Tuesday, September 8, 2026
ArchiveAI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems
One of seven problems so hard they carry a million-dollar bounty. OpenAI's mathematicians claim they've cracked Navier-Stokes — but the proof's reliance on AI tools has split the field. Quanta walks through both the math and the fight.
A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
Border Patrol has a unit called PITT that monitors Americans' financial habits, then tells local cops to pull them over on pretextual charges. 404 Media names the program for the first time.
Grandmaster Flash’s Remix of Hip-Hop History
Kelefa Sanneh's review-essay starts on the dance floor and ends inside the circuitry of a mixer. The drum break isn't just a sound — it's an invention, and Flash reverse-engineered it by hand.
216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem
LG executives on camera: 'We own the glass.' Gamers Nexus spent months documenting how 216 million smart TVs identify everyone in your household and every device on your network. Two hours, and it earns every minute.
The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
Saints Barlaam and Ioasaph are in the Christian canon. They're also the Buddha — his biography transmitted through Arabic, Georgian, and Greek until medieval Europe canonized a man they'd never have recognized.