China has launched live-fire military drills around Taiwan, in what it calls a warning to “separatist” forces in Taiwan and “external interference” by foreign parties. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) – the military wing of the ruling Communist party in China – said it had sent naval, air force…

How much is inflation really cooling? Thursday’s release of November’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) data showed inflation unexpectedly eased to an annual rise of 2.7% that month. But monthly comparisons — October data was never collected due to the government shutdown — were absent from the Labor…

Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, has stated that Russia intends to occupy the Baltic states and is planning for action as early as 2027. Source: Budanov's statement during an LB Club event Quote from Budanov: "According to the original plan, Russia was supposed to be ready to…

THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — The teasing was relentless. Nude images of a 13-year-old girl and her friends, generated by artificial intelligence, were circulating on social media and had become the talk of a Louisiana middle school. The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor and then…

BEIJING, Dec 27 (Reuters) - China's cyber regulator on Saturday issued draft rules for public comment that would tighten oversight of artificial intelligence services designed to simulate human personalities and engage users in emotional interaction. The move underscores Beijing's effort to shape…

Innovative Research / Collaboration Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart’s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout December 9, 2025 Overview To determine if Instacart is experimenting with pricing, and if so, just how costly it is for shoppers, Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and…

Ten years ago, programming meant typing code into a blank word processor and editing it manually. But with the advent of generative AI, this type of programming is quickly becoming a thing of the past, he explained. “More and more, you can take a step back from the code, and you can ask an AI to go…

Nvidia is, in crucial ways, nothing like Enron – the Houston energy giant that imploded through multibillion-dollar accounting fraud in 2001. Nor is it similar to companies such as Lucent or Worldcom that folded during the dotcom bubble. But the fact that it needs to reiterate this to its investors…

A surge in the price of silver to record highs this month has prompted a warning from Elon Musk that manufacturers could suffer the consequences. Silver has risen sharply during December, part of a precious metals rally that also pushed gold and platinum to record levels on Boxing Day. Analysts have…

We recently released Claude Code, a command line tool for agentic coding. Developed as a research project, Claude Code gives Anthropic engineers and researchers a more native way to integrate Claude into their coding workflows. Claude Code is intentionally low-level and unopinionated, providing…

TLDR; Keep CLAUDE.md minimal - Only include what’s needed in EVERY session Use /clear for new tasks - Don’t use /compact unless you really need the context Iterate over small changes - When done, /clear Store project knowledge in docs/ - Reference with @docs/filename.md when needed Memory Bank? -…

The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger. We're hungry for more, but we have more than we need. We're hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies. We're hungry and we don't have words to articulate why. We're hungry, and we're lacking and we're wanting. We are living with a…

Gift a 404 Media subscription to a friend. A Discord community for gay gamers is in disarray after one of its moderators and an executive at Anthropic forced the company’s AI chatbot on the Discord, despite protests from members. Users voted to restrict Anthropic's Claude to its own channel, but…

For more than a year there has been a clear trend: unemployment in the tech industry was climbing. The number of people with an #OpenToWork badge on their picture was climbing. There was something worse though, something that I hadn’t seen before: several months later, they were still looking.…

Analysis IT consultancy Gartner predicts that more than 40 percent of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 due to rising costs, unclear business value, or insufficient risk controls. That implies something like 60 percent of agentic AI projects would be retained, which is…

One morning in January, I woke up and it was like a spell had been broken the way I looked around my room and saw how dull everything was, not because it was lacking but because of how full it was of stuff. Stuff I didn’t particularly love. Stuff with no serious meaning to it. Stuff I didn’t care…

T he United States is no longer a reliable country. For some, this is nothing new. The Iraq War, launched in 2003 – resulting in over 100,000 deaths, lasting regional destabilization, and the return of Russian influence – had already shown the world the wrongdoings of American military hubris. But…

opinion It is the season of overindulgence, and no one has overindulged like the tech industry: this year, it has burned through roughly $1.5 trillion in AI, a level of spending usually reserved for wartime. Between 2001 and 2014, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cost the US an estimated $1.5…

You must leave now, take what you need you think will last. But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast. — Bob Dylan If September 2025 was peak bubble, 2026 will likely the year which it all falls apart. The clues are everywhere. Here are two I read this morning: And a longer analysis,…

With home affordability increasingly out of reach, many young adults are making choices that are reshaping the economy — and mostly for the worse — a new research paper says. They don’t think they’ll ever be homeowners. So they stop trying, and focus on the here and now. That’s the interpretation…

