books An excerpt from Tropic of Kansas, a novel about a Trumpian, dystopian America Cory Doctorow

Teens discover their robot taxi is a narc Jason Weisberger

ice cream Twin Pines' vintage ice cream clown is deliciously unsettling Popkin

Games The AI Compass tells you what flavor Basilisk food you are Rob Beschizza

mistakes Ford rehires hundreds of "graybeard" engineers after AI shortcomings Rob Beschizza

AI Americans increasingly hate AI, but love chatting with it Rob Beschizza

privacy Facebook employee data exposed in Meta's own surveillance program Séamus Bellamy

Technology AI-designed radio chips look like QR codes and beat human ones Ellsworth Toohey

Culture You can apply to be the Head of Stonehenge Ellsworth Toohey

nothing to see Meta is not sorry it built the spyware, just sorry you noticed Jason Weisberger

censorship Help save Internet Archive's Wayback Machine by signing this petition Jennifer Sandlin

it does a body good Nearly 60 Idahoans get a quick lesson in the joys of pasteurization Jason Weisberger

video games Domino's Pizza picked a fight over a video game nobody asked about Grant St. Clair

tesla Tesla FSD is so good its trainers won't ride in it Jason Weisberger

Business Site tracks significant U.S. layoffs Rob Beschizza

Technology A company accidentally spent $500 million on Claude in one month Ellsworth Toohey

Science Cows can recognize human faces Gail Sherman

data breach Trump Mobile data breach may affect far more than its own customers Séamus Bellamy

antiques Why are these antique pipes shaped like human hands? Popkin

Games Ubisoft lost a billion and a half dollars last year Grant St. Clair