2026-06-02

Horseshit

• Run your first marathon in your 50s, get chased by zombies

• Student astronomer discovers 'Rosetta Stone' for mysterious cosmic signals

• Scientists discover lost range of 'supermountains' 3x longer than the Himalayas

• Big Tech bets on new mascots in bid to seem more cuddly

• The Uncomfortable Truth About Roald Dahl’s Anti-Semitism

  A new Broadway play about Roald Dahl and his prejudice captures uncomfortable truths.

• The Exclusive Retreat Where Wealthy Kids Learn How Not to Blow an Inheritance

• Superhuman Fantasies – Nietzsche versus the techno-optimists

• I Gave My Kid a Screen-Free Summer–and You Can Too

Epstein

• Bill Gates Spent Years Crafting His Image. Now It's Cracking

celebrity gossip

• Harpo speaks: New recordings reveal mute Marx brother chatting with audience

Musk

• Michael Burry Just Called Nvidia's SpaceX Chip Deal 'Fugazi.'

• Tesla May registrations jump in several European markets as recovery continues

• After SpaceX Goes Public, Does the Stock Market Fall?

Electric / Self Driving cars

• The U.S. Wants to Ban China's High-Tech Cars but They're Already Here in El Paso

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Valve, Gaming's Anticorporate Hero, Has Its Antitrust Moment

• Data Breach Disclosure Lag Is Getting Worse

• Unreleased Pixel Watch 5 Found by Diver in St Martins

• Nvidia Enters Windows Laptop Market, Taking on Intel and AMD

  • Nvidia jumps into PCs with new chip debuting in laptops from Microsoft, Dell, HP

  • Nvidia unveils PC 'superchip' in challenge to Apple and Intel

• Legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival

• The Metaverse and its ghost towns: Why social VR apps are struggling

• AMD has updated its roadmap to confirm that the AM5 platform (the current generation) will remain current through at least 2029.

• AMD brings back Ryzen 7 5800X3D

• AMD Wants You to Keep Using Your Old Hardware for a Lot Longer

• Microsoft says it will not pursue security researchers after zero-day backlash

• After being shut down by Blizzard, TurtleWow will make their own MMO

• Strava blames zero-code AI apps and scrapers as it tightens API access

  • Strava sunsetting free API endpoints and public profiles

• AT&T Sues California Regulators for Trying to Make Broadband Affordable

• Microsoft could be the next Big Tech antitrust target

• DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms

• Meta whistleblower's lawyer says he too is prevented from promoting her book

• Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• HN Jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• In UFO Files, Some Christians See Vexing Questions – and Demons

• Efficiently Cooling Satellite Components in Space

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, saying they put profit over safety

  • OpenAI Sued by Florida's Attorney General over AI Harms

  • OpenAI hit with lawsuit by Florida AG over AI risks

  • Florida AG files lawsuit against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman for deceptive practices

  • Florida AG sues OpenAI, seeks to hold CEO Altman personally liable for harms

  • Florida lawsuit accuses OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman of endangering children

  • Florida AG files first-of-its-kind state lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman

  • Florida becomes first state to sue OpenAI over child safety risks

  • Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman after multiple ChatGPT-linked murders

  • Florida Sues OpenAI over Chatbot Safety Concerns

• Anthropic confidentially files to go public

  • Anthropic Files to Go Public

  • Anthropic Files to Go Public, Setting Stage for Huge I.P.O.

• The Rsync thing was inevitable and it's happening everywhere

  As a society, we have just cracked open the ability for AI to write code as competently as an engineer, and it is also as flawed as an engineer. Every line of code written is a liability that needs to be well tested, at scale, often in production, before we can be sure that it does not have issues. This has always been true. AI has only enabled a much higher velocity of contributions.

  The Github community reacted to this in an incredibly inappropriate way. We should not be using GitHub to harass maintainers. If someone wants to take their open source project and then ruin it, that’s their right. You can always fork. I know this is somewhat unsatisfying to the reddit mob, but as programmers, we should hold ourselves to a higher standard when communicating online.

