October 22, 2025

AI models may be a bit like humans, after all. A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University shows that large language models fed a diet of popular but low-quality social media content experience a kind of “brain rot” that may be familiar to anyone who has spent…

It’s hard to remember now that people used to be skeptical about electric bikes. Cyclists didn’t want unlicensed motor vehicles in bike lanes; people who didn’t bike found them to be dangerous. Even as more people adopt them to deal with carbon emissions or traffic, ebikes still have many issues. Cheap ones are impossible to…