Languishing schools | Broader purpose | Damaged goods. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for Dec. 16, 2025.

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

An iconic restaurant compared to the bar from "Cheers" suddenly shuts its doors after eight decades of serving the community.

MRO, however, continues to suffer from chronic defects, rogue parts and unscheduled line maintenance. The industry’s caution ...

Two decades after it ignited a market for robot vacuums in homes, iRobot has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company, best known for its Roomba robot vacuums, entered the filing late ...

While delivering a speech in 1954, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery gave prescient insights into the future of warfare.

As the artificial intelligence debate rages on, New York has signed a landmark law to regulate AI performers and protect ...

Hiring a company with a troubling history of gassing geese and their goslings is not the solution,' said a West Orange ...

Here’s how pinning a utopian vision for AI on LLMs kicked off the hype cycle that’s causing fears of a bubble today.

The new head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service MI6 will warn the nation that the “front line is everywhere” in her ...

Slop” was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.

However, as we enter 2026, the next big AI supercycle may be emerging. The first phase was largely about generative AI. This ...