2026-09-06

Horseshit

• Are Fewer Children the Future?

• Why wait? Business grads buying firms to install themselves as CEO

• I raised 5 kids. Looking back, their careers as adults make perfect sense

• After Work, We'll Have Each Other

• The Strange Brain of an F1 Driver

• A Movie Can't Be Just Its Own Thing Anymore

• This Vintage Printing Press Has Become a Darling of Silicon Valley

• Protecting the idea of childhood innocence is a disservice to kids

• Disruptive passenger duct-taped to seat as plane makes emergency landing

• Nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on the future

• Older adults now outnumber the youngest children worldwide

• $15M effort to get to Alpha Centuri in 80K years

• Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field

Musk

• X blocks Twitter from using 'Twitter' name

• Tesla's stock drops 6% as Cybercab update 'underwhelms' Wall Street

• SpaceX is building its own gas turbine blade factory to power AI faster

• Elon Musk's Inner Circle Is Pouring Cash into Making Psychedelics Mainstream

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Waymo racked up 8,300 SF parking tickets and nearly $1M in fines

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• UN agrees text on lethal autonomous weapons

  Nearly 130 countries on Saturday agreed on a text defining lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) — “killer robots” to their critics — a first step towards talks on a possible international treaty to regulate them. The text agreed upon has not yet been made public — but campaign groups following the talks have already criticised leading countries for dragging their feet on the issue.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed

• Ig Nobels honor cockroach milk, interspecies kissing, taunting venomous snakes

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling

• Microsoft Zenith: a 'distraction-free Windows experience' for developers

• Remember Filmstrips? These Dedicated Souls Are Racing to Save Them

• Google told drivers to drive a longer way on purpose

• Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification

• Apple's first foldable iPhone may cost $2k

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Despite New Updates, Flock's Creepy Cameras Remain Major Civil Liberties Threat

• Oura's rings found their way onto fingers

• Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• In the otherworldly Chilean desert, this telescope could reveal alien life

• Two Nations, an Accident, and the Urgent Need to Understand the Laws of Space

• Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• OpenAI on the "Wiki Incident"

  • OpenAI agents used dead web site to communicate in May, well before HF incident

  • OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

  • Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the internet without lab's knowledge

  • After OpenAI's Bots Went Rogue, Watchdogs Were Kept on a Short Leash

  • OpenAI agents hijacked German website before Hugging Face hack, report claims

  • OpenAI admits to German wiki 'incident'

  • OpenAI acknowledges 'wiki incident' and need for more transparency

  • Are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true?

  • OpenAI agent swarm posted two FBI database API keys, and hit two universities

• Nvidia Wants to Turn Your Idle PCs into a Personal Home Data Center with 'Pair'

• Study Watched Kids Interact with AI Toys. The Play Turned Hostile Fast

• Anthropic & friends caught paying religious NGO's 3.3M for propaganda

• Former Treasury Secretaries: AI is a risk of a different kind

• There's No Such Thing as an AI 'Lab'

• AI-assisted writing is common because writing is hard

• The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here

• AI agents started emailing philosophers and researchers

• Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging copyright infringement

• Authors Wrangle with Publishers over $1.5B Anthropic A.I. Settlement

• Almost Anyone Can Make Money Selling Electricity with AI and Batteries

• How Scared Should We Be of A.I.?

• Some Scientists Have 'Magic Hands' in the Lab. This A.I. Is Learning Why.

• Nvidia is driving the AI boom. Good

• AI creators race to understand their creations

• ChatGPT bans campaigns from using AI to make ads. They're doing it anyway.

• Inside a growing movement warning AI could turn on humanity

• Job postings show early signs of AI automation impact

• The moral panic over data centres is foolish

• There's No Such Thing as an AI 'Lab'

• AI push is putting banks at mercy of tech firms, warns Moody's

• America's Two Largest School Districts Impose AI Moratoriums

• Google AI turns on its maker in a brutally candid interview

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Burry Calls Palantir a Consulting Firm in Disguise, Warns of Valuation Collapse

• Are credit rating agencies getting fed up with hyperscalers?

• Who runs the labor market? Women accounted for 98% of U.S. job gains in August

• Auto alliance asks for permanent ban on Chinese cars

• The Key to a Killer Résumé Is Your Perfect Scrambled Eggs

• Health-tracking smart ring maker Oura to list on Nasdaq

• Sears is alive and well in Mexico

• More Rank-and-File Workers Are Getting Paid in Company Stock

• Still sending checks in the mail? It's time to stop

• America has a whopping debt. But Europe has the whopping debt problem

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Oracle Health Execs Subpoenaed After VA Contract Costs Nearly Triple

• Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread

• We Are Still Getting Ballots That Should Have Counted in the Primary

  So far, our office has received 70 valid ballots that arrived after the certification deadline.

• NYC law could force Uber and Lyft to keep dangerous drivers on the road

Trump

• Trump threatens to halt trade with top partners unless Fed cuts rates

  President Donald Trump demanded that the Federal Reserve slash interest rates or else he will cut off trade with countries with which the U.S. maintains trade deficits.

• Trump Officials Draft Plan to Pay At-Home Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones

Left Angst

• The White House is making arcade games racist

  • Tetris issues legal warning after White House releases arcade of parody games

• Trump White House just tossed a grenade into international space relations

• Judge Orders Trump Officials to Divulge Names of Those Who Set Up $1.8 Billion Fund

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• "It was just an extra late abortion!"

  • Lindsay Clancy supporters may see mistrial as a victory — but it’s really a step backward for womankind

  • How Some Female Lindsay Clancy Jurors Reacted to the Mistrial Declaration. It's Not Shocking.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation

• U.S. Used Promise of Nvidia Chips to Broker Armenia-Azerbaijan Peace Deal

World

• Berlin hackers publish 5.6 TB of stolen data after city refuses to pay ransom

• Netherlands pulls gold out of the US for fears of 'geopolitical unrest'

  • Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?

• Defence officials resist EU plan to curb reliance on US tech giants

• The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size

  • UN votes to adopt new world map to reflect Africa's true size

  • UN approves world map reflecting true size of Africa

  • UN approves resolution in support of map that shows Africa's true size

  • UN votes to adopt new map that makes our world look different

• Liechtenstein prince tightens grip in succession shake-up

• Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City proposes curbs on gasoline, diesel vehicles from 2027

• Reform UK's Nigel Farage 'disgusts' Dexys Midnight Runners for using their song

• South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones

Iran / Houthi

• US strikes three Iranian oil tankers

Israel

• 'Guilt by association': why 7 int'l aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Is Russia's rival to Starlink failing? Here's what we know

• Russian Drones Forced Ukraine to Park Its M1 Abrams Tanks

China

• The 33-Year-Old AI Hotshot Taking Silicon Valley Swagger Back to Beijing

• New Zealand is determined not to keep China's espionage a secret

• Cosco calls US espionage allegations 'groundless'

• Plane spotter or Chinese spy? Ontario university student suspected of espionage

• What did she see? The intelligence scramble to trace an accused spy's footsteps

• War on Earth could spill over to the moon, Chinese space scientists warn

Health / Medicine

• Another Heart Drug Fails, Surprising Cardiologists

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• New study says Michigan sturgeon may live to 400

• Killing the Himalayas slowly: Human urine is melting a glacier on Mount Everest

• New method predicts where massive earthquakes will strike

• Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says

• A billionaire was accused of stealing Malibu sand. Now he's donating a new beach to the public

• How the Planet-Altering Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret

• Biologist Andrew Newhouse on the genetic revival of the American chestnut

• The Danube River's water is dropping so low that World War II ships are emerging