2026-07-23

Horseshit

• The Norwegian Case for Mediocracy

• Older man slaps fan at Cubs game for not standing for national anthem in viral video: ‘Get up’.

• United Flight Attendants Built a Black Market Selling the Best Trips

• Malaysia Crushes Network School. Balaji Flees to Kazakhstan

  Malaysian officials have ordered Network School to shut down operations. The so-called school, run by Network State cult leader (and Peter Thiel protégé) Balaji Srinivasan, had claimed to be creating a new nation on Malaysian soil. The Network State is a cult ideology that seeks to replace existing nations with new nations run by tech corporations.

• No one wants to be the boss: Why is Gen Z turning down promotions?

• Japanese security guard finds fame as designer of duct tape signs

• Wreck of Pan Am plane found 74 years after crash

• An American Mosaic

• Neanderthal Dentistry Was a Total Horror Show, Research Shows

• Oral ‘Sunscreen Pills’ Are Taking Over TikTok—But Do They Actually Work?

• 'The Odyssey' Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way

Obit

• RIP tech journalist John C. Dvorak (1946–2026)

  John C. Dvorak, a pioneering technology journalist, podcaster, and cultural commentator, passed away peacefully on the morning of Monday, July 20, 2026. He was 80 years old. Widely recognized for his profound impact on the technology industry, John’s career spanned decades of rapid digital evolution. He was perhaps best known for his influential, long-running column in PC Magazine and his groundbreaking work on the No Agenda podcast.

Musk

• Firefox Is Back on X

• Elon Musk says Grok will make 'historically accurate' Odyssey film by year-end

  • Musk's anti-Odyssey campaign backfires over threat to make AI version of epic

  • Grok Imagine will make 'historically accurate' AI adaptation of Homer's Odyssey

• Tesla's profits slide despite growing revenue as it pivots to robotics and AI

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Waymos cause "way mo" injuries per mile driven than for-hire vehicles in NYC

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• Travis Kalanick's robotics company raises $1.7B, led by A16Z

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• As defaults on student loans surge, millions are trying to get their lives back on track.

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Flock Said Its Cameras Don't Track People. Then a Reporter Proved Them Wrong

• Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off

• LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps

  The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG’s webOS store allow unknown third-parties to route their Internet traffic through a user’s TV.

• Pixar Bears Brunt of Disney Layoffs as Company Axes Several Hundred Staffers

• The Internet Is Starting to Card Everyone. Startups Are Making Millions from It

• Xbox's new VP of engineering quits just 2 months after taking the job

• Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days

• Reddit stock sinks as company weighs blocking Google's AI access to its content

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Rescuing satellites is harder than it looks

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Top American AI Execs Sound Alarm on Chinese Models

  • The U.S. wants to contain China’s AI. Silicon Valley keeps using it

  • The secret Trump administration battle to fight Chinese AI

  • China's 'AI for All' Offensive Defies US Containment Playbook

  • America's AI labs are under threat from cheap Chinese rivals

  • Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI amid Kimi panic

  • China's AI models have Trump's AI world at war with itself

  • "We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3"

  • Top White House official escalating the fight over Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model

