Believing misinformation is a “win” for some people, even when proven false.
Growing number of Americans facing prospect of long-term unemployment.
Amazon is planning a new wave of layoffs, sources say.
Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5’s network.
New Alzheimer’s Treatment Clears Plaques From Brains of Mice Within Hours.
We’re losing the war against drug-resistant infections faster than we thought.
Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Paradox – “Chat Control” update.
After the AI boom: what might we be left with?
The web is dying, and Google Reader proved to be the canary in the coal mine.
Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend. I thought the future would be cooler.
People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads. Only a clown would buy something like that anyway tbh.
Can anything knock China off its mountain?
Major H-1B Visa Sponsor Will Not Hire a Single H-1B Applicant Going Forward. Good.
The French 75 Gun: The Secret Cannon Used for Over Half a Century.
Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office. And evil in-office work is so much more unproductive too.
The Making of “Adaptation.” Great film.
Where the Battle Over Free Speech Is Leading Us.
Congress Thinks Hiding Fund Fees Is Good for You.
The War Between Silicon Valley and Hollywood is Officially Over…And the tech bros won.
A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks.
Residents of border towns relieved by quiet amid record-low migrant crossings.
The A.I. Black Hole Swallowing Job Seekers.
An energy expert explains why electricity prices keep climbing. Basically, because we don’t build anything anymore.
How close are we to solid state batteries for electric vehicles?
Event Horizon Telescope images reveal new dark matter detection method.
A built-in ‘off switch’ to stop persistent pain.
Examples are the best documentation. Without an example, I’m lost 99% of the time.
Inside the fight between doctors and insurance companies over ‘downcoding.’
Let It Begin — The Real Fights Are Finally Coming Into View.
Notes on the ‘Balance of Forces.’
Astronomers detect lowest mass dark object ever measured using gravitational lensing.
China expands rare earths restrictions, targets defense and chips users.
America is sucking in growth from the rest of the world.
UPS is ‘disposing of’ U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems. Clownish.
We are different from all other humans in history.
China’s Stealth Sharp Sword Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles Deployed To Operational Airbase.
In-Party Love, Out-Party Hate, and Affective Polarization in Twelve Established Democracies.
California enacts law giving consumers ability to universally opt out of data sharing.
America Is Drowning In Scam Calls And Texts And Donald Trump Is Making It Worse.
The new right’s hollow aesthetic.
We’re about to find many more interstellar interlopers—here’s how to visit one.
Nato weighs armed response to Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war.
A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society. This is incredibly disturbing.
Microsoft’s Local Accounts Crackdown Is Yet Another Reason to Switch to Linux.
Political views, not sex and violence, now drive literary censorship.
Last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent. Vaccines work, ya fuckin’ clowns.
Europe worries it’s already at war — and America hasn’t noticed. It is at war and has been since 2014.
Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America.
Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans.
Quantum properties on a human scale.
Thales Anti-Drone Rockets Now Being Used In Ukraine.
What sound does a fish make? The answer is weirder than you may think.
A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is.
Walmart CEO issues ominous warning to US workers that AI will ‘change literally every job.’
Less Than 5% of People With Mortgages Are Under 30 in Nation’s Biggest Metros.
Who Gets Healthcare Subsidies Under the Affordable Care Act.
Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account. Evil.
Black holes might hold the key to a 60-year cosmic mystery.
Our Brains Evolved to Socialize—but Max Out at About 150 Friends.
Rural US town outraged as only hospital forced to shut: ‘I would have died without it.’
Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time.
Democrats Still Have No Idea What Went Wrong.
Foreclosures are surging as U.S. homeowners grapple with rising costs.
Celebrating 1 Trillion Web Pages Archived.
The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics.
Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports.
NASA equipment makes a surprise landing on West Texas farm.
Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Of Tariffs Has Been Great — If You Like Higher Prices.
Trump is destroying America. Are his voters starting to realize that?
Million-dollar homes are the fastest-moving part of the housing market as wealth gap grows.
UCLA forecasts ‘stagflation-lite’ economy with higher inflation and unemployment. Followed by depression.
Phages with a broad host range are common across ecosystems.
Should We Let Public Transit Die?
Low-income Americans slash spending, a worrying sign for the economy.
As America fumbles, China races ahead.
Russia’s Hybrid War Against NATO Ramping Up: Danish Intelligence.
How tech lords and populists changed the rules of power.
How the Democrats Could Stage a Comeback, According to History. Not being vapid weak losers would be a good start.
NIRS fire destroys government’s cloud storage system, no backups available. If you’d hired me, that would not have happened.
Anti-Aging Breakthrough: Stem Cells Reverse Signs of Aging in Monkeys.
Work is Not School: Surviving Institutional Stupidity.
A 3000-year-old copper smelting site could be key to understanding the origins of iron.
Nearly 80% of Americans want Congress to extend ACA tax credits, poll finds.
A biological 0-day? Threat-screening tools may miss AI-designed proteins.
US to give Ukraine intelligence on long-range energy targets in Russia.
How California families are already bracing for looming Medicaid cuts.
Rogue planet has a record growth rate of 6.6 billion tons per second. Almost as much as your mom.
Please let the robots have this one.
The strangest letter of the alphabet. The rise and fall of yogh.
Researchers develop molecular qubits that communicate at telecom frequencies.
You don’t have to swallow frogs. Klein and Coates show that if you don’t know what your core beliefs are, you’re going to get played. “But pundits rarely shape politics.” LOLWUT?
The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months.
Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol.
How has mathematics gotten so abstract?
Trump Is Shutting Down the War on Cancer. America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments. Fully fucking moronic beyond any words.
Is This the End of the Dictionary?
Getting Yelled at By Dumbasses. The defining experience of fascism.
Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America.
Funds Shifted To Develop New LC-130J “Ski Bird” Polar Airlifters.
A Memo To Corporate America: How To Stop Being Cartoon Villains.
Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies.
A blue jay and a green jay mated, researchers say. Their offspring is a scientific marvel.
FAA decides it trusts Boeing enough to certify the safety of its own planes again. I’m sure that will end well.
How the Brain Balances Excitation and Inhibition.
Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped.
The death of the corporate job.