2026-04-28

Elizabeth Kolbert’s profile of EPA head Lee Zeldin...

Elizabeth Kolbert’s profile of EPA head Lee Zeldin. “In a little more than a year, Zeldin has transformed the E.P.A. from an agency devoted to protecting human health and the...

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‘Reaching Nightmarish-Levels’: A Zumwalt-Class ‘Stealth’ Destroyer Caught Fire and The U.S. Navy Has a New Problem to Deal With

‘Reaching Nightmarish-Levels’: A Zumwalt-Class ‘Stealth’ Destroyer Caught Fire and The U.S. Navy Has a New Problem to Deal With

We recently reported that the Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers (DDGs), after being nearly metaphorically and bureaucratically “sunk” by a combination of an underperforming deck gun and atrociously expensive ammo that...

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How Spam Filters Shaped the Field of Adversarial ML

The 2000s spam arms race was an early stress test for adversarial ML. Spammers learned to manipulate inputs without seeing the model, close feedback loops with tracking pixels, and poison...

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Vibe Coding is Garbage, But the Fever Dream Has Just Begun

Vibe coding is garbage in and garbage out, but it will develop faster than Will Smith eating spaghetti videos of circa 2023

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Purple Pileus Effect

Two uncanny tales explore terror as a psychological force rather than true supernatural presence. Red Room shows fear overwhelming a rational man in a supposedly haunted chamber where extinguishing candles...

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Apple TV's Widow's Bay is Stephen King with a side of Jaws

Apple TV's Widow's Bay is Stephen King with a side of Jaws

The star and showrunner of Widow's Bay unpack their influences in an interview with Polygon

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Tenstorrent’s Galaxy Blackhole AI servers escape the event horizon

RISC-V-based systems pack 32 Blackhole accelerators in a 6U, $110K chassis Tenstorrent on Tuesday announced the general availability of its Galaxy Blackhole AI compute platform.…

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2 months ago

Meta Thought It Had a $2 Billion Deal for AI Startup Manus — Then China Said No

Beijing ordered the cancellation of Meta's acquisition of Manus over concerns that valuable AI technology could leak to a geopolitical rival.

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Subscription Fatigue Is Real — Try These 4 Alternatives to Keep Customers Without Charging Them Every Month

As subscription fatigue grows, brands must rethink retention strategies beyond monthly billing. Here are a few innovative, value-driven ways to build loyalty and recurring engagement without locking customers into another...

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2 months ago

Testing the Physics of Fear

A rational man spends the night in a supposedly haunted red room to disprove superstition. As candles mysteriously extinguish one by one, darkness engulfs him, triggering panic and collapse. He...

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Scientists Experimenting With Quantum Effect That Some Fear Could Cause Chain Reaction That Ends Entire Universe

Scientists Experimenting With Quantum Effect That Some Fear Could Cause Chain Reaction That Ends Entire Universe

What could possibly go wrong? The post Scientists Experimenting With Quantum Effect That Some Fear Could Cause Chain Reaction That Ends Entire Universe appeared first on Futurism.

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Nine Days Outside Existence

A schoolteacher disappears in a chemical explosion and returns nine days later physically inverted—his organs and handedness reversed. He claims he traveled outside normal space into a dim, alien world...

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Spider-Noir will premiere 2 days early — but not on Prime Video

Spider-Noir will premiere 2 days early — but not on Prime Video

MGM+ subscribers have lucked out: they'll be able to access Spider-Noir two days earlier than the Prime Video date of May 27.

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The CEO of Taskrabbit Says You Can Earn $200K a Year on the Side Hustle Platform. Here Are Her Tips to Maximize Earnings.

TaskRabbit earnings vary widely, with some Taskers doing a couple of gigs a week while others work multiple jobs per day.

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This "Dangerous" AI Model Just Got Hacked

This "Dangerous" AI Model Just Got Hacked

The AI model Anthropic said was “too dangerous” to release to the public… just reportedly got hacked by unauthorized users 😳 Anthropic says there’s no evidence the unauthorized access impacted...

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Can a 5-Year Investment Plan Actually Build Meaningful Wealth?

A 5-year investment plan won’t create massive wealth overnight, but it can build a solid financial foundation. With the right mix of equity, fixed-income, and disciplined contributions, investors can beat...

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LLM Style Slop is Absolutely Everywhere

LLM Style Slop is Absolutely Everywhere

Epistemic status: something of a rant. Is not meant to make claims about the general capabilities (or lack thereof) of LLMs (beyond their prose), but observations about how society seems...

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Brussels orders Google to share Android's AI sandbox with the other kids

DMA enforcers want rival assistants to get same deep device access as Gemini Those pencil pushers at the European Commission are drawing up measures to ensure Google opens up its...

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