For nearly a century, a strange band of thousands of holes carved into a Peruvian hillside has defied explanation. Stretching for nearly a mile (1.5 km) along the edge of the Pisco Valley, Monte Sierpe – "serpent mountain" appears to be a deliberate, repetitive…

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In late 2017, while traveling to Moscow on official duty, I experienced a sudden, debilitating health incident. After a long and arduous battle with the

“Preface to the highest stakes negotiations in history.”

Companies including Google, Microsoft and Palantir were listed as targets by Iranian media as the conflict with Israel and the US spills into digital infrastructure

AI-led job interviews are on the rise and AI reporter Hayden Field speaks to three different kinds to see how they work.

Britain is ending the centuries-old tradition of hereditary aristocrats sitting in Parliament’s House of Lords.

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Fungal electronics is a family of living electronic devices made of mycelium bound composites or pure mycelium. Fungal electronic devices are capable of changing their impedance and generating...

We find that roughly half of test-passing SWE-bench Verified PRs written by recent AI agents would not be merged into main by repo maintainers. A naive interpretation of benchmark scores may lead one to overestimate how useful agents are without more elicitation…

Outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken missile strike, according to the ongoing military investigation, which undercuts President Trump’s assertion that Iran could be to blame.

Atlassian said on Wednesday it would lay off around 10% of its workforce, or 1,600 employees, to push into artificial intelligence and enterprise sales.

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Let's suppose I wanted to answer a question: is the tool X useful for the task Y. If I were scientific about this, I would analyze the properties of tool X and develop a model, and the task Y and the requirements for it and develop a model, and I would us...

I have a complicated relationship with Hacker News. The site is the most important aggregator of geek news and a major source of traffic to this blog. At the same time, it has a fair number of toxic commenters, making it a dependable source of insults hurled…

Urea rose to 585 USD/T on March 10, 2026, up 0.09% from the previous day. Over the past month, Urea's price has risen 29.71%, and is up 52.15% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark…

Now that we’ve covered the contenders for this test, I will cover how this test will be performed and go through the results. It was a long time for me, but for you, it’ll just be a few…