2026-06-14

Horseshit

• The Philips Skylight Lets You Recreate Natural Daylight Anywhere in Your Home

• Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses

• Too many people are shockingly bad at prioritisation

• Patagonia is suing Pattie Gonia, a drag queen performer

• The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car

• How iPhones Became Birth Control

• Why is America less of a 24/7 society?

  • Profit margins are lower during "off" hours.

• A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

  researchers at the University of California San Diego are building a pathway for the second life of phones through the exploration of “phone cluster computing.” This is a process whereby the motherboards of retired smartphones are extracted, collected into clusters, and redeployed as a general-purpose computing platform. With Google’s support, the university plans to deploy a datacenter built from 2,000 Pixel smartphones that will provide hundreds of researchers and students with low-cost, low-carbon cloud computing, reducing the need for newly-manufactured hardware and their associated emissions.

• ‘Human Barbie’ to undergo groundbreaking designer vagina procedure — using cadaver fat

• Sealed Super Mario Bros Sells for $3M Setting New Record for a Video Game

• The American World Cup Introduced Ad Breaks–and Everyone Hates It

Obit

• Gene Shalit, Mussed-Up Movie Critic of the Today Show, Dies at 100

  • Gene Shalit, longtime 'Today' show movie critic, dies at 100

  • Shalit interviewing Kermit the Frog

• Cleve Moler (Developer of Matlab) Dies at 86

Musk

• The world’s first trillionaire is a killer

• Musk's War on European Democracy

• Former OpenAI board member says Elon Musk offered her sperm donations

• Elon Musk laid out 602 goals. We counted how many he hit

• Kimmel: Elon Musk Is ‘An Immigrant Who Has Been Stealing From Us’

• SpaceX IPO made Musk a trillionaire. The old rules of capitalism no longer apply

• Elon Musk is the first trillionaire

• Elon Musk becomes first trillionaire

• Elon Musk Becomes the First Trillionaire. Is That Such a Bad Thing?

• How Musk's tactics left investors clamoring for SpaceX stock and ignoring risks

• Small investors scrambled to buy SpaceX, despite belief valuation 'stupid'

• How Much SpaceX Are You About to Own?

• SpaceX surges past $2T in Nasdaq debut, closes in on Amazon

• SpaceX shares debut after biggest IPO in history

• Vindication for Young Elon Musk

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Oracle Cloud halving always free resources on the 15th June

• Nintendo's lawsuit against indie hit Palworld looks doomed.

• Blood pressure tech floods the market after FDA relaxes wearables oversight

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip

  The 8087 patent expresses the importance of the adder: "Ultimately, all arithmetical operations are reduced at one point to a binary addition." Thus, the performance of the adder is vital to the performance of the 8087. There are faster ways to add, such as the Kogge-Stone adder in the Pentium, but these approaches require much more hardware, too much for the constrained transistor count of the 8087. The 8087 balanced complexity against performance, using the Manchester carry chain with a carry-skip adder.

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• The Department of War just released the third tranche of UFO records

• Japan’s H3 rocket bounces back from failure with successful return to flight launch carrying 6 satellites.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Anthropic disables access to Fable 5, Mythos 5 on government directive

  Anthropic on Friday announced it’s disabled access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 artificial intelligence models to comply with an export control directive from the U.S. government that cited “national security authorities.” The company said it received an order at 5:21 p.m. ET, instructing it to suspend all access to the models “by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.” Anthropic abruptly disabled the models for all of its customers in order to ensure compliance, but said all of its other models will not be affected.

  • As a result of a US Government directive, we are suspending access to Fable 5

  • US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

  • Trump admin blocks foreign access to Anthropic's most powerful AI models

  • Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive

  • Anthropic disables top-tier AI models outside US

  • Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models

  • US ban on Mythos is related to a jailbreak research by Amazon researchers

  • Anthropic suspends new AI tools over US Government security concerns

  • Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House's Anthropic Fable ban

  • US orders Anthropic to disable AI models for all foreign nationals

  • Amazon and the White House Ended Anthropic's Fable

  • White House's export limits on Anthropic linked to concerns about Chinese access

  • Zvi: American Government Takes Down Claude Fable

  The United States Department of Commerce, as per a letter from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, apparently in response to a narrow jailbreak identified by Amazon, has classified Fable 5 and Mythos 5 as being subject to US export controls. That explicitly means cutting off access to all ‘foreign nationals,’ even within the United States, even if they are Anthropic employees. Given Anthropic has no means to verify citizenship at this time, that meant complete shutdown of the model, at least for the time being.

  I am not taking the position that Anthropic is clearly right in the dispute about the facts, although it would be weird for them to lie about it given the truth will soon come out. I am however taking the position that the implementation method chosen by the government, with no warning, was deeply terrible, even given our options with our current very terrible level of relevant state capacity, and reflects some combination of at least one of either malice or a deep misunderstanding by decision makers of how jailbreaks and cyber security work.

