2026-07-14

Horseshit

• Want to own a real T. rex?

• Doctors warn that children are microwaving NeeDoh toys and risking serious burns

• A Stranger Used One Text Message to Steal My Digital Life

• Spaceflight is hard on the heart, yet artificial ones grow better in space

• Bizarre new dating method takes California colleges by storm as it wipes out ‘primitive’ Tinder.

• What housing in America could look like in 50 years

• Natural sugar discovered in cloud of dust and gas near centre of Milky Way

  • Found: Cloud of Sugar in Interstellar Space

• Airline pilot skywrites 'I'm bored' over north-west England

• Mind game helps men reduce Alzheimer's risk by 25% but not women

• I Bought the $3k Fitness Suit That Electrocutes You. I'm Sending It Back

Obit

• Last known US polio survivor using iron lung dies aged 78

• New Zealand actor Sam Neill, known for Jurassic Park and The Piano, dies at 78

  • Actor Sam Neill has died

  • Sam Neill has died

Musk

• SpaceX's near-term AI payoff seen tethered to Earth, not outer space

• Musk is building a form of capitalism that Adam Smith would hate

• SpaceX ignites all 33 powerful engines on Starship booster ahead of Flight 13 launch.

• SpaceX cleared to fly Starship again after booster failure in May

• Musk's Starlink Socks Customers with $1500 'High Demand' Surcharge

• Elon Musk and Sam Altman spar on X after Apple files OpenAI lawsuit

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Stellantis to sell small Fiat Topolino EV for $13,995 in U.S.

• EV battery recycling has an economics problem

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• 10 years of Pokémon Go and the millions still trying to catch 'em all

• Apple M7 Ultra Chip Planned with Up to 1.5 TB of Unified Memory

• LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire

• Samsung overtakes Apple as smartphone market sinks to a 13-year low

• Apple's Steady iPhone Pricing Pays Off as Rivals Scramble

• The Meta Glasses backlash is changing how (or if) people use them

• Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• A Metallurgist’s Doubts About Self-Replicating Probes

• Ex-Pentagon UFO honcho claims photos show monolith-like structures on moon.

• FCC approves orbital space mirrors, first test satellites will launch this year

  • FCC Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite Outcry

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• People Can't Identify AI Poetry, but Enjoy It Less When Told It's by an AI

• AI companies are throwing museums a lifeline. What do they want in return?

• White House to rally utilities, data centers over AI power costs

• The Americans Striking It Rich in the Data-Center Buildout

• Chinese AI models are gaining ground with U.S. companies

• WSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is Obvious Nonsense

• 'Quality decays exponentially following AI arrival': Experts leaving in droves

• Meta's Louisiana Data Center Campus to Surpass $250B Price Tag

• The New York nurses replaced by AI: 'It should concern every patient who cares'

• Anduril CEO Warns AI and Defense Valuations Are Becoming Dangerously Overvalued

• Christopher Nolan says people disdain AI, idea it'll replace humans is nonsense

• Apple's 'Thermonuclear' Response to the OpenAI Threat

  • Wildest claims in Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI

• Goldman Sachs warns the US will bear the brunt of AI-induced inflation surge

• AI has supercharged scientists–but may have shrunk science

• The fight against AI datacenters is important – but it's just a starting point

• Economists Warn of A.I. Threat

• Economists say 'we must act now' on AI's economic impact and job displacement

• The Americans Striking It Rich in the Data-Center Buildout

• How A Gang of Thieves Pulled Off a Multimillion-Dollar Data Center Heist

• Software eng was one of the best-paying US professions, but AI disrupted it

• Georgia homeowners are being forced from their homes to power AI data centers

• When A.I. Is a Member of the Family

• Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard IP

Economicon / Business / Finance

• States to Challenge Paramount-Warner, Larry Ellison Lashes Out Wildly

• Billionaire exodus? California drew 10x more venture capital than any state

• CEO under fire for mass layoff amid foreign hiring spree, on Fed jobs task force

  • Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who laid off 3,200 employees, to lead task force on jobs

• Dow Jones Cracks 53,000

• TSMC posts record revenue in second quarter on AI demand

• Big private equity firms pull in more cash as winners take all

• Volkswagen CEO says 50,000 more job cuts may be needed to close competitive gap

  • Volkswagen planning to cut up to 100.000 jobs globally

• Apple Stock Hits Record Territory as Traders Sour on AI Spending

• Memory chip companies expected to report big leaps in sales as earnings arrive

• Nestlé to Tweak Some Food Recipes to Appeal to Duller GLP-1 Palates

  • They'll have cocaine back into the soda and heroin in the chips before we know it.

