The Dawn of a New Era for Supernova 1987a.

Tog’s paradox.

The Forest Service is Losing 2,400 Jobs—Including Most of its Trail Workers. Well that’s moronic.

The End Of Convenience: What The Downfall Of Walgreens Means For America.

The Boomer Stuff Avalanche. Millennials are about to be crushed by all the junk their parents accumulated.

Scammers are stealing homes from under their owners’ noses. AI is making it scarily easy.

GM’s profit nears a record a year after saying it couldn’t afford its workers’ pay demands.

“Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi.”

Why has your Big Mac become so much more expensive?

The Consultants Who Lost Democrats the Working Class.

Boeing’s 757 ‘Catfish’ Flying F-22 Avionics Testbed Emerges With Retro Look.

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water.

New discovery reveals how diatoms capture CO2 so effectively.

Wired’s Attack on Privacy.

How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong.

Plankton balloon to six times their size in newly discovered mode of oceanic travel.

Tourism and Erotic Imaginaries in Wartime Paris: French and Germans during the Occupation, 1940-1944.

Trump FCC Pick Thinks Broadband Caps Are Great, Likens Them To Coffee Refills(?).

Ozempic shows promise for alcohol and drug addiction, study finds.

This Race Is Kamala Harris’s to Lose. Here’s Why. It will all come down to turnout. And that, I predict, will mean a Harris-Walz victory.

Six slain hostages were likely Sinwar’s shields, lived for months on energy bars.

Why is New York Times campaign coverage so bad? Because that’s what the publisher wants.

The Vanishing of the Internet.

Finally, Trump’s Derangement Is Breaking Through in the Media.

Ukraine’s first frontline female commander on war, grief – and her hope for the future.

The electoral college has become a gun held to the head of US democracy.

Rule-of-law is incompatible with a sharply polarized two-party system.

Crises at Boeing and Intel Are a National Emergency. Indeed they are.

The Very Real Scenario Where Trump Loses and Takes Power Anyway.

Anti-drone drone developed by Ukraine to take out Iranian-designed kamikazes.

Microsoft creates fake Azure tenants to pull phishers into honeypots.

Barnum effect.

Navy Just Reloaded A Vertical Launch System For The First Time While Underway At Sea.

AI Detectors Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating—With Big Consequences.

Phenomenal consciousness is alien to us: SETI and the fermi paradox seen through the prism of illusionism and attention schema theory.

Welcome to the Era of the $20,000 Family Car Insurance Bill. Insurance is, mostly, a scam.

Bad News: We’ve Lost Control of Our Social Media Feeds. Good News: Courts Are Noticing. That so many people are content to be controlled by clowns like Mark Zuckerberg will never not mystify me.

How Beijing Recruited New York Chinatowns for Influence Campaign.

Americans Abroad Need Compliance Cost Relief.

Scientists Use Allen Telescope Array to Search for Radio Signals in the TRAPPIST-1 Star System.

The Rotten World Elon Musk Is Trying To Force On Us.

How Republicans mainstreamed the baseless idea of noncitizen voting in 2024.

‘The Great Stay’ is preventing young workers from getting a foot in the door.

Mail carriers reach tentative contract with USPS that includes pay raises and air-conditioned trucks.

The New Cold War in the Pacific Is Dangerously Close to Heating Up.

JD Vance Shows That the Future of the GOP Is in Racist Conspiracy Theories.

‘Artificial’ crowds in Russia aim to disrupt EU referendum, Moldova warns.

North Korean troops in Ukraine war called ‘huge’ escalation risk.

Putin’s sanctions-busting shadow fleet is spilling oil all over the world.

Time is running out for Ukraine.

Engels’ pause.

The Feds Are Coming for John Deere Over the Right to Repair. Good.

Team develops promising new form of antibiotic that makes bacterial cells self-destruct.

This list is for physicians who are willing to perform a tubal ligation on patients ages 21+, no matter their marital status or number of children.

The American Who Waged a Tech War on China.

The Individual In Contemporary Society.

How to Prep Hospitals for a Shooting War.

Public Intellectuals Have Short Shelf Lives—But Why?

Leaked documents show US intelligence on Israel’s plans to attack Iran, sources say.

End of an era for Kmart in the US.

We watched 20 Trump rallies. His racist, anti-immigrant messaging is getting darker. A POLITICO analysis of more than 20 of his rallies and campaign events shows Trump has demonized minority groups in all of them.

The Supreme Court May Use Dobbs to Take Down Trans Rights—and Beyond.

Make electric vehicles lighter to maximize climate and safety benefits.

Yahya Sinwar Finally Got What He Deserved.

Before Hurricane Helene, had you stopped by one of the many breweries, art galleries, or award-winning restaurants in Asheville, North Carolina, and spoken with anyone who lives in these parts — including me — most would have told you they felt pretty safe from climate disasters.

Generated images have become a new form of propaganda this election season.

US suspects TSMC helped Huawei skirt export controls, report says.

According to Yonhap news agency, North Korea has sent 12,000 troops, including special forces, to support Russia’s war in Ukraine, per their source in South Korea’s Intelligence. This aligns with an earlier statement from Ukraine’s military intelligence (GUR).

Meet the Chinese ‘Typhoon’ hackers preparing for war.

The Proximity To Genius Effect.

