World
- Residents leave devastated Russian-occupied Oleshky as evacuation corridor opens — BBC World
- Mushroom murderer fails to overturn convictions in Australian court challenge — BBC World
- Syrians struggle with soaring prices as crisis challenges post-Assad recovery — BBC World
- How Kenyans got caught in $130m US ghost student scam — BBC World
- How can Israel break its election deadlock? — Al Jazeera
- Aid convoy enters besieged Ukrainian town Oleshky — Al Jazeera
- US weighs new Iran strikes as Vance reaches out: Is war or a deal closer? — Al Jazeera
Several hundred people are understood to have decided to stay in the frontline town, despite the lack of gas, electricity and running water.
Erin Patterson argued her trial was unfair due to seven grounds but three appeal judges dismissed them all.
End of subsidies and rising prices drive discontent, testing support for Ahmed al-Sharaa's government.
The alleged scheme used stolen identities to claim US student aid, with Kenyans among those charged.
Political parties need at least 61 seats in the Knesset to form a government in Israel.
Moscow and Kyiv have so far observed the six-day truce as evacuations from Oleshky get under way.
As Washington and Tehran send mixed signals, analysts say trust remains a key obstacle to any deal.
Technology
- Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance — Hacker News · 1409 points
- We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4 — Hacker News · 1508 points
- How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? — Hacker News · 11 points
- Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly translated — Hacker News · 45 points
- Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80 — Hacker News · 126 points
- [I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL9BTbIGxLg) — Hacker News · 145 points
- Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says — Ars Technica
- Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines — Ars Technica
Science
- Most influencers should swear off profanity — Phys.org
- High-speed microscopy captures 3D images of living cells nearly 400 times faster — Phys.org
- Crowding can speed up enzyme reactions—until protein droplets become too packed — Phys.org
- Six popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging — ScienceDaily
- Einstein's equations may explain the universe without dark energy — ScienceDaily
- How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? — Quanta
- How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material — Quanta
If you spend time watching online videos, you might feel like covering your ears. For some influencers, dropping f-bombs and other swear words is part of their brand, and their followers embrace it.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a high-speed microscopy technique that captures images so quickly they can be used to make "videos" of the dynamic processes that occur inside living cells.
Our cells are a hotbed of activity, with reactions churning away to keep us alive. But the cytoplasm, where many metabolic reactions take place, is not uniform. Instead, proteins and other molecules cluster together…
A study of nearly 13,000 adults found that people consuming the most artificial sweeteners experienced a 62% faster decline in memory and thinking skills, equivalent to approximately 1.6 additional years of brain aging.…
Mathematicians have uncovered what they argue is a fundamental flaw in the standard model of the universe, potentially challenging the need for dark energy. Their calculations suggest that the mathematical framework…
Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how capturing the first image of a black hole required a telescope the size of the world, and why the next goal is to create a movie. The post How Do You Take a Picture of a Black…
By probing its molecular structure, biologists are uncovering how a tangle of unstructured proteins turns into a tough, flexible thread. The post How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material first…
Ideas & Culture
- In praise of the dilettante — Aeon
- Hills and mountains — Aeon
- Not Everything That Goes BOOM is bad — 3 Quarks Daily
- Libertarianism and Loneliness: What Does a Plumber Do in the Network State? — 3 Quarks Daily
A wayfaring cosmopolitan who never gets stuck, the dilettante is the right anti-hero for our hyper-specialised age - by Jay Miller Read on Aeon
A girl’s story of forced marriage reveals how the Soviet invasion of 1979 transformed life in Afghanistan - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
by Carlota Figueroa I know that a “boom” sound is usually associated with something negative, like putting tinfoil in the microwave and the inevitable trip to the hardware store for a new one. However, just sometimes,…
by Christopher Hall Reading Gil Duran’s The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy is, as I’m sure it was meant to be, a concerning and surreal experience; the anti-democratic fantasias of Silicon…
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