
BBC - 1 day 5 hours ago
As the price of Bitcoin sinks once more, here's a guide to some of the trickiest crypto terms.

Newser - 1 day 6 hours ago
Humans may have just lost web traffic bragging rights to the bots. Cloudflare says automated systems, including AI "agents" that roam the web with little human input, now generate 57.3% of all HTTP requests to HTML content, edging out humans at 42.7%, per NBC News . "That happened faster...

The Guardian - 1 day 6 hours ago
As demand for cobalt, gold and other minerals grows, mining is accelerating deforestation in the Congo basin and increasing the risk of deadly Ebola outbreaks For decades after the discovery of Ebolavirus in 1976, outbreaks of the disease were relatively small and contained, affecting a few hundred people at most. Not any more. In recent years, outbreaks of Ebola have been much larger, affecting thousands and even tens of thousands of people across multiple countries. The 2014 outbreak of Ebola...

Newser - 1 day 6 hours ago
Graduation season has a new soundtrack a chorus of boos. In a New York Times opinion piece, Molly Jong-Fast dissects why students are jeering commencement speakers who won't stop hyping artificial intelligence to a crowd staring down debt, a shaky job market, and shrinking entry-level opportunities. "Think of this from...

ABC News - 1 day 8 hours ago
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is warning that foreign artificial intelligence platforms could be used against Canadians...

NBC News - 1 day 13 hours ago
NBC News, Gadi Schwartz talks to CEO of Cowboy Space Corp. Baiju Bhatt about his startup and his hopes for launching an AI data center on a rocket.

BBC - 1 day 16 hours ago
Instead of throwing away byproducts of food processing, fermentation is making them valuable.

The New Yorker - 1 day 16 hours ago
From the daily newsletter: Why do basketball players and regular guys stretch the truth about how tall they are?...

NY Post - 1 day 19 hours ago
Hochul has thrown cold water on statewide restrictions recently, saying permitting should be up to localities.

New York Times - 1 day 19 hours ago
Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada during a demonstration at a Toronto hospital on Thursday. "Canadian A.I. adoption will be prudent, pragmatic and pro-worker," he said.

The Guardian - 1 day 21 hours ago
PM says Britons are reasonable, tolerant people' and backs MP's legal action against Grok firm over fake sexualised images UK politics live latest updates Elon Musk is "interfering in our politics" and attempting to create division, Keir Starmer has said, in a significant toughening of government language about the X owner. The prime minister's comments come after weeks of posts by Musk on his social media platform about the murder of Henry Nowak , many of which have used far-right...

The Conversation - 2 days 2 hours ago
A team of researchers worked grueling, hot hours in the desert to understand the history of life in Earth's oceans after a major extinction event.

The Conversation - 2 days 2 hours ago
Authoritarian governments, including the Trump administration, are reorienting AI safety provisions away from protecting the public toward coercing support for the regime.

The Conversation - 2 days 2 hours ago
Ben Franklin led an effort to print paper bills in the American colonies, after a coin shortage constrained the economy.

Vox - 2 days 3 hours ago
Elon Musk speaks during a video interview in Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 18, 2026. | Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images Welcome to the era of the big three. We're not talking rappers here although according to Kendrick Lamar, it's " just big me " we're talking AI companies: Anthropic, SpaceX, and OpenAI. These three leading artificial intelligence companies are all expected to go public this year. Elon Musk's SpaceX, which recently acquired another Musk company , xAi, is on...

GeekSpin - 2 days 4 hours ago
An email inviting you to a party might seem harmless, but it could also be part of a growing online threat that's prompting fresh concern from federal regulators. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a warning about a scam that uses familiar-looking invitation messages to lure users into taking a risky next step without […] Read the original article here: FTC issues warning over fake party invitation scam...

Vox - 2 days 4 hours ago
The Americans were closing in, the situation was getting more dangerous by the minute and President Xi Jinping was waiting for my recommendation. The standoff began in May, when the US announced a package of anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles to Taiwan that would significantly upgrade the island's ability to repel a Chinese invasion. We ordered massive military exercises in the region as a show of force. The US soon responded by sending the USS Abraham Lincoln to lead its own exercises with...

The New Yorker - 2 days 5 hours ago
Diametric opposites on a globe: nine letters.

Newser - 2 days 7 hours ago
A British lawmaker is taking Elon Musk's AI company to court over what she says it helped create: sexually explicit fakes of her. Per the Financial Times , Labour MP Jess Asato filed a claim on Wednesday in London's High Court accusing xAI now a SpaceX subsidiary of breaching data protection...