It doesn’t take much to find all sorts of claims online and elsewhere (books, podcasts, diets, advertising) promising wellness and longevity. So many products. So many medications. What About the ...

In the 1950s, a CBS sound engineer named Charley Douglass had a deceptively simple idea. What if you could pipe in pre-recorded laughter into a television broadcast so that audiences at home would ...

The separation of church and state is under attack from familiar quarters. Not only does Texas require a copy of the Ten Commandments to be posted in classrooms, but it has also voted to make ...

The flaw, which impacted Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Cursor and others, let the agent give the human false information on which to make decisions. A security hole within AI dev tools has allowed ...

Poolside released its latest open-weight coding model last Thursday, July 2, and developers already running the predecessor on OpenRouter have five days to upgrade before it disappears. The San ...

Kevin Warsh completed his first FOMC meeting earlier this month as Federal Reserve chairman. He said he believes the Fed has handicapped itself by limiting the usefulness of key financial data. His ...

Nvidia’s latest announcement goes a step further, proposing to greatly reduce the immense amounts of water (300,000 gallons per day for a mid-size facility) guzzled by data centers to keep their ...

Bob Starr was delighted with his vibe-coded website. “Boomberg” showed how much US tax money is going to tech companies, and Starr launched it online immediately after making it. It wasn’t until ...

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WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) has issued a memorandum that incorrectly purports that neither federal disability rights laws nor Supreme Court precedent ...

Exactly two months after releasing a preview of Claude Design to subscribers, Anthropic has begun rolling out a major update for its design assistant that brings better integration with its other apps ...

Your browser does not support the video element. Your browser does not support the video element. Pylon CEO Marty Kausas had to make a difficult choice: scale back ...