• OpenAI's latest AI agent escaped security controls and hacked a tech company

  • OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library

  • OpenAI says AI models went rogue during testing

  • OpenAI model autonomously hacks HuggingFace

  • OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

  • OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack

  • OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an 'unprecedented' hack

  • OpenAI Hacks Hugging Face, What Happened, Alignment and Paper Clips

  • OpenAI Models Escaped and Hacked a Company in Cybersecurity Test Gone Wrong

  • OpenAI Confirms Its AI Broke Out of a Sandbox and Breached Hugging Face

  • OpenAI admits it was the source of the agent swarm that attacked Hugging Face

  • OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face

  • AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals

• AI investment boom puts Big Tech's free cash flow under pressure

• An OpenAI job listing described ambitions to build an ad network

• Microsoft strikes 'multibillion-dollar' deal with French AI firm Mistral

• Samsung in talks to invest in Mistral at 20B euro valuation

  • Samsung in talks to invest in Mistral at €20B valuation

• A growing political reckoning is coming for data centers

• When China Gets Its Own Mythos

• Big Tech AI Spree Revives Accounting Devices That Toppled Enron

• The US Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens

• Bengaluru triple murder: Why cops wanted to make AI chatbot an accomplice

• AI Cheating happening more and is hard to verify

• News Corp accuses search engine Brave of AI copyright infringement

• AI's solution to 87-year-old riddle takes mathematicians by surprise

• News Corp countersues Brave for allegedly 'scraping' articles for AI

• A.I. Drones Are Coming. We Are Not Ready

• Nvidia increases the price of Jetson modules and devkits by up to 101%

• The AI Bubble Is No Ordinary Bubble

• UK businesses are not deepening their use of AI, suggests ONS data

• How AI may drive union-resistant tech workers to the bargaining table

• Will your job be replaced by AI? Here are the roles most affected

• Amazon cuts jobs in its artificial general intelligence group

  • Amazon cuts some jobs in its artificial general intelligence unit

• AMD to invest up to $5B in Anthropic

• Data Centers of Track to Suck Up a Fifth of US Power Use by 2035

• Microsoft Considers Replacing ChatGPT and Claude with Kimi K3

• Dog Photographer Loses Copyright Case over AI-Generated Comic Version of Photo

• The Subprime Data Center Crisis

  • AI tech companies have 'hidden debt' worth around $1.65T

• AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep

• Inside the Rise of the Anti–Data Center Movement.

• OpenAI Names BNY, Nubank CEOs to Board Ahead of IPO

• OpenAI sued over ChatGPT health advice that almost killed a pastor

• Is AI productivity growth in the room with us?

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Kalshi debuts US midterms hub for election forecasts and polling data

• Polymarket intends to challenge France's decision to block its website

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Why the youth jobs crisis is becoming global

• Egg Price-Fixing Went Unpunished

• Powerplants under DOE emergency orders are producing less energy than before

• What to know about the landmark Warner Bros. Discovery sale

• Banks pay backhanded compliments to private credit

• Google revenue surges on AI-driven boom in Cloud unit

  • Google beats quarterly revenue expectations off of enterprise AI surge

  • Alphabet Quadruples Profit to Nearly $120B, Fueled by A.I. Investments

• GM Is Quietly Becoming a Subscriptions Company

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Federal judge dismisses RNC voter roll grab in New Jersey

  In a win for voters, a federal judge Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee (RNC) seeking to force New Jersey to release sensitive voter data.

• 6,600 Non-Citizens Mistakenly Added to NJ Voter Rolls

  About 6,600 non-citizens were accidentally added to New Jersey’s voter rolls and about 400 cast improper ballots in recent elections, the state’s governor announced Tuesday. Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, said this stemmed from a “serious” software glitch at the state Motor Vehicle Commission that began in 2023, which was before she took office. She said that even though these people indicated while applying for a driver’s license that they weren’t citizens, they were registered as voters “through no fault of their own.” The governor made the surprise disclosure just five days after President Donald Trump’s address to the nation where he claimed there are far more non-citizens on the rolls than previously known.

  • Software glitch allowed nearly 400 non-US citizens to vote in New Jersey

  • Software "Glitch" in Democrat-Riddled NJ Allows That Thing the Media Democrat Party Says Never Happens to Happen 6600 Times

  • Software Error Led to 400 Noncitizens Voting in New Jersey

  • This was NOT a “software error.” This is a SCANDAL

  “IDEMIA's role is to transmit information through the motor vehicle system. The voter registration information is transmitted to the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections, which is ultimately responsible for verifying eligibility to vote. Information submitted by IDEMIA must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections.” So the Division of Elections MANUALLY APPROVED over SIX THOUSAND foreigners to vote. They were not automatically registered by the software provider as the governor claimed.

  • Software vendor disputes NJ governor's ‘glitch’ claim, says state approves foreigners on voter roll

Trump

• Trump says generic drugs to face US tariffs 100% and 200% two year later

• Judge rules Trump must hand over records sought by BBC in defamation case

Left Angst

• Trump Now Wants E. Jean Carroll to Return the $5.6M He Paid

• White House used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

• 'The museum does not take sides': Smithsonian official defends institution amid Trump criticism - ABC News

  • Smithsonian Director Humiliates Herself During House Hearing.

