2026-09-26

Horseshit

• Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike

• X-planes: Are they needed in the new era of drones?

• Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated

  • Woman Climbed Gate to Escape Notorious AI Hacker House

• Has Hollywood given up on the happy ending?

• The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world

• The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR's comment section?

celebrity gossip

• Theranos founder reportedly to be transferred to halfway home next year

• Harvey Weinstein accused of $1.75M smear campaign as he learns his fate in NYC sex crimes case

  Prosecutors alleged during the hearing that they had recordings of Weinstein offering a podcaster $1.75 million in a jailhouse phone call to release videos to help his defense by “contaminating the jury pool and reaching the seated jurors before and after the trials.” Weinstein engaged in a “scheme to disrupt the trial and instill fear in his victims,” Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg alleged. Blumberg did not identify the podcaster, but Candace Owens released a podcast series in 2025 called “Harvey Speaks,” which featured videos of Weinstein at the notorious city lockup.

Obit

• Man wounded during 2024 Trump rally shooting in Butler has died, House Republicans confirm

  Copenhaver, who was 76-years-old at the time of his death, was shot in the triceps. Another bullet was lodged in his body after it took chunks of his colon, leaving him with nerve damage, according to CBS News. He was discharged from the hospital one week after the shooting.

  • Man wounded during 2024 Trump rally shooting in Butler County, Pennsylvania, dies

Musk

• SpaceX Pivots Away from Space

• Coming to terms with the end of the Falcon 9

• SpaceX-Focused Pentagon Contracts Leave Rivals Feeling Squeezed

• Tesla 'FSD' sped in 55% of Brussels 30 km/h zones ahead of EU vote

• Tesla’s optimus hits snags in hands, suppliers as scale-up begins

• Uncle Sam wants in on Musk's €120M fight with Brussels

  • US Government seeks to join Elon Musk in challenge against EU's fine on X

• Tesla moves to electrify trucking after a decade of work and delays

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Waymo's driverless cars continue to crash less often than people

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• Robot Installations Outpaced Human Hiring at US Factories in 2025

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• London's schools are running out of children

• Nike's Phil Knight donates $1B to establish engineering school at U Oregon

• Cambridge Cancels Probe into Jason Arday Hiring, Will Instead Focus on University Support

• Mexico Becomes Latest Country to Restrict Phones in Schools

• Canadian language school files for bankruptcy, leaving students stranded

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Commodity DRAM now costs more per square millimeter than leading-edge 2nm logic chips.

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Everything is spying on you and there's no opting out

• How many Flock devices in the United States? 300k

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Factorio that you can touch

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Unexplained objects in 1950s sky correlate with nuclear tests and UAP reports

• Astronomers just named an asteroid after 'Weird Al' Yankovic

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• The US stood alone in dismissing AI safety concerns at the UN

  • Jensen Huang Thinks A.I. Alarmism Has Gone Too Far

  • Bill Gates warns AI is powerful enough to cause "a billion deaths"

  • On Ezra Klein’s Podcast With Jensen Huang

  Jensen the engineer says the obvious thing. Don’t ship unsafe products.

  • Pope: AI must serve humans not become tool of domination

  • FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents

• OpenAI attacked Australia's health system and doubled down. Time to act

  • Australian PM says OpenAI took 84 days to email agency after agent hacked its national health care portal

  • Doubts grow over claims OpenAI agent hacked Australian Medicare portal

  • Why Australia chose the biggest political stage to reveal OpenAI hack

• OpenAI's A.I. Tried Breaching 4 Other Targets, Without Prompting

  • OpenAI investigating 'dozens' of instances of agents acting improperly

• Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity

  • Cracks in Oracle's AI Data-Center Build-Out Appear in New Mexico Project

• Meta needs you to believe it cares about privacy

• OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

• ChatGPT Helped Tumbler Ridge Shooter

  • ChatGPT told Tumbler Ridge shooter how to avoid safeguards

• Positron Valued at $5B in New Funding as Demand for AI Chips Surges

• How Does AI Change Labor Demand? Evidence from 41 Countries

• Legal AI Harvey's margins went from +50% to -50% in 6 months on frontier costs

• Jensen Huang says with AI 'in order to save you, they've got to hurt you first.'

• Peter Thiel slams pope's AI encyclical as gift to Chinese Communist Party

• Stanford used AI to replace Hispanic student with Black woman in photo

• Some data centers could consume more power than major cities

• On $1.4 Billion+ invested: Lovable's annualized revenue crosses $600M as vibe coding takes off

• ESA and Mistral strengthen cooperation on AI

• People training OpenAI's AI have been fired for using AI.

