2026-10-14

Horseshit

• FIFA World Cup 2030: Netflix Scores Exclusive Broadcast Rights in Spain

• The more we rely on tech, the more we deskill our bodies

• Pigeon-powered internet packet goes under the hammer at Christie's

• Karl Bushbys 28-year walk home,through deserts,kidnappers,polar bears

• Worlds More Habitable Than Earth? They're Out There

• San Francisco Created a Car-Free Oasis by the Sea–and It's Driving Locals Mad

• Why your snacks are chunkier and chewier than before

  What is driving the hunger for texture? One explanation is the rise of GLP-1 slimming drugs, which have shrunk patients’ appetites. That means when they reach for a snack they first ask: “Is it worth it?” notes Andrew Wardlaw of MMR, a research firm. A bigger sensory hit, with sound and feel as well as flavour, adds to the “product theatre” and makes snacking more appealing.

• Roman fort found in Wales could prove myth of emperor's camp is real

• How the 1904 Marathon Became One of the Weirdest Olympic Events of All Time

• The Rising Counterculture of Silicon Valley Smokers

• Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall

• California Boat Dwellers Fear the Worst: Life on Land

• The 10,000-step rule wasn’t based on science — here’s what experts say to do instead.

• ASCII Porn Predates the Internet but It's Still Everywhere

• What's behind the big interest in miniatures?

• Large dog breeds die younger. Biologists think they finally know why.

• Could I make six figures from my couch? Influencers said yes – so I tried

Obit

• Man dies after falling off roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia

Musk

• Choose Your Overlord: Musk vs. Bezos

• Tesla Renames 'Full Self-Driving' to 'Tesla Assisted Driving' in Europe

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• Amazon has over 1M robot workers. What's next for human employees?

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• Touching Grass Isn’t Enough: The Furry Fandom’s Issues Are Structural

  One of the downsides of furries continuing to use Twitter in 2026 is that they’re being boiling-frogged into the worst versions of themselves. If this never broke containment, it would merely be a digital version of Gu. Alas, it spills over onto every platform. I’ve previously opined that, as furries leave Twitter in search of other platforms, BlueSky deserves to win the popularity contest (partly because I didn’t expect Mastodon to cope with a sudden deluge of users).

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Why I'm going back to academia

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Video game industry believes EU KIDS Act will kill small creators and old games

• Epic Games asks developers to use more AI

  • Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model

• Xbox is officially embracing the chaos of AI-powered game ports

• Apple routed a graphite pipe through the iPhone Duo's hinge to dissipate heat

• Kioxia, SanDisk show off the tiny chip which could go in first 1 PB SSD

• Apple Unveils Immersive Horror Film Coming Exclusively to Vision Pro

• Can you sue over targeted ads? 'Blockbuster' Supreme Court case to decide

• Bumble bought for $1.3B in 'bet on the future of humanity'

  Dating app Bumble has been bought for $1.3bn (£980m) in what the new owners called "a bet on the future of humanity". Investment firm Ithaca Holdings is taking over the loss-making firm and it directors, Ravi Gupta and John Hegeman, will become co-chief executives of the company which once differentiated itself by having a "women-first" chat rule. Bumble ditched the rule in August this year.

• Delaware jury awards Qualcomm $2 in damages, finds Arm breached agreement

• Docker Hub flaw let attackers impersonate users, tamper with images

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• NL organization preparing lawsuit after Meta refuses to stop selling AI glasses

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

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

• 28 Miles and Counting: NASA's Perseverance Rover Sets a Mars Driving Record

• Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon is not far behind

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Which Experts Should You Trust on AI Doom?

  • OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers

  • AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’

  Donald Trump is a “corrupt, senile felon” whose fixation on the term superintelligence proves he knows nothing about AI, said Geoffrey Hinton, “godfather” of the technology,

  • Who is behind the anti-AI psyop?

  Don't listen to anybody over 35 about AI. Take a look at what the teenagers are doing, building their own video games and devices and whatever, that's where things are going.

