Unhappy Workers May Reduce Global GDP By As Much As 9%, Gallup Estimates

Employees polled in the United States and Canada ranked highest among all regions in terms of engagement at work, while those in Europe ranked lowest.

Music Industry’s 1990s Hard Drives Are Dying

The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.

OpenAI’s new o1 model is slower, on purpose

The rumored ‘Strawberry’ model is here, and the company says it can handle more complex queries — for a steep price.

== had previous article on similar event in Alaska
Mystery tremors were from massive nine-day tsunami

Scientists were able to pin down the location of the tsunami to a remote fjord in East Greenland.

Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay pointed at Earth, but after 47 years in space some of the fuel tubes have become clogged.

An AI Bot Named James Has My Old Local News Job

A local newspaper in Hawaii has turned to AI-generated presenters to draw in new audiences.

== have your own domain(s)?
Security Researcher Exposes Critical WHOIS Vulnerability

.mobi top-level-domain managers changed the location of its WHOIS server. No one got the memo.

== repeat?
The Shadow Dollar That’s Fueling the Financial Underworld

Almost as much money flowed through its network last year as through Visa cards.

Self-medicating gorillas may hold new drugs clues

Researchers studied tropical plants eaten by wild gorillas identifying four with medicinal effects.

The No-BS Guide to Better Gut Health

No gimmicks, supplements, or special diets necessary.

Yet another person got bird flu. Now should I freak out?

Experts are losing a little sleep over the latest Missouri case, but that doesn’t mean you should.

Senate leaders ask FTC to investigate AI content summaries as anti-competitive

A group of Democratic senators is urging the FTC and Justice Department to investigate whether AI tools that summarize and regurgitate online content like news and recipes may amount to anticompetitive practices.

First Neutrinos Detected At Fermilab Short-Baseline Detector

The SBND collaboration has been planning, prototyping and constructing the detector for nearly a decade.

Oracle Is Designing a Data Center That Would Be Powered By Three Small Nuclear Reactors

Oracle is designing a data center that would require more than a gigawatt of power, chairman and co-founder Larry Ellison said.

Americans used 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data last year

Self-driving cars, drones and more new technology contributed to the record number.

Microsoft Performs Operations With Multiple Error-Corrected Qubits

The physical qubits, in today’s intermediate-scale quantum machines, are too noisy and error-prone, making the machines impractical for real-world applications.

Antarctic Sea Ice on Cusp of Record Winter Low For Second Year Running

Last year Antarctica’s sea ice was 1.6m sq km below average – the size of Britain, France, Germany and Spain combined. This week it had even less than that.

== paywall?, couple free reads per month
Two Separate Pterosaur Fossils Reveal That the Creatures Likely Used Different Flying Methods

CT scans of Jordanian fossils reveal surprising internal bone structures in pterosaurs. Paleontologists explain how these findings reshape our understanding of ancient flight.

== paywall?
How to Address Two Environmental Crises at Once

Solar fields turn out to be ideal for pollinators, too.

What if a virus could reverse antibiotic resistance?

In promising experiments, phage therapy forces bacteria into a no-win dilemma that lowers their defenses against drugs they’d evolved to withstand.

== paywall?
To be more useful, robots need to become lazier

Smarter data processing could make machines more helpful and energy-efficient in the real world. A good way to test this principle is robot soccer.

Americans Lost $5.6 Billion Last Year In Crypto Fraud Scams

With investment fraud accounting for the majority of losses, according to the FBI.

== American perspective, to go along with earlier Canadian based article
How climate change is expanding the reach of EEE, a rare and deadly mosquito-borne illness

Eastern equine encephalitis, a mosquito-borne disease with a high mortality rate, has been spreading in the Northeast as temperatures rise.

Household Brands Want To Redefine ‘Recyclable’ To Include Products Virtually Impossible To Recycle

A proposal experts say could worsen a crisis that is flooding the planet and our bodies with the toxic material.

Sharks Deserting Coral Reefs as Oceans Heat Up, Study Shows

Climate crisis is driving key predators from their homes and threatening an already embattled ecosystem.

== yjc, not a big fan of California cab savs, but do like wine in general
Cabernet is the Most Popular Red Wine in the US. Can It Endure Climate Change?

Late-summer heat waves are threatening Napa Valley’s famed cabernet grapes, which produce some of the United States’ most expensive wines.

Autonomous Vehicles Get a Boost to Seeing in the Dark

Better light polarization data improves driving ability by 10 percent .

== paywall?, also have seen an article on this before, but…
Alien Spaceships Could Be Detected Using Gravitational Waves

The concept of space-time makes Star Trek-style warp drives theoretically possible, and researchers have proposed a way of detecting their use.

AI May Not Steal Many Jobs After All

It may just make workers more efficient.

== more on the subject
‘Thousands" of Telegram Channels Sell Stolen Identities, Reports WSJ

Some claim to offer already created bank accounts created with stolen details.

== rather lengthy and likely not of interest to most of you; but tech and politics is often of interest to some
Is the Tech World Now ‘Central’ to Foreign Policy?

Two major wars. A rising China. Hackers everywhere. He’s the US secretary of state, and he says he’s here to help.

MIT CS Professor Tests AI’s Impact on Educating Programmers

The continued focus on incorporating AI into most job sectors will change how computer science is taught.

Chick of ‘world’s most dangerous bird’ hatches in Cotswolds

Keepers at Birdland have been trying to breed the giant, flightless birds for more than 25 years.

New York Times Calls Telegram ‘A Playground for Criminals, Extremists and Terrorists’

The company has looked the other way as illegal and extremist activities have flourished openly on the app.

== Canadian perspective
What you need to know about mosquito-borne diseases

West Nile virus, eastern equine encephalitis and California serogroup viruses are most prevalent in Canada.

== haven’t used it, but think I might have a look
Signal is More Than Encrypted Messaging

On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.

Stop or yield? New research supports law change for cyclists

Oregon State University study shows that allowing cyclists to yield at stop signs does not increase danger.

P.E.I.’s culinary institute hopes underwater ingredient creates recipe for success

Kelp in dessert and other foods tastes better than it sounds, researcher says.

Why F1 designer is one of sport’s highest-earning players

Adrian Newey is joining Aston Martin on a salary that could rise to £30m, including bonuses and add-ons. That is a lot of money for an engineer - but then Newey is not just any engineer.

ESA Prints 3D Metal Shape In Space For First Time

Tech demo paves way to producing spare parts and tools during missions.

Boeing’s Starliner Makes ‘Picture Perfect’ Landing - Without Its Crew

The beleaguered Starliner spacecraft, built by Boeing, ends a crucial test flight that proved to be a real headache for NASA.

Electrocuted Birds Are Bursting Into Flames and Starting Wildfires

Power wires normally pose no threat to birds, but that can change if they start trying to find snacks in the wrong places.

Playing D&D Helps Autistic Players In Social Interactions, Study Finds

“I can make a character quite different from how I interact with people in real life.”