LA woman is being dropped by her home insurer over an oak tree in her yard — the city says it’s protected and can’t be removed or damaged. Now she’s stuck, may never be able to sell her home. Cash buyer doesn’t require home insurance.

Beamter.

Home-Purchase Demand Destruction Accelerates, Prices Too High, Buyers’ Strike Deepens: Sales of Existing Homes Head for Worst Year since 1995.

Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents.

Diabetes Breakthrough: New Treatment Eliminates Insulin for 86% of Patients.

Salt Typhoon Hack Shows There’s No Security Backdoor That’s Only For The “Good Guys.”

Kids are sucking down baby food pouches at record rates. ‘We’re going to pay for it,’ experts say. What the actual fuck.

The October Surprise May Be Arriving Shortly.

Astronomers detect ancient lonely quasars with murky origins. Look at it, just skulking around out there.

Let Google Decide. When “personhood” is decided by the Big Five.

Federal Trade Commission Announces Final “Click-to-Cancel” Rule Making It Easier for Consumers to End Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships.

Ireland’s big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives.

Accountability sinks.

Storm forecasts have never been more accurate. Meteorologists say they’ve never faced so much pushback.

How Hurricanes Are a Profit Center for Insurers.

CVS and Walgreens are ailing. Here’s why.

Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing.

A History of Microwave Ovens.

Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics Of Magic Windows.

Harris’s Chance on Trade.

Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old, study claims.

Walgreens to close 1,200 stores over the next three years.

Middle-class homeowners are increasingly squeezed by housing costs.

Insurance ‘nightmare’ unfolds for Florida homeowners after back-to-back hurricanes.

How Everyone Got Lost in Netflix’s Endless Library.

The GOP assault on election integrity has already begun.

Scale of Chinese Spying Overwhelms Western Governments.

Mystery Drones Swarmed a U.S. Military Base for 17 Days. The Pentagon Is Stumped. Chinese, guaranteed.

How Climate Disasters Are Making Mobile Homes a Huge Risk.

The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology.

Filtered for time and false memory.

The Little-Known Factor Driving up Housing Costs: Dirty Money.

Young men’s economic prospects are shifting, along with their politics.

Even a Single Bacterial Cell Can Sense the Seasons Changing.

Should we be thinking about luck differently?

AI Is Threatening the Social Safety Net.

Mossad’s pager operation: Inside Israel’s penetration of Hezbollah.

Russia’s First Secret Influence Campaign: Convincing the U.S. to Buy Alaska.

America’s hurricane crises should not be a surprise. The human and financial repercussions are a wake-up call about the realities of climate change.

Climate change boosted Milton’s landfall strength from Category 2 to 3.

Counter-Drone Stryker Armored Vehicle Armed With Lasers, Rockets, Guns Unveiled.

The Hunt for Life on Europa Is About to Kick Up a Gear.

Inside the Nasty Rivalry Rocking the World of Private Jets.

They Came to Florida for a Slice of Paradise. Now They Are Packing Their Bags.

Four Ways Ukraine’s Drone Innovations Are Changing Warfare.

Against steelmanning.

Inflation is trending down. Try telling that to the housing market.

How a break-up of Google could transform tech.

Working From Home Is Powering Productivity.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Moves Like the Solar System’s Biggest Kickball.

What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis.

America Is Lying to Itself About the Cost of Disasters.

Deebot Robot Vacuums Are Using Photos and Audio to Train Their AI.

Why Hurricane Milton Is a Sign of the New Abnormal.

Your Scary 2024 Election Risk Recap.

Terrifying ‘Human Safari’ In Kherson As Russian Drones Hunt Civilians.

British Airways to axe hundreds of flights over shortage of planes.

Dietary restriction impacts health and lifespan of genetically diverse mice.

On the Nature of Time.

This is what a 15 foot hurricane storm surge looks like.

How astronauts wash their hair in space. I wish my hair would stand up like that all the time.

In a rare disclosure, the Pentagon provides an update on the X-37B spaceplane.

Big Dreams Built on Higher Education Sour Worldwide for Jobless Graduates.

The ‘Beautiful Confusion’ of the First Billion Years Comes Into View.

After software eats the world, what comes out the other end?

Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants.

As houses would float by, with people trapped on the roof or an upper story, he would work to get them to shore. Sometimes he couldn’t get to them. Sometimes they were already dead.

Timeline of the far future.

Ryugu sample analyses show asteroids may have delivered compounds needed to start life on Earth.

In landmark move, EPA requires removal of all U.S. lead pipes in a decade.

New archaeology tools unearth lost cities and other ancient marvels.

As Russia Overtly Helps Trump Get Elected, Trump Continues to Check in with Vladimir Putin.

Climate change has not led to an increase in the total number of hurricanes hitting the U.S. each year. But the storms that do form are more likely to become more intense, with higher wind speeds, heavier rainfall, and more severe storm surge.

The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth.

You can’t deliver on unrealistic expectations shaped by things just magically appearing around someone, and we’re still being told that meeting those pie-in-the-sky demands are somehow achievable if we just work hard enough to keep the smoke-and-mirrors bullshit running. That is life in IT now.

Screen Time Linked to Mental Health Symptoms in Kids.

Wars Are Not Accidents. Managing Risk in the Face of Escalation.

The Right Meets Hurricane Helene With a Storm of Lies.

Healthcare Premiums Are Soaring Even as Inflation Eases, in Charts.