Gen Z dated strategically—dating people 25% more attractive and successful than them to climb the social ladder. Gen Alpha, it seems, has decided the whole thing is too much effort. Instead, teen boys

Nearly 50 years ago, a Seattle cafe owner traveled to Italy to try his hand at importing espresso machines. His trip changed the course of coffee history in the United States. While in Florence, that

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A US special forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was arrested and charged for allegedly betting on that operation, netting him $400,000 in profits. According

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Billionaires are becoming an even rarer species in California. A proposed one-time 5% tax on their wealth has led several of the state’s wealthiest residents, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Go

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The ‘turnpike’ toll road system deserves far more credit for improving roads in eighteenth-century England and Wales, a new study argues. Analysis of nearly 100 travellers’ diaries reveals that turnpi

Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are seen in handcuffs after landing at a Manhattan helipad, escorted by heavily armed Federal agents as they make their way into an armored car en route to a

Microsoft Defender Security Research has observed a widespread phishing campaign leveraging the device code authentication flow to compromise organizational accounts at scale. While traditional device

Ypsilanti Township in Michigan is attempting to cut off the flow of water to a planned data center that would power a new generation of nuclear weapons research . On Wednesday, the Township’s Board of

Thousands of Samsung workers took to the streets today outside the company’s main chip fab, demanding a greater share of AI profits. According to the police, some 30,000 people attended the rally in P

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United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Acting Attorney General for the United States, Todd Blanche, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), Kash Pa

The challenges of building for modern AI infrastructure have fundamentally shifted. The modern frontier of machine learning now requires leveraging distributed systems, spanning thousands of accelerat

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Anthropic has Mythos, but only a select few have seen it. Now, OpenAI has a model that, by all accounts, seems rather comparable—but they're releasing it freely. Like Mythos, GPT 5.5 delivers a step c

The talk may be of God, but what’s really at stake—as usual— is Mammon. Tech lords’ ferocious opposition to government interference reflects a collective financial investment in AI that’s quite litera

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A committee takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom. -- Parkinson

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In Brief Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement buyouts for the first time in its 51-year history, per reports from CNBC and Bloomberg. According to an internal memo, employees will be eligible

For months, I spent my Wednesday evenings in a tin tunnel just outside Edinburgh, wearing a ridiculously looking (and equally uncomfortable) jacket. I'd lie on the floor and count breaths, then walk d

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