Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern"

Discover the history of Magic Eye 3D images, how they were created in the 90s, and how to make your own using a PC program

The Swiss lived in splendid isolation for years. Tariffs have shattered that complacency

Because Nvidia became one of the most valuable companies in the world, there are now two books explaining its rise and extolling the genius of Jensen Huang, Tae Kim's The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the making of a tech giant, and Steven Witt's The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

Building a personal archive of the web, the slow way

the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube: nearly one in 10 of the fastest growing channels globally consist of mass-produced, surreal AI-generated videos

1910: The Year the Modern World Lost Its Mind

South Korean military is witnessing a significant transformation as its size has decreased by 20% over the past six years. This reduction is predominantly attributed to a continuing decline in the male population, raising concerns about national defense capabilities

This kind of interaction is common on Hood 2 Farm, a unique and genuinely inspired YouTube series about the rapper’s attempt to become the steward of his own farm. Across eight 30-minute episodes, he meets farmers from around the UK and learns basics such as milking cows, shearing sheep and driving tractors

‘Commodifying themselves’: the ordinary people posting Instagram sponcon to profit off friends

The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth.
This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users

A debate has erupted in Denmark over the fate of a mermaid statue that is to be removed from public view after being decried as “ugly and pornographic” and “a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like”

Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet

Four alternatives to Spotify: swapping is easier than you think

Artists and listeners are leaving the platform after its CEO invested in defence technology. Here are your options

The motherboard is known as the nsOne, meaning Not Sony’s One since this is the first motherboard built by a single person outside of Sony. It’s not based on any FPGAs or emulators and is completely compatible with all of the original hardware, chips, and other circuitry of the original Playstation

I travelled the globe to document how humans became addicted to faking the natural world. Here’s what I found

I’ve had it with Microsoft
The company is deceptively raising prices on existing customers to fund its AI spending

it's now estimated that the world is now installing one gigawatt worth of solar energy infrastructure every 15 hours — or about the output of a new coal plant

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‘Profound concern’ as scientists say extreme heat ‘now the norm’ in UK