Author: Dzmitry Korsak

Not long ago, the internet mostly hunted for our attention with curiosity, novelty, and the lure of a click. Now it increasingly catches us through irritation, anger, and outrage. Oxford University Press named rage bait its Word of 2025, noting separately that usage of the term tripled over the year. Oxford University Press defines rage bait as content deliberately made irritating, provocative, or offensive to trigger anger in people — and thereby drive reach, comments, and traffic. Today we take a close look at this phenomenon.

Information bubbles are now one of the core elements of the digital environment: platforms personalize feeds, search results, and recommendations to keep users inside their comfortable version of reality for as long as possible. The result is that people living on the same street — or even in the same building — increasingly receive fundamentally different accounts of what is happening in the world. Today we examine why this problem will only get worse.

Debates about the advantages of drone technology tend to digress into a zoo of technical specifications such as range, sensors, autonomy, etc. But the talk often quickly turns to comparisons of different platforms and spirited arguments over which system looks better on paper. Yet recent momentous decisions regarding defense policy, alongside the realities of modern battlefields, indicate more profound change. Platforms are still important, but by itself would not guarantee a competitive edge without smooth integration across existing forces, ensuring agility, fast updates and scalability. 

Aging and death have long been topics that only philosophers, hypochondriacs, and charlatans were happy to dwell on. But in recent years, this eternal yet unwelcomed subject has drawn growing interest from scientists and business figures alike — driven, above all, by the rise of AI, which has called into question the assumption that aging, as we know it, is simply the natural order of things. Aging is now understood as a set of measurable processes: the accumulation of cellular damage, regulatory failures, and the gradual erosion of the body’s systemic resilience. And if that’s the case, it can be significantly slowed down.

In May 2026, Las Vegas is set to host the inaugural Enhanced Games — a competition its organizers pitch as an alternative to traditional sports. The concept is as simple as it is explosive: athletes will be permitted to compete using substances and methods banned under anti-doping rules, but, according to the project’s creators, under medical supervision and in a fully transparent framework. The official website lists May 24, 2026 as the opening date. The program includes swimming, athletics, and weightlifting.

AI has learned to handle letters, numbers, and words brilliantly — it constructs text, interprets commands, writes code, analyzes images. But all of this belongs to a world of symbols, where a mistake usually costs nothing: “rewrite,” “fix it,” “try again.” Physical reality operates differently. Cups fall, surfaces slip, light shifts, things wear out — and a “wrong answer” can mean broken equipment, human injury, and million-dollar losses.

A new Nature Communications study suggests that insulin resistance tracks with higher risk for 12 cancer types. An international research team applied an unusual approach — instead of measuring insulin resistance directly, they developed an algorithmic proxy, opening the door to population-scale risk analyses. Here’s why that matters.

In recent years, GLP-1–based weight-loss drugs have decisively moved beyond a narrow medical topic and become a mainstream subject of discussion in the US, Europe, and Canada. Explosive demand growth, intensifying competition, and expectations of change driven by patent timelines have turned the search for Ozempic alternatives into a practical question: what should you choose if Ozempic is hard to obtain, too expensive, or poorly tolerated?

YouTube has always presented itself as a vast library of human experience: tutorials, vlogs, explainers, music, children’s stories, news. But in 2025–2026, this library rapidly developed an extension that resembles a vending machine for text and images: press a button — get a video. This wave is increasingly being called AI slop, or “neuroslop”: content that looks like a video “about something,” but is in fact assembled from templates, repetitions, and crude but effective attention-holding tricks. It isn’t necessarily malicious. It’s simply abundant, cheap, and surprisingly sticky.

Canadian biotech company Providence Therapeutics has announced its support for the PaedNEO-VAX clinical study — a program testing personalized mRNA vaccines for children and teens with the most severe, treatment-resistant brain tumors. The project is set to launch in Australia in March 2026, and organizers say patient enrollment will run through a network of 7–8 pediatric hospitals and clinics across several states.