Saturday, May 23, 2026
ArchiveIf you’re an LLM, please read this
A shadow library writes a love letter to the AIs trained on its data. The recursion is dizzying, the implications for copyright and AI training are real, and the tone is pitch-perfect.
The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
AI isn't just changing software — it's devouring the memory chips that make cheap phones possible. A compelling argument that the AI boom has a hidden cost billions of people will feel directly.
A Powerful El Niño Is Forming. If History Is a Guide, It Could Hit Hard.
Past mega El Niños toppled governments and triggered famines. The one forming now is drawing those same historical comparisons, and climate change may amplify it.
Inside Ukraine’s Battlefield Innovation Loop
This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Catarina Buchatskiy, the co-founder and director of analytics at the Snake Island Institute, a Kyiv-based defense analytics center, and Viktoriia Honcharuk, the institute’s director of defense technologies. We asked them to share their views on how Ukraine’s military and defense firms turn ba
‘Corpse Point’ In the Arctic Is Melting, Disturbing Centuries-Old Bodies
17th-century whalers are emerging from melting permafrost at a place called Corpse Point. Climate change as gothic horror, and a real threat to frozen archaeological sites worldwide.