Artificial IntelligenceSee all →With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until nowIntroducing Echo, a writing modelOur AI Midwife~
HealthSee all →Bundling life and health insuranceTrump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment~Meta-rational failure (and success) in the covid crisis
Software DevelopmentSee all →An executable specification language based on the temporal logic of actions (TLA)A build system for operating system imagesGrep, but the pattern is a description
Source CodeSee all →A programming language built for WebAssembly GCAn AI tool for separating music into drum, bass, and vocals
TechnologySee all →How a character from 'The Addams Family' is shaping the future of roboticsRevealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face~Amazon plans drone expansion as top exec projects 1 million deliveries~
SecuritySee all →‘We hacked The FBI:’ hackers say they have data on all FBI employees~Researchers used Anthropic's Claude to hack into OpenAI~FBI, coast guard boarded hacked oil tankers heading toward US coast~
MusicSee all →Coltrane's tone circleMy recording of "Je me suis fait tout petit"Building an interactive instrument for a one-of-a-kind festival
OffbeatSee all →‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells usScientists heard a knock at the door. It was a pelican in need of help.Please don’t rearrange our shoes when we turn up, paramedics in Japan urge
ElectronicsSee all →Announcing web serial support in Firefox 151~A fully featured audio DSP firmware for the raspberry pi pico (RP2040) and pico 2 (RP2350)USB cheat sheet
ComicsSee all →Bad Machinery"It's OK, they don't truly 'want' to take over.""something I noticed about working with Fable..."
OpinionSee all →Alexander Berger on X about the relationships between Effective Altruism to AI organizationsBuffered and porous selvesMindful posting~
BooksSee all →The wealthiest—and stealthiest—class in America~Maria Edgeworth sneaked economic theory into her best-selling novels~Crafting Interpreters (2021)
Book ReviewsSee all →Squillions: where’s all the cash?~My journey to the microwave alternate timeline~Infinite Jest extraction~
WarSee all →Russia puts Ukraine’s internet in its sights as attacks on Kyiv infrastructure intensify~Locals flee occupied south Ukraine as hunger deepens~Inside the US ‘kill chain’ that destroyed An Iranian school~
HistorySee all →After work, we’ll have each other~Ordinary Abundance~Clothing, how did they make it? Part I: high fiber~
ChartsSee all →The plunging price of AI~Where is housing slow to build, and is it getting slower? (PDF)The S&P 500's response to the pandemic
LawSee all →Guatemala’s democracy dilemma~Russian sanctions are fueling a Canadian car theft epidemic~Judge to baby: file an asylum application~
US GovernmentSee all →How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation~How Marco Rubio is running Venezuela from afar~Federal agents were told FBI will no longer investigate ICE confrontations~
Academic PapersSee all →The actuary's final word on algorithmic decision making~A case study on emergent cheating and whistleblowing in autonomous research swarms~An environment where multiple AI agents pursue scientific discovery and build a shared literature~
MathematicsSee all →Applied pure mathematicsThe age of wonders and terrors~A beginning for mathematics~
TransportSee all →The US is recruiting gamers to solve its air traffic controller shortage~A thread about the history of streetcars in the US~Mass layoffs hit Haitian workers at airports, nursing homes, schools as protected status ends~
EnergySee all →Dig Energy completes first project with novel geothermal drilling tech~ForeFront Power completes its first Erthos solar energy system for the city of Fresno~How a giant battery is transforming a town centre in Cannington, Ontario~
HousingSee all →Review: SydneyWhy socialists should embrace luxury apartments~Wealthy AI workers send San Francisco house prices soaring~
ScienceSee all →Study shows that the human brain is two separate organs~"Falcopolis" discovered in Angola~Seedless blackberries and cherries that grow on bushes vie to be the future of food~
CrimeSee all →South Africa is at risk of becoming a mafia stateTrump says he has secured a vast U.S. stake in Venezuelan oil industry~TV streaming sticks rent out the user's Internet connection and engage in ad fraud~
FinanceSee all →Nvidia is the central bank of AI~Inside Google’s $200bn Wall Street finance machine for Anthropic~Japanese financial assets abroad, 1996–2025
WorkSee all →The JavaScript / wasm runtime that powers Cloudflare workersCalifornia goat grazing faces crisis after wage change~
PhilosophySee all →The train to crazy townNo cosmic meaningThe purpose of meaning is to get things done
CharitiesSee all →GiveWell makes $276 million grant to fund anti-malaria nets in Democratic Republic of the Congo~Dolly Parton’s other legacy: a fortune given away, dollar by dollar~Ending respiratory infections~
SpaceSee all →NASA’s attempt to save the Swift telescope has failed~50 years ago, cosmic rays may have caused Apollo astronauts to see lights (2023)~India's first privately developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch
EconomicsSee all →The consequences of caste in village India~The effects of the EU’s Cohesion Policy~The great wealth transfer reality check
MilitarySee all →Trump orders Pentagon to redesign US aircraft carrier to use steam catapults to launch jetsU.S. bears brunt of Israel’s missile defense, Pentagon assessments showNew $500m artillery shell plant failed to produce any 155mm parts~
FoodSee all →Some Estonians invite strangers into their back gardens each summer~Yakult ladies are an icon in Japan~Amazon is closing its fresh grocery, go convenience stores~
EducationSee all →How states are streamlining college admissions~Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters~How to ask for help (in an academic context)~
~cryptographySee all →Some thoughts about Anthropic’s new cryptanalysis results~Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude~LLMs can hide text in other text of the same length
ArtSee all →Charles Ross has devoted half a century to building Star Axis, a monolithic celestial observatoryMaking Mouseland~How to make a living as an artist~
TravelSee all →What did banning Airbnbs in NYC accomplish?~'Asia's cleanest village' bans tourists on Sundays~Cambria, California banned fireworks. Then came the dogs~
JournalismSee all →The inside story of Leverage Research 1.0How two Chronicle reporters broke the Eric Swalwell story~Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story~
Real EstateSee all →Why the West stopped making land~Plans for nearly 4,000 homes over Safeways divide Bay Area residents~I tried to sell my house with A.I.
ElectionsSee all →Micah Lasher wins primary to succeed his political mentor in star-studded contest~New York City House primary emerges as key battleground in ‘AI civil war’In Shasta County, the MAGA backlash has begun~