A crippling cyberattack hit a small California city, shuttering City Hall. Residents wonder: Why us?
No one, it seems, knows why cyberattackers would target Suisun City, a sleepy, marsh-front suburb of 29,000 people on the...
Leo Woodall, if He Must, Chooses Oasis Over the Beatles
There are roles that Leo Woodall seems destined to play, like the one he’s currently shooting in New Zealand for...
Is Electric Kool-Aid Acid Blue for You?
On the internet and in the streets, people are awash in blue. It’s not quite turquoise or aquamarine. It’s deeper...
AI isn’t changing how companies work. It’s changing what a company is
Stephen Messer is co-founder of Collective and Intelligence.com, and has been writing about the AI economy on Artificial CommonSense at reloadnyc. This...
How Cyclospora Evaded the U.S. Food Safety System to Sicken Thousands
Cases of cyclosporiasis were mounting rapidly in Michigan and state health officials were homing in on a common thread: Many...
I stared deep into the heart of LinkedIn AI cringe slop. Darkness (and engagement) stared back.
The Cringebot3000 is surprisingly effective at generating engagement-driving AI slop for LinkedIn. Marco_Piunti/Getty ImagesCringebot3000 generates pitch-perfect LinkedIn AI slop posts.I...
Trump Backed Away From a Wall at Big Bend. But the Bulldozers Are Here.
Texans were caught off-guard several months ago when the Trump administration appeared poised to construct a 30-foot wall through Big...
Summer Camps Strive to Stay Part of Canadian Life, Despite Hurdles
This week my family participated in a quintessentially Canadian rite of passage: We dropped off our 7-year old son at...
Bishop Rainey Cheeks, a taekwondo master who took on the AIDS crisis, dies at 74
Before he became a ninth-degree black belt and a grandmaster of taekwondo, Bishop Rainey Cheeks learned to adopt the principles...
At least 20 dead, buildings toppled after magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes off Indonesia’s coast
A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesiaearly Saturday, killing at least 20 people, collapsing buildings and...
