Ai Weiwei returns to China for the first time since 2015

Philip Glass cancels Kennedy Center symphony premiere in protest of Trump’s leadership

Digital art marketplace Foundation acquired by digital art streaming service Blackdove

“At least as far back as the Antikythera mechanism in 200 BC, computation has been a tool of cosmology.”

Immigration crackdown slows US population growth

“I didn’t realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles of eyewitness video was my childhood best friend.”

The problem with that Orwell quote

Lawsuit alleges that WhatsApp has no end-to-end encryption

Dior Couture and Peptide Mania ft. Chris Black

“Ubiquiti, a $33 billion tech empire, is led by Robert Pera, owner of the Memphis Grizzlies. He pledged to tighten controls on his products years ago — so why are Russian military units sending Ubiquiti vendors thank-you notes?”

Electricity use of AI coding agents

OpenAI targets ~$60 per 1,000 views for ChatGPT ads, on par with live NFL broadcasts

The Adolescence of Technology

“DHS has suspended Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately. He spent yesterday responding to people who were criticizing him and raising questions about his unverified claims about Pretti.”

Gold surges past $5,100 as investors seek shelter from global risks

Iranian government braces for possible attack as US navy arrives in region

Gadgets for people who don't trust the government

Leica Camera considering selling a majority stake for $1.2 billion

Are your problems software-shaped?

Private jet crashes at Bangor, Maine, airport; all 6 on board presumed dead, police say

Ye Apologizes For Past Antisemitic Remarks In WJS Ad

Monster neutrino could be a messenger of ancient black holes

Saudi Arabia ‘scales back plans for 100-mile desert megacity’ after concerns raised over billions spent

Pat McGrath labs files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

The dystopia will not be cyberpunk

Trump says US used secret weapon to disable Venezuelan equipment in Maduro raid

“American tourists still feel to me like a liberation army that got stuck in its pattern of conquering and inventorying and now, almost a century in, has grown cumbersome, bloated, unhelpful. But they still like the adventure, and we still want them to come.”

“Many collapse-aware people describe a lifelong sense that the world felt structurally wrong, long before they had any framework to articulate why.”

Meet the Alaska student arrested for eating an AI art exhibit

Once-prominent NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway to wind down operations

Why Buddhist monks (and one very good rescue dog) are walking 2,300 miles across America for peace

Kylie Jenner has good comedic timing

“We are using a supercomputer just to confirm that Paris is in France”

Shopify merchants will pay OpenAI a 4% transaction fee on sales through ChatGPT’s checkout feature beginning January 26

Mark Cuban invests in Emo Night Brooklyn producer Burwoodland

You’re not the only person having issues with TikTok

Bureau of Land Management says bison are not livestock, obstructing plans for a huge private prairie reserve

How Aritzia took over the world

“Ænima, Tool’s third album, actually kind of sounds like a cross between Swans and Joni Mitchell.”

“Between 2010 and 2017, three fundamental inputs to human progress – energy, intelligence, and biology – crossed a threshold.”

Adoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollution, study finds

My journey from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump's America

Democratic congressman punched in racist attack at Sundance film festiva