2026-11-12

Horseshit

• Changing Our Relationship to Technology Will Require Collective Action

• Singapore Airlines unveils 'largest double bed in the sky'

• Gen X will outnumber Baby Boomers in US Congress

• Science Has Shown That Your Cat Meows to Demand That You Fix Their World

• The Case for a Bubble at Life's Start

• What is it like to be a newborn?

• The Rise of the Overprepared Concertgoer

• A Metabolic Spark Could Have Jump-Started Life

• The Lost World of Aquaterra

• San Francisco youth culture died at a peptide party in Fisherman's Wharf

• Scientists Discover a Strange Form of Iron on the Moon That Shouldn’t Be There.

celebrity gossip

• Thomas Dolby on 'Tour'

• James Gunn Exits DC Studios After Losing Money and Spending Too Much

Obit

• Stacy Keach, Who Played Badasses With the Best of Them, Dies at 85

  • Stacy Keach, star of stage and 'Mike Hammer' series, dies at 85

• "Timort" inventor: In Memoriam: Tim Peters 1952–2026

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The anti-human ideology cannot die soon enough

• Report shines light on what drives Australians to post hateful content

Musk

• Grok Build coding agent leaks confidential info, some belonging to SpaceXSI

• British Telecom delays Starlink partnership amid recent Ukrainian disruption

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Embrace Paper Exams to Combat AI Cheating, Warns UK Universities Regulator

• The Science isn't that settled: Words of warning about radiocarbon dating medieval human bones

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• The Unbearable Mediocrity of Microdramas

• Apple TV introduces new Sign Language interpretation feature

  • Apple TV makes sign language interpretation a built-in accessibility feature

• Nintendo Targets Picofly Switch Modchip Firmware in GitHub DMCA Takedown

  • Nintendo unleashes DMCA wave on open-source firmware following criminal victory

• Microsoft's Patch Tuesday surpasses 1k bugs for second month in a row

• Verano, AMD's first step toward a Zen-based superchip to rival Vera Rubin

• Smart home devices should work without the internet

• Seagate's new hybrid drive raises some old questions

• Apple is killing its Support Community forum next week

  • End of an era: Apple Support Community forums to permanently close

• Smartphone Camera Could Get a Big Upgrade with This Tech

• MakerWorld removed my free card holder over "UNO". Now Mattel's agency wants 4k

• AMD: Where we're going we don't need (as much) DRAM

• A Fan-Favorite Aquarium Screen Saver Is Leaving Roku

• NY is forcing T-Mobile to stop putting data caps on low-income home internet

• Lego marketplace BrickLink offline after 'unusual activity' detected

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you

• Flock starts to give campaign cash to local politicians

• Ring cameras go mobile as Amazon debuts AI-powered security drone and robot

  • Amazon's Ring retries $250 home security drone and $1k patrol robot

  • Ring's AI-Powered Drone Automatically Patrols Inside Your Home

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• The Tragedy of the Oxide Root of Trust

• The GNOME Project has a backlog for Code of Conduct violations

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• One space station company sues another for copying its work

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Nvidia loses ground in Washington chip fight after CEO spy scandal

  • Who is Alice Huang and what has she been up to?

  • Is Jensen Huang's bad behavior more commonplace than it seems?

  • Jensen Huang Must Resign

  • Tech Allies Rally Behind Jensen Huang, Calling Him Vital in AI Race

  • PLA-linked Chinese university bought Nvidia H200 chips despite US blacklist, records show.

  • Jensen Huang Said to Have Had Relationship with Nvidia Executive

  • Nvidia is preparing to oust CEO Jensen Huang

  • Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

  • Jensen Huang had a second affair – with an employee

  • Tyler Cowen: Jensen Huang's Is Out. Who's Next?

  • Nvidia is reportedly preparing to fire Jensen Huang

  • Nvidia reportedly preparing to fire CEO Jensen Huang, amid of second affair

  • The 31-Year-Old Who Called Out Jensen Huang's 'China Problem'–and Shorted Nvidia

• OpenAI Continues to Suffer Heavy Losses as Revenue Rises to $10B

• Openrouter will scan all traffic, adds human review

• Could AI's leading men become as powerful as Ford or Rockefeller?

