06 Feb Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley Founders used to be wedded to their companies. Now, anyone can be lured away for the right price.
06 Feb Two Titanic Structures Hidden Deep Within the Earth Have Altered the Magnetic Field for Millions of Years A team of geologists found for the first time evidence linking regions of low seismic velocity and the shape of the Earth’s magnetic field.
06 Feb ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn’t built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.
05 Feb Measles Is Causing Brain Swelling in Children in South Carolina In the ongoing measles outbreak in South Carolina that has infected more than 800 people, some children have developed a rare but serious complication called encephalitis.
05 Feb The Best Super Bowl TV Deals (2026) Upgrade your viewing setup before inviting your friends over to watch the big game.
05 Feb Netflix Says if the HBO Merger Makes It Too Expensive, You Can Always Cancel During a hearing at the US Senate, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said the company is working with the US government on guardrails against more price hikes.
04 Feb I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t Allowed I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.
04 Feb An ‘Intimacy Crisis’ Is Driving the Dating Divide In his book The Intimate Animal, sex and relationships researcher Justin Garcia says people have miscalculated their need for human intimacy, which is the real issue at the root of the loneliness epidemic.
04 Feb The Paramilitary ICE and CBP Units at the Center of Minnesota’s Killings Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of highly militarized DHS units whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones.
03 Feb Epstein Files Reveal Peter Thiel’s Elaborate Dietary Restrictions The latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein files shed light on the convicted sex offender’s ties to Silicon Valley—and Peter Thiel’s exacting approach to food.
