The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.

In much of the world, owning a lakeside home is desirable. But in the Dutch town of Loosdrecht, residents live within the lake itself, with houses on their own impossibly skinny islands: The unique geography is of course manmade, the result of peat mining.…

So How Is AI Drug Discovery Doing, Really?

Chinese researchers are testing DREADDs, a gene therapy to turn down neuronal activity, in the clinic

Solitary work, creativity and larval ideas

Hello, Thunderbird community and followers of the blog! This is Jesse from the design team. Today’s post is about our recent journey in redesigning the calendar portion of Thunderbird, and what you can expect us to deliver in the near future. The calendar…

AI 3D modelling for makers. Describe a bracket, clip, holder, or replacement part — get a print-ready STL in seconds. Free, no account needed.

The IEEE Life Fellow is remembered as a founder of the field

First we reinvented statistics. Then finance. Now we're reinventing program management and calling it agentic orchestration.

For many years, I sometimes discovered that commands I was sure I had run were no longer present in my Z shell history file (~/.zsh_history). In this article, I will show you how I tracked down the bug. Spoiler: ultimately, patching Zsh to make it crash loudly…

French PR firm Havas Media, which runs the lion’s share of Israel’s FARA-registered foreign influence work in the U.S., appears to have stood up an “institute” aimed at feeding LLMs positive information about Israel via one of its subcontractors.

Documents from law enforcement spy centers show the government is warning cops of "extensive and ongoing chatter on social media" about methods to "physically destroy Flock LPR cameras."

A free Android logbook for blood sugar. No account, no internet, no cloud — everything stays on the phone.

1977 narrowband radio signal from SETI

Banned words list 2025: The federal government is banning a growing number of words to comply with executive orders from President Trump.

Super El Niño continues to strengthen as new forecasts push toward record levels, with Fall and Winter 2026/2027 impacts emerging across the United States, Canada, and Europe

Worldwide AI-chatbot web visits: ChatGPT 76% → 54%. Gemini 6% → 28%. Claude 1% → 9%. This is not monthly users and not revenue. See who took the share →

ESP32-based FM radio with TEA5767 tuner, KY-040 rotary encoder, PAM8403 amplifier, and 0.96" OLED display. Custom PCB design. - turtushig22-blip/tea5767-radio-tuner