2026-10-02

Horseshit

• Unprofessionalism

  No individual step requires anyone to intend the eventual result. A manager concerned about inconsistent decisions introduces another review process where projects must get third-party approval before proceeding. A specialist team is established to manage a risk that existing staff lack the time or knowledge to handle. Each seems like a reasonable response to an immediate problem, but if these changes reduce the opportunities for internal professionals to exercise judgment and learn from the results, the organisation becomes progressively less capable of operating and achieving its high-level objectives, with results like we’ve seen in the examples above.

• what is going on with ceiling fans

• The Six-Year Quest to Find the Mystery Woman in an 18th-Century Painting

• Athletes are taking GLP-1s. Anti-doping regulators are watching.

• The Ridiculous Reason Why the U.S. Enacted a Wartime Ban on Sliced Bread Sales

• Dinosaur-killing impact crater might have been teeming with life

• Running the Booziest Marathon

• SlutCon

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy

Musk

• Grokipedia v0.3 Just Released

• Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare

  • Elon Musk to return his attention to government, advise Pentagon

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Robotaxi Firms Are Buying Up the Garages Before the Votes

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Tech to Replace Animal Testing Is Almost Ready. Scientists Are Not

• Why So Many Social Science Claims Are False

• Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts

• Record-Low 31% Say College Education Is 'Important'

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Five ways publishers are rethinking audience engagement

• RAM supply set to worsen, says Micron, as CEO celebrates 'much higher' prices

  • Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026

  • Micron projects tightening RAM shortages through 2028, generates record profit

• Price Increases for 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5

• Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks

• The Rock's rise and fall. And the end of a certain type of movie stardom

  • A falling tide sinks all boats.

• Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones

• Nicolas Cage Says the MCU 'Is Becoming a Well-Funded and Glorified WWE'

• The Front Page of the Internet Is Killing RSS Feeds

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Missouri issues new guidelines for Flock cameras, license plate readers

• Amazon's delivery driver smart glasses will take photos 'almost constantly'

• 19 Out of 21 Late-Model Cars Tested Shared Data with 3rd Parties

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• HN Jobs:

  • Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)

• Various Projects Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Can companies like OpenAI keep getting away with what they are doing? An interview with Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout

  • Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month

  • AI safeguards are slowing developers down

  • When AI Agents Break In, Governments Shouldn't Be Stuck with the Cleanup

  • The Humanism Driving the Anti-A.I. Movement

• FTC opens probe of Anthropic, OpenAI

  • FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks

  • Circular relationships among AI firms

  • California issues investigative subpoena to OpenAI over rogue agents' hacking

• How Zuckerberg shaped Trump’s AI industry pledge

  • Trump renames AI to 'super intelligence' and tells Americans they have no choice

  • Trump's AI rebrand causes 'unprecedented' demand for Slovenian website names

  • Trump's 'Morally Binding' New AI Guardrails Are Meaningless Pudding

  • Trump calls for 'tremendous self-regulation' by AI companies

  • Trump's "super intelligence" naming problem

• 'Things may get ugly': Meta's new AI Muse is about to make the net more annoying

  • Meta wants people to use 'AI agents' to do daily tasks. Why that's a problem

  • Meta admits Muse's likeness to OpenClaw isn't a coincidence

• Google Grapples with Employee Skepticism About New Gemini Model

  • Google announces Gemini 4, restricts access to 'trusted cyber defenders'

  • Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet

• Anthropic Said to Target Mega-IPO Before Thanksgiving Holiday

• AI agents tried to hack a Canadian government website, researchers say

• 'Torturing' LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet

• Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest

• OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its IP that it stole from everybody else

• AI Coding Startup Cognition Hits $1B in Annualized Revenue

• AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns

• Canadian websites take down articles written by suspected AI-generated persona

• OpenAI's Brockman Backs Out of Pledged $25M Donation to AI Super Pac

• AI borrowers face tough sell in risky corners of US credit market

• Religious Scholars Met with Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them

• Google's AI Push into Schools: 'It Slowed My Thinking Down'

• Inside the Biggest Feud in Artificial Intelligence: Dario Amodei and Sam Altman

• Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42B in deal to lease chips

  • Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42B to lease its chips, filing says

• McDonald's Is Reportedly Using AI to "Dynamically" Price Its Burgers

• Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes

• An AI sovereign wealth fund isn't progressive – it's techno-imperialism

• A Hacking Competition Shows the Power of China's 'Open Weight' A.I

• Leading Democrat asks AI firms for data on any Chinese access to sensitive code

• AI agents inadvertently leak 13,000 internal screenshots from 300 organizations

• BCBS blames AI as nearly $1B in questionable hospital charges appear

• Federal appeals court upholds Thomson Reuters' landmark AI copyright win

• OpenAI adds $500 Pro tier, nerfs existing $200 tier

• OpenAI Parts Ways with Researchers Who Allegedly Shared Confidential Information

• Anthropic's biolab made a discovery it's comparing to CRISPR

• US judge dismisses Chegg, Penske antitrust suits over Google AI Overviews

• People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed with AI

• AI fabrication suspected of writing articles in Canadian publications

• We Used AI to Find Out Just How Much Americans Hate AI

• The Specter Of Neuralese

  Some people argue that there should have been a taboo on looping layers (which OpenAI would have broken), and other people say that they’re making that up and that was never a taboo. There’s probably an informal taboo on true neuralese with no chain of thought at all, but it’s a complicated technology with multiple moving parts, there’s no agreement as to which moving part the taboo is on, and without that agreement, some of the parts might slip through the cracks.

