Oct 21, 2026
ai and ml Good thing it’s somebody else’s money Peter Steinberger, member of technical staff at OpenAI and the creator of OpenClaw, estimates that he spent around $10 million in tokens running AI workloads last month. But don’t feel bad for him,...
Oct 21, 2026
Living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder can exact a heavy toll on people’s health and longevity. Research out this week, however, shows that timely ADHD treatment may claw back some of those years. Scientists at the University of Liverpool in the UK and...
Oct 20, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission released a new report Monday on fraud targeting older Americans, defined as people 60 and older. And things just keep getting worse. The report, which is mandated by Congress under the Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act of 2017,...
Oct 19, 2026
networks Cite difficulty of updating IoT devices as major reason to stop adding time The Time Lords at the General Conference on Weights and Measures (GCPM)* have decided to stop introducing leap seconds, citing the likelihood they could cause problems with internet...
Oct 18, 2026
If you’re wondering what big spin Mike Flanagan will bring to his long-gestating Dark Tower TV series, it sounds like he won’t have one. On a recent episode of the Process Unlocked series, he mentioned potentially cracking the code for this show. “You do the books,”...
Oct 17, 2026
Some U.S. banks are, thankfully, blocking their clients from letting Meta’s Muse AI bot root around in their accounts. Even more thankfully, it appears relatively few people have been dumb enough to try. Speaking to Bloomberg TV on Friday, Charles Schwab CEO Rick...
Oct 16, 2026
The accident that killed one man and injured several others at Six Flags Over Georgia this week follows accusations of slipshod maintenance and hundreds of injuries at Six Flags parks over the past few years, according to CNN. On Monday, 42-year-old Hassan Jihad Ibn...
Oct 14, 2026
The creative relationship between Ron Perlman and Guillermo del Toro is one of the most solid in Hollywood, starting with Cronos in 1992 and including Blade II, Pacific Rim, Nightmare Alley, and Pinocchio. But their most memorable collaborations came in 2004’s Hellboy...
Oct 13, 2026
The emerging industry of deep-sea mining could end up in flames after researchers discovered that some rocks collected from the bottom of the ocean can heat up and even spontaneously combust once they’re brought to the surface and exposed to air. In a recent paper...
Oct 12, 2026
Adult Swim provided a release date for Common Side Effects season two over the weekend, and now we’ve got a new look at it. It’s a short 45-second glimpse at what’s to come, but it sure does look good and freaky in all the ways that made the first season so great....
