2026-04-17

Horseshit

• It Is Time to Ban Sale of Precise Geolocation

• Period property drama as Shakespeare's London house discovered

• 'Listening bars' bloom as hottest new nightlife trend

• The Feeling of Becoming Less and Less of a Person

• Miami-Dade is losing residents

• Women Who Mapped the Universe and Still Couldn't Get Any Respect

• Worst Inventions

• I Almost Lost My Mind in the Bridal Algorithm

• The California town that just wants to be left alone

• Why Gen Zers are trashing smartphones: 'People are just sick of it'

• Stop Using Toilet Paper

• Scientists Just Created Super-Strong Steel That Never Rusts

celebrity gossip

• NBC wouldn't agree to Chuck Todd's terms, so his contract his ending.

Musk

• Musk Asks Suppliers to Move at 'Light Speed' on 'Terafab' Chipmaking Plan

• TX Tesla driver narrowly avoids disaster when autopilot engages at RR crossing

• Starlink outage hit drone tests, exposing Pentagon's growing reliance on SpaceX

• SpaceX Moves Up Vesting Schedule for Employee Shares Before IPO

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Fire risks and ugly designs are stalling EV charger adoption

• Elon Musk buys a fifth of his own Cybertrucks

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

• Robot Police Dogs Powered by AI Take over Atlanta's Streets

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Nearly half of reported U. Iowa hate crimes are scribbles on a whiteboard.

• Sweden's schools cutting back on digital learning

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• YouTube finally gives you a way to kill Shorts

  • YouTube now lets you set your Shorts feed limit to zero

• Microsoft faces fresh Windows Recall security concerns

  • Microsoft's Recall tool that watches everything you do, takes screenshots, and stores it all in one convenient place still isn't secure.

• Jury finds that Live Nation acted as a monopoly and overcharged ticket buyers

  • Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly, jury finds

  • A jury declared Live Nation a monopoly. But ticket prices won't drop just yet

• Journalists champion Wayback Machine after news publishers limit archiving

• Game Devs Explain the Tricks Involved with Letting You Pause a Game

• Top Gun 3 Officially in the Works With Tom Cruise Returning

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away

  We would still be happy to assist OnlyOffice aligning its approach with the intended use of the AGPLv3. But, since any effort to put (A)GPL-incompatible terms on an (A)GPL license confuses users about their freedoms, it is thus our duty to clarify how the AGPLv3 is intended to work. It is possible to modify the (A)GPLv3 with additional terms, but only by adhering to the terms of the license. One can also legally use the (A)GPL terms (possibly modified) in another license imposing terms outside of what the (A)GPLv3 allows, but then referring to the license as "the (A)GPL" would be false.

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA needs nuclear power for its moon base. Heres the White House plan to get it

• What Should Smart People Think About UFOs?

• 'God of chaos' asteroid will pass close to Earth in 3 years, NASA says

• We're Hooked on Satellites. It Could Blow Up in Our Faces

• 4 years ago: UFO-linked scientist who warned 'my life is in danger' found dead at 34

  Amy Eskridge was just 34 years old when she allegedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head in Huntsville, Alabama on June 11, 2022. However, neither the police nor the medical examiners have publicly released any details of an investigation ever taking place.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Shares in shoe brand Allbirds rise 580% after it pivots from footwear to AI

  • Allbirds stock sees a wild surge of 582% on pivot from sneakers to AI

  • Allbirds shoe company moving to AI infra is the top

  • Albird pivots to AI data centers: stock jumps 580% in a single day

  • Allbirds announced a switch from shoes to AI and its stock jumped 600 percent

• Accelerating the cyber defense ecosystem that protects us all

• Why Anthropic and OpenAI are locking up their latest models

• Anthropic co-founder confirms the company briefed White House on Mythos

• ChatGPT's latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and everywhere

• The AI Market Is Hitting Peak Absurdity

• Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?

• The public sours on AI, data centers as firms look to IPO, tech keeps spending

• ECB to Scrutinize Anthropic's Mythos on Call with Executives

• Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI

• After attacks on Altman's home, experts see parallels to Industrial Revolution

• Boycott of major AI conference exposes a growing US–China divide

• Anthropic's AI downgrade stings power users

• It's the End of the Internet as We Know It

• Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers

• LLM risk spreading misinformation to humans who are least able to identify it

• There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains

• Starbucks’ ChatGPT experiment could quietly reshape how people order coffee.

• Nobody knows how many CVEs Anthropic's Project Glasswing has found

• Tiny cameras in earbuds let users talk with AI about what they see

• Tech Billionaires Want Christians to Believe in AI

• Val Kilmer set to be be resurrected with AI for new film

• Google, Pentagon discuss classified AI deal, the Information reports

• Gemini can now create personalized AI images by digging around in Google Photos

• An Investor Dared Him to Quit School. Now He's Building a $1.5B AI Startup

• America wakes up to AI's dangerous power

• Five men control AI. Who should control them?

• White House to give US agencies Anthropic Mythos access, Bloomberg News reports

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• France reports over 40 cryptocurrency kidnappings so far this year

• NBA in Active Talks with Kalshi, Polymarket on Prediction Market Deal

Economicon / Business / Finance

• US jobs too important to risk Chinese car imports, says Ford CEO

• Spirit Airlines could liquidate as early as this week

• S&P 500 hits all-time high as investors shrug off Iran war oil price spike

• Concerns mount over private credit in the United States

• The World Bank thinks better of its old free-market absolutism

• Snapchat owner cuts 1k jobs as says AI will reduce repetitive work

  • Snap is cutting 1k workers in the latest tech layoff

  • Snap to Cut 16% of Workforce as It Seeks Profitability

  • Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces A.I

• Relaxation of US day-trading rules opens door to YOLO trading, higher risk

• Sixth day with a drop in fuel costs over the last seven days.

