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• Nine killed as small jet crashes on Florida street

  A business jet crashed in a neighbourhood in Florida on Sunday, killing all nine people on board, the US transport secretary has said. The crash happened near Cresthaven, some nine miles (14 km) from Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump's resort in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach County, around 12:50 EST (17:50 GMT). Images show a large crater in the middle of a multi-lane road, with fire and debris from the Learjet 60 aircraft scattered across it, but nobody on the ground was hurt.

  In air traffic control audio recorded moments before the crash, someone in the cockpit can be heard reporting "moderate turbulence" and that the crew was "managing the ice". The person can then be heard saying the plane was "picking up precipitation" and "we need to climb". Moments later, the same voice said the plane was descending at a rate of 10,000ft (3,048m) per minute.

  • 9 dead after Learjet crashes in Florida

  • Nine people dead in Learjet crash in South Florida, officials say

  • Jet nosedives and erupts into fireball near busy roadway in South Florida

  • Private Jet plane crashes in Florida

  • Learjet co-pilot in fatal Florida crash ID’d as Nathalia Gadelha, 20, who got her license in high school.

  • 20-Year-Old Nathalia Filgueiras Was a Pilot on Learjet That Crashed in Florida

  • Florida jet crash victims IDd as tech entrepreneur, toddler kids, wife and nanny

  The passengers on board a private jet that crashed in Florida, killing all on board, have been identified as a Texas multimillionaire tech entrepreneur and his family, as well as their children’s nanny and two close friends. Adam Robinson, 44, and his wife, Helen, were among the nine killed when their $2 million Learjet 60 that they were taking from Austin to the Bahamas nosedived in Palm Beach County, Florida, sources close to the family told TMZ. Robinson, who was based in Austin, was founder and CEO of software companies Retention.com and RB2B, and previously worked at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital, according to his LinkedIn profile. Earlier, The Post identified the co-pilot as 20-year-old Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, a Florida-based pilot who got her license while still in high school. The pilot has been identified as 55-year-old Jeff Gregory, an experienced pilot from Pennsylvania.

Horseshit

• Does It Matter if Men Pee Sitting or Standing? A Randomized Test Has an Answer.

• Internet rallies behind Red Baron worker who snapped at Instagram prankster

• A hidden brain rhythm challenges ideas about where consciousness comes from

• Does Social Status Run in Families?

• Adventurer returns home to Hull after 28-year walk from South America

• The Daylight Savings Debate Isn't About Energy Anymore

• A New Map of 'Empty' Space Challenges a Tranquil Picture of the Galaxy

• Politeness Has Changed. Our Language Shows How

• 4 volunteers who lived in a Mars simulation for a year are back

  • Crew from NASA's simulated Mars mission emerges after 378 days in isolation

• yet again, "Science" discovers something known to farm kids for millennia: An unusual sexual bond between a bull and a male donkey

  "The sexual interactions between Achille, the bull, and Patroclo, the male donkey, were not isolated events," ... they saw 51 mountings between the bull and donkey from March 6 to March 19, 2026. During that time, Patroclo often presented his hindquarters to Achille and nipped him. The animals repeatedly directed most of their social and sexual interactions toward each other, with no indication from either that they wished to discourage those advances, according to the researchers. Achille mounted another male donkey only twice, and that other male showed clear avoidance behaviors and threatening expressions, such as flattened ears.

  • Tender bond between male donkey and bull baffles scientists

• Kraft Mac & Cheese Now Comes in Cinnamon Roll Flavor

• Fossilised red blood cells found in 115M-year-old dinosaur's bone

• It means something different when a dog says it: Why dogs catch yawns from their owners but not other dogs

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• How Wikipedia Rewrote Zionism

  Before 7 October 2023, the English-language Wikipedia article on Zionism opened by describing a movement that emerged to “espouse support for the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine.” Since then, the opening has been reworded to say that this homeland was to be established “through colonization,” immediately followed by a new sweeping claim: “Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.” The sentence is backed by an unusually large bundle of 17 citations, drawn from historians including Benny Morris, Rashid Khalidi, Avi Shlaim and Ilan Pappé, and to the casual reader it looks like the settled verdict of scholarship. It is not. The editor who introduced it in August 2024 has since been banned from the entire Palestine-Israel topic area for non-neutral editing. Yet the sentence survives, and for a year Wikipedia formally barred its editors from even discussing whether to remove it.

• Reframing the manosphere: a public health response to a commercial ecosystem

  The manosphere, a diffuse commercial ecosystem and loose collection of online communities united by shared beliefs about masculinity, misogyny, and male victimisation, is an under-recognised determinant of health harms. This network has been implicated in considerable health harms: widespread mental health impacts, especially in young people; violence against women, girls, and gender minorities; and delegitimising help-seeking in boys and men. In this Viewpoint, we argue that the manosphere is best understood and addressed as a public health problem.

