2026-03-25

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• Port Arthur, TX: Authorities on scene of possible explosion at Valero refinery, shelter-in-place issued

• Safety System Failed to Alert LaGuardia Tower Before Fatal Crash

Horseshit

• And always was: Is Stockholm Syndrome a Myth?

• How Do US Men and Women Spend Their Time?

• 'Microshifting' puts a new spin on 9-to-5 schedules

• Super-rich are turning their backs on the 'Giving Pledge'. That's good news

• LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash

• Inside L.A.'s world of millionaire 'crypto kids'

• As parents age, their children face hard choices about when to take the car keys

• Jupiter's lightning is 100 times stronger than Earth's bolts

• Improv Comedy Sucks. and Everyone Should Try It

• Orbital data centers, part 1: There's no way this is economically viable, right?

• Moreso with plants: Mouse study shows repeated cloning causes grave genetic mutations

celebrity gossip

• Estate of Mike Lynch ordered to pay £920M to Hewlett-Packard

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Is social media addictive? The science reveals what's at stake

Musk

• Tesla poaching engineers from chip manufacturing companies like TSMC

• Musk's Terafab Fever Dream Exposes Reality of the AI Chip Crunch

• Tesla, SpaceX Plan to Build New Chip Factory in Texas

• Musk says SpaceX and Tesla to build advanced chip factories in Austin

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Driverless Big Rigs Are Coming to American Highways, and Soon

• Global Carmakers Retreat En Masse from Electric Vehicle Plans

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

• Amazon acquires humanoid maker Fauna Robotics

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• New digital hall passes track bathroom breaks, gather data in NYC schools

• Ohio teacher, 28, charged with carrying out twisted sexual relationship with student.

• Young Graduates Face the Grimmest Job Market in Years

• The 25 states still requiring kids to learn cursive

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Apple to Introduce Search Ads in Maps as Services Revenue Grows

  • Ads are coming to Maps because Apple needs to keep growing

  • Apple to bring paid ads to maps to US, Canada this summer

• Head-mounted VR hardware will never happen, says Neal Stephenson

• Amazon confirms: Public wish lists can reveal addresses

• Microsoft blocks trick to unlock native NVMe driver, but workarounds still exist

• Nashville library launches Memory Lab for digitizing home movies

• Jury in landmark Meta, Google trial having difficulty coming to consensus

• ByteDance is swallowing the internet–in China and beyond

• Ubisoft's death by a thousand cuts

• LG Display starts mass-producing LTPO-like 1 Hz LCD displays for laptops

  According to LG’s announcement, the LCD screens, which it’s calling Oxide 1Hz, will automatically use a 1 Hz refresh rate when detecting a static image on-screen and switch to up to 120 Hz when needed. Without providing more detail, LG said it created proprietary “circuit algorithms and panel design technology” and discovered “new materials and [applies] the oxide with the lowest power leakage during low-refresh-rate mode to the display’s thin-film transistor.”

• Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating

• Firefox Now Has Free VPN

• Meta misled users about its products' safety, jury decides

  • Meta must pay $375M for violating New Mexico child exploitation law

  • Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms

  • Meta Harmed Children, Allowing Adults to Prey on Them

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Auto-balancing and load-testing Ridiculous Space Battles

  something I have always wanted for my games was a pre-release debug build functionality to have them run hundreds or thousands of games and automatically provide data that would let me balance the initial stats before actual humans start to play it. Now if you are a relatively new developer, its easy to just sling out lines like “Yeah just code a headless mode that randomly designs ships and fleets and have them fight each other a million times to collect stats”. This is the sort of thing swaggering indie devs throw out in a reddit thread as advice, as though that single sentence contains all the required skill, code and effort.

  Its not that simple.

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Artemis II: Inside the Moon mission to fly humans further

• A mission NASA might kill is still returning science from Jupiter

• A unique NASA satellite is deorbiting – this team is trying to rescue it

• Rare daytime fireball may have dropped meteorites on Texas.

• NASA to spend $20B on moon base after cancelling orbiting station

  • NASA's lunar Gateway space station is out. Moon bases are in

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• America's Chief Financial Officers Say AI Is Coming for Admin Jobs

• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'I think we've achieved AGI'

• Expert Personas Improve LLM Alignment but Damage Accuracy

• California bill aims to help vibe coders

• PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI

• Northern Kentucky farm family declines $26M land bid for data center

• OpenAI offering Private Equity a return of 17.5% and early access to models

• Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

• Hetzner Adopts Nokia AI for DDoS Defense

• Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive

• The EU Trips Itself Up in the AI Race

• OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform

  • OpenAI Plans to Discontinue Support for Sora

  • Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

  • OpenAI announces plans to shut down its Sora video generator

  • OpenAI shutters AI video generator Sora after just six months

  • Disney's $1B Investment in OpenAI DOA as Sam Altman Pulls Sora Plug

  • OpenAI just gave up on Sora and its billion-dollar Disney deal

• OpenAI adds open source tools to help developers build for teen safety

• U.S. Government's Ban on Anthropic Looks Like Punishment Attempt, Judge Says

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Bipartisan bill seeks to ban sports betting on Kalshi and Polymarket

• NYSE teams up with Securitize to develop tokenized securities platform

• Tether Signs Big Four Firm to Complete First Full Audit

• The People Making a Killing Gambling on War

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Gold Eyes Worst Month Against Oil Since 1973; Mining Stocks Drop Most Since 2008

• JP Morgan Monitors Employee's Keystrokes and Meetings; for Their Wellbeing

• Misfits wanted: the VC firm looking to back 'unreasonable' founders

• Traders placed $580M in oil bets ahead of Trump's social media post on Iran

• 'Work from home,' encourages the energy watchdog

• Electricity is eating the world. Is it time for an American Shenzhen?

• Welfare on Wheels: The Truth About the Supposed Truck Driver Shortage

  For years we have been told that the American economy is at risk of total collapse if the American Trucking Associations (ATA) can't find another 60,000 or 70,000 or 160,000 truckers. If there were an actual shortage of truckers, trucking companies wouldn't get away with barely paying minimum wage, would they?

• Toyota to invest $1 billion to increase U.S. production in Kentucky, Indiana plants.

• Epic Games Layoffs

  • Epic Games lays off over 1k employees

  • Epic Games to cut 1k jobs, seek $500M in savings as Fortnite slows

  • Epic Games lays off more than 1,000 amid slowing Fortnite engagement

• Ares and Apollo cap private credit fund withdrawals as exodus grows

  • Apollo gives investors only 45% of requested withdrawals

• It's a bad time to hunt for new jobs, most US workers say in new Gallup poll

• Who can afford to get ahead in America?

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Intuit beats FTC in court, ending restrictions on "free" TurboTax ads

  • Have You Paid Your "Intuit Tax"?

• Delta suspends special congressional services amid shutdown

Left Angst

• Palantir turns poisonous on the campaign trail

• Blackburn AI Bill Repeals Section 230, Expands AI Liability, Age Verification

• Dance for food, Cuban Kids!

• What to understand why Trump is still bombing Iran? Look to Nixon and Vietnam

• Someone else will: Palantir Will No Longer Profit Off of New Yorkers' Health Data

• Canadian woman held with daughter by ICE warns all immigrants to 'lie low'

• Trump administration will pay $1B in taxpayer funds to not build wind farms

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US

  • US bans new foreign-made consumer Internet routers

  • The FCC Just Banned the Sale of New Wi-Fi Router Models Made Outside US

  • USA bans all new routers for consumers

  • US regulator bans imports of new foreign-made routers, citing security concerns

  • Country that put backdoors in Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

  • The US bans all new foreign-made network routers

  • Who Makes What, and Where with the US ISP CPE Supply Chain

  The vast majority of residential broadband equipment deployed by America’s top 20 ISPs is designed by a handful of Taiwanese and European ODMs and assembled predominantly in China — though that is changing fast. Roughly a dozen contract manufacturers, led by Vantiva (formerly Technicolor), Sercomm, Arcadyan, Hitron, and Askey, produce virtually every gateway modem and router provisioned to U.S. homes. Nearly all of these devices run on Broadcom or Qualcomm chipsets fabricated at TSMC in Taiwan, creating a concentrated geopolitical chokepoint at the silicon level. Post-2018 Section 301 tariffs have triggered a measurable manufacturing migration toward Vietnam, Mexico, and India, but China remains the single largest assembly origin for U.S.-bound CPE as of early 2026.

