2026-05-28

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• 1 Dead, 9 missing in chemical tank rupture at pulp and paper mill

  • Workers Missing After Deadly Nippon Dynawave Paper Mill Explosion in WA State

Horseshit

• Scientists say they've reversed brain aging with a simple nasal spray

• Gardeners often hear about supposed hacks and quick fix. Here are some debunked

• The craziest steroid Olympics ended in total embarrassment

  • The Enhanced Games: A night of hypertrophic delirium in a Las Vegas parking lot

• Women’s faces rated more attractive even by other women, study finds

  Women’s faces are rated as more attractive than men’s, even by other women, but the perceived gap declines with age and all but vanishes by the time people reach their 80s, researchers have said. The work appears to confirm the existence of a “gender attractiveness gap”, an observation reflected in centuries of language that present women as “the fairer sex”, “das schöne Geschlecht”, “le beau sexe”, and far more beyond Europe.

• Hugh Broughton: The man designing more of Antarctica than anyone else

• Plant-based meats 'politicized'; Beyond Meat takes plunge into protein drinks

• One of the great unresolved embarrassments of physics

• A Luxury Survivalist Community Is Tearing Itself Apart

• Attractive faces draw our gaze but fail to hijack our peripheral attention

• New York, New Jersey Subpoena FIFA in World Cup Ticket Probe

• Delta Steered Around Airline Industry Chaos

• The rise and fall of the only female Yakuza

• America Is Missing Out on the Ultimate Mosquito Weapon

celebrity gossip

• Sharon Osbourne to release AI avatar of late husband Ozzy Osbourne

Musk

• The SpaceX IPO and Data Centers in Space

• EU to favour European satellite services to prevent Musk's Starlink expansion

• SpaceX-Tesla merger chatter reignites as Musk pushes rocket company to Nasdaq

• Musk says US Military suicide drones used Starlink in violation of SpaceX rules

• SpaceX gets $2.29B Space Force sensor-to-shooter network contract

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Ferrari shares slump after it unveils first electric car

  • Ferrari's First Electric Car Runs into Backlash in Italy and Beyond

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Why science is becoming less innovative

• My Son's Math Homework Is Essentially Just Pokémon

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Researchers Warn of WiFi 7 Routers as 'A Potential Means for Surveillance'

• Illegal casinos are targeting children on Roblox. Can it be stopped

• Privacy will be under unprecedented attack in 2026

• Now it's TSMC's turn to face angry workers.

• GitHub bans researcher for exploits; expert calls it vindictive

• Go Ask Alice Why Tech Startups Are Spending Big on Hype Videos

• Xreal launches a cheaper AR glasses brand, starting with the $299 a01

• What It Takes to Preserve Floppy Disks

• DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode

• Roku First Major Home Screen Revamp in Years Will Open Up More Ad Opportunities

• Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200

• Meta launches Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp subscriptions including AI plans

  • Meta Wants You to Pay for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp Now

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA unveils next steps to build permanent Moon base

• NASA to pull an IKEA by dropping tons of plastic, metal, and glass on the Moon

• NASA selects Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin for first of three uncrewed lunar missions

• US space agency reveals plans to build a $20B lunar 'city' by 2032

• Bodycam reveals UFO-linked general met Pentagon unit before he vanished

  A missing Air Force general met members of the Pentagon's shadowy space unit just hours before he disappeared, footage shows. Police spoke to an unidentified female witness who claimed she and members of the US Space Force had dinner with William Neil McCasland the night before he vanished without a trace on February 27. McCasland is a retired Air Force Major General who has been linked to both US nuclear research and classified UFO-related programs during his career. He met with the group at a restaurant in Albuquerque, New Mexico, around 6pm local time, according to a phone call between police and the witness, obtained by the Law&Crime Network from bodycam footage.

• Scientist Suggests That 3I/ATLAS May Have Seeded Life as It Careened Through Our Solar System.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?

  • The Pope Should Be Going to War Against A.I. Why Isn't He?

  • Pope Leo Schooled the Tech Bros on Tolkien

  • Many portions of Magnifica Humanitas appear to be AI-written

  • Is Peter Thiel the Target of Pope Leo's Gandalf Quote? An Investigation

  • RTMH: Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas on AI

  I am very happy that Pope Leo takes these issues seriously, and is sharing his views, and bringing a form of moral clarity, even with all the flaws and central errors. More people with voice should share their views in this way, even when I disagree. It’s a weird document. Much of it is not about AI at all. I do agree with the Pope’s most basic point on AI, which is that AI can be what we make of it. That we can steer this technology, determine how it is developed and used, and this can determine whether we get a good or not so good future. We cannot purely leave this to market incentives and strategic pressures. Yes, very much so. The central problem is that so much of Leo’s worldview is some combination, to me, of highly alien and highly wrong.