  • AI bubble could burst and take global economy with it, IMF warns

• So we don't need all those data centers then? AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers

  • Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices

  • Small models may be able to self replicate within 3 months on IoT devices

  • Anthropic warns models 'months away' from self-replication on smart devices

• Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police

  • An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police

• OpenAI finds recording device in one of their offices

  • Saudi national working at OpenAI arrested for bugging executive conference room

  • OpenAI engineer accused of planting listening device inside company's office

  • Saudi national charged with planting recording device in OpenAI office

  • Saudi National Arrested for Installing Audio Recording Device at OpenAI

  • OpenAI employee arrested by FBI over hidden listening device, company says

  • OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

  • OpenAI engineer accused of planting listening device inside company's office

• Character.ai files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

  • Character.ai files for bankruptcy, agrees to sell some assets for $20M

  • Just 5 years in, interactive chatbot platform Character.AI files for bankruptcy

  • Character.ai files for bankruptcy, to sell some assets to Disney for $20M

  • Disney Bids on Character.ai Assets as Chatbot Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

• Annualized Enron Rate

  Last week, the markets dropped on the news that OpenAI’s annualized recurring revenue (ARR) — which was reported as $70 billion by Axios and confirmed by the Financial Times — was actually $50 billion. The number in question was, according to the FT, inflated by “grossing up” the total to include sales through cloud partners, a discrepancy between how OpenAI and Anthropic make up a number that doesn’t really tell anyone anything.

• Gemini 4 Argon

• Wikipedians Believed AI Would Come and Go. They Were Wrong

• AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models

• Is 'Attention' the Essence of Intelligence?

• Why Don't Some People Use Chatbots?

• AI Has a God Problem Stretching from the Vatican to the Baptist Pulpit

• Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF

• Leading Chinese mathematicians unite behind use of AI in research

• A.I. Music Fraudster Who Drew Millions in Royalties Is Sentenced to 18 Months

• Army turning to AI in its fight against biological threats

• AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities

• Orbital Data Centers Risk Becoming Military Targets in Space

• Google is using AI to help scientists understand diseases

• Linux Kernel Developers Plan to Remove "Assisted-By" Tag Requirement for AI/LLM

• Linus Torvalds is using AI to develop Linux kernel code now

• Palantir CTO AI says researchers started smoking, believing AI will cure cancer

• Is ChatGPT a 'product' or a 'service'? Lawsuits test a theory of AI liability

• AI's Giant Money Loop Is Drawing Foreign Cash Like 2008

• Behind AI's call for independent reviews, a fight over what gets made public

• Scientists wonder: Is my AI stealing my ideas?

• Now That Information Is Free, What's a College Campus For?

• Singapore's bank wants all FinTech AI use cases subject to independent review

• Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back

• Chinese cheap LLMs could trigger trillion-dollar AI infrastructure reset

• The UAE embraces AI for kindergartners

• Google Play now lets anyone build private, vibe-coded apps that run on Android

• AI's quiet safety gatekeepers are stepping into the spotlight

• Amex introduces a framework to prevent AI agents from unauthorized purchases

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Chip stocks slide after Broadcom boss likens AI investing to 'casino'

  • Chip stocks slide in wake of 'casino' comment by Broadcom boss

  • Cracks Are Starting to Appear in the AI Trade

  • Tech stocks slide; Wall Street chip rout spreads. SK Hynix, SoftBank, ASML slump

  • Chaos in Korea's market is sending shockwaves through US chip stocks

  • Chinese Memory Maker's Tech Claim Sinks Samsung, SK Hynix Shares

• NYC Restaurants Shut Off Air Conditioning, Close on Sundays as Costs Surge

• Getty Images plans bankruptcy filing, to go private

  • Getty Images to File for Bankruptcy, Go Private in Restructuring Deal

• The Iran war didn’t make your heating bill this high. Blue-state energy policy did. The US has just 130 operable refineries, down from 301 in 1982.

• Kroger to lay off 3k corporate employees over 3 years as it leans into AI

  • Kroger to lay off 3K corporate employees over 3 years as it leans into AI

• Fed's Hammack: Hope to cool demand, and inflation, without job market pain

• DOJ targets North Korean remote IT worker schemes affecting 70 US companies

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• CFTC Staff Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades on Iran

  Chairman’s adviser intervened to take over examination of lucrative bets that were made around Trump reversal on Iran power plant attack.

