.

How Louvre gang carried out France’s most shocking theft.

Target cuts 1,800 corporate jobs in its first major layoffs in a decade.

Trump faces backlash on economy as inflation rises.

Wells Fargo Agrees To Pay $85M Settlement Over Claims It Hosted Fake Job Interviews To Hit Diversity Goals.