What are scam centres – explained in 30 seconds

Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have become havens for the multibillion dollar scam industry, which has proliferated in the region in recent years

We’re learning more about what vitamin D does to our bodies

The sunshine vitamin could affect your immune system and heart health

Three years on, ChatGPT still isn't what it was cracked up to be – and it probably never will be

another supply chain attack has hit the npm registry in what Amazon describes as "one of the largest package flooding incidents in open source registry history"

At the same time, though, the scope of private life itself seems to be shrinking. Our experiences are flattened by the mass culture that everyone consumes, regurgitates, remixes (and that AI is now beginning to remix for us). Social science and marketing—combined with coercive technology—turn what seem, from the first-person perspective, like deeply personal choices into statistically predictable and controllable behaviors

What makes a great CEO? What should you avoid? Find out!

Everyone knows what the Internet is. But do you know how it actually works?

odd question: what does it mean to buy something?

A month. Reviewing slop produced by an LLM. What are the cost savings of paying ChatGPT $20 a month and then having a literal team of engineers try and review and merge the code?

CaptainObviousStrikes, Folge #85331

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”

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

"...his customers are searching for a more “active” listening experience"

If people understand what large language models are and are not; what they can and cannot do; what work, interactions, and parts of life they should—and should not—replace, they may be spared its worst consequences

Explainer: India-Pakistan military reprisals escalate: what we know so far

Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?

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

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

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?