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The New York Times tracked several oil tankers faking their locations while transporting Russian oil currently under Western sanctions, in an apparent effort to deceive their American insurer.

A handy guide to the history and significance of the most common LGBTQ+ Pride flags...

Also UBS bought Credit Suisse, are stablecoins securities, crypto funds North Korea’s missile program and Jeff Bezos bought a share of stock.

The test

This year, the average American paid $1,087 in taxes just for Pentagon contractors alone. Imagine the kind of society we could construct with just a fraction of the resources we devote to war.

Elon Musk suggested the Unabomber may have been right about the rise of tech creating too many problems for humanity.

An Associated Press analysis found that fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding; another $123 billion was wasted or misspent. Combined, the loss represents 10% of the $4.2 trillion the U.S. government has disbursed in COVID relief aid.

Where Katie Couric had to put perky in the past, Diane Sawyer, coolly regal, is a born anchor, albeit in an ever evaporating sea.

Fortune 500 companies generated record revenues of $18.1 trillion last year, but profits tanked roughly 15%. Here's why that happened and what it means for the economy.

Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract comes up for renewal this month, which could result in the social media company's trust and safety teams being crippled, Platformer reported on Saturday.

I’m sick of the AI hype and scaremongering. The idea that AI could take over the world is laughable.

By design, it’s a screen for just one person: you.

We can't trust the private sector to serve the public interest.

Decades-old research about how and why people share rumors is even more relevant in a world with social media.

It’s bad enough not to get a clean debt bill, but it’s worse to impede electric transmission issues as part of the bargain.

The Inflation Reduction Act took minor steps against Big Pharma price-gouging. Merck is outraged.

Quinn Slobodian’s new book shimmers with libertarian dreams but fails to demonstrate that zones are splintering national governments.

It's even worse than it appears..

Spies gonna spy

Fake people and fake news have existed on Internet since forever. They didn’t make such a terrible impact at the beginning because Internet…

They impede learning, stunt relationships, and lessen belonging. They should be banned.

“Our boyfriends, our significant others, and our husbands are supposed to be No. 1. Our worlds are backward.”

KICK THE COPS OFF YOUR BLOCK:  Introduction: For contemplative and practical purposes, we need worldviews and theories that have explanatory power, that trace causes, effects, forms, functions…