  • Men's Rights advocates suffer from moderation. If they were to change their positions from "Men also have rights" to "Women are property," they'd be celebrated for their diversity and tolerance. Perhaps they'd have to advocate pedophilia as well, and/or claim divine guidance.

• It's time to block reckless AI IPOs and tax billionaires

Musk

• Musk's Plan to Conquer a New Industry

• Musk says Grok Bot cost unsustainably high

  • Elon Musk throttles Grok Bot limits due to 'unsustainably high' costs

  • Grok Bot Throttled After xAI Costs Outpaced Subscription Revenue

• Grokipedia offers lessons in how AI can help Wikipedia

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• Robots are less independent than we think

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Adriana Aviles says her son was given phony grades, is behind in math

  All through middle school my son was, at least on paper, a numbers whiz. His report cards consistently showed A’s — his lowest grade was a B plus. But when he slid down to a 78 on his first exam at a top high school in Queens this fall, I pulled up a chair to help him review for his next test. I’ll never forget seeing tears well up in my son’s eyes as he was only able to answer the first couple of questions on the worksheet. He couldn’t solve basic algebra. He couldn’t do geometry. He couldn’t compute elementary-school fractions.

• Young mathematicians are reconsidering their careers

• With students scarce, college admissions offices friendlier, less intimidating

• Researchers face record-low chances of getting a grant partly due to rise of AI

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Roblox embraces AI-generated games as Steam raises concerns about quality

• The First Nintendo Switch 2 Emulator for PC Has Just Been Released

• $48 e-paper display can be whatever you want it to be

• Netflix Needs You to Watch, Not Just Pay

• Advertisers are turning back to hand-drawn and stop-motion animation

• Apple has a touchscreen MacBook. Why now?

• Google search has gone from being handy to useless

• New York Times sues maker of Brave web browser over copyrights

  • The New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls

  • New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over content scraping

• You're supposed to turn Bluetooth off when you don't need it – how risky is it?

• Valve "played capitalism so well they broke it" and now Steam can't be replaced

• One of Google's Android partners turned 1.3M set-top boxes into a botnet

  • Cops bust botnet of 1.3M infected Android TV boxes

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• How the facial recognition blame game leaves shoppers stranded

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• HN Jobs:

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

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

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Voyager 1 probe to hit historic one light-day distance from Earth in 17 days

• Japan launches mission to make first return trip to Mars

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Anthropic's quarterly loss shrinks, revenue jumps ahead of blockbuster IPO

  • Anthropic Revenue Hits Nearly $17B Before Blockbuster IPO

  • Anthropic releases amended IPO prospectus with third-quarter financials

  • Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay

  • Anthropic's spending commitments surge to nearly $900B

  • Anthropic Is Racing to Obtain the A.I. Boom's Most Vital Resource

  • Anthropic reveals $900B AI spending commitments ahead of IPO

  • The SEC Should Block Anthropic's IPO to Protect the Public

  • Anthropic's pay packages cost the company more than $100k a month per employee

• Sam Altman on Local AI

  • Sam Altman: All the RAM Should Belong to Me, So I Can Charge People to Use It

• Anthropic Bans Reverse Engineering with Claude

  • Anthropic confirms blocking reverse engineering requests

• OpenAI slashes funding target by $10B as tech anxieties mount

• A Powerful Mosquito-Hunting Laser Uses A.I. To Zap Winged Pests

• Anthropic's Mythos-class model allegedly leaked on Hugging Face

• Amazon plans to start selling Trainium AI chips outside AWS

• Hackers are running riot with AI. Its makers want to cash in

• New AI-driven malware feeds stolen data to Claude to rank victims' assets

• AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture

• Show Your ID to Use ChatGPT? How New York's New AI Law Ends Online Anonymity

• AI radio DJ has shot to stardom in L.A. Human hosts aren't happy about it

• Startup Claims to Use A.I.-Created Viruses to Treat a Patient

• Jobless Tech Workers Are Being Left Out of San Francisco's AI Boom

• Pray for Chaos

• Meta's Muse Could Upend All Kinds of Businesses. It Hasn't Yet

• Google's Minnesota data center approved after it drops $80M tax break ask

• SUSE to cut one in ten employees because of AI

• Anthropic RSI recursive self improvement

• Games Are Being Ripped Off by AI, and Things Are Only Going to Get Worse

• Goldman Restricts Traders and Bankers from Using Some AI Tools

• UK and Germany to jointly develop military AI in 2027

• South Korea targets ' highest performance' sovereign AI model

• Anthropic and OpenAI Are Creating Warrooms for Election Misinformation

• Silicon Valley Is Grappling with a Flood of Bugs Found by A.I.

