How the US is preparing a Caribbean staging ground near Venezuela(reuters.com)

50 points by giuliomagnifico 11 months ago | 36 comments

Musk says DOGE is halting Treasury payments to US contractors(fortune.com)

15 points by bloomingkales 1 year ago | 3 comments

Peter Thiel was an FBI informant(businessinsider.com)

143 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 75 comments

Former US Vice-President Cheney Dies(reuters.com)

41 points by abawany 11 months ago | 26 comments

US fired 1k JASSM cruise missiles in 37 days. Lockheed makes 396 per year(shatterbelt.co)

15 points by realpolitik9 6 months ago | 0 comments

Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait(bloomberg.com)

289 points by srameshc 5 months ago | 475 comments

The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire(michelecoscia.com)

136 points by mikk14 12 days ago | 30 comments

Blog post by Michele Coscia applying economic complexity analysis to the economy of the Western Roman Empire.

VCs aren’t your friends(openvc.app)

441 points by taubek 2 years ago | 286 comments

OpenVC blog post by Stéphane Nasser arguing that founders should not treat venture capitalists as friends when fundraising.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy(fortune.com)

504 points by pg_1234 2 years ago | 308 comments

Fortune/AP article on a New York bill to ban noncompete employment agreements, awaiting Gov. Kathy Hochul's decision, and opposition from Wall Street firms.

The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy(economist.com)

171 points by runeks 1 month ago | 212 comments

An Economist article arguing that Italy's Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of the country; the page shown is an access-restricted block.

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies(thelibre.news)

803 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 487 comments

LibreNews article by Niccolò Venerandi on how LLM scrapers from AI companies are overloading and taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure.