2026-10-11

Horseshit

• Could Nigerian eateries become as widespread as Chinese restaurants?

• The 'American Dream' Now Costs More Than $5.3M

• Most anxious generation ever? WHO data says 470M people have anxiety

• Nicolas Flamel and the Philosophers' Stone

• How Protein Took over the World

• When Corn Flakes Were Part of an Anti-Masturbation Crusade

• Silicon Valley's Dream City Has Crashed into Small-Town Politics

celebrity gossip

• MrBeast 'Spends Millions Reverse Engineering the Algorithms on Each Platform'

Obit

• Cyril Hilsum dies at 101.He invented flat-screen displays that hold us in thrall

Musk

• Tesla Renames FSD to 'Assisted Driving' in Europe

• Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Nvidia reportedly discontinuing RTX 5090, GB202 to be reserved for RTX PRO serie

• Firefox's chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome

• Decade-old RAM is making a comeback

• Automattic's interim CFO, who replaced the previous CEO after previously documented boardroom shenanigans, is being replaced.

• Inside The Failed Fight to Unionize One of Gaming's Most Idealized Studios

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Denver woman sues police, Flock Safety after being falsely accused

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Inside a 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Anthropic and OpenAI wargaming public and political revolt after AI catastrophe

  • AI companies plot "day after" scenarios for public revolt

• Microsoft CEO Nadella Calls for 'Emergency Brake' on Advanced AI

• Anthropic's AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide

  • AI system submits false homicide tip to Philadelphia police

  • Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case

  • Anthropic AI Model Goes Rogue, Submits Fake Unsolved Murder Tip

  • Anthropic Model Submitted a False Homicide Tip to Philadelphia Police

  • AI model submitted false tip about unsolved murder, Philadelphia police say

  • Anthropic discloses 2 months old fake tip to police among new rogue AI incidents

• Anthropic can't reliably control its AI agents, cuts internet access

  • Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website

• Anthropic bans users from needless abusive or cruel behavior towards Claude

  • Anthropic says you can't be mean to Claude this Christmas.

  • Being mean to Claude could get you banned as Anthropic introduces new rules

• AI Data Centers Not Paying Their Costs, Will Keep Using NDAs and Seek Tax Breaks

  • Senate Investigation Challenges Big Tech's Case for AI Data Centers

• Fired OpenAI Researchers Ask Company to Preserve Visibility into AI Reasoning

• Why OpenAI's latest results dump has left mathematicians in shock

• The hazy OpenAI growth metric driving Wall Street

• Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things

• Study on AI coding agents finds gains "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."

• We must recall open-ended AI agents with internet access from the market

• The U.S. Nuclear Plant Fleet Is Leaning into AI

• Oracle, Broadcom and SpaceX Seek Blockbuster Debt Deals to Pay for AI Chips

• Data Center Darling's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours

• The Desperate Hunt for AI Computing Power Is Upending Silicon Valley

• Microsoft and Anthropic play invoice tennis with startup's $17,600 Claude bill

• AI borrowing slows as investors grow wary of debt binge

• Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting

• AI Is Supercharging a Scam Economy Bigger Than the Cocaine Trade

• Microsoft skipped OpenAI's decision model and built its own on Alibaba's Qwen

• Patient disputed $85,000 hospital bill, then an AI sweep added nearly $20k

• What's Dragging Down A.I. Efficiency? The 'Verification Tax.'

• Computer scientist David Silver: 'Where are we going without AI?'

• AI Is Getting Good at Messing with Cybercriminals

• Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI

  • Nvidia in talks to acquire Reflection AI (makers of Beam)

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• At Robinhood's Mecca for Risk-Loving Traders Everyone Has a Tale of Getting Rich

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Delta's CEO on Skipping Starlink, Premium-Travel Rush and High Fuel Prices

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Lobbying

Trump

• Trump: Ukraine should get a new president, blames Zelenskyy for US diesel prices

  • Trump calls for stop to attacks on Russian oil refineries, Zelenskyy replacement

Left Angst

• Trump Calls on AI to Speed Up Science–While Continuing to Defund It

• Trump Vowed to Wall Off TikTok from China. Did He?

• FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review

• US Postal Service to Start Exploring Its Always-On Surveillance Options

• Trump strikes deal with Putin to get diesel in sharp reversal of US policy

• Proposed U.S. census changes could be catastrophic for public health

• DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe with Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FBI Arrests Founder of Ransomware Negotiation Firm

• California woman accused of spying for China fights detention with $820K bond

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Like a drill going into my eye: why the Havana syndrome mystery refuses to die

• Super Micro contractor pleads guilty in scheme to divert Nvidia chips to China

World

• India detains hundreds, locks down Delhi to foil election chief protest

  • From a Sikh Sanctuary to Chaotic Streets, Protesters Brave Police in Delhi,India

• Japan protests Russia's extradition requests for ICC president and 8 other staff

• Cockroach Janta Party protest Delhi: Group says Abhijit Dipke and Saurabh Das detained ahead of march

• Why Drug Trafficking Is Now Almost a Human Right in Canada

• Why Alberta farmers are suddenly demanding tractors they can fix themselves

• Thieves pull off Italy’s biggest-ever wine heist, stealing 30,000 bottles worth 5 million euros.

• Canada can't launch rockets on its own. A few companies want to change that

Health / Medicine

• Scientists Find Major Flaws in the Research Behind Collagen Supplements

• Will We Ever Understand Dementia?

• Autism in boys, girls looks genetically similar but early, late diagnoses don't

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Sexually transmitted diarrhea: The infection that's becoming more drug resistant

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• ESA's Map of Recovered Reentry Debris

• The deadlock at the top climate science body

• Techno-optimistic scientists take fewer climate actions

• 'We cannot accept foxes in our landscape': the plan to save Australia's wildlife