The Baffling Intelligence of a Single Cell.

AI Is a Tool. Using It Well Takes Skill.

Thinking will become a hobby.

Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI.

US bill threatens to turn your VPN into a piracy blocklist.

Astronomers Spot Possible Signs of Antimatter Disappearing Beyond Our Galaxy.

Kroger Plans to Slash 37% of Corporate Jobs in Next Three Years.

Americans earning $100K are still struggling. This breakdown offers clues as to why.

It's taking longer to find a new job after losing one.

PAC-3 Edge Will Be The Most Capable Patriot Interceptor Ever.

This Is Our First Look At The Wolf Armored Fighting Vehicle That Aims To Replace The Bradley.

Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin.

Make Big Brother Bad for Big Business.

A Millennial Furniture Designer Is Behind the Drones Battering Russia.

Everybody who bought an Airbnb in 2021 is trying to sell it to me.

Russia steps up bid to kill European defence chiefs, spy agencies warn.

What ice cream has to do with this year's Nobel Prize in economics.

A New Era of Investment for the Defense Sector.

America’s Submarine Production Is Stuck in the Past.

How Climate Change Is Causing ‘the Gentrification of Seafood’.

What’s Dragging Down A.I. Efficiency? The ‘Verification Tax.’.

Algiers corsairs and other Barbary pirates raided Iceland in July 1627—an event known in Icelandic as the Tyrkjaránið (Turkish Abductions)—killing 51 people and capturing approximately 400 men, women, and children to sell in North African slave markets.

AI Could Affect 4 in 10 Jobs Worldwide, IMF Chief Warns: ‘Slow-Moving Tsunami’.

The fox in liberalism’s henhouse.

Mortmain Migration.

The Paris Auto Show is full of interesting cars Americans can’t have.

Phones impede learning: Evidence from a massive phone-free classroom experiment. What now, idiot smartphone addicts?

Fingerprints are the new cookies.

Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis.

Every Country Has Its Own Internet Now.

Amazon has over 1 million robot workers. What’s next for human employees?

The Gulf has entered a new era of instability. If its leaders think they can rely on old alliances, they are wrong.

Fixated on AI, the world has forgotten what is staring it in the face: nuclear annihilation.

How American Retirees on Different Incomes Rely on Social Security.

Three (or Maybe Four) Ways of Thinking AI Philosophically.

Wieland’s case is an extreme example of a new reality in the U.K.: Disability payouts are no longer just for those most in need; they have become a financial crutch for a large swath of the population as wages stagnate and prices rise.

Lunar Mission Will Explore Old Lava Tubes as Potential Habitats.

Women believe that their attraction, or lack of it, to a man is a deep and insightful measure of his essential quality and character, rather than just an accidental combination of circumstances, viewpoint, and alignment with the social matrix.

First Look At Hypersonic Boost-Glide Vehicle Just Tested By South Korea.

What America’s naval power bought the world.

Two cheers for Anduril’s submarine-building project.

ATS hell just got upgraded! Welcome to "applicant fraud detection" that you have no insight to!

How Ukraine uses precision drone strikes to hobble Russian oil refineries.

The perplexing case of a CIA officer who duped his fellow spies.

The Race to Defeat Russia’s Jet Drones.

The Nordic Formula for Prospering in a Dangerous, Fragmented World.

I’m Still Convinced the iPod Was the Perfect Gadget. Indeed. Infinitely superior to a smartphone.

Ukraine Has Dealt a Big Blow to Russia’s AI and Cloud Infrastructure.

Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them. Exactly.

Minimally and highly processed meals nutritionally matched on calories, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, water, salt, and weight produced distinct metabolic responses.

Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape.

Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days.

The Great Bifurcation.

Hunger grips a rural community hit by Trump’s cuts.

The interview round is just a search for excuses.

The thing you need to understand is that on the progressive left, racism has an entirely different definition to the one you were brought up with.

The more Putin escalates his attacks on Europe, the more Europe should support Ukraine.

California has tech. NY has finance. But apart from these flagship industries everything else is in these states is decaying and entropic.

Vegetables half as nutritious as they were in the 1960s.

I Would Like the Value of My Home to Rise, While My Property Taxes Fall.

How strong is the strong interaction?

The C-17A Globemaster III is an extraordinarily capable strategic transport aircraft.

Germany's demise is self-inflicted and will one day be studied as the largest self-sabotage of a developed country.

‘Complete devastation’—How NSF gutted its social sciences research.

Europe’s Tough Choices to Avert a Gas Supply Crunch This Winter.

In 1948, the German philosopher Josef Pieper warned of a world of "total work," in which life is subsumed in labor and the capacity to enjoy genuine leisure goes into full retreat. That is where we stand today, and it did not happen overnight.

Is Fine Dining Dead? That’s the Wrong Question.

Poor enshittified souls.

You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner.

For Walmart, Replacing Humans With Robots Is a Multibillion-Dollar Struggle.

EU countries brace for €100B-€200B smaller budget.

A Student Found a New Giant Isopod That Had Been Mislabeled for Decades.

15,000 VHS Tapes and Counting: Meet the Guys Preserving the Weirdest Parts of the Analog Era.

Long live the mechanical keyboard.

Remote Employee Fired After Refusing To Be Photographed by an AI Tool Every Three Minutes, Lawsuit Claims.

The Failure of the Pandemic Novel.

I’m Exhausted. You’re Demoralized. We Weren’t Built for a World Like This.

In reality, constant failure is what success looks like.

Columbus’ own writings reveal how tightly religion and conquest were intertwined from the start.

$234 Billion In Student Loans Are Now In Default, And Things Are About To Get Worse.

Inflation on many everyday items was entirely due to tariffs, NY Fed says.

Could NASA’s SR-71 Blackbird Be Modified To Reach Mach 4?

Glaring Lack Of Investment In Aircraft Shelters Highlighted By B-1B’s Sudden Retreat From U.K. Airbase.

SoCal’s famed coastal railroad may have to move to survive rising seas. How could it happen?

Why people don’t want to have children any more.

People who favor group-based inequality tend to have less gray matter in an empathy-linked brain region.

An experimental drug kills fat cells, rather than shrinking them.

Discussing Operation Vivaldi.

The Real Danger May Be AI as Dumb as Us.

Rare traces of wooden tools reveal Neanderthals were skilled woodworkers.

‘It could knock a whole street down’: the art of defusing a second world war bomb.

Utah will become first state to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without direct human oversight.

Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is vastly overestimated, global analysis finds.

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Re-Spikes to 12.2%, Far Worse than Financial Crisis Peak. End of Extend-and-Pretend Looms.

China Doesn’t Need to Invade Taiwan to Control It.

Poll: US boomers support tax hikes on young workers to keep current Social Security checks — the view is overwhelming.

I am more concerned about the gradual decay of our institutions, world order, and liberalism than I am about AI killing everyone.

Modern Architecture Has a Beauty Problem.

If you think Germany’s bad situation cannot get much worse, look at the polls.

'Quiet firing' linked to higher levels of 'quiet quitting' among employees.

Mars' oddest cloud may be even odder than previously thought.

How the AI boom could worsen the rich world’s fiscal crunch.

Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants?

Americans Are Losing The Long Game. How the United States abandoned the future.

Libi Cohen-Meguri, a 22-year-old infantry officer, went to the Nova music festival. She was shot while fleeing the party. At 8:11 a.m., she called her parents and said: “I’ve been shot in the stomach, I’ve been shot in the arm, I’m losing blood. I’m going to die. What a woman, and what a loss for all humanity (except Islamists, fuck them).

400 Tech Workers Face Job Losses as AI Takes Over Coding and Other Work at Norway’s Biggest Bank. Was told this is not happening. But I work in the industry. It’s fucking happening.

France’s Appetite for ‘Magic Money’ Has Turned Into a Debt Bomb.

The P-3 Orion Airborne Early Warning Aircraft Has Flown Its Last Mission.

Northrop Grumman’s Talon Blue Collaborative Combat Aircraft Has Flown.

California’s oligarch tax would change America.

Putin’s nuclear threats no longer work.

How the booming US healthcare economy is penalising patients.

An Architecture of Ignorance. How the Trump regime is taking away our ability to know what’s going on.

As the Russian invasion threat grows, Baltic countries gear up for a fight.

Microsoft’s MacBook Pro Rival Is Looking Even More Ridiculous.

EU quietly braces for nightmare scenario of multiple-casualty hybrid attack.

Former German spy chief arrested for treason and espionage.

U.S. manufacturers say inflation is bad and not getting any better.

Russia’s new drive to crush Ukraine.

Your problems probably aren’t special and therefore your solutions probably aren’t either.

Tiny ancient black holes may live in a five-dimensional world.

I’ve been unemployed for four years. But I do have an important job – to act as a warning to others.

First-ever evidence of a second-generation planet detected around dead star.

MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you’ve never heard of.

Gen Z Is Holding Out for Sub-5% Mortgages. It’s In for a Rude Awakening.

The Surge in Rates Is Blowing Up Commercial Real-Estate Deals.

The End of College as We Know It.

High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days.

The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton.

Truckers Are Using Every Trick They Can to Survive Soaring Diesel Prices.

Yes, women have responsibility too.

Where Are the Jobs? Winners and Losers by Industry.

We’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything.

Florida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious owner.

The most frustrating part about modern discourse is that it appears to be a conflict of values, but it's mostly a conflict of information.

Multiple Security Failures Allowed FlyDubai Pilot Into Cockpit.

Spending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses to Budget.

Butterflies use optical illusions to dodge predators.

Why Nobody Can End the War in Ukraine.

The 2008 economic crisis changed the US’s relationship with energy.

US jobs market sees sharp slowdown ahead of midterm elections.

Contest-Winning Microscope Video Is Full of AI Confabulations, Scientists Say.

European Commission Staff Really Dislike Their ‘Sovereign’ Alternative to Microsoft Teams: Report.

A police search using Flock was a form of ‘mass surveillance,’ judge rules.

Americans feel worse about the economy than during the pandemic.

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth. Some people do choose the tardbiscuit path readily.

Tax cuts, handouts and blind hope: Europe finds few tools to fight a coming energy crunch.

Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life.

Hospital AI billing tools added $942 million in costs for Blue Cross insurers.

Why the Bronze Age collapsed.

The Cockpit Stabbing and Terrifying Nosedive That Brought Chaos to FlyDubai Flight 1073.

Europe’s Luxury Carmakers Are Supersizing Their SUVs for Americans. Ugh.

The Anti-AI mob lost its mind again— and Goodreads is helping it punish authors.

Did you know airports used to be fun? Almost like shopping malls. Flying was exciting and straightfforward. It was; a vanished, better world.

To keep drug prices high, pharma has been piling up the patents.

This study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your data.

The US state replacing power plants with home batteries.

AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class.

The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like.

1 In 8 cancer cases worldwide is caused by infections, study suggests.

Turnover in the Labor Market Calms Down, after Chaotic Churn.

How The Barcode Was Invented.

Artificial Education.

Putin is testing NATO on Norway’s remote Arctic islands.

One through line in a lot of topics I talk about is that they involve infrequent, but not rare risks. I’m frustrated by the way in which the discourse around these kinds of risks develops.

Workers Are Spending An Astonishing Amount of Their Own Money On AI for Their Jobs.

AI hyperscalers are transforming debt.

Soaring bond yields ‘not even close’ to cooling red-hot US economy, investors say.

California’s plan to save coastal homes from El Niño could end up killing beaches.

From $6 eggs to $50,000 cars, these charts show how inflation has defined the past 5 years.

Freight Costs Soar as Rhine Drops Below Shipping Threshold.

Job Titles Are Out. Now We’re All ‘Members of the Technical Staff.’.

AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It.

Automakers Would Rather Quit California Entirely Than Turn Off Their Snooping Tech.

Many surgical interventions are little better than placebo.

AI Has Already Killed Academia as we Know it.

Sentient Object Romance. Yes, you read that right.

Mark Cuban says $27K-a-year healthcare costs will kill more jobs than AI — and backs a bill to break up big insurers.

Every Household in This Rural Town Receives $10,000 if a Data Center Gets Built.

How America’s Biggest Buffet Chain Cracked the Math of All You Can Eat.

The Death of Expertise At a Devasting Cost to the U.S.

Why High Bond Yields Look Like the New Normal.

6 Russian Words for a Country Sliding Into Authoritarianism. Sliding into?

In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life.

The Great Crime Decline Is Happening All Across the Country.

Here's what happens to your old computer parts you donate to Goodwill.

Black hole jets reach far beyond galaxies' visible edges, potentially deciding their fate.