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For young people, the trend removes the stigma of being unmarried and alone, and recasts it as something to aim for, not avoid.

The crypto platform claims you can “pay anyone to do anything,” from quitting a job on camera to getting a memecoin-themed tattoo. But it mostly seems like people trying to scam each other.

Getting the future right is now big business. But at a festival in Berkeley, forecasters worry that sports markets could take the whole industry down.

There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more it can obscure or corrupt. It took me well over a decade of tracking my own life in ever greater detail to fully appreciate this duality, which probably reveals something about both me and the nature of measurement. Like a lot…

On today’s Uncanny Valley, we dive into the dysfunction in Meta’s newly formed AI unit and why it’s been driving already-low employee morale even further into the ground.

The rich are getting richer. Here’s what wealth advisers are telling their tech clients right now.

Artist Morry Kolman will be livestreaming feeds of the NBA champions’ ticker-tape parade from NYC’s traffic cameras—and this time, the city’s Department of Transportation isn’t demanding he stop.

Peter Parker to Bruce Banner: "I didn't know you could get that big."

From Amazon's “Off Campus” to Netflix’s upcoming “Icebreakers,” the recent spate of hetero hockey romances shows Hollywood learned the wrong lessons from “Heated Rivalry.”

Lars Faye's Agentic Coding Is a Trap — published Sunday, May 3, picked up on Hacker News at 398 points and 316 comments — is the best single compendium of the cognitive-debt evidence base anyone has put together in 2026. It catalogues the studies. It names the trade-offs. It lands on a personal-discipline conclusion. The receipts are now collected; the careful reader will have spent the weekend nodding through them. Buried in Faye's second paragraph, almost in passing, is the line that does the actual analytical work. Faye describes the agentic workflow as a process in which "someone defines the project's requirements ... generates a plan, and then pulls the slot machine lever over and over, iterating and reiterating with often multiple agent instances until it's done." The link goes to a March post by Quentin Rousseau, CTO and co-founder of Rootly, titled One More Prompt: The Dopamine Trap of Agentic Coding. The metaphor isn't Faye's. Rousseau got there first, in clinical language: the workflow runs on "variable ratio reinforcement — the same psychological mechanism that makes slot machines the most addictive form of gambling" . That is the framing the rest of Faye's piece is downstream of, and it is the framing this article is about. What the receipts add up to Faye's catalogue, briefly. Anthropic's own research note on internal use names what it calls the "paradox of supervision" : effective use of Claude requires the very skills that sustained Claude use atrophies. MIT Media Lab's Your Brain on ChatGPT measured the cognitive impact and labelled it cognitive debt . A Microsoft study covered by 404 Media reached parallel findings for knowledge workers more broadly. A separate Anthropic study on coding skills reported a 47% drop-off in debugging skills among engineers leaning heavily on AI-assisted workflows. Sandor Nyako, the LinkedIn engineering director who oversees fifty engineers, has reportedly asked his team not to use these tools for "tasks that require cri

It’s like Big Brother without any limits, or broadcast standards. WIRED goes on location—and on camera—with the cult hit.

WIRED surveyed readers on their housing costs. The answers paint a stark portrait of unaffordability, climate adaptation, and the death of the homeowner dream.

An icon of Silicon Valley’s counterculture, Stewart Brand is confronting his final years in a home that embodies the self-sufficient, DIY ethos of his famous Whole Earth Catalog.

The commercial was submitted by the Freedom of the Press Foundation to run during Donald Trump’s UFC event. It criticized the $111 billion merger as a threat to the First Amendment.

Both kratom and one of its active components, 7-OH, have opioid-like effects and are widely available across the US. As health secretary RFK Jr. aims to get 7-OH banned, proponents of both are fighting.

In recent months hackers have attempted to extort money from porn stars with big followings, in some cases filling their feeds with pro-MAGA and crypto content.

University of Leicester historian thinks Eilmer of Malmesbury saw two different comets: in 1018 and 1066

There's nothing new or surprising, but it's still an entertaining film from one of our greatest directors.

A Monster Energy–sponsored MMA show on the White House’s South Lawn was never going to be the height of dignity. But UFC Freedom 250 is failing to clear even the lowest bar.

SpaceX’s stock market debut has thrust the richest man in the universe into an unexplored frontier of wealth.