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Cats in AI Training Data: From Shelter Photos to Neural Networks
How cats became CAPTCHA subjects, benchmark categories and learned visual features—and what those examples do not prove about image generators.
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TechnologyNYC Banned the Flipper Zero Alongside Explosives. Here Is What It Actually Does.
The Flipper Zero got listed next to dynamite on NYC security forms. A closer look at what the…
Internet CultureHampster Dance: The Tiny Webpage That Would Not Stop Dancing
How Deidre LaCarte’s dancing rodents became an early web phenomenon, and why their story is more interesting than…
MusicSix Weird Musical Instruments That Make Ordinary Guitars Look Sensible
Glass rods, water, singing saws and musical lightning: six unusual instruments, their inventors and the surprising ways they…
Film & TVThe White Lotus Season 3: A Holiday With Excess Emotional Baggage
A spoiler-light guide to The White Lotus season three, its Thailand setting and cast, with the confirmed update…
MusicSpotify Knows Your Taste. Should It Choose Every Next Song?
What Spotify research says about listening diversity, how to adjust your taste profile, and ways to keep discovery…
Film & TVSinners at the 2026 Oscars: 16 Nominations, Four Wins
The confirmed Oscar nominations and wins for Sinners, why the craft awards matter, and what the results cannot…
MusicVinyl Is Back. The Sales Figures Need a Little Unpacking.
Vinyl’s US sales revival, the difference between units and revenue, and why physical records can coexist quite happily…
CuriositiesThe Dancing Plague of 1518: When Strasbourg Tried Hiring a Band
The strange history of Strasbourg’s dancing plague, the authorities’ musical response, and what remains uncertain about its causes…
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