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The giant loophole that lets Big Dairy keep baby cows in solitary confinement
The dairy industry uses cows to make two things: milk and baby cows. The milk, we know its fate. But what of those 9 million babies born to dairy cows each year? Many get carted off —...
4 reasons why AI (probably) won’t take your job
AI is coming for the laptop class. While you clack away at your keyboard — writing code or drafting memos or making spreadsheets or scrolling X or perusing DoorDash or reading Vox or dreading death...
Bill Gates’ nuclear company is the first to get approval to build next-gen reactor
Non-plant related construction broke ground at the Wyoming facility in June 2024. | Image: TerraPower Bill Gates-founded nuclear energy startup TerraPower has been granted approval from the Nuclear...
Did Live Nation punish a venue by taking Billie Eilish away?
John Abbamondi had orders to let the CEO of Ticketmaster down easy. In April 2021, Abbamondi was the CEO of BSE Global, the company that ran Brooklyn arena the Barclays Center. BSE Global's existing...
A new video from the White House mixes Call of Duty footage with actual video of Iran strikes
A screenshot of the Call of Duty footage in the White House’s video. On Wednesday, the White House posted a video of actual military strikes on Iran in the style usually seen in Call of Duty...
Seven tech giants signed Trump’s pledge to keep electricity costs from spiking around data centers
Trump summoned tech leaders to the White House on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 to sign pledges committing their companies to foot the electricity bill for energy-hungry data centers. | Photo: Getty...
Tim Sweeney signed away his right to criticize Google until 2032
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney might be one of the most outspoken people in the history of the world. He fought two of the world's most valuable and powerful companies almost all the way to the US Supreme...
Big tech companies agree to not ruin your electric bill with AI data centers
Today the White House announced that several major players in tech and AI have agreed to steps that will keep electricity costs from rising due to data centers. Under this Ratepayer Protection...
Iran had a plan to fight Israel and the US. It all collapsed after October 7.
The destroyed offices of the Jamaa Islamiya, an Islamist group allied with Hamas and Hezbollah, after it was targeted by an Israeli airstrike the previous day in the southern Lebanese coastal city...
What the Iran war is costing you, briefly explained
Cargo ships and tankers are seen in the Strait of Hormuz on February 25, 2026. | Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay...