3+ min ago (68+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Jason Koebler / 404 Media: X's location tool shows revenue sharing incentivizes US political content from international sock puppet and bot accounts, making polarization a side hustle" " The "psyops" revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs. This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 6:35 AM ET, November 25, 2025....

6+ min ago (875+ words) Can you trust an AI personal shopper? It's the end of November, and that means it's time to scour the internet for the best Black Friday deals. Luckily, if you're reading this, you probably know TechRadar is one of the best places online to find a discount, especially considering we have journalists all over the world looking for the best ways to save you money. However, as TechRadar's AI Senior Writer, I spend a lot of my time testing the newest innovations in the world of artificial intelligence, and this week, OpenAI launched a new upgrade to ChatGPT just in time for the biggest shopping event of the year. ChatGPT shopping research is a new tool that uses AI to take out the work of doing your own deal hunting, and I decided to try it out to see just…...

8+ min ago (666+ words) In this science activity, we strap skis to an action figure to find out Why would you put planks under your shoes to slide around? Do this activity to find out! Key concepts: Weight, pressure, force, balance, center of mass Credits: Sabine De Brabandere, PhD, Science Buddies Earth's gravity pulls us all the time. It makes us return to the ground when we jump, and it makes objects fall when we release them. But gravity even pulls us down when we are standing on a hard floor! Snowshoes use this concept to make you sink less into fresh, fluffy snow. Snowshoes create a larger contact area with the snow, so your weight pushes less on each square inch of it. The strength of each push per square inch of contact area is what scientists call pressure, and snowshoes reduce that…...

8+ min ago (931+ words) The leaves of lots of trees change color and then fall in autumn. Here's why Some trees put on a colorful show before falling to the ground and leaving their tree bare for the winter. For many trees, autumn is a spectacular grand finale. Their summer greenery gives way to a rich display of gold, crimson and even purple leaves. But those splashes of color are short-lived before leaves fall off their trees. Why do so many deciduous trees undergo this radical transformation? It's all part of how the plants prepare for winter. At the same time, these trees stop putting effort into holding on to their leaves. Shedding their leaves can help trees conserve moisture in their trunks over winter. It also allows harsh winds to blow more easily through trees' branches, putting less strain on them. Bacteria, fungi…...

11+ min ago (642+ words) Home " Health " Mind & Brain Our eyelids may dance to the rhythm, revealing how deeply music moves the brain. When a melody begins, most people begin to tap their feet, nod their heads, or sway slightly to the rhythm. But according to a new study, our eyes join in as well. In a paper published this week in PLOS Biology, neuroscientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences report that spontaneous eye blinks synchronize with musical beats during listening. Even when people sit still, their eyelids naturally blink along with the beat of the music. The research team, led by Yi Du, tracked eye movements and brain activity in 123 young adults as they listened to classical music with steady tempos'mainly Bach chorales. "We found that people's spontaneous eye blinks fall in step with the musical beat'even without being told to move'revealing a…...

12+ min ago (732+ words) I expressed my opinion about vibecoding and LLM usage before, and since then the dev world has gone batshit crazy about it and now every editor, OS, webapp, forces you into having to interact with a stupid AI agent that most of the time is freaking useless. AGAIN, I use LLMs (specifically ChatGPT) day in and out, to do boring stuff, like creating tests or solving specifically small problems I can't be bothered to copy paste. ChatGPT is my StackOverflow, I want it out of my editor and possibly on my browser. Unfortunately vscode, one day, decided to break my VSCode Minimal Setup I had run for the last few years to add bloody CoPilot bars, tabs and crap all over the place. I had enough, so decided to give a serious go to zed. I had only used it…...

13+ min ago (75+ words) [Techmeme permalink] Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: South Korea, the EU, the UK, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and others aim to build "sovereign AI; Gartner expects $1.5T in AI spending in 2025, up 50% from 2024" " South Korea and others believe their homegrown tech sectors are strong enough to build up their AI capabilities This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 6:25 AM ET, November 25, 2025....

14+ min ago (1318+ words) If you are building a mobile health app or wearable technology platform, you've probably wondered whether you can get Apple Health data without building a native iOS app. Maybe you already have a great web platform. Maybe your team wants to focus on backend AI features before investing in native apps. Or maybe you just want to test Apple Health app data in your prototype. Here's the quick answer: you need a native iOS app. There's no way around it. Apple Health data lives entirely on the user's iPhone, and Apple does not provide a backend API for the Apple Health app. That means you can't access a user's health data through your servers, your website, or any external system. You must go through the user's device. In this article, we'll explain why that is, how it affects your mobile…...

15+ min ago (249+ words) To learn CSS, it often feels like there's an endless list of things to cover: selectors, layouts, responsive tricks, animations, and so much more. But don't worry, you're in the right place, as I've put together a step-by-step CSS roadmap to guide you through everything in a logical order. First, we start with the basics. "Tip: If you want a detailed explanation with examples while following this roadmap, you can check out CSS tutorials on Learnify. After that, you'll learn how CSS decides which styles actually get applied. Once that makes sense, you can begin working on layout and structure. Then, you're ready to learn modern layout tools like Flexbox and Grid. Next, after your layouts look good, you'll learn how to make your designs visually appealing. At this point, you'll make your designs responsive and interactive for all screen…...

17+ min ago (1025+ words) As the global community intensifies its battle against environmental pollutants, microplastics have emerged as one of the most pervasive and insidious threats to aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems alike. Recent research spearheaded by Gannon, Granek, Nielsen-Pincus, and their colleagues sheds new light on the public's perception of microplastic pollution, emphasizing not only awareness and concern but [] As the global community intensifies its battle against environmental pollutants, microplastics have emerged as one of the most pervasive and insidious threats to aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems alike. Recent research spearheaded by Gannon, Granek, Nielsen-Pincus, and their colleagues sheds new light on the public's perception of microplastic pollution, emphasizing not only awareness and concern but also the economic dimensions tied to potential interventions. Published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics in 2025, their study meticulously assesses the nexus between knowledge, apprehension, and willingness to financially support remedial actions....