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Can Anthropic’s Claude take a stand against war? Musician Craig Ellenwood says their AI collaboration produced protest songs and left him questioning where human creativity ends and machine agency beg...

On intellectual petri dishes and the class politics of Equestria.

from the album Sacred Monsters & super freaks

Hoping to win back male voters, the Trump White House is pushing the regressive idea that the hormone could make them ‘virile and brawny’

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is on track to be the largest ever.

A photo of a Borzoi spread out in a patch of green grass makes the long-haired dog look more like a rug than a canine.

Barstardica is an online type "foundry" that generates fonts mashed-up from classic typefaces. The resulting abominations are perfect for hostage letters, zany comedy and upsetting graphic designers. ...

from the album Sacred Monsters & super freaks

A practical introduction to TLA+, why it matters for agentic coding, and how AI could take formal verification from models to machine-checked proofs and ultimately to verified software.

Scientists engineered roses that made both a blue pigment and a colorless helper molecule that brought out its shade.

A dolphin named Bubbles chases fish until they regurgitate, then eats the vomited prey, a new study describes.

A video shows a capybara spinning a stick around his mouth with a serious expression while another capybara just chews on one.

from the album Sacred Monsters & super freaks

If you haven't figured out the deal with Elon Musk, yet, a blockbuster documentary is on its way to explain it in detail. Filmed by Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest…

Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney directed Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. His latest, Musk, profiles the wealthiest man in…

Renewables easily cover changes in US demand, which is rising by 2% in 2026.

from the album Sacred Monsters & super freaks

Email scams that look like an Evite or Paperless Post invitation are meant to snatch your data. For some, they've become an excuse to reconnect with old friends or flames.

Some say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument.

Recent weeks have seen a flurry of discussion over potential artificial intelligence doomsday scenarios. We shouldn’t forget that AI is already killing people, as it is increasingly used to direct wea...

Economist Mona Ali on how the United States wields the world’s most powerful currency to shore up empire and its own ruling class — and how Trump’s careless moves might blow it all up.

For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

from the album Sacred Monsters & super freaks

Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have spent decades watching old VHS tapes, searching for the outrageous and strange human stories hiding inside.

"Once you eliminate the scarcity of organs, I think you open up a future that is going to look completely different."

From immature name calling to frivolous lawsuits, Trump has ushered in an unprecedented era of hostility against the press.

I've been advised that if I don't want Apple "Intelligence" on, I should stay on OS 26 and decline the chance to install nearly 30GB of stuff I don't want.

Toyota's push comes as automakers race to develop and deploy humanoid robots.

The frontier AI model race has entered its comparison shopping phase.

There is no single definitive test for these worms, but the tail is fairly convincing.

It's unclear what will happen if FBI misses ShinyHunters' deadline.

You don't even need a Creative Cloud login to edit clips, but AI features cost extra.

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Trump’s ban is almost certainly unconstitutional — but there’s more than one constitutional right involved

Social democracy transformed the 20th century, giving working people a share of wealth and power their grandparents could scarcely imagine. But the movement that set out to overcome capitalism ultimat...

Intentional writing will likely become more valuable.

A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.

Online HQ for occultural book series The Fenris Wolf and its creator, Carl Abrahamsson (author of 20+ books). Lectures, classes, essays, reviews, and the Fenris Wolf podcast... You'd better be ready t...

For the first time ever, physicists have managed to take a photo of a strong form of quantum entanglement called Bell entanglement—capturing visual evidence of an elusive phenomenon which a baffled Al...