2026 Likely to be the year 'jobless boom' begins, says godfather of AI.

In 2025, Investors Bought 33% of Single‑Family Homes; That’s a Five‑Year High.

AI forecast to put 200,000 European banking jobs at risk by 2030.

AI Ruined Job Applications, So People Are Resorting to Dating Apps to Find Work.

China’s Military Is Planning for Combat in Latin America.

The Japanese and Their Language: How the Japanese Made Their Language and It Made Them.

Biological roots of PTSD differ strikingly between men and women.

DOGE Gutted The Social Security Administration With 7,000 Job Cuts. Now They Can’t Keep Up With 6 Million Pending Cases. The plutes have always despised Social Security.

USPS changes may delay postmark dates. What it means for your tax returns, ballots, bills and more.

Ultracold atoms observed climbing a quantum staircase.

Age discrimination is real and people who think that companies can't discriminate against aging are delusional.

Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless.

Earth-Like Planets Are More Common Than We Thought, Study Says.

New report sounds alarm on health fallout from mRNA vaccine funding cuts.

The Great Big Power Play.

Higher inflation means higher relative price dispersion and therefore higher risk for nearly all consumers.

The Stealth Tactic Bosses Are Using to Get You Back to the Office. Nope, not gonna work on me.

The Age of Nuclear-Powered Commercial Ships May Be Getting Closer.

See How a Chinese Attack on Taiwan Would Be Japan’s Problem.

Inventing a Nonexistent Famine Should Be a Credibility Killer.

What an unprocessed photo looks like. There is no “how something really looked.”

As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise.

This week has seen the announcement by the Trump Administration that they are going to be building “battleships”, a subject that is well within my beat, so I figured I would take the time to start by saying that these are nothing of the sort.

62 Years in the making: NYC’s newest water tunnel nears the finish line.

COVID Vaccines Slashed Kids’ ER Visits by 76 Percent, Study Finds.

China launches live-fire drills around Taiwan simulating blockade of major ports.

Description of Orbits and Ephemerides.

Report Warns Millions of Americans Are ‘Functionally Unemployed’.

Goodbye to solar panels: Japan finally creates solar cells that don’t need to be flat to work – A Milestone tried since 1883.

Luxury goods were once built to last. Now, some fall apart as easily as fast fashion.

“Believe all woman.”

BlueBird 6: World’s largest commercial comms satellite launched by Starlink rival.

Science Funding Goes Beyond the Universities.

How We Lost Communication to Entertainment.

Russia-China gas pipeline deal stalls over Beijing’s price demands.

Ukraine Says Chinese Satellites May Be Aiding Russian Attacks.

Chinese Cargo Ship Packed Full Of Modular Missile Launchers Emerges.

India Is on a Himalayan Building Spree to Prepare for a Clash With China.

Why Europe should resist the Second China Shock.

Trump admin accused of fudging figures on faltering economy.

For Ukrainians, a nuclear missile museum is a bitter reminder of what the country gave up.

More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds. It’s getting hard to avoid them on there now.

The Unreality of Time.

Did you really think that Amazon was not listening to you before that? Did you really buy an Alexa trusting Amazon to "protect your privacy"?

The political weaponisation of sleep.

The Ghosts of Africa. Africa had its own Neanderthals.

CloudFlare is ruining the internet (for me).

Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Worked — They Liberated Americans From Their Jobs.

$400,000 Worth of lobster stolen en route to Costco stores, shipper says.

What happened was, a faucet started dripping. And then I managed to route around the malignant machineries of late-stage capitalism.

Japan's Cabinet OKs record defense budget that aims to deter China.

Stop buying Raspberry Pis: Why a cheap used mini PC is the better choice.

5 Reasons Why I Hate the New WordPress Editor Gutenberg.

People hate Gutenberg, at least people who want to just write, and that’s most WordPress users.

Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy.

Weight-loss pill approval set to accelerate food industry product overhauls.

The Bumpy Snailfish (Careproctus colliculi) is the newest (and cutest) addition to the Snailfish family. Discovered in the depths of Monterey Canyon at 3,268 meters (10,722 feet) by MBARI's underwater robot.

En Israël, les survivants du festival Tribe of Nova seuls face à leur traumatisme.

Face à la multiplication des événements impensables, il faut mieux écouter ce qu’on ne veut pas entendre.

Nuclear submarine arms race heats up between North and South Korea.

The latest government inflation and GDP figures are worthless, and will be for months to come.

The Penicillin Myth. Competing theories seek to explain inconsistencies surrounding Alexander Fleming’s famed discovery.

Modern WordPress – Yikes!

The Holiday Inn Holidome. I remember these.

The shadow Russia casts over Europe has forced it to face the truth: the risk of war is once again real.

Gutenberg sucks. New site look, thanks to the asshats at WordPress.

Plastic Chair in Wood by Maarten Baas.

Warren Buffett and Private Equity Both Love Insurance. The Similarities End There.

The Renaissance book that heralded growth.

The Gloves Are Off in the Fight for Your Right to Repair.

The Age of the All-Access AI Agent Is Here. Big AI companies courted controversy by scraping wide swaths of the public internet. With the rise of AI agents, the next data grab is far more private.

The Hidden Risks of America’s Most Popular Prescription Painkiller.

Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors.

Governments in the West Are Turning Their Sights on VPNs As They Escalate Their Assault on Online Privacy and Anonymity. I knew that was going to happen.

I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off this setting.

Manufactured Inevitability and the Need for Courage.

China’s Sprint for Tech Dominance Can’t Hide an Economy Full of Holes.

Returning Russian POWs Pay Heavy Price for Choosing Surrender Over Death.

Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban.

Amazon blocks 1,800 job applications from suspected North Korean agents.

