Bot Farms, Fake Accounts, and Deep-Pocketed Donors: Inside One Nation’s Online Machine
One Nation’s 2026 online surge is best explained by four distinct layers: coordinated real supporters on Facebook, foreign AI-generated fake-news…
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AI Chatbots Are Asking for More Trust Than They Deserve
Signal president Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots “are not your friends,” and her point is concrete: the more these products…
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Japan Moved Eastward by up to 5.3 Meters in the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake
Japan moved eastward by up to 5.3 meters in the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake, with the largest shift measured…
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John Jumper Is Leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic
John Jumper, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate who led AlphaFold at Google DeepMind, said on June 19, 2026,…
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Some Microbiome Products Help Selected Ageing Outcomes, but Broad Anti-ageing Benefits Remain Unproven
Prebiotics and probiotics can help some specific outcomes in older adults, but there is no good evidence yet that prebiotics,…
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Amazon’s AI Chips Are a Cost Wedge Inside AWS, Not a Near-term Nvidia Replacement
Amazon’s AI-chip push matters first as an AWS pricing and deployment lever, not as a sudden replacement for Nvidia. The…
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SpaceX Is Overpaying Wildly for Cursor
SpaceX’s reported deal for the right to acquire Cursor at a $60 billion price looks drastically overvalued because it prices…
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Times Beach Became the Abandoned-town Case That Defined Superfund
Times Beach, Missouri is still the classic example of a town that had to be abandoned because dioxin contamination, amplified…
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The Milky Way Has a Thin Disk, a Thick Disk, and a Huge Halo
The Milky Way’s thin disk is about 700 light-years high, its thick disk is about 3,000 light-years high, and its…
