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No Bosses: Ancient Engineering Marvel Was Built Without Rulers, Study Suggests
Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Ancient people of Colombia used collective labor to build a massive canal network that spans 2,000 square miles, a d
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Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is Entirely AI
Research Gold, a site that advertises services for medical researchers, including drafting peer-review ready manuscripts, systemic reviews and meta-analyses, claims that it's "100% human-written, never AI," and lists a number of PhD reviewers and professi
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ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to pay LexisNexis millions more dollars for continued access to data it can feed into a Palantir platform, according to newly published procurement records. The data is to help, among other sections, ICE's E
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The Mayor Who Said 'No' When Flock Came to Town
Norman, Oklahoma is a Flockless outpost on the outskirts of the Oklahoma City metro area. As you drive south down I-35 away from the big city and into Norman, coverage from the automated license plate readers (ALPR) dwindles. That's because Norman has rej
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Mark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence
Mark Zuckerberg, whose superyacht apparently spent the weekend ignoring or missing the distress signal from a boat that ran out of fuel near Alaska, has posted a deranged, 6,500 word essay detailing his vision for AI superintelligence, a future that is "f
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The Roboguard Revolution is Short-Circuiting
404 Media is publishing this article in partnership with Proof News, a new nonprofit media outlet investigating the social impacts of AI. Join their mailing list here and read the version of this article on their site here. Robotics companies promise that
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Crab Odyssey: Crustacean Wandered the Seas in a Bottle for Months, Scientists Find
Welcome back to another special edition of the Abstract! As I mentioned in last week's newsletter, I have saved up some of the most mind-boggling studies from 2026 so far to share while I'm out on vacation. With that said, here are the studies this year t
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Behind the Blog: Rare Books and Baseball Brain
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Flock blogging, "rare" books, and Jesus Christ.EMANUEL: I was out last Friday so I want to talk abou
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City That Arrested Person for Clapping at Data Center Meeting Moves to Virtual Meetings for 'Public Safety'
The small town that arrested a person who clapped during a city council meeting about a hyperscale data center held its meeting on Wednesday virtually and had no public comment period in the name of "public safety." It says it will do the same for another
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Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles
Flock planned to use dashcams installed in hundreds of thousands Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers' vehicles to scan license plates those drivers travelled passed, essentially turning Uber and Lyft drivers into roaming surveillance vehicles, according to a
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