New EV battery recycling process recovers 99% pure nickel and cobalt.

AI overestimates how smart people are, according to economists.

In the snow, these salamanders get supercool.

How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?

Is the Dictionary Done For?

The RAM shortage is here to stay, raising prices on PCs and phones.

Australia Poised for Desalination Boom as Water Shortages Loom.

Why California’s milk cartons may lose their coveted recycling symbol.

FDA Approves Pill Version of Wegovy.

Flying Taxis? China Has Them. And Drone Lunch Deliveries, Too. Was told all this was “nerd fantasy.” No? LOL.

The chaotic 'Dracula's Chivito': Hubble reveals largest birthplace of planets ever observed.

Raindrops form 'sandballs' as they roll downhill, contributing more to erosion than previously thought.

NASA’s Webb Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation.

Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere.

Autoland Saves King Air, Everyone Reported Safe.

Indoor Tanning Makes Youthful Skin Much Older on a Genetic Level.

Evolution by natural induction.

Public opinion surveys across Western countries consistently show that majorities prefer lower immigration levels. Yet, academic studies on immigration—particularly for welfare states and social cohesion—often report neutral or positive effects, downplaying public concerns.

Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years.

Hospitals Cater to ‘Transplant Tourists’ as U.S. Patients Wait for Organs.

Japan prepares to restart world's biggest nuclear plant, 15 years after Fukushima.

How Trump broke California’s grip on the auto market.

Trump Halts Five Wind Farms Off the East Coast. Beyond moronic. China has already won due to shit like this.

The Media’s Take on Trump’s Economy Doesn’t Match What Many Americans Feel.

The Role of Doctors Is Changing Forever.

Tech Disrupted Friendship. It’s Time to Bring It Back.

The high-tech tools used to track down Nick Reiner after his parents’ slayings.

Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising carbon dioxide. Time to eat a lot more meat.

Generation Z is becoming less invested in university and more interested in skilled trades.

Retreating from EVs could be hazardous for Western carmakers. Completely moronic.

U.S. Oil Blockade of Venezuela Pushes Cuba Toward Collapse.

The year Trump broke the federal government.

Is Cognitive Dissonance Actually a Thing? A foundational 1956 study of the concept, focussed on a U.F.O. doomsday cult, has been all but debunked by new research.

AI hiring is here. It’s making companies — and job seekers — miserable.

Strikes on Islamic State Pound a Foe the U.S. Once Thought Defeated.

Wall Street Ruined the Roomba and Then Blamed Lina Khan.

How the Phone Ban Saved High School. It really is the phones.

Last US cents sell for $16.7 million.

Russia’s economy is struggling. But that won’t bring Putin to the negotiating table for years.

How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade.

The Way Things Are Is Not the Way They Have to Be. Award-winning journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata shows that ‘Another World Is Possible’.

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers.

Flock and Cyble Inc. Weaponize "Cybercrime" Takedowns to Silence Critics.

Backing up Spotify.

Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch.

The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range.

Today’s Doctored CPI Inflation Release is like a Bad Joke, but Very Serious (though it Suits the Administration’s Narrative).

Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment.

Boeing Taps Anduril in Bid For Army’s Cruise Missile Interceptor.

Jobs Could Soon Replace Prices as Focus of Anxiety. Already have.

Welcome to the age of zero-sum politics.

Japan needs to possess nuclear weapons: PM office source. Indeed.

3D-printed helixes show promise as THz optical materials.

Sony Buys Snoopy.

The U.S. Is Stealing From Millennials and Gen Z To Make Boomers Even Richer.

LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems.

The inside story of SpaceX’s historic rocket landing that changed launch forever.

Amazon darf Kunden auf Prime Video nicht zu Werbung zwingen.

Gut Bacteria from Amphibians and Reptiles Achieve Complete Tumor Elimination.

Personal computing is moving to a “renter” model. We need to get ahead of this and stop it before it’s too late. They’ve been trying this for years. Now finally succeeding.

This was a wild experience and a new scam tactic I hadn’t seen before.

Make me CEO of Mozilla. I too would do a better job.

Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons. Now it’s asking why.

We may never be able to tell if AI becomes conscious, argues philosopher.

China’s High-Flying Swarm Mothership Drone Has Flown.

Gen Z would rather cut Social Security benefits for current retirees than pay higher taxes to save the program. Nice bit of foot-shooting there.

The World Failed Holocaust Survivors at Bondi Beach.

Higher intake of high-fat cheese and high-fat cream was associated with a lower risk of all-cause dementia, whereas low-fat cheese, low-fat cream, and other dairy products showed no significant association.

US prices continued to rise despite Trump claims they are ‘rapidly’ falling.

US announces more than $10bn of arms sales to Taiwan. Good.

Every hundred South Koreans today will have only six great-grandchildren between them. The rest of the world can learn from Korea’s catastrophe to avoid the same fate.

These are all the vehicles destined for extinction in 2026. So few sedans left, which I vastly prefer to SUVs.

How getting richer made teenagers less free. We value children more than ever. But we're suffocating them.

Mamdani and the Future of the Left.

The Entry-Level Hiring Process Is Breaking Down.

The Longest Suicide Note in American History. The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.

No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter.

40 Percent of MRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity.

Meet the biggest heat pumps in the world.

Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible.

Americans Are Turning Hard Against Trumpism.

Ghost jobs, robot gatekeepers and AI interviewers: let me tell you about the bleak new age of job hunting.

Why it’s time to reset our expectations for AI.

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado. Utterly fucking moronic.

The $4.3 billion space telescope Trump tried to cancel is now complete. Sweet. Idiots don’t can everything at least.

Thermopolium.

Personnel Is Policy: The Fabric of Government Organization.

Europe is shifting to a war footing.

What Is an American?