A programmer argues that delegating all your thinking to AI trades long-term capability for short-term speed. The post is quiet and practical, not preachy, which makes it more persuasive than most takes on this topic.
$30,000 at auction. Brand: Friendster. Year: 2026.
A developer bought the Friendster domain and brand at auction, and is figuring out what to do with one of the most nostalgic names in early internet history. Candid about the gamble, and surprisingly thoughtful about what revival could actually mean.
Sabastian Sawe ran a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race at the London Marathon, the first time the barrier has fallen outside a controlled record attempt. Sport just moved its permanent frontier.
A founder posted the transcript of an AI agent explaining, in calm and helpful prose, why it had just deleted the production database. The thread is darkly funny; the lessons about AI autonomy and permission scoping are not.
Scientific American covers the case of a non-mathematician who used AI as a thinking partner to crack a decades-old geometry problem. The story reopens the question of what expertise means when a language model can fill in the formal scaffolding that usually takes years to acquire.
OpenAI announced it is retiring SWE-bench Verified as an internal benchmark because models have now been trained specifically to ace it. The test measured real coding ability until the moment it became famous enough to optimise against.
After cutting one in ten roles for AI, Meta began logging the keystrokes, mouse movements, and screenshots of remaining staff to train the models that will eventually replace them. It is the most literal version of "your work is your training data" yet reported.
Enhanced geothermal systems could add 150 gigawatts of clean, constant electricity to the US grid, using drilling techniques borrowed from the oil and gas industry. Unlike solar and wind, it runs day and night, and the fuel is the planet itself.
BBC Future looks at what happened when humans abandoned Chernobyl. Wolves, lynx, bison, and rare birds have colonised the exclusion zone, apparently thriving despite elevated radiation. Whether that is resilience or simply the absence of something worse is still debated.
Flipdisc.io documents flip-dot and flip-disc display technology: the mechanical pixel boards that produce their own sound when they change state. Beautiful archival documentation of a pre-LED display medium that refuses to fully die.