2026-03-22

Horseshit

• World Cup Trophy Theft: Gangsters, Spies and the Dog That Found It

• What 'Jurassic Park' got wrong about venomous dinosaurs

• Why Some Men Struggle to Keep Up with Friendships

• Why are humans the only species with a chin?

celebrity gossip

• Sam Altman's Sister's Abuse Claims Against Him Dismissed for Now

Obit

• Jürgen Habermas hoped rational discussion could save the world

• Paul Brainerd Dies at 78; Pioneered Desktop Publishing with PageMaker

• Former FBI Director Robert Mueller dies at 81, Trump reacts

  • Robert Mueller Has Died

  • Robert Mueller Dies; Trump: 'Good, I'm Glad He's Dead' | ZeroHedge

Musk

• Elon Musk misled Twitter investors, San Francisco jury finds

  • Musk liable to Twitter shareholders in fraud lawsuit over $44B takeover

  • Musk found liable to Twitter shareholders in fraud lawsuit over $44B takeover

  • Elon Musk misled Twitter investors, jury finds

  • Jury finds Elon Musk misled investors during Twitter purchase

  • Jury finds Musk owes damages to Twitter investors for his tweets

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Uber to Invest Up to $1.25B in Rivian Robotaxis

• How BYD Got EV Chargers to Work Almost as Fast as Gas Pumps

• Why western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

• TSMC chair dismisses Chinese robots as useless

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Record Number of Student Loan Borrowers Are in Delinquency and Default

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack

• Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety

• Jurors wade through daunting evidence in high-stakes Meta trial re: social media

• Systemd added birthday storage to comply with Brazil, CA Age Verification laws

• Nvidia admits DLSS 5 infers on 2D screencaps plus motion vectors

• Tea App That Claimed to Protect Women Exposes 72,000 IDs in Epic Security Fail

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Fire experts 'kept awake' over growing hazard of lithium-ion batteries

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA's Hubble unexpectedly catches comet breaking up

• NASA wants to know how the launch industry's chic new rocket fuel explodes

• Brazil's UFO capital marks 30 years since 'alien encounter'

• Astronomers keep finding new moons of Jupiter and Saturn

• First science from private Moon lander challenges lunar divide

• We've spotted an asteroid spinning impossibly fast

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Pentagon to adopt Palantir AI as core US Military system

• AI Slop Is Infiltrating Online Children's Content

• SoftBank planning $500B data center in Ohio

• Is AI Making Us Stupid? Cal Newport Is Worried

• Tokens may soon drive the AI economy

• The Trillion Dollar Race to Automate Our Lives

• The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry

• The Popularity of AI Writing

• Publisher cancels horror novel's release over AI claims

• Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes

• UK government yet to trial OpenAI tech months after signing partnership

• OpenAI to double workforce as business push intensifies

• Human bias reminders can make AI decisions seem more acceptable, study finds

• OpenAI is throwing everything into building an automated researcher

• OpenAI Plans Desktop Superapp Merging ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas Browser

• People are selling their identities to train AI – but at what cost?

• Anthropic Denies It Could Sabotage AI Tools During War

• Kagi Translate's AI answers question "What would horny Margaret Thatcher say?"

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Kalshi Has Been Temporarily Banned in Nevada

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Tech Exec Accused of Smuggling Nvidia Chips to China Resigns from Board

• The Middle-Class Suburbanites Who Sell Their Blood Plasma to Get By

• America Now Has More Spas and Gyms Than Stores Selling Actual Stuff

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• FTC order directing Intuit to stop deceptive TurboTax ads thrown out by US court

• USPS warns stamp price could rise to nearly $1 amid financial strain

  • The USPS Honors Lowrider History with These Commemorative Stamps

Left Angst

• Top FEMA official said he once teleported to Waffle House

  Gregg Phillips, appointed in December to lead FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery, rose to prominence not through his time as a federal emergency management professional but as a far-right activist who spread conspiracy theories about voter fraud and frequently used violent rhetoric toward political opponents. Most notably, Phillips on multiple podcasts made bizarre claims to have been involuntarily teleported, including once to a Georgia Waffle House 50 miles away.

• Biden CIA: ‘Traditional Motherhood’ and ‘Homemaking’ are Indicators of White Violent Extremism

• With casino empire gone, Trump family bets on prediction markets

• Seeing Trump Clearly

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Cuba rejects U.S. Embassy request to bring in fuel, calls it 'shameless'

• FBI: Russia targeting 'high intelligence value' Americans on Signal

  • Cyber actors linked to Russia targeting users of messaging apps, FBI says

• A-10s are striking Iranian boats. Some say it’s a ‘wake-up call’ to stop the Warthog’s retirement

World

• Colosseum gets a fresh look recreates the footprints of long-gone columns

• The Incredible Story of the Cartel Olympics

• Canada moves towards homegrown rocket launches

• Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, "drastically" reduced the number of cars

Iran / Houthi

• Italy, Belgium set to lose gas supply after biggest LNG plant bombed

• Iran's Strike Attempt on Diego Garcia Reveals Missile Range

  • Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia

  • U.K. says Iran unsuccessfully targeted British-American Diego Garcia base

• Data Centers Are Military Targets Now

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• 'Great crackdown': Russia tightens the screws on the internet

  • Internet outages disrupt life in Russia, fueling fears of a digital crackdown

• Ukraine hangs anti-drone nets over cities

• Russian women who don't want children will be sent to psychologist

• To tilt Hungarian election, Russians proposed staging assassination attempt

China

• Chinese AI videos used to look fake. Now they look like money

• Chinese Founder of Router-Maker TP-Link Seeks a Trump Gold Card

Health / Medicine

• Ozempic Is About to Go Generic for Billions of People

• Parents are refusing routine preventive care for newborns

• The next wave of GLP-1 drugs coming.they're stronger than Wegovy and Zepbound

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Hochul Moves to Weaken Aggressive New York State Climate Law

• After Cosmic Crisp, Scientists Unveil an Apple for the Climate Change Era

• Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years threatens dam, prompts evacuations