Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked in 2018

Japan releases 200,000 tonnes of emergency rice stockpile as prices soar

Agriculture minister says rising prices have ‘had a significant impact on people’s lives’ amid record heat, surges in demand and distribution problems

Why all developers should adopt a safety-critical mindset

Is anyone designing software where failures don't have consequences?

Trump lost. That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes

The six biggest banks in the US have all quit the global banking industry’s net zero target-setting group, with the imminent inauguration of Donald Trump as president expected to bring political backlash against climate action

Canada’s major news organizations have sued tech firm OpenAI for potentially billions of dollars, alleging the company is “strip-mining journalism” and unjustly enriching itself by using news articles to train its popular ChatGPT software

studies calculating the role of the climate crisis in what are now unnatural disasters show 550 heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts and wildfires have been made significantly more severe or more frequent by global heating

Let us start with how odd it is to be imposing bans on the most popular and effective aid for quitting smoking that we currently have

number of high school boys in Japan who have had first kiss falls to record lows

dating apps, which have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times worldwide, are “exploitative” and are designed not to be deleted but to be addictive, to retain users in order to create revenue

Earth may have breached seven of nine planetary boundaries, health check shows

Idiocracy 2024 m(

Melodies in chart-topping music have become less complex, study finds

Scientists say changes since 1950 could partly be due to new genres such as stadium rock, disco and hip-hop

Global spending on nuclear weapons is estimated to have increased by 13% to a record $91.4bn during 2023

kudos!?

800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing card details and other sensitive personal data with a vast network of fake online designer shops apparently operated from China

Working on problems in the order I noticed them is rarely the most effective order. So the WTF Notebook gives me a place to park the impulse to fix it now, damn it! until I have more context for deciding what to work on first

Motor emissions could have fallen 30% more without SUV trend, report says

One in three 18- to 24-year-olds now report symptoms indicating they have experienced a common mental health problem, such as depression or anxiety disorder, compared with one in four in 2000.

This figure was not the result of a quick and dirty snapshot poll. It was one result from a three-year research programme by the Resolution Foundation

Why have so many teens and twentysomethings stopped going out?