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• EU questions Binance over continued operations despite wind-down order

• Binance Founder's Life After Prison

• Sydney Sweeney’s racy ads help sports betting platform quadruple valuation to $2B.

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Paramount taking over Warner Bros for $110B

• Exclusive | Wall Street giant Apollo aims to open 'second headquarters' outside NYC — in latest fallout from Mamdani's war on the wealthy

• The Gap Between the Rich and the Rich Is Getting Wider

• America could fire 1.2M realtors and still sell every house

• Global bond sell-off deepens as Asian yields jump

• 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years

• Fed official used Asian dating site, sent nude photos – and wound up blackmailed

• SK Hynix denies confirmed US memory plans with Intel

• GLP-1 drugs put $73B in global food value at risk, report finds

• US jobless claims near 57-year low as layoffs fall in September

• Persian Gulf crude oil flows have largely recovered. For diesel and gasoline, it’s more complicated.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal

Trump

• South Korea to invest up to $200B in Alaska LNG pipeline, US power plants, Trump announces.

• Trump signs executive order targeting mosquitoes and ticks in Washington, D.C.

Democrats

• California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states

  The new law, which will come into effect on 1 January, states people must be 18 to get married in the Golden State. Newsom called it a "long overdue measure to protect young Californians and minors". He signed the bill into law with Courtney Stodden, whose parents allowed her to marry a 50-year-old Hollywood actor when she was just 16.

Left Angst

• Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant. - Ars Technica

  An Argentinian-American writer and immigration advocate recently sued the federal government, demanding that it delete data that he believes was copied off of his phone when he re-entered the United States earlier this month

• US Government's new AI chatbot pulls back from debunking Trump

• Second judge blocks $100k fee for new H-1B worker visas

• Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Federal Surveillance Program

• The Beclowning of Scott Bessent

• Navy Sailor Dies by Suicide After Deployment Keeps Getting Extended

• Trump Personifies the Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

• Hegseth Announces Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich Will Help Lead Military

• The Daily Wire Is Quietly Shooting a Pro-ICE Movie. We Got the Script

• War Bros Didn't Always Rule Silicon Valley

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Christa Pike survives execution attempt after 2 injections

  Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike has been taken to hospital after an attempt to execute her by two lethal injections failed, her lawyer says. Her legal team filed an emergency motion to halt the convicted murderer's execution as it was happening, saying: "Ms Pike has lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat and is audibly snoring." One of her attorneys told the BBC that Pike, 50, was now "being provided life-saving measures" in hospital after two syringes of pentobarbital had been administered. Pike was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. Her execution was the subject of a last-minute legal battle.

  • Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections

  • ‘We have not been informed as to her condition.’ Christa Pike’s attorneys said her execution failed. Here’s what witnesses described seeing.

  • Christa Gail Pike survives lethal injection attempt

  • Gov. Lee orders review after botched Christa Pike execution: updates

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Pentagon creates 'Autowarcom' to expand AI and drone capabilities

  • Hegseth announces a new drone command and cuts to 20% of generals

• 2 weeks ago: Cold War Spy Satellite FARRAH III Breaks Apart in Orbit, Cause Unknown.

  • Cold War spy satellite named after Farrah Fawcett just exploded in space

• Sources: US tells France, Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban

World

• "Biggest threat yet": New EU rules could restrict online gaming

• Online gaming companies investigated over in-game purchases

• France rocked by public sector and student strikes

  France was gripped by widespread protests and public sector strikes on Tuesday, as hundreds of thousands of workers and students took to the streets to protest austerity measures and a collapsing cost of living. The mobilization comes just days before the government is scheduled to present its new budget and months ahead of a presidential election where the far-right is currently favored.

  • Hundreds Detained in France as Some Student Protests Turn Violent

• Google, Apple and Amazon each meet EU officials more than any EU company

• EU's Microsoft Teams alternative draws bad reviews from officials

• 'Currently impossible': North Korea defections in freefall

• Japan raises permanent residency fee by 20 times

• Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence

  • Canada to fast track oil pipeline designed to diversify economy away from US

• UK-Iranian dual national arrested over RAF Fairford incident, police say

Israel

• Muslim Pilot ‘Tried to Do 9/11’ and Kill a Planeload of Israelis

  • ‘I Ran Toward the Cockpit’: An Exclusive Interview with the Israeli Dad Who Stopped a Hijacking.

• The Missed Opportunity of NAZA

• Hamas and PIJ Military Operatives Posed as Journalists

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian missile strikes take out popular piracy websites

China

• China funding UK research and sending it to Beijing's spies, MI5 warns

• China's Crowded EV Car Industry Moves Toward Consolidation

Health / Medicine

• Cannabis use is associated with increased risk of violence

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Gene-edited bananas that don't go brown could hit UK supermarkets

  • Gene-Edited Banana Stays Yellow Longer and Closer to Grocery Store Shelves

• The Microplastics Epidemic in Indonesia

• California Legalizes Balcony Solar

• “More And More Severe Storms”: When Can We Declare This Hypothesis To Be Definitively Falsified?

• Engineering Animals to Grow Human Organs – But Not Human Minds

• Oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use

• First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months

• A fifth of Swiss Alpine ice has vanished in five years