Stone Age ‘Atlantis’ found 8,500 years after being lost at sea
Beneath the waves of Denmark’s Bay of Aarhus lies a hidden world, a Stone Age Atlantis, waiting to reveal its secrets. What stories do the ancient waters hold?
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Mystery of England’s ‘vanished’ first North American colony SOLVED: ‘blue eyed’ survivors
A centuries-old enigma may finally be unraveling as researchers uncover clues that could explain the fate of the mysterious Lost Colony of Roanoke.
Why AI Bubble Talk is Pop Nonsense
For all the times I’ve said the AI hype is way too overheated, I also dislike extreme cold. Where did all the balance go? Fortune’s latest breathless reporting about a “tragic” AI market reads like buzzword bingo: insert “…
Machine Alignment Mythology: How Technological Determinism Emerged Into Corporate Disinformation
The recent paper on “emergent misalignment” in large language models presents us with a powerful case study in how technological narratives are constructed, propagated, and ultimately tested against empirical reality. The discovery itself r…
Newly Declassified: How MacArthur’s War Against Intelligence Killed His Own Men
Petty rivalries, personality clashes, and bureaucratic infighting in the SIGINT corps may have changed the course of WWII. A new history document from the NSA and GCHQ called “Secret Messengers: Disseminating SIGINT in the Second World War”…
Turin Shroud mystery ‘solved’ by the expert who says he even knows Christ’s blood type
The Shroud of Turin, a relic shrouded in mystery, continues to captivate scientists and believers alike. Could its secrets rewrite history?
Integrity Breaches and Digital Ghosts: Why Deletion Rights Without Solid Are Strategic Fantasy
The fundamental question a new legal paper struggles with—though the author may not realize it—is a philosophical one of human persistence versus digital decay. There is no legal or regulatory landscape against which to estate plan to protect those who…
Let AI Dangle: Why the sketch.dev Integrity Breach Demands Human Accountability, Not Technical Cages
AI safety should not be framed as choosing between safety and capability when it’s more accurately between the false security of constrained tools and the true security of accountable humans using powerful tools wisely. We know which choice build…
Why Informants Worked for the Stasi
DW describes a new German history book that explores the life of the Stasi and their informants. These unofficial informants would spy on their friends and family — either willingly, or because they themselves were put under pressure. But what made the…
Why Informants Worked for the Stasi
DW describes a new German history book that explores the life of the Stasi and their informants. These unofficial informants would spy on their friends and family — either willingly, or because they themselves were put under pressure. But what made the…