• Reed Hastings to Step Down as Netflix Chair

  • Netflix Chair Reed Hastings to Leave Board in June

• Banks' soaring exposure to trading firms creating inherent fragility, warns S&P

• Relaxation of US day-trading rules opens door to YOLO trading, higher risk

• New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Massachusetts House advances unconstitutional social media ban bill

• Google geofence data used to identify murder suspect unconstitutional

• Vance-led anti-fraud panel shutters 447 hospices in LA.

• With Missouri V. Biden Settled, It’s Time For Censorship Reparations.

• Stakes high as Supreme Court set to rule on Monsanto's weed-killing pesticide

• SEC's Power to Force Fraudsters to Disgorge Gains Returns to U.S. Supreme Court

• U.S. set to launch tariff refund system on April 20

• Hospital Held Woman for Months Against Her Will. SCOTUS to decide if she can sue

• Justice Dept. Appealing Surveillance Court Ruling Amid Congressional Impasse

Trump

• Trump expected to sign executive order urging more research psychedelic ibogaine

Democrats

• DOJ report: The Biden admin teamed up with Planned Parenthood to track pro-lifers so it could “seek harsher” prison sentences.

Left Angst

• Vance tells Pope Leo to "be careful"

• CISA spikes CyberCorps internships amid shutdown

• Dems file 6 impeachment articles against Hegseth.

• Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now

• GOP finalizing draft national privacy law that would preempt states

• MAGA Indians Went All in on Trump. Many Right-Wingers Can't Stand Them

• It seems Washington needs to be reminded of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

• Administration Planning to Blow Off FISA Court's Ordered Section 702 Fixes

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• US nationals behind DPRK IT worker 'laptop farm' sent to prison

• Grand Jury May Expose Reddit User for ICE-Related Remarks

• Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax Fatally Shoots Wife and Himself in Murder-Suicide

  Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife before turning the gun on himself early Thursday in what the Fairfax County Police Department is calling a murder-suicide. The couple had been married 20 years, but was currently separated and still living together, according to authorities. Cerina Fairfax filed for divorce in July, according to court records. Fairfax served as the lieutenant governor under former Democratic Governor Ralph Northam from 2018 to 2022. While in office, the lieutenant governor was accused of sexually assaulting two women years earlier. He maintained the sexual encounters, one of which took place in 2000 and another in 2004, were consensual. He then launched an unsuccessful bid for Virginia governor in 2021, coming in fourth in the Democratic primary.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Pentagon approaches automakers, manufacturers to boost weapons production

• U.S. to Create High-Tech Manufacturing Zone in Philippines

World

• British lawmakers are in a jam over changes to the definition of marmalade

• European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp

• Online age checks are coming in Europe

• EU age verification app ready as Europe moves to curb kids' social media access

• Germany suspends military approval for long stays abroad for men under 45

• British Attitudes to Economic Growth

• South Korea plans to use the Iran crisis to spur a renewables revolution

• UK PM Starmer tells social media firms in No 10 meeting 'things can't go on ...

• Hungary’s prime minister-elect vows to suspend ‘propaganda machine’ state media.

• 60% of Australian children still using social media despite ban for under 16s

• Bullet train upgrade brings 5G windows and noise-cancelling cabins to Japan

• Is Ireland the worst run country in Europe?

• When El Salvador's Prisoners Go Free, She's There to Pick Them Up

• Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants

• UK CO2 plant to reopen amid fears Iran war could lead to shortage

• European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp

• Europe has 'maybe six weeks of jet fuel left', energy boss warns

  • Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left"

• Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan

Iran / Houthi

• Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout

• What to know about naval blockades as US starts patrols of the Strait of Hormuz

Israel

• Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Putin Demands Answers as Russia’s Economy Undershoots Expectations.

China

• Iran war's global energy crisis sharpens China's clean tech advantage

• China tests deep-sea electro-hydrostatic actuator that can cut undersea cables

  • New undersea cable cutter risks Internet's backbone

• Florida surgeon charged with killing man after removing liver instead of spleen

  That patient was 70-year-old William Bryan of Alabama, who was scheduled in August to have his spleen removed in a minimally invasive (laparoscopic) procedure. But instead, Shaknovsky opened Bryan’s abdominal cavity, severed his largest vein with a surgical stapling device—which led to his death—and cut his healthy liver from his body as he bled out, according to an investigation by the state health department. Bryan’s spleen was left untouched.

Health / Medicine

• Even if it don't work, its good for you... and our pocket book! Some people don't lose weight with GLP-1s. The drugs are helping anyway

• Ultraprocessed foods may hurt muscle health

• Studies Suggest Red Meat May Help Prevent Alzheimer's

• Largest study of pregnancy sickness uncovers six new genetic links

• Are psychedelics better than antidepressants? New study says no

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

• Flooding in Chicago is getting worse. Here's why

• The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?

• Rusting Rivers: Alarm Grows over Uptick in Acidic Arctic Waters

• Sperm Whales Speak with a Complex Alphabet and Even Have 'Vowels,' Study Finds

• Germany misses climate targets as emissions barely fall in 2025

• Is Carbon Removal in Trouble?

• Changing leafcutter ants' food reshapes their microbial gardens, scientists find

• Wild Animals Are Adapting to City Life in Surprising Ways, Scientists Reveal.

  • Possums are working for DoorDash, Raccoons are stealing cars.