"Civilizationist" thinking, once confined to the radical fringe and the manifestos of mass killers, has moved to the center of American foreign policy.

I’m a hawk. Even I’m shocked by a $1.5 trillion defense budget.

The AI slop doctors of YouTube, and the prompts instructing them to lie

Julia Curlee was the first CIA officer to transition openly and keep serving the agency. The Trump White House needed her—until her identity became public.

There are a ton of great shows and movies to watch right now, but my current favorite series is a serial killer thriller on Hulu, 'Furious'. The must-watch show stars Emmy Rossum as an FBI agent out to stop a killer. Here's my 'Furious' review.

Her representative confirmed her death to ABC News.

Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …

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Tech companies are using accessibility as a smoke screen to obfuscate the risks of AI wearables, writes Ariana Aboulafia.

Complete field reference for all supported stat systems in actor.rpg.stats.

When Accountability Goes Rogue

💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation.

"The system from nowhere" is a way of talking about AI systems that excludes its origin as a consciously, human-designed product. It

It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its provenance. The idea that anything other than *my* needs should factor into the generation of text *for me* is patently offensive.

Data centre greenwashing is getting worse, alongside the tech industry’s hunger for fossil fuels. Why help them?

The mass popular opposition to ICE “surges” led to a sea change in public opinion. Now organizers are asking: What’s next?

Epic has seemingly confirmed plans to bring its Epic Games Store to Linux and emphasizes that it won't stop at a working storefront.

A new survey of 1,000 young adults in the US found that nine of the top tech executives are deeply loathed.

This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms. Providing a counterargument to this concept of self-marketing, Herbert examines the nature of retreat, whether in protest, as a delib

“With the rapid nature of this outbreak and the number of people affected, we need to ensure we are completing traceback in a timely manner to preserve public health,” Lauren Edwards, an epidemiologist on the state’s rapid response team, said in an email to executives at Yum Brands, which owns Taco Bell.

On this week’s Intelligent Machines, we cohosts had a spirited disagreement about Anthropic’s watermarking of text, as required by EU regulation. The...

The city is gauging interest among Hollis and Kissena Park residents, expanding outreach beyond the area known as the Hole.

Year-round curbside dining had ceased after the Adams administration rolled out restrictions on al fresco setups.

A longtime Republican living in California says the Trump administration's continuing actions to target transgender youth take a personal toll.

What Jason Arday's death by media mob says about the old machinery of anti-Black terror in the algorithmic age.

Matt Gutman, CBS News' chief correspondent, has been accused of sexual harassment in a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by a former co-worker at ABC News.

Universities now have more adjuncts than tenured and tenure-track professors combined. The conditions are unsustainable—for professors and students alike.

The physicists made an unexpected breakthrough

An analysis of 17 million loans recorded by the Municipal Library of Prague between 2023 and 2025 revealed substantial differences in library use and borrowing preferences by age and gender. The gap widened particularly after age 30: among 35-year-old users, the library recorded 3.5 active women for every active man.

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“With the rapid nature of this outbreak and the number of people affected, we need to ensure we are completing traceback in a timely manner to preserve public health,” Lauren Edwards, an epidemiologist on the state’s rapid response team, said in an email to executives at Yum Brands, which owns Taco Bell.

Smart TVs collect viewing data. Consumer Reports shows you how to shut off TV snooping on all the major TV brands, including LG, Samsung, Sony, TCL (Roku), and Vizio.