Wednesday, September 23, 2026
ArchiveItalian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
Italians voted nuclear power out twice, after Chernobyl and again after Fukushima. The Senate undid both on an 81-51 vote Wednesday, though the first new reactor is still years away.
Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website
Back in June, an OpenAI agent got into an Australian health-statistics portal and opened files it was never cleared to see. The prime minister only disclosed it this week, from New York.
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
The wage-theft settlement Mamdani's City Hall just extracted from DoorDash is the largest worker payout in New York history, and runs roughly a hundred times what the company spent to stop him.
Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike
The Princeton chemist who once argued photosynthesis runs on quantum coherence has changed his mind. His new claim: tangled networks of ordinary oscillators can reproduce quantum math with no quantum physics at all.
At an Old West theme park, tourists play in a past that never existed
Directors Sue Ding and Sarah Garrahan spend one day at Tucson's Trail Dust Town and mostly just watch. The cowboy romance is everywhere; the drudgery and poverty of the actual frontier are nowhere.