The internet you grew up on isn't dying.
A commercial veneer glued on top of it is

Film created by Massive Attack (working with US photo artist thefinaleye). This montage work portrays a momentous American epoch that is yet to be named, and comes in the aftermath of the largest public protests in American history - focused on opposition to ICE raids, the militarisation of domestic forces, and state authoritarianism

Guter Zug!

Hello, World

NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window on April 2, 2026, after completing the translunar injection burn

For the first time in history researchers at CERN have transported 92 antiprotons on a truck in a specially designed magnetic enclosure

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was built '95 percent' with Unreal Engine Blueprints

Sticking to a nearly-vanilla version of Unreal Engine kept Sandfall Interactive on track

long-time information security professional "went undercover" on Moltbook, the Reddit-like social media site for AI agents — and shares the risks they saw while posing as another AI bot

Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the one before it

This BBC article discusses how TikTok tracks users even if they don't use the app, by using tracking pixels on other websites. The article explains how these pixels collect sensitive information and how to stop them

Automattic and the Internet Archive have released a free, open-source WordPress plugin that automatically detects broken outbound links on a site and redirects visitors to archived Wayback Machine copies instead of serving them a 404 error

Microsoft is Closing Its Employee Library and Cutting Back on Subscriptions

Check out our list of 10 albums to get you started on your jazz journey and introduce you to some of jazz’s great artists

Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code

New York has passed a law requiring social media companies to display mental health warning labels on addictive features, such as infinite scroll and autoplay, in an effort to reduce harm linked to excessive online use

Researchers found that life expectancy growth in wealthy nations has dramatically slowed since 1939. The study suggests no generation since 1939 will live to 100 on average, reshaping how societies must plan for aging and pensions

This video discusses the impact of tissue culture on the rare plant market, exploring topics such as natural and artificial scarcity, the Terunoworld Incident, and the value of rare plants

On December 5, 2025, Cloudflare experienced a significant outage due to a configuration change intended to mitigate a vulnerability in React Server Components. The outage lasted approximately 25 minutes, affecting 28% of HTTP traffic

New pinball machine based on Valve’s Portal video game

In an essay published in The Verge, Benjamin Riley argues that today's AI boom is built on a fundamental misunderstanding: language modeling is not the same as intelligence

Most discourse on AI is low-quality. Most discourse on consciousness is super-abysmal-double-low quality. Multiply these - or maybe raise one to the exponent of the other, or something - and you get the quality of discourse on AI consciousness. It’s not great