Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel.
Cosmic simulations that once needed supercomputers now run on a laptop.
Do we have to recover from anti-vaccine misinformation the hard way, with suffering and death? Turns out, yes.
Austria hails ‘brain gain’ in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts.
We Must Save Public Media to Change It.
Block busting only worked because the threats were backed by real violence.
The industry is going through a period where a lot is changing all at once.
The A.I. Bubble Is Coming for Your Browser.
Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.
Preventing Simultaneous Contingencies in Europe and Asia.
A Diminished Social Security Work Force, and Its Customers, Feel the Strain.
Grocery prices are jumping up. We explain why.
Mapped: Median Salary by U.S. State.
The career ladder is collapsing. Gen Z is feeling it first.
Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe.
The next big financial crisis may be brewing. Warning signs are already there.
Private Equity Is Coming for America’s $12 Trillion in Retirement Savings. Of course they are.
Onboard a U.S. aircraft carrier as tensions rise over Russian incursions into NATO airspace.
America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides.
The War on Roommates: Why Is Sharing a House Illegal?
US death rate dropped back to pre-Covid levels in 2024, CDC report says.
Fast food used to be a cheap meal option. Why has that changed?
It’s AI all the way down as Google’s AI cites web pages written by AI.
Why Won’t Farmers Rebel Against Trumponomics? Because They’re Rich.
Ford’s CEO: America is ignoring the ‘essential economy’ as AI eats entry-level white-collar jobs.
Deaths Rose in Emergency Rooms After Hospitals Were Acquired by Private Equity Firms.
The U.K. Tried to Clamp Down on Migration—and Wound Up With an Unprecedented Wave.
Hundreds of new bacteria, and two potential antibiotics, found in soil.
Paper2Agent: Reimagining Research Papers As Interactive and Reliable AI Agents.
Germicidal ultraviolet could make airborne diseases as rare as those carried by water.
Permitting Reform Is Hard. This Is Easier.
They Were Some of Earth’s Last Stable Glaciers. Now, They’re Melting.
Extrachromosomal DNA–Driven Oncogene Spatial Heterogeneity and Evolution in Glioblastoma.
Windows 11 is adding another Copilot button nobody asked for.
For Gen Alpha, learning to read is becoming a privilege.
What climate targets? Top fossil fuel producing nations keep boosting output.
American students are getting dumber.
Priced out of traditional housing, more Americans are living in RVs.
AI Was Supposed to Help Juniors Shine. Why Does It Mostly Make Seniors Stronger?
A Change of Tune. A revolution in English bell ringing.
China’s 200m gig workers are a warning for the world.
Samsung brings ads to US fridges. Hell world.
The right to anonymity is powerful, and America is destroying it.
Trump-loving farmers want blue states to bail them out again.
Many Americans can’t buy homes, get jobs or move in this stuck economy.
Cardboard-Box Demand Is Slumping. Why That’s Bad News for the Economy.
Welcome to the era of stagflation-lite.
Wegovy pill could deliver as much weight loss as the shot, trial shows.
Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement. Music publishers should burn in hell. Book ones too.
The best YouTube downloaders (and how Google silenced the press).
The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer.
The Billionaire Trump Supporter Who Will Soon Own the News.
An engine doesn’t have horses inside.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel. Never thought I’d be defending Jimmy Kimmel, but here I am.
The 25 Most Interesting Ideas I’ve Found in 2025 (So Far).
Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe.
The Surgeon Who Took On UnitedHealth Now Pays the Price.
Claims of pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no.
Windows 11 is a travesty, a loose collection of dark patterns and incompetence, run by people who have zero interest in lovingly crafting an operating system they can be proud of. Indeed. It is a royal piece of shit.
The Illiberal, Transphobic Pipe Dream Of Banning Porn Reaches Michigan Republicans.
DNA study reveals origin of world’s first pandemic.
Gemini AI solves coding problem that stumped 139 human teams at ICPC World Finals.
Taiwan Just Unveiled Its Own High-Altitude Anti-Ballistic Missile System.
Our Sun Is Becoming More Active And NASA Doesn’t Know Why.
What Happened to “the West”? As America Drifts Away From Its Allies, a Less Peaceful World Awaits.
Denmark close to wiping out leading cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out.
“Canada: The Industrial Implosion” v. the United States.
Publishers Clearing House’s bankruptcy means ‘forever’ winners will no longer get paid.
Wars of deception are coming for America. It isn’t ready.
The third Red Scare. The right’s new assault on free speech isn’t cancel culture. It’s worse.
Job seekers feel awful about the labor market. Data is finally starting to explain why.
Trump Secured the Border, So Where Are the Jobs?
The Jimmy Kimmel Suspension: A Huge Step Down the Authoritarian Road.
Why do software developers love complexity? And why do they always try to foist their shit complexity onto sysadmin types and attempt to turn us into terrible developers?
‘You just can’t recreate that glow’: The people who hunt old TVs.
Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October. Fuck that.
Offline means unavailable? What a country!
Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline.’
The AI Raj: How tech giants are recolonizing power.
Tonight’s Dinner Fell Off the Sysco Truck.
The White House Vowed a Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups.
‘Ozempic Effect’: Weight-loss drug boom has reached apparel store rack as America resizes. Nice.
Active Measures: How the Kremlin Penetrated Fox News and Right-Wing Media.
The 70-Year-Old Beloved Boxed Mix Grandmas Won’t Be Buying Anymore.
Which colours dominate movie posters and why?
Americans Crushed By Auto Loans As Defaults And Repossessions Surge.
The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End.
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding.
Spider uses trapped fireflies as glowing bait to attract more prey.
RFK Jr. is bad for your health.
How the boomers crippled France.
An Unresponsive Public Is Undermining Government Economic Data.
The Software Engineers Paid to Fix Vibe Coded Messes.
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion. That’s the most depressing thing I’ve read in ages; we are so screwed.
The Lost Art Of Thinking Historically.
“Love doesn’t thrive on ledgers”: Keeping score in relationships foreshadows decline, study finds.
Dinosaur egg dated directly for the first time.
Trump administration launches trial program to fast-track electric air taxis. Good.
California lawmakers pass SB 79, housing bill that brings dense housing to transit hubs.
Corporations are trying, and now failing, to hide job openings from US citizens.
CPI Inflation Dishes Up another Nasty Surprise, as it Tends to Do.
An Annual Blast of Pacific Cold Water Did Not Occur, Alarming Scientists.
As Sabotage in Europe Mounts, So Do Calls to Retaliate Against Russia.
A Note on Online Political Subcultures.
New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂.
We Already Know a Way to Save a Bunch of Lives. Thanks to insurance companies, we’re not doing it.
Charlie Kirk’s Murder Illustrates How the Second Amendment Is Swallowing the First.
Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVc: Rent and Extraction.