[This is a guest post by Jeremy Avigad. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] “Mathematics underwent, in the nineteenth century, …

10/5 update: • * Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are now doing quarantine health checks at the Russian border to contain the spre…

We are sharing two candidate magnets for next-generation computer memory, found by a team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents. Both are predicted to have zero net magnetism yet still sort electrons by spin: one a new compound we designed, the other a material first…

How OpenAI is approaching text watermarking under EU rules. Learn where watermarks apply, how detection works, and why access starts with researchers.

When you want to use Linux, you do so in two ways. You either use the command-line interface and type out every single command, or you use the graphical user interface, which is much more user-friendly (on average). However, there is a third way, and it's…

The flattest walking or cycling route between any two places in San Francisco, and every route between it and the shortest one.

The federal government launched a nationwide consultation earlier this year to try and determine why boys and men’s health is suffering. Data they reported on shows a country of young men self-reporting higher rates of depression and anxiety — and experts…

Greenvolt Group has started construction of a 600 MW/2.4 GWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Poland, with commercial operations targeted for the end of 2027.

The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections.

What changes when a tool doesn't have to pay for itself. Years ago, if an app annoyed me, I shrugged and dealt with it.

A look at the history of visual changes to example.com.

The effortless way to control AI

A tool to create visual themes, customize components, and build interfaces with your coding agent.

OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.

We have many ways to ensure software quality. Unit testing. Fuzz testing. Integration testing. And so forth.   I'd like to propose a method that was unthinkable before: ephemeral testing. (Ephemeral is a fancy word for 'throw away' or 'temporary'.)   You…

Generative AI has been promoted as the technology that could transform education by providing every student a personal tutor. We provide some of the first large-scale experimental evidence, from a two-year cluster randomized trial in 18 Tennessee middle schools…

Prices of public records tracking cops' use of Flock go up as backlash swells.

The one where I go crawling back.