* Remember Richard Manning’s influential 2004 Harper’s essay The Oil We Eat ? I do. Why did the Roman Empire collapse again? Wasn’t it something about the barbarian hordes? Or the rise of Christianity and the inevitable eclipse of the decadent pagans? Wait…maybe it was the lead in the pipes beneath…

The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed to restrict global heating to 1.5C, the Guardian and the Centre for Cli

November 28, 2023, 2:01 PM In Beijing and other megacities in China, hospitals are overflowing with children suffering pneumonia or similar severe ailments. However, the Chinese government claims that

President Biden blasted corporate “price gouging” more forcefully this week than ever before, reflecting a renewed administration effort to respond to widespread voter discontent over the economy as n

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Ben Rothke 6 min read· Sep 12, 2023 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size https://endgamepr.com/ In April, Cybersecurity Ventures reported that there will be 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs in 2025. Their research shows that global cybersecurity job vacancies grew by 350%, from…

8 min read·2 days ago How can you know how many security jobs there are if there’s no real statistical data available? https://imgflip.com/i/87fumc Millions of information security jobs As I wrote in

As we approach the holiday season, a recent report from LendingClub shines a light on the financial challenges that Americans are grappling with. The findings reveal that 60% of the population is livi

Astronomers have detected a rare and extremely high-energy particle falling to Earth that is causing bafflement because it is coming from an apparently empty region of space. The particle, named Amate

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The World Health Organization and Chinese health officials convened via a conference call on Thursday as the global health agency sought information about reports of increases in respiratory illnesses

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Now will never come again. Alan Urban Nov 13, 2023 Photo by NEOM on Unsplash November 13 2023 1:56 PM 5 min read Share Email I first became collapse-aware in the fall of 2020. At the time, I believed we had about three decades before collapse would claim the lives of myself and my family. At first,…

The richest 1% of humanity is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%, with dire consequences for vulnerable communities and global efforts to tackle the climate emergency, a report

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Advertisement Watch 24 November 2023 BBC News Mayur Kakade China has reported no "unusual or novel pathogens" in clusters of child pneumonia cases, the World Health Organization has said. Beijing has

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You’ve probably heard about Helen of Troy. She’s blamed for starting the Trojan War. Not many people remember Cassandra. She predicted it. In Aeschylus’s tragedy Agamemnon, you get Cassandra’s full st

By Anna Tong, Jeffrey Dastin and Krystal Hu (Reuters) -Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful art

Last weekend, there was massive drama at the board of OpenAI, the non-profit/company that makes ChatGPT, which has grown from nothing to $1B revenue per year in a matter of months. Sam Altman, the CEO

A lot of people are asking for my thoughts on what happened at OpenAI this weekend. As I’ll explain below, I believe what happened ultimately came down to two opposing philosophies on AI—and specifica

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In March 2020, Tagide deCarvalho saw something truly strange — something she thinks no other scientist has ever seen before: a virus with another, smaller virus latched onto its “neck.” The backstory

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A Metro train car travels along the Red Line in Washington, D.C. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, riders have slowly returned to taking mass transit. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images WASHINGTON — In the nati

Atlassian reassessed the severity rating of the recent improper authorization vulnerability in Confluence Data Center and Server, raising the CVSS score from 9.1 to a maximum of 10. The company overha

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Countless people have written about AI in the past few years. They largely break down into two camps: the lovers and the haters. They’re both wrong. AI is a tool much like a database or a hammer. If y

Federal health authorities are urging Americans to reach out to their insurers after reports of some people encountering trouble getting their new COVID-19 vaccine shot for free. Those issues have ari

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the fight against climate change is finally going well. The clean-energy revolution is well under way and exceeding expectations. Solar is set to become the cheapes

“Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” That question, first posed by Ronald Reagan in a 1980 presidential-campaign debate with Jimmy Carter, has become the quintessential political q

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It was just over a decade ago that Emma Smart and her husband, Andy, first decided they would not have children. Back then, her friends and family did not understand. “When you tell people you didn’t

In the early afternoon of September 1, 1914, Martha the passenger pigeon, the last of her kind in the world, passed away, and her entire species disappeared with her. But before that instant of extinc