42,000 people died of Covid or Covid related complications – a death toll surpassed only by the two world wars. Yet the country has no worthy memorial to the victims

I think of AI as alternative intelligence – and its capacity to be ‘other’ is just what the human race needs

What the size of your book collection says about you

American travelers are booking fewer domestic flights in another warning sign for the economy

The United States has been added to the Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries that the global civil rights watchdog believes are currently experiencing a rapid decline in civic freedoms

The Strategic Crypto Swindle

A bitcoin reserve would be a government-backed grift

Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did

The performance issues don't stop at sluggish response times. During these standard use cases, my iPad frequently overheated, making it uncomfortable to hold and raising concerns about potential long-term hardware damage

Nine is a deceptively simple demo breaking free of the Commodore 64's famous 8 hardware sprite limit. Its creator has made an accessible explanation of the numerous tricks used to make it possible

That’s why I believe a new approach is needed—a concept I call the “Digital-Mittelstand.”

The world's richest man fakes his skills at a computer game

Apple has stopped offering its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), to new users in the UK, and will require existing users to disable the feature at some point in the future. The move comes following reports earlier this month that UK security services requested Apple grant them backdoor access to worldwide users’ encrypted backups

What all this says is that simple decisions are best made by careful conscious thought. But for complicated decisions, the best choices may result from “deliberation without paying attention,” that is letting the thinking be done by the unconscious mind

Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed

One Ethereum wallet spent 500 ETH to spread a sinister message through Etherscan. The message, alleging mind control and malicious actions, burned around $1.38M to a dead-end address to spread the allegations about a firm named Kuande Investments

crypto media firm Decrypt reached out to a spokesperson for the Las Vegas Sphere and discovered that no such deal had been reached

‘The camera is more impactful than a rifle’: the married Ukrainian artists who filmed the war – and are now up for an Oscar

everything you need know about the wild world of meme coins

Is Software Abstraction Killing Civilization?

Or: Jonathan Blow is wrong but also right and we still need to prevent the collapse of civilization

Which Country has 18 out of 25 of the world's top landowners? When so much land and resources is owned by so few, what are the ramifications?