Back in the 1970s (and before), parents didn’t stress about our health and safety as much as they do today. It’s not that they cared less – they just didn’t worry obsessively about it. It’s a far guess to say that some of the kids seen bike jumping and being…

HS2 has become a case study in how not to build infrastructure. But what if we’d taken a different path entirely? In this post, I imagine how the Swiss would have done it: starting with the timetable, not the project. It’s a counterfactual, but it’s not…

China is “set up to hit grand slams,” longtime Chinese energy expert David Fishman told Fortune. “The U.S., at best, can get on base.”

A Discworld short story copyright Terry Pratchett 2002.

How Chinas strategic focus on 3D printing and patent incentives since 2020 created a "minefield".

: Or, more? Eventually, AI companies will stop selling their services as a loss leader, and then the AI "cost-savings" will disappear like dew on a hot summer morning

Seamlessly create, customize, and deploy AI agents with Coplay. Cutting-edge intelligence frameworks, optimized performance, and an intuitive developer experience—all within your Unity environment.

According to a court exhibit, Sig Sauer identified several deadly risks with its P320 pistols as early as 2017.

Across the internet, users rely on browsers and extensions to shape how they experience the web: to protect their privacy, improve accessibility, block harmful or intrusive content, and take control ...

SpaceX wants more money, asks Trump admin to reject state’s broadband grant plan.

The unusual scorecard fits this administration's habit of micromanaging companies and administering loyalty tests.

: You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI

The willingness of those in power to act fairly depends on how easily others can collectively push back against unfair treatment, psychologists have found.

When Murat Draman went scuba diving off the coast of the southern Turkish province of Antalya and saw the temperature in the depths was pushing 30C, it didn't surprise him.

Recent technological advancements have empowered nonhuman entities, such as virtual assistants and humanoid robots, to simulate human intelligence and behavior. This paper investigates how autonomous...

This is based on previous PR (#2787, #2449 and #3154) with work done by @pinpox, @m4w0lf, @Sheap, @bmunro-peralex, @tribut and others I probably missed sorry.
This PR add support for OpenId Connect...

There's something I love about opening a text-only webpage.

They're a refuge from the GDPR cookie banners, the trashy ads, the email opt-ins, and the god...

Recto is a 2D programming language that uses nested rectangles as its core syntax, encoding structure and recursion directly in space instead of a linear stream of text. Recto explores new ways to write, parse, and reason about code—and even natural language—spatially.

Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curio…