• Scammers Steal Millions from Food Stamp Recipients. Congress Won't Fix It

• Americans Trust in Federal Government Sinks to New Depths

• Ohio political blogger found guilty in explicit Shrek meme trial

  An Ohio political blogger let out a surprised laugh as he was found guilty of harassment after he sent an explicit digitally altered image of the cartoon character Shrek to a powerful lawmaker. After just thirty minutes, eight Lake County jurors decided D.J. Byrnes was guilty of telecommunications harassment against state Sen. Jerry Cirino (R-Kirtland), after he sent him two taunting messages and a meme of Shrek holding his genitals. Byrnes declined to comment. He faced up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, but Judge Michael Cicconetti sentenced him to pay court costs and a $200 fine.

• Georgia Bought a $954,578 Chevy, but Officials Won’t Say What’s Inside.

Democrats

• ‘She totally blew it’: How Kamala Harris wasted a year to make her case

Left Angst

• Trump is a symptom, not a cause

• Trump ‘losing enthusiasm’ for live-streamed execution

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• By being invited: We Infiltrated a Police Union Convention in Las Vegas

• FBI arrests Canadian cybersecurity expert in ShinyHunters hacking case

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Mystery Sailor Inspired Trump to Switch to Steam Catapults from Electromagnetic

World

• Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

  • Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and spoiling food

  • (Aug 2026) Vulnerabilities in Danfoss Refrigeration Controllers

  • Cyber attack on French supermarket fridges raises alarm over food security

  • Investigators hunt French supermarket fridge hackers, no claim of responsibility

• "I'm a Former British Diplomat. Why Did My Own Gov't Detain Me?"

  Britain is clamping down even harder on critics who consider Western foreign policy to have been a catastrophic failure. We are fast approaching the point where expressing an alternative opinion can land you in jail.

• Tokyo has lost 84% of its public baths since 1968. The rest are getting busier

• Denmark set to allow return of 'physical force' in school

• Formula 1 returns to Africa with 10-year agreement to race in Rwanda

• In India, a Dark Shadow Falls on Its Vaunted Elections

• Chinese Cars in Norway Stored Military Exercise Footage and Access Codes

• Apple HomeView Won't Be Available in the European Union

• UK maritime agency tells maritime sector to plan for life without GPS

Iran / Houthi

• Missile hits headquarters of Saudi Aramco, source says, as Houthi conflict escalates

• Houthis fire missiles at Saudi Arabia; shootdown ongoing

Israel

• NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film's interviewees

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia was not ready for the data center war it started with Ukraine

  • Ukraine Is Successfully Bombing the Heart of Russia's Disinformation Machine

  • Reform UK figures see social media engagement drop after strikes on Russia DCs

  • Is Zelensky right to say data centre strikes have taken down Russian bots?

  • Did Ukraine's drone strikes on Yandex data centers silence Russian bots?

• Russia Detains Japanese Journalist for Alleged Espionage

China

• China's Weakening Economy Is Creating a Lost Generation

• Chinese carmakers increasingly rely on overseas markets as September exports surge.

• Legacy Carmakers Seen Losing Mass Market to Chinese Rivals

• China races to build data centres in bid for AI supremacy

Health / Medicine

• A New Anti-Aging Drug Looks to Turn Back the Clock on Skin Age

• Stroke is becoming more common among younger adults

• Child Mortality Has Declined in All World Regions

• Dementia cases are set to double by 2050 — as doctor calls it an ‘accelerating epidemic crisis.’

• U.S. doctors are aging, raising concerns about patient safety

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• China increases border security over Russian plague.

• Sexually Transmitted Diarrhea Is Exploding, and Growing Resistant to Medicine

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Handwritten Records Reveal Scale of Warming in the Congo

• Major cities worldwide are sinking, satellite data reveal

• Lettuce and tobacco plants engineered to produce meat proteins

• Canada's wolves may be using fire to hunt moose

• Tents, NV goggles and bear tracking kits: US's first nature library opens

• They War-Gamed Dimming the Sun. It Went Worse Than You Think

• Could steam help California strawberry farmers grow more with fewer chemicals?

• Heat Pumps Are Coming for Coal's Industrial Heat Market

• High-speed video shows how honey bee stingers keep pumping venom post detachment

• Antarctic Sea Ice Grows to Its 2026 Maximum

• Super El Niño sets another record as it strengthens to 'unprecedented levels'

• Climate change driving child marriages and teen pregnancies