Archeological data with AI- and physics-based modeling explain typhoon-induced disasters in inland China around 3000 yr B.P.Science Advances, 12.10 (3/4/25)Ke Ding, Siyang Li, Aijun Ding, Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Dazhi Xi, Xin Huang, Sijia Lou, Xiaodong Tang, Xin Qiu, Lejun He … | Continue reading
Sikorsky subsidiary Robinson’s R66 Turbinetruck looks like many other light cargo helicopters, yet something about it seems a little off. But what? Oh, right – instead of a cockpit, the aircraft has a pair of clamshell doors and no place for a crew.Continue ReadingCategory: Milit … | Continue reading
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Five of the major AI chatbots were tested. All of them regularly proposed dietary plans akin to skipping an entire meal each day. | Continue reading
Some warnings feel more like invitations | Continue reading
MIT astronomers are developing a new way to detect, monitor, and mitigate the threats posed by smaller asteroids to our critical space infrastructure. | Continue reading
MIT professors Amos Winter and Nikolai Zeldovich are honored for exceptional undergraduate teaching. | Continue reading
"We are outraged that ... MDEQ chose to bulldoze through a decision that silenced the very residents most harmed by it." Elon Musk's xAI granted power plant permit despite backlash from nearby residents: 'Families … will be forced to live with this' first appeared on The Cool Dow … | Continue reading
The death of the EV1 was reported prematurely according to GM, which is preparing to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1990's electric car this year. The post Did GM Just Use The EV1 To Troll Ford, Again? Or Tesla? Or Both? appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
Our February update on EV sales shows: Australian plugin penetration grew from 16% in January 2026 to about 19% in February. That is a sales total of 11,100 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and 5,854 plugin hybrid EVs (PHEVs). Almost 17,000 Australian motorists joined the electri … | Continue reading
Amid Soaring Energy & Gas Prices, Trump Admin Draws Far Fewer Bids Than Dec. Sale NEW ORLEANS — Gulf and environmental groups responded to the Trump administration’s latest large-scale sell-off of public waters to the oil-and-gas industry in the Gulf of Mexico today. The Trump ad … | Continue reading
Launching military action without Congress is troubling enough. Doing so at a time when faith in the Constitution is collapsing makes it far more dangerous. | Continue reading
In February, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: February 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog. | Continue reading
I recently updated Firefox’s beta build and noticed that the new AI-powered ‘Smart Window’ feature is looking a lot more fully-formed than last time I tried it. This feature is, as I’m sure you’re aware, part of Mozilla’s pivot to AI in Firefox. An AI kill-switch was added in Fir … | Continue reading
Tech companies should focus on protecting our soldiers, not fighting the Pentagon, writes Ben Van Roo. | Continue reading
Republican lawmakers face no penalty for bigoted remarks against Muslims, so don’t be surprised when the hate spreads to other groups, writes River Page. | Continue reading
Pickup truck campers and camping toppers have been growing lighter and lighter through smart, compact design, but few approach the featheriness of the Thaircamper. The inflatable camper weighs as little as some fiberglass truck caps, but instead of barely offering enough space to … | Continue reading
But weakening carmakers’ next target in 2030 is likely to delay EVs reaching price parity with combustion vehicles. The average price of an electric car in the EU has fallen for the first time since 2020, driven by the release of more affordable models to comply with the bloc’s c … | Continue reading
Leaving the autoresearch loop going, the LLM was able to make 7.8% progress on the distillation task. I saw Andrej Karpathy’s Autoresearch results the other day and decided to give it a shot on a relatively difficult task: distilling a retrieval/reranking model into a much … | Continue reading
The Iranian singer Googoosh outlines what a secular, democratic Iran could look like after decades of repression. | Continue reading
A Ukrainian actress found her name in the recently released Epstein files, and made a shocking discovery about how she got there, writes Tanya Lukyanova. | Continue reading
T&E and partner NGOs have published guidance on the Performance Regulation — a key law shaping how climate and environmental spending will be tracked in the next EU budget. The ‘technical reference document’ was developed together with WWF, CEE Bankwatch Network, ClientEarth, CAN … | Continue reading
Gabe Fleisher explains how a handful of anti-war commentators convinced the media there was a MAGA rebellion that polling says doesn’t exist. | Continue reading
The starting point for evaluating Oʻahu’s waste-to-energy plant is the fully electrified energy system developed earlier in this series. Once overseas aviation fuel, international maritime bunkering, and military energy consumption are removed from the accounting, and once transp … | Continue reading
Paul Verhoeven's misunderstood cult-classic Starship Troopers is getting a revival in the form of a retro first-person shooter. | Continue reading