• Report suggests the US gov urged Apple to Intel chipmaking deal to avoid tariffs

• California, 11 states suing to block Paramount's $110B Warner Bros deal

• SK Hynix plunges after Nasdaq debut as memory chip euphoria cools

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Chicago pensions face insolvency in downturn, mayoral candidate says

• McConnell says a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking weeks of silence about health condition

Trump

• More Than 200 FBI Agents Swarm Fulton County, Georgia, to Investigate 2020 Election Fraud.

• Trump calls for Congress to pass Clarity Act crypto bill to honor Lindsey Graham

Democrats

• Detained by settlers, US Democrat Ro Khanna now faces pro-Israel attacks

Left Angst

• The Human Cost of DOGE's War on USA.I.D.

• New NSF policy would ban almost all collaborations with Chinese scientists

• Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance

• DOGE is done. What happened to its records?

• Trump invested crypto gains in stocks and bonds, filings show

• EPA Wants To Remove Limp Mode For Diesel Trucks With Broken DEF Systems.

• Section 219, the US-Israel Military Merger, Would Thwart American Democracy

• How America's Accurate Election Polls Were Covered Up

• Trump's plan for Europe is falling apart

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Ransomware negotiator hired to represent victims was working for the attackers

• America's Shoplifting Lab

• LAPD Regularly Pulled over Innocent People Plate Readers Flagged Cars as Stolen

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• From Eurovision to NATO, Canada Edges Closer to Europe

• Desperate Castro family offer Trump private ISLAND for ‘super resort’ as president threatens to decapitate Cuba regime.

World

• Japanese payment processor's collapse hits banks and restaurants

• Social media limits are coming for teens across Europe

  • EU will seek to limit children's access to social media

  • EU wants 13+ age restriction for social media

  • EU chief weighs age restrictions for children using social media

• This summer ski destination in the Andes isn't getting enough snow

• Life among the garbage mountains of the biggest city

• Australian Consumer advocate calls for mandatory domestic mobile roaming

• Spain's mega EU debt proposal sets up showdown with northern European countries

• Deaths in the UK outnumber births for first time in 50 years

• UK Bans Support for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

• Eurostar orders trains that can cope with 55C 'Saudi' Summers

• How the Elite See Rome

Iran / Houthi

• Iran Paper Names Trump, 12 Others as Targets for Revenge.

• Trump says the US controls the Strait of Hormuz and should get paid for it

• US ambassador to NATO says Iran ‘controlled by a bunch of crazy people.’

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• A Robot Army Remakes Ground Warfare in Ukraine

• Ukraine Lands Armed Robot Ashore in Russian-Held Territory via Drone Boat

China

• Beijing's 'Manhattan Project': China Close to Cracking Code of EUV Lithography

• China is dealing with its own manosphere

• China releases first photo of Earth's elusive 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa

• Christians are disappearing for worshipping a God other than Xi.

• China's graduate glut: millions enter a job market with little use for them

Health / Medicine

• GLP-1s are shrinking bodies. Enter cadaver fat injections

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• mRNA vaccine targeting tick proteins induces tick resistance in guinea pigs

• The banana as we know it is in trouble

• Photovoltaics are still running after a year under Swiss trains

• Under Lula, Amazon deforestation falls to lowest level in a decade

• Is there any reason to think dolphins and humans have a special relationship?

• 'We're Fighting Satan': The War to Save Bees from a Hornet Invasion

• Heat domes impeding radio and other signals in US Midwest

  Higher temperatures can cause radio, TV and microwave signals to travel hundreds of miles farther, upsetting communications

• Aluminum foil would work better: House too hot? Smear yogurt on your windows to cool your home

• Waitrose to suspend mackerel sales due to overfishing concerns

• The dos and don’ts of removing a tick: Don’t wait to act. And don’t pull out a match.