• Ultra-processed food firms are using the courts to obstruct health rules

• Big Tech critic appointed as chief of DOJ antitrust division

• BLM proposes reopening 336k acres around Chaco Canyon to mineral leasing

• You Opened a Credit Card. ICE Now Knows Where You Live

• Deloitte systems denied Medicaid to the disabled. New laws could make it worse

• "No one is above the law" Appeals Court Affirms 5-Year Prison Term for Source who Leaked Tax Info to NY Times and ProPublica: IRS leak was ‘attack on our constitutional democracy,’ with aim ‘to influence an election through illegal activity.’

• US Circulates Draft UN Free Speech Declaration Targeting EU Censorship Law

• ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir

• DOJ Now Citing Fake AI-Generated Cases to Keep ICE Detainees Locked Up

• Did Trump Officials Rig High School Contest Against Sikh Finalist?

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Saudis and US strike deal for kingdom to enrich uranium

  • Saudi Arabia to be sold uranium enrichment ability by US without IAEA inspection

  • Trump hands powerful nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia as Iran war spirals

• The US has collected about $13B of Venezuela's oil money. Where is it?

• State Dept. tells diplomats to play down talk of American tech 'kill switch'

World

• Airbus is moving its most critical apps off AWS to a French cloud

  • Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS amid digital sovereignty push

• EU border agency unlawfully transferred data on migrants/activists to Europol

• EU weighs age restrictions for children using social media

• French lawmakers approve a social media ban for children under 15

  • French parliament backs social media ban for children under 15

  • France passes law banning under-15s from social media

• India's Cockroach movement protesters show no sign of backing down

• The conservative road to nowhere: Hanson's empty populism

• Politician Count Binface Demands Sega Releases Shenmue 4

• Typhoons Paired with CCA Fighter Drones Armed with Meteor Missiles Eyed by UK

• Roblox will let people use AI to make games on their phone

• UK Politicians Call for More Speech Regulation After the Murder of Ann Widdecombe, Who Opposed Such Measures

  many were quick to spread the false account of the murder. Journalist Dan Hodges insisted soon after the murder that “Police again very clear. No suggestion Ann Widdecombe’s death terror related. Or that it is politically motivated. And that speculation on motive is unhelpful to their investigation.” It was a targeted attack, one of a line of such attacks on conservative figures. After the murder of conservative MP David Amess, the same calls were made on the left for more speech curtailment. Notably, his killer, Ali Harbi Ali, was an Islamic extremist and radicalized in his insular and extreme religious associations.

• South America is eradicating hunger

• Moody's Upgrades Argentina Credit Rating, Citing Milei's Economic Overhaul

Iran / Houthi

• Iran says it attacked Amazon infrastructure in Bahrain

• New Araghchi Interview Reveals Iranian Delusions and Vulnerabilities

• Has Trump dragged the US into a forever war in Iran?

Israel

• Israel is building a miles-long barrier in Gaza, entrenching its division

• Hamas attacking humanitarian aid points, threatens local Gazans as war continues | The Jerusalem Post

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• A year in a foxhole: How one Ukrainian soldier survived beneath the front lines

• Ukraine's drone strikes put pressure on Russian economy

• Ukrainian drones hit more sites of Russian online retailer Wildberries

• An Opioid Empire in the Center of Africa

• Ukraine's secret weapon: The bright pink 'Flamingo' missiles

• Ukrainian drones deliver robots directly into battle by sea and air

China

• Chinese companies are taking over the EV market. What's behind their rise?

• China is considering banning Chinese AI companies from manufacturing chips at Taiwan's TSMC.

• Soaring Egg Prices Are Hitting China Hard

Health / Medicine

• Sperm concentration remains stable among fertile American men: a meta-analysis

• Lung cancer in nonsmokers: A women's health crisis

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Polio should have been eradicated by now. What's plan B?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Scientists Discover Four Chameleons Found Nowhere Else on Earth.

• Central Valley farmers reluctantly turn to solar as water supplies dry up

• Scientists discover over 1,100 new marine species in landmark Ocean Census

• Speeding incurs substantial environmental costs for negligible time savings

• Magnolias Are So Old That They're Pollinated by Beetles, Not Bees

• Japan cities hit 40 C, officially marking first "kokushobi"