Iran’s regional isolation has created a rare strategic opening for Washington to build a durable security architecture linking Israel and the Gulf, writes Zineb Riboua. | Continue reading
As we announced and TechCrunch covered, my.wordpress.net has soft-launched. What this means is you need to fundamentally shift how you think about WordPress. From the beginning, WordPress has always been open source, giving you freedom, liberty, autonomy, and digital sovereignty. … | Continue reading
"Honestly, sometimes trucking companies bring this crap on themselves." Trucker captures photo of startling trend taking over roads: '[As if it] wasn't distracting enough' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Last year, Reggie’s Portra, which uses Classic Chrome, was the number one most popular Fujifilm Recipe on Fuji X Weekly, and it’s on track to be number one this year, too. The creator of that Recipe is Reggie Ballesteros (website, YouTube, Instagram), and he just recently publish … | Continue reading
The Grammarly Expert Review feature included the names of writers and literary figures without consulting them first. | Continue reading
Edtech zombies may live out there somewhere, but are oft forgotten, maybe now arising out of some obscure LLM garbling, but heck, research papers can summon them too. Who better to shine a light in the creepy fields than Stephen Downes? His March 1o OLDaily post surfaced Open Edu … | Continue reading
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 in my general directi … | Continue reading
The Verge’s headline sums up Mark Gurman’s latest report on Apple’s folding phone quite succinctly: ‘iPhone Fold rumor: iPad-like multitasking, but no iPad apps and no Face ID’ Though the updated layout could make multitasking easier, Gurman reports that the folding iPhone won’t … | Continue reading
"Zuckerberg found a way to truly exploit everything about these platforms." Mark Zuckerberg's Meta under fire after California resident makes disturbing claims: 'Truly a menace' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Scientists from the Nature Conservancy have published a study in the journal Environmental Research — Health that finds nearly a third of people alive today are unable to work outdoors safely in the higher temperatures prevalent in much of the world. Rising temperatures, driven b … | Continue reading
Missed this earlier in the week: The Tournament of Books is underway! “Every March, the Tournament of Books is a month-long battle royale among the year’s best novels.” | Continue reading
When I re-read my 2006 piece “And Oranges” today before linking to it, I paused when I read this: And while it is easy to find ways to complain that Apple is not open enough — under-documented and undocumented security updates and system revisions, under-documented and undocu … | Continue reading
Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading superapp, providing a suite of services that bring essential needs to users throughout the region. Its offerings include ride-hailing, food delivery, parcel delivery, mobile payments, and more. With safety, efficiency, and user-centered design at … | Continue reading
"A get well soon Jello" message is up at Superiority Burger on Avenue A. Jello Biafra, the original singer of Dead Kennedys, suffered a hemorrhagic stroke on Saturday and remains hospitalized in stable condition. SB owner Brooks Headley — a former drummer in hardcore bands Born A … | Continue reading
The correct order is Fn, Control, Option, Shift, Command — regardless if you’re using the words or the glyphs. | Continue reading
"It may be that in REM, this gloaming between waking consciousness and the unconscious, we practice the possible into the real... It may be that we evolved to dream ourselves into reality — a laboratory of consciousness that began in the bird brain." | Continue reading
Read the room | Continue reading
"Not all trees are the same." Scientists find hidden world under one of the oldest trees first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
# Tracy Durnell writes that she hadn’t considered "a textual equivalent of negative space". the places in which the reader might step back and consider their own examples or anticipate what point the author is trying to make On reflection, this is such an obvious concept—most w … | Continue reading
Setting up a cheap home server and learning about networks. | Continue reading
In 2023–2024, I wrote a TON of articles about the NEVI program, or the money from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that was supposed to massively expand highway EV charging in the United States. Having at least one charging station every 50 miles (with some exceptions) was going … | Continue reading
If you’ve been watching the news, you know things are chaotic overseas. With the current conflict effectively shutting down the Strait of Hormuz and tankers taking massive detours around Africa, the global energy market is having a complete meltdown. We’re already seeing the impa … | Continue reading
Financial Times (gift link): The US energy department has warned petrol and diesel prices are unlikely to recede to prewar levels until mid-2027 at the earliest, ratcheting up costs for industries from trucking and farming to airlines and retailers. Official figures released on T … | Continue reading