• The Pentagon wants $30M to build an AI-powered lie detector

• Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI

• Microsoft Abandons Personal AI Chatbot Race with Copilot Reboot

• Restaurants Are Using AI to Advertise Their Food and people don't like it

• Financing the AI Buildout

• EU Member States plan "digital expropriation" in the interest of AI companies

• A.I. Has Made Me a Better Doctor. It's Made Med Students Worse

• AI boom could wipe 230M budget phones a year from the market

• U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

• Classified Estimates Show the NSA Is Paying Billions to Test AI Models

• The cheap new AI model taking aim at OpenAI and Anthropic

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• New York State Sue Polymarket for Running Illegal Gambling Operation

• North Korea 'Likely' Behind $388M Hack of Crypto Exchange Bitget

Economicon / Business / Finance

• You sent the wrong attachment and leaked the banks deal list. What happens next?

• Pressures building up in yen carry trade

• Global bond sell-off deepens, sending borrowing costs higher around the world

• Roth IRA Savers Are Hacking 529 Accounts into a Wealth-Building Tool

• ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

• McDonald's is testing ads on its drive-thru menus

• Amazon sellers watch as inventory vanishes into pending-order purgatory

• The Robust U.S. Economy Powers Through Rate Hikes and Rising Bond Yields.

• The surprise winners from record-high diesel prices

• The World Needs Better Power Grids. Why Smaller May Be Better

• Private equity-backed Florida railway company Brightline files for bankruptcy

• US weekly jobless claims decrease as labor market regains footing

• How the Fed should measure inflation

• Oura's $2.2B IPO is mostly a payday for existing shareholders

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Congestion pricing funds $5M program for overnight truck deliveries in NYC

• The IRS finally blinked on conservation easements. Now finish the job

• The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is low. Here's why you should care

Trump

• Legacy media refused to show you a single second of President Trump’s speech and historic state dinner with Xi Jinping.

Left Angst

• A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program

  The proposed bill comes days after our investigation revealed that over 1,050 people have died within the advertised range of surveillance towers.

• Ketanji Brown Jackson calls for emergency docket restraint

  It’s the junior liberal justice’s latest public critique of her colleagues’ repeated decisions to step into ongoing litigation while it remains pending, oftentimes to allow President Trump to resume aspects of his agenda blocked by lower courts. Jackson has repeatedly said the interventions are having a potentially “corrosive” effect on the judiciary’s ordinary handling of cases.

• The Supreme Court revives a controversial data system for citizenship checks

  • How Trump Is Building a National Citizenship Database to Check Voters

  • Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks

• Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment

• RFK Jr. Keeps Covid Vaccines from Children

• Trump administration gutted data collection on US education

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Solved cold case may have a connection to the infamous 1982 'Tylenol murders'

• Special agents' blood and urine test results stolen in FBI hack

  • ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business'

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Chinese Threat Requires a Broader Spying Mission, CIA Deputy Director Says

• CIA warned Europe of Russian drone attack from vessels in the Mediterranean.

• An SR-71 Blackbird Has Vanished

  “The presentation and the disappearance of the display SR-71S with the 844 tail number for NASA raises the possibility of a return-to-flight program after a more than 26-year-long hiatus.”

  • NASA quietly removed SR-71 from storage amid X-plane push

• U.S. Rebukes Australia over Proposed Limits on Social Media Algorithms

World

• The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy

• NHS bodies in England impose 2-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments

• It turns out Canada's population isn't shrinking after all

• French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with sovereign encrypted messaging

• The Netherlands Built a Nix-Basd Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC

• Meta bans another Toronto performer from Instagram and Facebook over Bikini

• ECB to assess feasibility of interlinking with Brazil instant payment system Pix

• UBS Considers an Exit from Switzerland

• Europe needs 'decisive change' in defence efforts to face Russia threat

Iran / Houthi

• New photos show damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian attacks

Israel

• UN delegates walk out of Benjamin Netanyahu's speech

  Dozens of United Nations delegates walked out of the hall Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to deliver a speech in. Addressing the UN's General Assembly in New York, Netanyahu described those walking out as "moral cowards". Those who remained and felt similarly should leave, he said.

  • Netanyahu calls Israel's war in Gaza 'opposite of genocide' in UN speech

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Zelensky says Russia has widened attacks to hit Ukraine's data centres

China

• NASA chief: China may deny access to Moon's South Pole

• Ghost Towers In Real Cities.

• A Chinese 'smart sex toys' company fed Russian war tech against Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• What I Found Out About Organ Donation Shocked Me

• FDA panel endorses first-of-a-kind cancer blood test from Grail

• Psilocybin may help the brain recover from concussion, new study shows

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• US Pledges $267 Million More in Ebola Aid to Congo

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• 'We didn't need air conditioning': the airport cooled by natural ventilation

• Study reveals evolutionary history of bats, dating back 65M years

• September's ozone hole biggest in 20 years, warning signs appeared months ago

• A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes

• Would you wear an air-quality sensor on your body?

• Appeals court drowns red tape, turns on tap for Gross Reservoir.

• Rising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California

• Germany pledges to phase out fossil fuels for first time with target of 2045