• Amputee Cornhole Player Accused of Murder

  According to police, Webber shot Wells while the latter was riding in the passenger’s side seat of a vehicle that Webber was driving. Webber then allegedly turned to two passengers in the back seat of the Tesla SUV and asked them to help pull Wells from the vehicle. They refused and exited the vehicle. Webber then drove off with the deceased Wells still in the passenger’s side seat. Wells’ body was later found in a yard on Newport Church Road in Charlotte Hall, MD. Police apprehended Webber at a hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was extradited to Maryland, where he will face charges of murder in the first and second degree, as well as other charges. What is unclear to authorities is how Webber, a lifelong quadruple amputee who had his limbs removed after birth due to a blood infection, was able to drive the vehicle or shoot someone. However, a video emerged online showing Webber managing to load and fire a handgun. Webber is a professional cornhole player in the American Cornhole League.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• FBI says Iranian hackers are using Telegram to steal data in malware attacks

• US Army to demo first crew-free Black Hawk

• Army raises enlistment age to 42, removes waiver for marijuana possession

  raises the maximum age a recruit can join to 42, and removes a barrier to joining for recruits with a single legal conviction for marijuana or drug paraphernalia possession. The Army’s previous limit was 35, though exceptions are occasionally made. The higher age limit brings the Army in line with other services’ limits of 41 in the Navy and 42 in the Air Force and Space Force,

• US expected to send thousands more soldiers to Middle East, sources say

World

• UK's Trustpilot fined $4.6M by Italian regulator for misleading consumers

• Cuba's Fragile Power Grid Finds a Powerful New Partner

• UK Government to make "plug-in solar" available within months

• Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive

• Asia boosts coal use as Iran war squeezes global LNG supplies

• EU broadcasters say smart TVs and voice assistants are the next gatekeepers

• EU, Australia seal trade deal as Western countries hedge against U.S. risks

• Finland reconsiders AWS election system migration, citing geopolitical tensions

• A Million Young Britons Are Falling Through the Cracks

• Airbnb in firing line as Cape Town's housing crisis catches up with middle class

• Europe waged war on young people to pay for pensions

• Victorian service stations run out of fuel as Middle East war spikes demand

  • Australia's emergency plan starts with carpooling, escalates to fuel caps

• Chinese EV maker BYD in talks to open Canadian dealerships, consultant says

Iran / Houthi

• A Mysterious Numbers Station Is Broadcasting Through the Iran War

• A-10 Warthogs target Iranian fast-attack craft in Strait of Hormuz

• Amazon says AWS' Bahrain region 'disrupted' following drone activity

  • Amazon says AWS Bahrain region 'disrupted' following drone activity

• U.S. and Iran Send Conflicting Signals on Peace Prospects

• Self-propagating malware wipes Iran-based machines

• Iranian strikes on Amazon data centers highlight industry's vulnerability

• Iran establishes 'safe' shipping corridor for approved and paid for transits

• Airstrikes may have destroyed Iran's last F-14s

Israel

• Israeli minister calls for annexation of southern Lebanon

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian Authorities Block Archive.today

• Russia launches their own Starlink

• Telegram Outages Spike in Kremlin's Push for Digital Control

China

• HK police can now demand phone passwords under new national security rules

• Women Are Falling in Love with A.I. It's a Problem for Beijing

• China is mapping the ocean floor as it prepares for submarine warfare

• How deep-sea mining is growing China's influence in the Pacific

• Chinese Publications Claim U.S. Has Two Months of Rare Earths Left

• HK police can now demand phone passwords under new national security rules

Health / Medicine

• Scientists discover Alzheimer's hidden "death switch" in the brain

• Tango Therapy: How the Dance of Passion Is Helping Parkinson's Patients

• Experts say CBD is ineffective for pain management.

• The surprising link between back pain and a sensitivity to loud noises

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• A Billionaire-Backed Startup Wants to Grow 'Organ Sacks' to Replace Animal Test

• Hero koala detection dog, Bear, retires after a decade of service

• We've Been Underestimating Flying Foxes

• Scrapping business class could halve aviation emissions – new study

• Utah Republicans see storing nuclear waste as a 'once in a lifetime opportunity'

• How Plants Know When to Bloom

• Mezcal's popularity in the US comes with environmental costs to areas of Mexico where it's produced | AP News