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Just a few weeks ago, on the seventeenth of June, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the fourteen-point Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Islamic Republic of Iran, which promised to bring the ongoing war with Iran to an end by establish

Off the coast of Zhejiang province, an unusual vessel plies the East China Sea. It could be mistaken for a cargo ship, but there are no containers on its deck. Its track is strange: instead of running between sequential ports of call, it bounces between p

The bottleneck of the computer age is not compute, but ideas for how to use it.

For less than a thousand dollars, a modern consumer laptop may be capable of trillions of calculations per second. But consumers' applications of this hardware are often disappointing. Many are products of Wirth's law, the observation that over time, soft

Earlier this month, an unreleased OpenAI model in internal evaluations hacked its way out of secure OpenAI servers and attacked the hosting platform Hugging Face, just to steal the answer key to its cybersecurity evaluation test. As soon as news of the co

Over a thousand acres of land in Abilene, Texas, lie flattened with graded earth and poured concrete. The foundation pits are filled with conduit bundles and switchgear, and in some quadrants, fully operational substations have been erected. However, othe

Educational institutions have learned to optimize for everything except learning. Artificial intelligence could force them to measure what's important.

In 1976 the social scientist and cyberneticist Donald T. Campbell developed a principle, now known as Campbell's Law, that would later become one of the most reliable diagnostics of institutional decay. When any quantitative indicator is used for social d

Robotic warfare is shifting the source of state power away from citizens to firms. The transition will produce a new social contract.

In December 2024, the Ukrainian National Guard's 13th Khartiia Brigade carried out a combined ground and air assault near the town of Lyptsi. Air assets coordinated with dispersed ground forces bounding from cover to cover. Dozens of attackers overran Rus