The Kia Rio has America's highest driver death rate at 170 per million vehicle-years, more than four times the average of 37, while six SUVs and pickups recorded zero. #CarSafety #DriverDeathRates #iihs
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Researcher Derik Kauffman found a hidden “grey list” of more than 100,000 words and phrases your iPhone keyboard won't suggest or swipe-complete. #apple #IphoneKeyboard #PredictiveText
Asked for the best decade of their lives, 32% of Americans 65 and older chose their 60s or 70s, and just 12% chose their 20s. #BestYearsOfLife #aging #YougovSurvey
The polar vortex is already breaking apart in early November, the earliest ever observed: before this, November break-ups happened only 3 times since the 1950s, all on November 28. #PolarVortex #ColdWave #WinterWeather
820 fake restaurant sites load the real menu live and swap only the payment form, so your card goes to scammers. Check the address before you pay. #OnlineScam #RestaurantDelivery #phishing
Musk predicted 250,000 Cybertrucks a year. Tesla sold 20,237 in the US in 2025, and now it will wind down production in Texas around mid-2027. #TeslaCybertruck #ElonMusk #tesla
Anthropic gave Claude Code's model users' emails so it would stop inventing @author names, and Claude then sometimes put them in requests to websites. #ClaudeCode #anthropic #AiPrivacy
Snake is estimated to have shipped on over 400 million devices, yet it's not on the best-selling video games list, because it came preinstalled and free on Nokia phones. #SnakeNokia #BestsellingVideoGames #tetris
For 30 days, paid residential proxy services sent traffic out through the White House network 236 times, Layer3 Intel reports. #WhiteHouseNetwork #ResidentialProxies #cybersecurity
North Korean applicants made up 1 in 47 job applications at Pindrop Security's customers this year, up from 1 in 343 last year. #NorthKorea #JobScams #cybersecurity
After two cyclists died in hit-and-run crashes, activists illegally put posts on a San Francisco bike lane, and the city decided to keep them. #TacticalUrbanism #BikeLanes #SanFrancisco
Since World War II, the US president's party has lost an average of 26 House seats at midterms, and it gained seats in both houses only twice: 1934 and 2002. #UsMidtermElections #congress #HouseOfRepresentatives
To keep his walk around the world unbroken, Karl Bushby swam 179 miles across the Caspian Sea: 31 days and 132 hours in the water. #KarlBushby #WalkAroundTheWorld #CaspianSeaSwim
A DOOM marine's AI brain runs on 1,345 voodoo dolls inside the map. It's exact, but so slow he dies after 5.5 seconds, before his first move lands. #doom #NeuralNetwork #VoodooDolls
From 1672 to 1699 astronomers counted fewer than 50 sunspots, against 40,000 to 50,000 in a similar span today, and nobody yet knows why the Sun went quiet. #MaunderMinimum #sunspots #TheSun
Under the Belize jungle, lidar revealed Caracol: a Maya city of more than 100,000 people, almost all within a 20-minute walk of a market. #maya #caracol #archaeology
A painting in an Egyptian tomb shows a man pouring water in front of a sledge. Physicists found wet sand halves the force needed to pull it. #AncientEgypt #pyramids #physics
In 1946 Louis Slotin took a lethal dose of radiation at Los Alamos, and the badges meant to measure it were locked in a box about 30 m away. #LouisSlotin #DemonCore #LosAlamos
94% of UK film producers who deferred their fee never got paid: deferred fees sit at the very end of the line when a film's money comes back. #FilmFinancing #IndependentFilm #FilmProducers
A small study found that habitual leg shaking burned about 16% more energy than sitting still. #fidgeting #LegShaking #IncidentalExercise
Seeds forgotten in an Italian attic grew an ancient wheat six feet tall, about twice as tall as commercial wheat, and it needs no fertilizer. #AncientGrains #HeritageWheat #TriticumTurgidum
At 1900 death rates, malaria would kill around 16 million people a year; the real number today is about 610,000. #malaria #GlobalHealth #OurWorldInData
Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus that spreads easily in hospitals, now has nearly tenfold the clinical cases it had in 2019, the CDC says. #CandidaAuris #superbugs #DrugresistantFungus
Around 1860, London's dead took the train to Brookwood Cemetery: coffins rode first, second or third class, and every ticket was one way. #LondonNecropolisRailway #VictorianLondon #BrookwoodCemetery
Alphabet spent $51.4 billion in one quarter, more than half of its $91.4 billion for all of 2025, and its free cash flow went negative for a second straight quarter. #AlphabetStock #google #AiSpending
In a small 8-week study of young men who already lifted, three 1-minute snacks of 20 squats built about the same strength as 60 squats at once. #ExerciseSnacking #squats #StrengthTraining
A 5-second, 300-frame video of Apple's homepage was 175 KB; one PNG screenshot of the same page was 1,015 KB. H.264 keeps 3 full frames and stores the rest as block moves. #VideoCompression #h264 #HowVideoWorks
Binance says its multi-billion breach started on one engineer's laptop, and it found no evidence the wallet key ever leaked. #BinanceHack #CryptoSecurity #KeyMisuse
Ask an AI the same thing in Burmese instead of English and it costs more: tokenizers chop non-Latin scripts into far more billable pieces. #TokenizerTax #AiTokens #LanguageInequality