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Please stop asking me when the AI bubble will pop

People, including on this staff, keep asking me with varying degrees of excitement or trepidation when the AI bubble will burst. I'll tell you what I tell them: If I knew that, I would make a life-changing bet on the market, levered up as far as I could, and then, after I made my money, […]

The Verge · EN

The biggest modding site in PC gaming is taking a stance on AI

The PC gaming mods repository Nexus Mods is making disclosures about AI mandatory for uploads of new mods, meaning that mod authors will have to declare "whether AI has been used in their work," the site announced today as part of a big post about AI-generated content on the platform. "One of the most consistent […]

The Verge · EN

All the news about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake

Ahead of the release of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto VI, Nintendo is launching its own fall juggernaut: a Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The remake, which is releasing 28 years after the launch of the original version on Nintendo 64, has a much more realistic visual style and […]

The Verge · EN

AMD rides data center riches to ‘largest and most profitable’ quarter in history

AMD CEO Lisa Su said in the company's quarterly earnings call on Tuesday that Q3 2026 was "was the largest and most profitable in our history." AMD reported a record $13.4 billion in quarterly revenue, and it's predicting it will hit another record high next quarter of $17 billion. The company's data center business is […]

The Verge · EN

Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers

Russia tries to fix exposed digital infrastructure as data center war backfires.

Ars Technica · EN

California fights "preposterous" Trump admin demand to scrap state broadband laws

State tries to obtain broadband funds despite rejecting Trump admin condition.

Ars Technica · EN

Toddler Phone Calls Family and No One Else

The great thing about the modern world is how connected we are. It’s also the worst thing about the modern world, to be honest. [Allan Binder] wanted to give his …read more

Hackaday · EN

Etching Press Aims To Impress

There’s an old joke about inviting a girl up to your dorm room to ‘look at your etchings’– but if you’re going to do that, you’d best have some etchings, …read more

Hackaday · EN

OpenAI uses GPT-6 and Astra to design a working hardware device in under one week

OpenAI has designed a working hardware device in under a week using its latest models,...

Interesting Engineering · EN

Boston Dynamics cuts Stretch robot cabling by 81%, speeds up repairs in Gen 2 upgrade

Hyundai-backed Boston Dynamics has unveiled Stretch Gen 2, a next-generation autonomous robot designed to unload...

Interesting Engineering · EN

World’s first mass spectrometer detects uranium and plutonium isotopes at once

Researchers in the US have unveiled the world’s first mass spectrometer that can measure all...

Interesting Engineering · EN

World’s largest fusion reactor tests 330-tonne magnet built to control superhot plasma

ITER has completed a major test campaign on one of its 330-tonne superconducting magnets, successfully...

Interesting Engineering · EN

Modular radar-equipped 40mm naval gun brings containerized firepower against drones

BAE Systems is bringing four configurations of its Bofors 40mm naval gun technology under one...

Interesting Engineering · EN

The night-sky image so incredible the NZ man behind it has been accused of using AI

Brendan Larsen spent hours taking hundreds of photographs of the sky over a mountain in New Zealand A photograph showing thousands of satellites cross-hatching the night sky over New Zealand appeared so extraordinary the astrophotographer who captured it is fighting accusations it was created by AI. To create his spectacular image – now viewed millions of times online – Brendan Larsen spent two hours in September snapping hundreds of photographs of the night sky over Mount Taranaki in the North Island. Continue reading...

Guardian Science · EN

Prince William says UK faces terrifying risk of more wildfires due to climate change

The prince says 2026 was the first summer he felt "worried about the scale of the wildfires".

BBC Science · EN

The States Losing the Most Daylight Before Winter, Mapped

See which states lose the most and least sunlight in autumn, as well as the reason some states experience much shorter days than others as the weather gets colder, based on Farmers' Almanac data.

Mental Floss · EN

What Was Voting Like 100 Years Ago?

In 1926, women had been voting for less than a decade—and not all women were allowed to vote. Here's what voting was like in 1926, from the machines to rigged literacy tests and more.

Mental Floss · EN

Miniature Landscapes in Beek-Ubbergen, Netherlands

If you like all things miniature, you simply have to go and visit the Miniature Landscape Museum in Beek-Ubbergen, close to Nijmegen. If you're incidentally also into badgers and into German expressionistic architecture, you're in for a treat! Or, if you don't have a lot of time to explore the variety of Dutch landscapes, you can cover ten of them by foot on a lazy afteroon. The area where the Miniature Museum, the badgers and Villa Wylberberg are located, used to be German, until the Netherlands annexed it after worldwar 2. Most Dutch postwar annexations were revoked in the 1960, but the Wyle

Atlas Obscura · EN

Archaeologists in Scotland Discovered the Skeleton of a Roman-Era Man Who Was Decapitated Nearly 2,000 Years Ago. Now, You Can See What He Might Have Looked Like During His Lifetime

A digital facial reconstruction of the man, whose head was severed after his death, will soon go on view in Edinburgh. It depicts an individual in his early 50s, with graying hair and brown eyes

Smithsonian Magazine · EN

See the World's Tallest Day of the Dead Skeleton, Made From Steel, Fiberglass, Papier-Mâché and 70,000 Marigolds

Standing a little more than 109 feet tall—roughly the height of an 11-story building—the colorful "La Catrina" figure in Mexico City broke the previous record of 92 feet set in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, in 2023

Smithsonian Magazine · EN

Caltech and the New California Quantum Ecosystem

The breakthroughs accelerating the growth of California's quantum innovation ecosystem depend on fundamental science and engineering from Caltech and other academic institutions, according to Caltech leaders and researchers who spoke at the statewide Quantum California Convening last month. Quantum California is a partnership between the California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) and the University of California Office of the President (UCOP). The initiative was launched in November 2025 to align academia, researchers, national labs, industry, investors, and gov

Caltech News · EN

Featured video: Changing the conversation about endometriosis

Documentary shines a powerful light on a painful disease that affects 265 million women, highlights efforts at MIT’s Center for Gynepathology Research to study the disease and find treatments.

MIT News · EN

3 Questions: Building more resilient minerals supply chains

Elsa Olivetti, co-director of the MIT Minerals Stewardship Consortium, discusses how research and collaborations can strengthen mineral supply chains.

MIT News · EN

WWII submarine returns to Michigan after extensive restoration

The USS 'Silversides' received its first dry dock overhaul in 50 years. The post WWII submarine returns to Michigan after extensive restoration appeared first on Popular Science .

Popular Science · EN