  • We've been here before: Phil Zimmermann: Arms Export Control Act investigation

• White House discussions are weighing giving CISA Mythos access

• Anthropic Policy on the AI Exponential

• OpenAI under investigation by group of state attorneys general, source says

  • State Attorneys General Are Investigating OpenAI

• KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations

  • A major KPMG report on AI was found to be chock-full of AI hallucinations

• Zuckerberg says Meta made 'mistakes' in AI workforce shift

• Meta's months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag

• China cracks down on Western AI models while US companies flock to DeepSeek

• French AI company Mistral is seeking to raise $3 billion on a $20 billion valuation.

• DOE wants to build a single national platform for doing science with AI

• Nvidia raises RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU pricing to $13,250

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Sam Bankman-Fried loses fraud conviction appeal

  • Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to appeal against fraud conviction in FTX case

  • Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to overturn crypto fraud conviction

• You Can Make Free Money on Polymarket. If You Know Math

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Gas Prices Wipe Out More Than a Year of Wage Gains

• The Strategic Oil Reserves Are Running Out Fast

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Controversial FISA spying law expires tonight. The spying will continue

• Michigan Lawmakers Want to Ban Chinese-Tagged Cars from Even Visiting the State

Left Angst

• Everyone is talking about this photo that apparently got posted to Reddit and then deleted | Not the Bee

  Trump is outside of the White House with these elven creatures and no one knows if it's AI or who posted it.

  • Deleted Mysterious Trump Photo With Red-Clad Group Ignites Speculation and Meme Wave

• Kennedy Center Says It Has Removed Trump's Name from Building

  • Kennedy Center board's new bylaws strip funding if center removes Trump's name

• A woman's death in Pittsburgh after release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide

  A medical examiner has ruled the death of a Haitian asylum seeker after being released from federal custody a homicide. An attorney representing her family said he expects her relatives to sue Immigration and Customs Enforcement in connection with her death. Daphy Michel, 31, died March 2. She was found at a bus shelter. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office found her cause of death to be hypothermia and ruled the manner a homicide, “indicating the death was caused by the actions of another individual” and should not be interpreted as a declaration of criminal guilt, the office said in a statement. The office released its findings Friday.

  A magistrate said he could not hold her for trial for threatening imaginary people, Murphy said. Afterward, ICE arrested her in her cell, put an ankle monitor on her and took her 25 miles (40 kilometers) away to Pittsburgh, where she sat at a bus shelter for days in winter, he said. “She was in September clothes and it was February, and the weather overwhelmed her and she went into hypothermia,” Murphy said. The medical examiner’s finding of homicide is different from a criminal charge, meaning “somebody did or failed to do something that brought about her demise,” Murphy said. He said he expects Michel’s family to file a lawsuit against ICE in connection with her death.

• Judge orders Trump admin to restore Park changes at sites that 'disparaged' US

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The FBI built its own replica small town to simulate real-world cyberattacks

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US Strikes drug lord in Venezuela

  At my direction, the United States Southern Command delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike to successfully execute Niño Guerrero, the infamous leader of Tren De Aragua,

• The Army bought 10k IVAS headsets. Soldiers won't use them

World

• Switzerland to vote on plan to cap population at 10M

• Russian mathematician wanted on terrorism charges detained in Armenia

• Palantir loses lawsuit disputing story of how Swiss govt rejected its services

• NHS patients can't opt out of Palantir's data platform – but their hospital can

• No one likes to ask 'what happens to Mum when the money runs out?'

• Why India wants German submarines

Iran / Houthi

• Qatar pursued secret talks with Iran to shield gas complex from strikes

• U.S. Military Helping Move 7M Bpd Out of Persian Gulf, Wright Says

• Iran war: Trump says deal with Iran to be signed on Sunday

  Trump says deal with Iran to be signed Sunday, Strait of Hormuz to reopen straight after. Trump suggested the deal will not include Iran handing over enriched uranium. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi bolstered that sentiment by saying an agreement 'has never been closer'

Israel

• Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

• How Israel's AI surveillance breakthrough in Iran is reshaping global intel

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Two phones and an app: How Russians skirt Putin's digital iron curtain

China

• Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams

• SpaceX playbook set to fuel China's IPO ambitions but tech gap persists

• China's Notorious University-Entrance Exam, Gaokao Is Changing

• China's control over indium phosphide exports threatens AI data centre rollout

Health / Medicine

• Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• iPhone parts factory contaminated farmland water, India pollution body alleges

• El Niño and the Iran war may spark hunger crisis for more than 100M

• A mysterious 'cold blob' in the ocean has puzzled scientists

• Screwworm treatment authorized and Florida bans animals from screwworm states

• Goblin Sharks Caught on Camera in Their Natural Habitat for the First Time

• What Happens to an Economy When It's Too Hot to Work?