The U.S. economy grew at a 4.3% annual rate in the third quarter, blowing past economists’ expectations and delivering the kind of headline that signals strength heading into the new year. Consumers went on an unusually strong spending tear while corporations cinched $166 billion in capital gains.…

“this would come with a road” The port will revolutionize global trade, but it’s sparking destructive rainforest routes. Georgina Gustin, Inside Climate News – Dec 6, 2025 7:30 AM | 176 The cranes of a new megaport in Peru. The cranes of a new megaport in Peru. Story text Size Width * Links *…

SummaryCompanies Companies aren't yet seeing returns from their AI investmentsAI models struggle with trivial tasks despite excelling in complex onesOpenAI and Anthropic to focus on business clients in 2026 SAN FRANCISCO/STOCKHOLM, Dec 16 - Last spring, CellarTracker, a wine-collection app, built an…

Pentest Team @greenhats.com 4 min read·12 hours ago -- A review of the Offensive Security Exploitation Expert exam, the trap of automation, and why manual mastery still reigns supreme. About me: Paul Werther | FLX, CTO greenhats, https://github.com/FLX-0x00 Passing the OSEE (Offensive Security…

The satellite, experimental technology has become the mainstream, foundational tech. (At least in developer tools.) (xposted from new home) I was at my very first job, Linden Lab, when EC2 and S3 came out in 2006. We were running Second Life out of three datacenters, where we racked and stacked all…

Developers are moving faster than ever with AI. Cursor is redefining how software gets built, and 1Password is redefining how teams secure access to SaaS and AI. Today, we are announcing a new integration that brings these two worlds together in a way that keeps development speed high and credential…

Stephanie Soucheray, MA December 23, 2024 COVID-19 Daisy-Daisy / iStock Two new studies add to the growing body of literature on the lasting effects of long COVID. In the first, a study of 114 patients with long COVID in Israel, researchers found high rates of depressive disorders (46%), generalized…

HarperCollins, one of the biggest publishers in the world, made a deal with an “artificial intelligence technology company” and is giving authors the option to opt in to the agreement or pass, 404 Media can confirm. A spokesperson for HarperCollins told 404 Media in a statement:

A California child has been diagnosed with bird flu, the first reported case in a US minor, health officials confirmed on Friday. The child had mild symptoms, was treated with antiviral medication and is recovering, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in announcing the test results.…

London-based distributor Neal's Yard Dairy announced on Instagram that it was "the victim of a sophisticated fraud" involving high-value cheddar cheese. They are working with law enforcement to track down the culprit, and asking fellow cheesemongers to report any suspicious deals on clothbound…

Explore vs. Exploit: The Pattern-Novelty Balance 12/10/2025 Understanding how oscillating between exploration and exploitation unlocks maximum enjoyment from life #philosophy #meaning #personal Revisiting the AI Bubble 07/10/2025 Why a major crash, AGI, and millions of jobs replaced aren't mutually…

Back to all April 6, 2025August 17, 2024Scientists and Economists Alert!Global Emergency Compounded by the AIDS-like Features of SARS-CoV-2 InfectionOver a million people in the US are being infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) every day. Originally named…

Media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) says it can target adverts based on what potential customers said out loud near device microphones, and explicitly points to Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Bing as CMG partners, according to a CMG presentation obtained by 404 Media. The slide deck provides more…

Robert is a bright and sparky 19-year-old who has always dreamed of becoming an engineer. He enjoyed maths and science throughout school and was accepted into a local university engineering program. But just months into his first year Robert started having real doubts about whether pursuing this…

One in five patients registered to a pair of GP surgeries in the north of England have long Covid, according to a report that lays bare stark regional inequalities. The north-west of England had higher than average numbers of people reporting long Covid symptoms, with just over one in 20 people…

When “I can has cheezburger?” became one of the first internet memes to blow our minds, it’s unlikely that anyone worried about how much energy it would use up. But research has now found that the vast majority of data stored in the cloud is “dark data”, meaning it is used once then never visited…

Lawmaker uses AI voice clone to address Congress Virginia Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton used a artificial intelligence (AI) programme to address the House on Thursday. A year ago, the lawmaker was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, which makes it difficult for her to speak. The AI…

Faced with an abundance of literary releases, Yoshiyuki Morioka decided in 2015 to open his bookstore that offers just one book per week. 02.07.2019 WordsSolenn Cordroc'h © Morioka Shoten Located in Ginza district, the small bookshop Morioka Shoten offers just one book (but sells multiple copies of…