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• What Does Your Data Reveal About Sports Betting Apps? Help ProPublica Find Out

• Bitcoin Suisse CEO: Switzerland has lost interest in cryptocurrencies

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Junk debt rout sparks 'bloodbath' for credit investors

• Ryanair consider pay freezes, AI and reducing crew on flights as fuel costs soar

• Big Tech returns smallest share of cash to shareholders in 15 years

• Valero to Buy, Restart Idled Texas Refinery as Fuel Rallies

• The Rise of Electrostates Could Redraw the Global Economy

• The American Economy Rockets Ahead, but Doesn't Take Everyone With It

• US manufacturing strengthens in October, input prices stay high

• In one of the largest deals in tech history, Marvell buys Lumentum for $115B

  • Marvell doubles down on AI boom with costly $115B Lumentum deal

• Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout

  • Oracle taps investors for $20B to finance AI expansion

• Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads

• Quitting jobs: The two-week notice is dying. Maybe it should

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Denver voters weigh ballot measure barring sale of foie gras.

• To Tame the Fastest Drivers, States Deploy Speed-Limiting Devices on Cars

• Economists studied California's billionaire tax, reached different conclusions

Democrats

• The NYT/Siena polls show a blue tsunami

  They might be wrong again, but it’s getting hard to deny that polls point toward a really big year for Democrats.

• Spanberger's office restores voting rights to dead dog, probe sought

  A Southside Virginia lawmaker is demanding an investigation after a constituent received an official rights-restoration certificate for his dog, Biscuit, a beagle-hound mix from Goochland County that died about five years ago.

Left Angst

• Trump Demands a Cut of Alina Habba's $50M Pardon Deal

• The U.S. Is Bullying Europe Like Never Before

• The Senate race giving Big Tech the chills

  • Ohio's Data-Center Revolt Is Upending the Midterms

• Trump administration Is Wreaking Havoc on Electoral System Before Midterms

• CISA Retreats from Election Security Ahead of Midterms

• Ballot Rejections Have Soared in Rural Counties as USPS Reduces Mail Service

• 'I can't sleep': Terror spreads after Trump insider's nuclear attack warning

  Panic spread late Sunday as a prominent conservative figure with deep ties to the Donald Trump administration warned that the president was just days away from deciding whether to use nuclear weapons in his deeply unpopular war against Iran. That conservative figure was Tucker Carlson, formerly a staunch ally of Trump who has since broken with the president over the U.S. war against Iran. Sunday night, Carlson issued a warning that Trump, under pressure from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, may be “within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran,” citing an “informed observer” and other inside connections.

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Entire Police Department Quits After Learning What It Feels Like to Be Tracked

World

• If only there had been some warning this might be possible, some mitigation might have been possible... oh, wait.

  • Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack

  • Hackers raised freezer temperature at Estonian supermarket chain to +50°C

  • Cyberattack on Fridges in Ireland

  • Temperature soars at Swedish grocery store freezers, one store blames hackers

  • Another supermarket hit with freezer attack

  • Swedish grocery giants ICA and COOP hit by freezer cyberattack

  • More European supermarkets are getting their freezers hacked

  • European supermarkets targeted in second reported cyberattack

  • Supermarket freezers across Europe struck in second crippling cyberattack — hackers raise temperatures to 50 degrees Celsius in Belgium and Sweden, destroying food stocks.

  • New cyberattack on supermarket fridges sweeps across Europe

  • Hackers remotely defrost produce in European supermarkets, again

  • Cyberattacks hit supermarket fridges and freezers in Europe

  • Over 1k Danfoss StoreView fridge controllers still exposed online

• Germany blames infiltrators as Gen Z protests turn violent

• Panic and Anger Spread as Europe's Great Pension Covenant Unravels

• France's Weird Per-Gigabyte Data Tax Could Cost VLC over €1M a Year

• German MPs and ministers warned iPhones have been targeted by spyware

• US Led Student List in Serbia Targets Russian Business and Trade in Serbia

• UK pulls the plug on analogue phones in January and the rest of Europe is next

Iran / Houthi

• America's Gulf Allies Prepare for New Round of Strikes on Iran–and the Blowback

• U.S. Strikes Iran's Qeshm Island as Trump Talks Down War Risks

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Hackers send fake nuclear threat alert to Ukraine emergency app

  • Ukraine, Russia Hit by Hacks Sending Fake Nuclear Attack Alerts

  • Ukraine and Russia say emergency apps hacked

  • Fake warnings of nuclear attack posted on Russian and Ukrainian emergency apps

• Yandex moves its supercomputers to new site after Ukrainian drone attacks

• Russia orders non-state data centres to reserve 10% of capacity for Russia

China

• BYD expands EV shipping fleet as wars upend freight costs and key trade routes

• China publicly discloses plan for a lunar landing within three years

Health / Medicine

• Have the experts who believed in a single autism spectrum changed their minds?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Scientists reveal the staggering number of bat deaths at wind turbines

• 40 °C heat extremes are no longer implausible in the Nordic countries

• Global carbon dioxide production from human metabolism between 1985 and 2015

• Cryosphere faces permanent damage when world overshoots 1.5C, scientists warn

• Could Orbital Data Centers Ruin the Night Sky?

• Activists create 'boulder barrier' in North Sea to deter industrial fishing

• Frustrated Ranchers Want People to Quit 'Rescuing' Their Working Guardian Dogs

• Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged