Long-Term Treasury Yields Rise to 5.5%, Mortgage Rates to 7.5%, as Bond Market Grapples with a Complex Reality.

Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?

How Virus-like ‘Jumping Genes’ Became Our Partners in Evolution.

The sensory environment may be a neglected social determinant of mental health.

Why No One Wants to Date Tech Bros.

Portland Real Estate Is Such a Mess That All Housing Is Affordable Housing.

Great News from Saturn’s Moon Enceladus in the Search for Life in Space.

From Holy Water to Frozen Meals: The Evolution of Vending Machines.

She lost $600,000 in a pig-butchering scam. Then came the tax bill.

NATO’s top commander pushes more intelligence sharing on hybrid attacks.

Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park.

Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline.

Is A.I. Above the Law? Our legal system isn’t ready for machines that act on their own.

Faint young stars reveal spiral galaxy Messier 74 may be twice as large as thought.

Central surface density of dark matter agrees with the prediction of a new theory of gravity.

The Robust U.S. Economy Powers Through Rate Hikes and Rising Bond Yields.

Sorry Microsoft. Windows 10 is more stable than Windows 11, and your recent updates have made it obvious.

Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them.

Airline Credit Cards Are Screwing Up the Whole Industry.

Mortgage Rates at 7% Are Forcing Home Sellers to Slash Prices.

It's getting harder to afford rent in the U.S., even for middle-income families.

US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70%.

I had not realised before that the Bronze Age Collapse was literally *caused* by iron.

Amazon is trying to rehire workers it laid off, emails show.

Perdurantism.

The world wants to secure AI. It may have to try without the US.

The Toyota Corolla Is Reportedly Going Electric.

Bond Bloodbath: 10-Year Treasury Yield Spikes 13 Basis Points to 5.10% after Hot PMIs with Inflation Written All Over.

What the Infamous “Housing Shortage” Looks Like: Inventories of New Single-Family Homes Balloon, Sales Crawl, Prices Sag.

Why is the human body so crap except for the liver?

California Is Chasing Wealth That Has Feet.

Geothermal Heat Map of US Hot Springs.

‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us.

RAM: the forgotten history.

The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin.

Astronomers detect radio signals coming from an exoplanet for the first time.

Tiny beach-dwelling crustaceans are big-time sand movers, shaping the California coast.

Acer CEO says memory makers are hyping 2030 shortage fears to protect margins.

Big Banks Say They’re Uneasy About People Shopping via AI Agents.

$6.53 Diesel US Average, $8.25 in California, Worsens Already Hot Inflation, amid Record US Diesel Exports. Gasoline & Jet Fuel Prices also Spike.

Ray cat.

America gave up its rare earth edge. China took full advantage.

Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits.

‘Taxes aren’t really high enough for them to be sensitive’: the fears of the wealthy fleeing New York and California were just that.

Taiwan’s Status Is Ambiguous. U.S. Policy Shouldn’t Be.

Tech, Science, Social Media Jobs in San Francisco & Silicon Valley Plunge to 2019 Level: AI Magic-Money Boom Is Paper Thin.

The Metric Is Not The Mission: History Rarely Announces Itself.

All roads lead to cable. In their fight to win the war for our attention, streamers are re-creating cable from first principles. Ugh. Piracy is the only answer.

Effective Altruism is evil.

Trump Officials Eject 750,000 From Obamacare Markets, Claiming Fraud.

The Climate May Have Some Surprises in Store.

New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money.

Cities across US oppose Trump FCC plan to preempt local broadband rules.

Data-Only Attacks Are Easier than You Think.

How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

‘I wish Apple would just stop that crap': Apple has added persistent ‘ads’ to iOS, and it’s driving users crazy. Less reason to use Apple. Evil.

The data center backlash is reshaping American politics — one community at a time.

Apartment Landlords Have a $2 Trillion Debt Problem That Is Only Getting Worse.

Mars’s Ancient Clay Holds the Same Organic Molecules That May Have Sparked Life on Earth.

Spymarks, not Watermarks.

Transformer Explainer: LLM Transformer Model Visually Explained.

Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac.

People Hooked on Vapes Try a New Way to Quit: Cigarettes. Uh, what?

Here’s What California Is Learning From Solar Panels Built Over Irrigation Canals.

The Incredible Journey of a Migratory Shorebird.

The End Of Upward Mobility. Artificial intelligence is coming for the meritocracy.

T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant.

A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W. HAVE YOU SEEN “Q?”

Give your ideas some legs: the positive effect of walking on creative thinking.

College Is Coming Apart.

Treat AI Like a Normal Crisis.

AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries ‘most of the time’.

Gas prices are about to take a big jump, analysts say, with the worst still to come.

Dollar General CEO says consumers making $100,000 a year don’t feel like high-income shoppers anymore as high gas prices and inflation reshape habits.

‘Crisis even bigger than Covid’: American business owners are barely getting by.

A Shortage of Oil Tankers Is Threatening to Keep Gas Prices High.

What It’s Like to Work in One of America’s Data Centers.

Law Firms Have a Big Problem: Senior Partners Aren’t Retiring.

Germany’s Military Rebuild Is Making Its Neighbors Nervous.

Finding the cells that put our brain to sleep.

Will Russia Ever Be ‘Normal’? Empires inevitably decline, and Putin’s project will be no exception. Ian Welsh and ilk are bereft I am sure.

The Business-to-Industry Index and the Geography of Global Capitalism.

Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, dies at 81.

Authenticity's Triumph.

Treasury Yields of 2 Years & 3 Years Spike toward 5%, but 10-Year Holds at 5%, Yield Curve Bulges: Some Thoughts on What’s Brewing.

The Race to Save Florida Orange Industry From Total Collapse.

The Age of Wonders and Terrors.

Slowly then all at once: this emboldened Celtic alliance could spell the end of the UK.

Woman was killed on freeway after Uber driver ordered her out of car. Uber must pay $40 million.

Women In Trees: A Fabulous Album of Vintage Found Photos. Back in those days, women used to grow on trees. It is known.

Russian hybrid attacks against Europe intensifying, says Macron.

World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets.

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds. Whatevs. We define what organs are; nature cares not.

Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years. How it remained undiscovered this long is a real meowstery.

How SpaceX Streamlined the Raptor Engine.

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee.

Ctenophores Aren’t Just Beautiful. They’re Biological Wonders.

I don't like passkeys. And that’s because they are evil and shit.

Islam and the left are using each other. But they do not want the same thing, and only one of them knows it.

I found myself inside mirror world where I have to convince the bank to let me spend my own money. Pure evil, and all banks are getting worse about this. It’s all about control.

The Internet Is Dead. It promised freedom, connection, endless discovery. But it didn’t last. Alas, she is correct.

Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets.

Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek.

How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit.

Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain.

Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data.

The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities.

LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used.

Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption.

25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough. Fuck yes.

America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster.

American Businesses Have No Idea How to Set Prices Right Now.

Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here.

Dystopian Surveillance is Becoming a Reality.

The genius harmonic sequence that gives Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ its emotional power.

More Americans worry tech will take their job, poll finds.

Are Drone Incursions Europe’s New Normal?

10-Year Treasury yield hits highest level since 2007 ahead of Fed rate decision.

Russia plotting to kill Ukraine allies in US and Europe, FBI says.

The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA’s expectations.

Army Now Testing Anthem Long-Range Strike Weapon Built for Mass Production.

Despite All Moaning & Groaning, Americans Not in the Mood to Slow Down: Retail Sales Surge even without Gasoline.

Apple might make servers again to cash in on the AI rush.

The anti-American Right.

Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data.

A rate hike cannot manifest a house.

Nato jets shoot down drone violating Lithuania’s airspace.

For the first time, the US military confirms it has deployed weapons in orbit.

Driscoll’s Gave China Its Blueberries—Then China Swiped the Secret to Growing Them.

The incoming ‘super’ El Niño will create chaos around the world – and we are far from ready for it.

4,400-Year-Old Tomb of an Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors Still on the Walls.

The biggest dinosaurs couldn't sit on their eggs. Scientists say they did this instead.

Devil’s Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55,000-pound stones 11 miles for Britain’s tallest stone row.

Most people prefer traditional architecture.

EPA to Power Plants: Flood the Air With As Much Coal and Oil Smog As You Like.

“Offensively cheap”: Solar power is looking up.

The case against JPEG XL.

How Inmates With Contraband Phones Are Scamming Families Across America.

It’s interesting that World War II still regiments our politics to the degree that it does while, say, a much more recent event like COVID feels like it’s in the rearview mirror.

Air Force officer recalls ‘free-falling’ after jet was shot down over Iran.

Women used to complain that workplaces were, “boys clubs.”. I think that is largely correct; men and women are not in fact exactly identical.

It's officially the end of an era for Adobe.

America’s democratic decline is becoming Europe’s problem, new report says.

Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had ‘ghost gun,’ authorities say.

Pentagon watchdog says Iran war has led to munitions shortfall.

The Real Story of the Fake ‘Islamophobia’ Attacks After 9/11.

The Global Music Vault on Svalbard is apparently history.

A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run. Nom.

The four-colour theorem was only the start.

Long-Term Treasury Yields Spike, 1- to 7-Year Yields Explode, Mortgage Rates Hit 7.12%, Bond Market Gets Spooked.

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?

Your car is selling your data. The amount of data about you that many cars collect — and sell to third parties — is staggering.

Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200 billion market-cap wipeout.

'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet.

The End of Friday Nights with Friends.

How Iran’s Hard-Liners Prevailed and Sabotaged U.S. Peace Deal.

Google Search is rewriting organic result links to google.com/goto?url=… instead of exposing the destination URL directly in the HTML. Wow that is full-on evil.

One major reason I’m not an AI doomer is that I have a much lower estimate of the direct power of intelligence.

Inflation Not Going Back into the Bottle: CPI, Core CPI, and Core Services CPI Bounce Back.

AI, Robotics and the Coming Economic, Military, and Political Revolutions.

What We Never Learned From 9/11.

Atlantic goes without a hurricane through Sept. 12, breaking 60-year record.

Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at More Than 2,000 °C.

Billionaire Brewers owner ordered to spend $2 million returning sand he ‘stole’ from California beach to protect his Malibu mansion.

Wage theft is the heavyweight champion of American larceny.

Capital Is Organizing the World to Its Advantage and Everything Else Is a Sideshow.