Actinide becomes first startup to ever enrich uranium, producing HALEU.

11,000-Year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey.

EU’s war on waste is smashing the art of the beautiful booze bottle, glassmakers warn.

Greece’s Mitsotakis: EU needs new tools to fight back against weaponized migration. Or old tools. Big-ass rifles and missiles work fine.

The Russia-Ukraine Air War Has Entered a New, Deadlier Phase.

The perverse achievement of much of DEI is that it begins by declaring the initial signals unreliable and ends by making every subsequent signal unreliable too.

The ‘Stability-Instability Paradox’ Comes for Markets.

Goldman Sachs: AI Is Cutting 16,000 U.S. Jobs Per Month.

Saving Academics from Themselves.

Falling Fertility: the Changing Value of Freedom, Fulfillment, and Family.

Iran faces strait of Hormuz paradox as strategic value of chokehold erodes.

The Strange New Rules of Restaurant Names.

Is Europe Ready for a New Era of Russian Dirty Tricks?

My AI friends want to create the tools that give us infinite abundance and whatnot, but I want actual concrete cultural plans.

New Mexico’s clean energy success story.

Fed’s preferred inflation gauge shows core prices rose 3.3% annually in July.

Especially in the US and UK, we are heading down a dark path of negative compromises and the ‘coalition of no’.

Why does all of this matter? Beauty matters intrinsically, because we value it and live among it, and because lives immersed in more beauty are better, more enjoyable and fuller lives.

Why some lava-covered exoplanets retain atmospheres for billions of years.

This Is The New Blackbeard ‘Cheap’ Hypersonic Weapon.

It Should Be Harder to Apply for a Job. No, Really.

Live From Last Summer!

How Trump Is Destroying Detroit.

We haunt.

AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”.

Why Are Some Octopuses So Smart? The Answer Might Lie in a Never-Before-Seen Mutation That Helps Them Accurately Build Proteins.

World’s oceans hit highest temperature on record as El Niño grows.

The hidden crisis of overqualified Americans who can’t get jobs.

US set for largest mass visa revocation in history targeting up to 200,000 foreigners, officials say.

Tiny Air-To-Air Missile In Development For Stealthy U.S. Navy Combat Aircraft.

Misogynistic views are biggest red flag for violent extremism, report finds.

Did climate change cause this heat wave? Most likely, and here’s why.

With a Heart for Any Fate: Early Notes from the Oregon Trail.

The kill switch for harmful genes.

Artists Want to Prove Their Work Was Stolen by AI. A New Study Says That’s Impossible. “Stolen.” Fucking clownish.

US Army attack helicopters crashing at historically high rate amid mechanical issues.

So much makes sense in light of the Tocqueville Effect. As problems get smaller, the attention given to them must grow.

Iran-linked hackers behind cyber attack that shut down power plant, reports say.

Forsaking Industrialism: The Most Expensive Thing You Didn’t Buy.

I spent 4 months and $2000 making myself a sweater from scratch, starting with shearing a sheep.

NASA’s New Space Telescope Is Poised to Discover Hidden Facets of the Universe.

Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they’re coming for monitors. Very evil.

Employers Are Hiring Recent Grads and Then Saying “Oops, Never Mind”.

Just as the world appears to be losing its appetite for books, William T. Vollmann pens a 3,000‑page novel.

Recuerda el verano de 1936.

Lab leaks are not unusua.

Microsoft Paint and Photos Embed Server-Issued GUIDs as Invisible Watermarks in Locally-Generated Images. Evil.

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs.

Analysts Warn U.S. Economy Becoming Overly Dependent On Anne Hathaway.

Over 170,000 Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame? Yes.

Membership Fees Are Coming for Your Doctor’s Office.

Underestimating something that has an AI “accent” by reflexively dismissing it as slop rhymes curiously with underestimating someone because they have a funny accent in your native language (and it isn’t one of the accents that you think signals superiority, like the BBC British accent for English).

The Danube is drying up. Europe still has no plan.

The Bond Market Is Finally Functioning Again, after 14 Years of Financial Repression.

Scientists Recreate the Melting ‘Diamond Rain’ of Neptune and Uranus. It May Help Fusion Power.

Why Are Dead Malls a Thing?

Germany plans a €12B missile program to deter Putin.

How the A.I. Borrowing Binge Helps Drive Up Government Bond Yields.

America Is About to Get More Expensive.

Stagflation, the Scourge of the 1970s, Is Back.

Zero Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets.

Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US.

Saab Unveils Stealthy Supersonic ‘Fighter Drone’ Concept.

China’s Massive New Artificial Island In The South China Sea Emerges, Primed For Militarization.

El Farol Bar problem.

The One Big Issue That Connects the Data Center and Flock Backlash.

Simone de Beauvoir: the Best Romantic Partners Celebrate Each Other’s Freedom.

China Is Strapping ‘Digital Bombs’ to Civilian Infrastructure—Is the US Ready?

If rising rates were enough to end a bull market, we’d have entered a bear market long ago.

Trump’s FTC Wants You to Call Surveillance Pricing ‘Personalized Pricing’.

Kodak’s “Pre-Invented” Lunar Orbiter Camera; or, The Fate of SAMOS Readout.

Politicians Who Once Championed Data Centers Are Now Bashing Them.

Oh Dear, Condo Prices Fell by 15% to 33% in 33 Bigger Markets, Some Below 2006 Levels, as Historic Condo Bubbles Deflate.

How Did the English Build Such Beautiful Villages?

Why Europe can’t escape the fallout from $40 trillion US debt woes.

Americans still make up the clear majority of the workforce inside most U.S. corporations. Yet when corporate espionage, trade-secret theft, and unauthorized technology transfer cases are examined, foreign nationals and foreign-linked actors appear far more often than their share of the payroll would predict.

Social Security union says it needs $3 billion and another 20,000 workers to fix long wait times and ‘ghost offices’.

Why do movies look like that now?

El Niño-caused drought in Panama is likely to raise prices on everything from medicine to fuel.

The drone war is coming for global shipping.

Pandemic Inflation Took Away 7% Of Your Wages, And You Never Got Them Back.

Watching TikTok and Instagram Reels Videos Deactivates the Brain’s Cognitive Control Network, Study Finds.

F-117 Nighthawk Needs Fresh Explosives For Its Tailhook Nearly Two Decades After ‘Retirement’.

AI’s Next Big Leap Is Into the Real World.

The economy increasingly rewards ownership over effort, which has created some… problems.

The Super El Niño Won’t Fix the West’s Water Crisis.

‘Ghost Job’ Ads Are Getting So Bad That Lawmakers Want to Ban Them.

Amid intense backlash, people are vandalizing Flock surveillance cameras. Good. Destroy them all and those who make them.

Liberals hate datacenters because they hate tech. Conservative hate datacenters because they think tech is liberal.

Cyberpunk War: How Ukraine Repurposes U.S. Weapons In Unexpected Ways.

Europe Girds for Another Hike in Energy Bills This Winter.

Anti-Tax Sentiment Is Trending, Even In the Bluest States.

US Housing Is a Buyer’s Market. Trouble Is, There Aren’t Many Buyers.

AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li Warns of Risks From Growing Tech Backlash.

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code. Pure evil.

Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks.

The Rise of Anger: Emotions and Policy Views.

AI Is Helping Patients Solve Medical Mysteries.

Even As Disease Outbreaks Abound, American Vaccination Rates In Children Fall. We are morons.

It used to be our imperfect bodies that made us insecure. With AI, it’s our minds as well.

U.S. Workers Are Paying More for Healthcare, and Next Year Will Be Worse.

The box that built globalisation. Containers have transformed ports, cities and trade. Now the revolution is reaching a limit.

The US munitions crisis goes back further than Iran.

Why Is It Absolute Hell to Buy a Movie Ticket Now?

Gaming Consoles Are Getting Wrecked by High Prices.

They're the Ones Who Told Us to Pay Attention to Jason Arday.

Democrats Really, Really, Really Don’t Want People Investigating Their Scammy Fundraising.

NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory.

Whistleblower Arturo Béjar leads testimony in landmark trial against Meta.

Former Fauci adviser Dr. David Morens pleads guilty to concealing COVID-related records.

South Korea’s Highly Mobile 155mm Artillery System Wins U.S. Army Howitzer Contract.

U.S. Not Prepared To Handle Drone Attack From Inside Homeland: NORTHCOM Deputy Commander.

Realism Is Unrealistic.

AI Is Changing Military Morality.

Why Warehouses Are Rolling In More Robots.

Why many birds add fresh plants to their nests remains unclear despite signs of healthier offspring.

The cultural footprint of comedians has shrunk dramatically over the past few years because there are fewer and fewer norms and orthodoxies to transgress. And now transgressing the New Morality brands you as immediately evil as Gen Z does not understand humor or satire.

I just had a deeply alarming 45 minute sync with our Talent Acquisition team regarding their new AI-driven resume screening tool.

Employers are ghosting college grads and rescinding offers, destroying morale.

Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone.

A 3D fruit fly that lives on your macOS desktop — driven by a live spiking simulation of the real FlyWire connectome. It walks across your windows, grooms, sleeps, and decides to flee your cursor with the same neurons a real fly uses.

Where Human Sleep Went Wrong.

On That Disgraceful, Disreputable, (Wonderful) Form of Punctuation: The Parenthesis.

“Sabotage”: Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research.

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices — 128GB of DDR5 now $3,399.

‘We’re astounded and a bit perplexed by it’: colossal 2,500-year-old sculpture discovered at Unesco site in Turkey.

We’ve flown a radiation-blocking vest to the Moon and back, and it worked.

Europe’s Great Rivers Are Dying. The Continent Is In for a Shock.

Anthropic Explains Its Watermark System as Some Claude Users Loudly Revolt.

Why Big Tech’s AI Spending Is $3 Trillion Higher Than It Seems.

Electron apps use so much memory.

Italy’s mythic ‘month off’ in August was hard won. It would be good for us all.

Protein language models are overly constrained by covariation.

DOGE Broke America’s Weather Machine. Now Fishermen, Insurers And Farmers Are Paying For It. When the absolutely predictable occurs right on schedule.

Ghosts Of The Past & Devils Of The Present.

How to put 170 atoms in an atom.

Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents.

Columbia House Is Shutting Down.

Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles.

Strong Gravitational Lensing and Microlensing of Supernovae.

The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding.

Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose. And fake safety (really censorship) is getting far more pervasive.

The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains.

The weekend is 100 years old.

Suicide rates among teen girls are rising in Australia, Canada, and the UK.

Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing. Wow, this is terrible; makes Claude unusable for most writing tasks.

Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking.

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin.

Putin threat pushes Germany to give spies major new powers.

Breakfast looks a lot more expensive under new EU pesticide plans.

Hunt For New Lower-Cost Strike Missile With 1,000-Kilometer Range Underway By U.S. Army.

So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year.

Stock-Picking Funds Are Performing as Poorly as Ever.

Semaglutide attenuates a proteomics-based dementia risk signature in older adults with overweight or obesity and cardiovascular disease without diabetes: A post hoc analysis of the SELECT phase 3 trial.

Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data.

By sky and sea, Ukraine’s drone strikes challenge Russia’s grip on Crimea.

TESS discovers a rare brown dwarf orbiting a massive, aging star.

Why Europe Is Struggling to Build Its Gas Stocks Before Winter.

The $20 Burrito Debate Is a Sign of Inflation Fatigue.

How the Toppling of An Auto Parts Maker Sapped U.S. Manufacturing.

You Are Not Entitled to Someone Else’s Mind.

PPI Inflation Is in the Revisions? Prior Month Services PPI & Core PPI Massively Revised Higher Today.

US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer.

Laptop Makers Are Desperate to Sell You PCs With 8GB of RAM. Avoid at All Costs.

In Australia, a Home Battery Boom Has Helped Cut Wholesale Power Prices in Half.

The End of Google Search—and the Internet—as We Know It.

It could soon be harder to see the full price of a plane ticket. Here’s why.

See the Battlefield Innovations Reshaping the Russia-Ukraine War.

Your prescription drugs shouldn’t cost more than your mortgage. Inside the broken math that got us here.

The CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back.

Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees.

Are Men to Blame for the Birth-Rate Collapse? Whether dads do their fair share of the housework appears to have no effect on fertility. Duh.

Happy 45th birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT.

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering.

License Plate Reader Searches Should Require a Warrant.

Amazing High-Res Photo Shows a Butte Rising From Mars.

Economics 101 Explains Global Food Affordability Challenges.

College Grads Struggle to Find Jobs. Non-Grads Are Giving Up.

Don’t Buy Zuckerberg’s ‘Good Guy of AI’ Act.

Gen Z Is Moving Money From Stocks to Sports Betting in Wealth Plans.

Iranian F-5s Bombing U.S. Forces In Kuwait Should Be A Wake-Up Call: Ex-USAF General.

Weapons Maker Was Paid $533M in Taxpayer Funds to Produce Shells. It Made None.

Neuroscientists have vastly underestimated brain cells’ computing power.

Evidence of three massive black holes in a z ∼ 5 galaxy.

Poland’s Powerful New Frigate Marks Major Shift For Its Navy.

There are no guarantees in life is, far too frequently, being used to hand wave away people making legitimate objections to having done what there were told would lead to success and then that success does not come despite those people doing nothing wrong.

Flock is Trying to Find Out How Much of the Surveillance State You’ll Tolerate.

Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game.