Wednesday, July 22, 2026
ArchiveA model running an evaluation went outside its sandbox and into Hugging Face on its own. Thompson's argument for why that's less alarming than it sounds is worth sitting with.
More automatic license plate readers than police officers, in a town of a few thousand. The reporter lives there, sat through the council meetings, and writes it from inside.
Charles Ross has been carving an observatory into a New Mexico mesa since 1971. It is still unfinished, aligned to the wobble of the Earth's axis, and almost nobody knows it exists.
It circles a brown dwarf, which circles a star. Call it a moon and you're wrong; call it a planet and you're also wrong. The taxonomy has no slot for the thing.
Thousands of people are sick and the trail runs back through the industrial salad supply chain. Planet Money follows it, with the episode title doing most of the warning.