• Adobe brings AI agents and new creative tools to Photoshop Premiere and Firefly

• I Am a Silicon Valley Veteran. We Are Sabotaging Ourselves

• TSMC Approves $1B AI Investment

• Australia considers criminal penalties for rogue AI in wake of OpenAI hack

• Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmapped Maya pyramid in 72h

• Claude's AI Starts Refusing to Assist with Pokémon ROM Hack and Fan-Game Dev

• Educational game dev program cancelled because submitted games were made with AI

• Prepare for the AI Apocalypse Like You'd Prepare for a Snowstorm

• New Indian mega library rocked by scandal over 'AI-generated books'

• New York Launches Nation's First State AI Testing Program

• Some retailers try blocking agentic AI shoppers

• Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning

• The Worst Thing About AI Writing

• Anthropic says a key AI safety alarm has been triggered, days before its IPO

• United Airlines Is Banning AI Bots from Booking Flights

  • United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers

• Pharmaceutical advertising and drug recommendations by consumer-facing AI

• Museums sector warned of 'acute threat' posed by AI scraping bots

• The single mom who blocked a data center from replacing an abandoned mall? She collaborated with a communist group funded by China

• AI has made it 'close to impossible' to assess university coursework

• CoreWeave beats on revenue and lifts guidance, easing AI slowdown concerns.

• "Zlibrary my beloved": Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit

• Just say no to Anthropic's IPO

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Toyota Sees a U.S. Future for Tiny Trucks

  • Trump wanted little Kei trucks for America, Toyota makes it happen

• The end of cheap money is coming for corporate America

• Masayoshi Son's Bet on Electrical Turbines Backfires

• VW drops 'Gamechanger' production at main plant, risking escalation with workers

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• In order to best continue doing nothing, Senate Republicans reelect John Thune as Minority Leader

Democrats

• Unhinged anti-Israel activists hurl objects at the Bidens during Ireland visit, shout ‘Genocide Joe.’

Left Angst

• Reddit resisted giving users' data to government over critical ICE posts

• Getting Too Close to Trump Was a Mistake

• Trump admin loses fight to spy on random journalists' LinkedIn DMs

• CEO Alex Karp says he's a Democrat – and Palantir is 'essentially progressive'

• Life felt dark as an international researcher in the U.S., but I'm finding hope

• Humanoid robot startup backed by Eric Trump in talks with Israel's military

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Tech Consultant Is Sentenced to 16 Years to Life in Cash App Founder's Killing

• Swatters are using AI voices to deceive 911 dispatchers, and it's getting worse

• Twice-deported illegal immigrant ID’d as United flier accused of bomb, hijack threat — and was sprung by judge after ICE bust

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• To deter bioterrorism, U.S. imposes new rules on ordering synthetic DNA

• America's first new submarine base abroad for 53 years

• The View from Space the U.S. Government Doesn't Want You to See

World

• The answer to "why is my £775k new build flat so small and crappy?"

• Japan prepares for its next natural disaster

• Digital Fairness Act: What the EU draft means for loot boxes in games

  • Loot boxes, influencers, and addictive features face an EU crackdown

  • European gaming firms say new EU consumer rules will 'cripple' the industry

• EU will ban cash payments over €10k starting July 2027

• Kidnapper, 74, escapes from house arrest in Argentina by abseiling from balcony

  Bertulazzi already spent decades as a fugitive after he was sentenced in absentia in Italy for the 1977 kidnapping of Italian naval engineer Pietro Costa. He was awaiting extradition to Italy and was being monitored by the Argentine ministry of security through an ankle tag which registers the wearer's body temperature and movements.

• Bridge not tested for years 'due to love locks'

• The secret Canadian guerrilla force you've never heard of

• Schools in Italy, Scotland and Ireland receive bomb threats

  • Scottish and NI Schools evacuated under cyber threat

• North Korea posts revised constitution dropping reunification goal

• Meta, TikTok join Google to push back on Indonesia's AI copyright law revisions

• India ordered website takedowns on fake court orders, police launch probe

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine Pivots to Israeli-Italian Satellite Tech to Bypass Starlink Restrictions

• Drones don't just kill: They also pick up radio transmissions, ID future targets

• OpenAI Fooled by Russian Pranksters into Thinking They Were Talking to Ukrainian

China

• China's military-linked institutions found ways around US Nvidia chips blacklist

• Chinese Automaker's Rumored Nascar Bid Is Riddled with Red Flags

Health / Medicine

• The Perverse Reasons Healthcare Costs Are About to Surge

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• The Vaccine Divide

• US poised to lose measles elimination status

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Earliest polar vortex collapse threatens to unleash weather chaos

• the correct meteorological term is “very strong El Niño.”

• Service Crew Discovers Rare Yellow Burbot in Oswego Harbor

• Can Trees Really Live Forever?

• Feral Parakeets Flock to London

• Why putting a giant mirror in space could be a bad idea

• Laser-armed AI submarine robots patrol Norwegian salmon farms, killing sea lice

• Scientists Traced Arctic Arsenic Pollution to Mine Kilometers Away

• ExxonMobil launches legal challenge to EU carbon capture rules

• Reconsidering the drivers of ice-shelf collapse