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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.

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.

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.

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

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.