2025-05-13
The Dead Internet is Very Real and Very Profitable
The "dead internet theory" claims bots dominate online content—and there's truth to it. AI-generated media, fake engagement, and ad fraud are booming industries.
INE Security Alert: Top 5 Takeaways From RSAC 2025
INE Security is addressing how a comprehensive training platform directly addresses the five most critical security imperatives that dominated this year's conference conversations. AI-driven threats, multi-cloud vulnerabilities, and increasingly sophisticated...
A cute Minecraft-y clicker game. Big plus: finishing it doesn’t take forever....
A cute Minecraft-y clicker game. Big plus: finishing it doesn’t take forever. 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →
Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back
Two years after partnering with OpenAI to automate marketing and customer service jobs, financial tech startup Klarna says it's hungry for meat again. Once gunning to be OpenAI CEO Sam...
Forget the JAS 39 Gripen: Cancelling F-35 Deal Would Be a ‘Colossal Mistake’ for Canada
Key Point – Canada’s potential cancellation or reduction of its 88-unit F-35 purchase due to political tensions and with the US under President Trump would be a significant strategic misstep....
Even 19 years later, Oblivion's Whodunit quest is RPG chaos at its best
Oblivion’s best quest teaches us the beauty of making a mess.
Forget Psychedelics. Everyone’s Microdosing Ozempic Now. (In Hollywood, at least.) “They are...
Forget Psychedelics. Everyone’s Microdosing Ozempic Now. (In Hollywood, at least.) “They are doing it not primarily for weight loss…but for the surprising and widely touted side benefits, particularly its anti-inflammatory...
The Air Force’s New B-52J Bomber Just Might Be Too Expensive and Too Old
Key Points and Summary: The US Air Force’s B-52J modernization initiative, designed to keep the venerable bomber relevant into the 2050s with new engines and advanced systems, faces a significant...
As Crisis at Tesla Deepens, a Hail Mary Is Turning Out to Be a Major Bust
Tesla investors were hopeful that the latest refresh of the EV maker's bestselling Model Y would breathe new life into plummeting sales. But say it ain't so. The addition to...
The Great A-10 Warthog Reboot Was Simply Astounding
The A-10 Was Built to Punch Soviet Armored Formations — but Found a Second Life in Iraq and Afghanistan The post The Great A-10 Warthog Reboot Was Simply Astounding appeared...
When It's 3AM and Your App is on Fire: How Distributed Tracing Saves the Day
Distributed tracing tracks requests as they propagate through distributed systems. Tracing helped Shopify identify a database contention issue invisible in logs and metrics. Uber encountered riders experiencing timeouts only in...
“ICE has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished.” Reminder: ICE...
“ICE has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished.” Reminder: ICE was formed in 2003 by the Homeland Security Act, which was criticized at the time for enabling exactly...
‘Arsenal Bomber’: The B-1B Lancer Could Fight Russia or China from Long-Range
The B-1B Lancer Bomber is the Air Force's Stand-off Arsenal Bomber for a War with China or Russia. The post ‘Arsenal Bomber’: The B-1B Lancer Could Fight Russia or China...
Educational Byte: Byzantine Generals Problem in Crypto —or There’s a Traitor Among Us
In distributed systems like Bitcoin, there's no single authority making decisions. This means the network has to find ways to agree on the correct version of the transaction history. Byzantine...
A Minecraft Movie is out on digital so now your kid can throw popcorn around the living room instead of the theater when the chicken jockey shows up
You can now rent the blockbuster (haha, blocks, get it) on Prime Video or Apple TV.
LessWrong Community Weekend 2025- Applications are open
Published on May 13, 2025 6:55 PM GMTWe are open for Applications: https://airtable.com/appkj2FkJDGMtM2MA/pagiUldderZqbuBaP/form>>> All infos on the main event page <<<Please help spread the word!Join the 12th Less Wrong Community...
F-16XL Fighter Has a Message for the U.S. Military
Key Points – The F-16XL, an experimental derivative of the F-16 developed in the early 1980s, featured a radical cranked-arrow delta wing that nearly doubled the wing area of the...
Nintendo's lawsuit isn't slowing Palworld down as it prepares for a summer collab with Terraria
The update will also bring new Pals and islands.
Another South China Sea? Beijing’s Yellow Sea Tactics Make South Korea Nervous
China’s Encroachment In the Yellow Sea Is Making South Korea Nervous: As if tensions aren’t already running high between China and its neighbors, Beijing is provoking yet another crisis. China...
Cybertruck Owner Brutally Mocked by Dozens of Kids After Breaking Down at Baseball Practice
Get Frunk Few things in this world are more brutal than the mockery of children — and an Ohio Cybertruck owner has learned that the hardest way. As flagged by...
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