• Whoa Now: Cautionary Tales from Materials Science

  the MIT student in question features prominently in both of them, speaking fluently and in detail about the work he did, the results laid out in his paper, and their implications. But it now appears that it may well have all been made up. Every last bit. MIT says that it received allegations about the paper that prompted an investigation, and that the two professors who were cited in the preprint now say that "we want to be clear that we have no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and in the veracity of the research".

• Netflix Wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it

• AI fiction is the new fast food

• Why are large language models so terrible at video games?

• Tech overlords plan for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos. What could go wrong?

• Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers

• Amazon Thinks the Future of Data Centers Is a Technical Problem It Just Solved

• AI Dangers Eclipse Nuclear Weapons at Singapore Defense Forum

• AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. Its vapid voice suits the political moment

• AI Is Creating More Work for Australia's Workplace Tribunal

• "What a joke": GitHub Copilot's token-based billing spurs backlash among devs

• Instagram exploit allows you to use Meta AI to reset passwords to accounts

• They Are Top Spenders in the Midterms. and They Hate Each Other

• Meta tool track employee mouse clicks on collision course with EU privacy rules

• Ben Affleck: AI company he sold to Netflix for $600M leads to 'more human work'

• His Chatbot Nearly Ruined Him. To Recover, He Had to Destroy It

• What It's Like to Be a Student at the First A.I.-Powered University

• FTSE 100's likely new entrant puts a British spin on the AI boom

• 'More harmful than helpful': young people sour on AI

• LLMs Are Closer to Religion Than They Appear

• Bernie Sanders: The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies

• The Hedge Fund Veteran Trying to Make His Past Self Obsolete with AI

• The AI Trade Hits Overdrive, Powering Stocks to Historic Gains

• SoftBank's Masayoshi Son: AI revolution is '50x bigger' than the dot-com boom

• AI Investments Are 'Circular Bet' as ROI Disappoints, Bain Survey Shows

• AI Agents Plunged the Tech World into Chaos

• Is A.I. Replacing Tech Workers or Providing an Excuse for Job Cuts?

• Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated

• An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

• Intel: Our upcoming AI chip will be cheaper, run cooler than Nvidia, AMD options

• As The Pentagon pushes for battlefield AI, some military leaders urge caution

• Alphabet plans to raise $80B from stock sales to fund AI buildout

  • Google Seeks to Raise $80B for AI Infrastructure

  • Alphabet to Raise $80B in Equity Capital for Al Spending

• For Goldman's Top Bankers, It's All AI Data Centers All the Time

• AI Grifters Are Making Anti-Data Center Slop with AI

• Chief economist says AI-related job losses aren't happening

• The Pope isn't AGI-pilled

• AI music is flooding streaming services, but who wants it?

• AI is making it very easy for the government to spy on you

• AI is crushing a generation of startups built before ChatGPT

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Berkshire Hathaway to buy Taylor Morrison for $6.8B in cash

• Berkshire Hathaway invests extra $10B in Alphabet, deepening bet on AI

• Nearly one-third of automotive loan terms are longer than six years

• Home Insurance Goes from Safety Net to Coin Flip

• America's job market looks strong. So why is it so difficult to find work?

• No Raise, No Promotion: 1 in 4 White-Collar Workers Are Stalling Out

• Stock market just did something eerily similar to the dot-com bubble top in 2000

• Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

• Remote work, not AI, has sidelined recent college graduates, research finds

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Tech billionaires are spending unprecedented sums in California races

  • Which wouldn't be problem if they were spending it on the proper Leftist candidates. But now that they're backing those who are not the Proper People it's "populism" and dangerous.

• California passes bill declaring death-by-algorithm to 3D-printed ghost guns

Democrats

• Maine Senate Dem Graham Platner puts wife Amy on video to defend against claims he was posting on creepy hookup app.

Left Angst

• The DOJ Wants to Know Who on Reddit and X Is Criticizing ICE's Tactics

• How Elon Musk Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People

• US Immigration enforcement looks into buying ad data

• Cybercrime Crew Claims It Hacked Mike Lindell's MyPillow

• Antifa Thugs in Portland and Newark, Laying Siege to ICE detention facilities are PAID. Here’s who pays them.

• USDA canceled $300M in farm grants, citing fraud. Did it make up the evidence?

• Diplomacy in decline: Roughly 2k U.S. diplomats laid off or forced to retire

• Cops Are Spying on People Who Criticize AI Data Centers Online

• Scott Pelley Accuses CBS News Boss of 'Murdering' '60 Minutes'

• Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US takes step to halt Nvidia AI chip shipments to Chinese firms outside China

  • US says ban on AI chip shipments applies to Chinese firms outside China

• The CIA crash that opened a fraught month in Mexico–US relations

  In the early hours of April 19, two CIA officers and two agents from the Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office were killed in a brutal car crash. On a road that winds through the gorges of the Sierra Tarahumara, their vehicle plunged into the depths of a ravine. The tragedy itself quickly receded into the background because of what it revealed: U.S. intelligence officers were with Mexican state agents returning from dismantling a huge drug lab. That revelation quickly set the rest of the pieces in motion.

World

• Australia's far-right party leads in national poll for first time

• FCA's Palantir deal could expose UK financial data to Trump's US, critics fear

• How British comfort food won over the French

• Malaysia enforces ban on social media accounts for children younger than 16

• Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry

• France backed by Britain intercepts sanctioned oil tanker sailing from Russia

• Europe Demands Family Dynasties

  In the US, someone with wealth is free to give it away more or less as they see fit (spousal claims excepted, which partly reflect marital co-ownership). In much of Europe, however, there is forced heirship–a large fraction of wealth must be handed down to children which makes it harder to direct large portions of wealth to charities, foundations, or non-family causes compared to the US. (Louisiana, with its French-Spanish civil law roots, is the one state with forced heirship and even it mostly gutted it in 1995.)

• Macron announces 93B euros in 'Choose France' investments

• Social media ban 'won't keep children safe', commissioner warns

• My 15-year-old relative was killed for refusing to marry her cousin

• Resident group's objections to bar licences 'destroying Soho's reputation'

• Netherlands authorities take down 17M device Russian botnet

Iran / Houthi

• Iran: The Internet Is Back, but Something Has Changed

• Satellite images suggest Iran's strikes more extensive than US acknowledged

• Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz

• Iran’s president offers resignation, citing total takeover by IRGC commanders.

  In the letter sent on Sunday, Pezeshkian stressed that the president and the government have effectively been excluded from major and vital decision-making processes in the country, and that the vacuum created by this situation has enabled hardline factions within the IRGC to take control of affairs, the source said. Pezeshkian added that under such circumstances he is unable to run the government and carry out his legal responsibilities, and for that reason has requested to step down immediately.

• Iran issues warning for northern Israel residents

Israel

• Israel doing everything to derail diplomacy by turning Lebanon into another Gaza

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia's spies seek Western technology as sanctions bite

• Russia Finance Officials Tell Putin War Spending Is Unaffordable

China

• China Aims A.I. At Predicting Who Could Pose a Political Risk

• BYD will pay for crashes on its FSD competitor, something Tesla never has

• China approves invasive brain-computer chip

• China launches reusable rocket rival to SpaceX Falcon 9 for the first time

Health / Medicine

• A cancer vaccine made just for you. mRNA is back and it's fighting melanoma

• Soybean oil linked to metabolic and neurological changes in mice

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Google wants to release up to 32M good mosquitoes California and Florida

• Wasp Colonies Explode into Violence After Losing Their Queen

• Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek

• Climate Explainer: El Nino/La Nina and tropical storms around the world

• Why Sardinians Are Fighting the Renewable Energy Transition

• France allowed cadmium to poison its crops and soil

• Masturbation among birds is 'natural' and should not be punished, say experts