Tuesday, May 12, 2026
ArchiveGameStop offered $56 billion for eBay. eBay said no. The meme stock era's final form is corporate raider cosplay, and it's genuinely wild.
Nearly all the world's internet traffic squeezes through a few ocean-floor bottlenecks. The fix might run through the North Pole. Fascinating infrastructure reporting.
A Russian cargo ship likely carrying submarine nuclear reactors to North Korea sank under mysterious circumstances. The proliferation implications are enormous.
Some people discovered in adulthood that 'picture a beach' isn't a metaphor — everyone else actually sees it. Your assumptions about other minds might be wrong.
AI makes generic lectures worthless. One former dean argues universities must become distinctive or die — and the model is creator-economy direct relationships.