• The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I

• 'BusPatrol' Put AI Cameras in School Buses

• AI Warfare Is Here

• AI Threatens the Giants of Consulting

• How to Make Sure AI Doesn't Spy on Us or Kill Innocent People

• AI Agents Plunged the Tech World into Chaos

• Claude, GPT, Gemini Agents Fail 72% of U.S. Healthcare Workflows

• California cheese mogul turned to AI agents to save his $50M business

• Shareholder groups push companies for stricter AI oversight

• FBI agent explains how easy it is to ID people posting AI porn without consent

• Power bills more than 250 per cent higher near data centres

• You Can't Stop This Data Center, a Mom Was Told. She Won't Quit

• OpenAI's Altman says AI unlikely to lead to 'jobs apocalypse'

• Robinhood opens platform to AI agents for trading, credit card purchases

  • Robinhood Lets Customers Use AI to Trade Stocks, Make Credit-Card Purchases

  • Your AI agent can now trade for you on Robinhood

• UK law firm Pinsent Masons reprimanded by court over AI error

• AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Confusing

• Amazon starts selling its AI shopping technology to other retailers

• Women who power America's offices are making themselves AI-proof

• 'Lobotomized': Character.ai Is Showing What AI Enshittification Looks Like

• The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times

• Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis

• Codex has dethroned Claude as the king of AI programming

• OpenAI and Anthropic dig in against each other on AI jobs apocalypse

• AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package

• NYC Gallery Says it Has ‘Every Right’ to Create AI Version of Iconic Ansel Adams Phot

  “I had long believed the image was in the public domain but to confirm this beyond doubt, I hired one of the most respected copyright lawyers in the country to insure [sic] this was the case,” Danziger writes defiantly. “It was indeed confirmed to be in the public domain and I was free to create a transformative color rendition of the image and to exhibit and sell the resulting prints.”

• Champion ethical hacker warns AI tools like Mythos will make competing harder

• OpenAI Foundation commits $250M to help navigate AI disruption

• AI hiring algorithms reject Black, Asian job seekers at higher rates

• OpenAI readies cyber, misinformation defenses ahead of elections

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Billionaire Mark Cuban says bye-bye Bitcoin: Why he is 'disappointed' by crypto

• Nine Crypto Whales Dominate Polymarket Disputes Worth Billions

• Banca Sella Becomes First Italian Bank Licensed for Bitcoin and Crypto Services

• Google engineer charged in $1.2M Polymarket case

  • Google Employee Charged with Insider Trading on Polymarket

  • Google employee charged with using inside information to make $1M on Polymarket

  • A Google employee allegedly used inside information to win $1.2M on Polymarket

Economicon / Business / Finance

• It's time to address the looming crisis in entry-level work

• Jensen Huang says CEOs who blame AI for layoffs are giving a 'lazy' excuse

• The Idaho Chip Maker That Doubled to $1T in 48 Days

  • Booming AI chip demand helps create two new $1T club members

  • SK Hynix joins $1T club after Samsung, Micron on AI chip boom

• Private Equity Woos Personal Injury Law Firms

• Hyperscaler Debt Flood Brings Derivatives Bonanza

• San Francisco rents spike 22% in a year, far outpacing other US cities

  • San Francisco Rents Spike 22% in a Year

• The All-Consuming AI Boom Forces Private Credit to Break a Taboo

• Samsung Unions Approve Pay Deal That Highlights Inequality of A.I. Age

• Beware the boom and bust cycle of memory stocks, investors warn

• Some of Texas's oldest barbecue joints close as meat prices skyrocket

• Nvidia to spend $150B a year in Taiwan, 'epicentre' of AI revolution

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Paxton's Texas Victory Creates a New Battleground for Senate Control

• When will a new Chesapeake Bay Bridge arrive?

• Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says

• Judge rules Florida’s new congressional map will remain intact ahead of midterms.

• The App for Trump Accounts Will Launch Thursday

Trump

• Paxton Wins Texas Republican Primary After Trump Endorsement

Democrats

• Sex therapist who vowed to put ‘American Zionists’ into ‘castration’ centers loses Texas Democratic primary

• Biden Sues To Block DOJ Release Of Audio Recordings From Biographer Interviews

Left Angst

• UFC octagon rises on White House lawn for championship fights in June

  Yet another White House construction project is underway, though this one is meant to be only temporary. Crews are erecting an octagon-shaped cage on the South Lawn that will host next month’s UFC bout, helping mark the nation’s 250th anniversary — and President Donald Trump ‘s 80th birthday. The project is part of a series of events celebrating the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence’s signing on July 4, 1776. Other planned functions include an IndyCar race that will pass by the White House and the Great American State Fair taking place on the National Mall.

  • Stadium construction begins at White House for UFC Freedom 250

  • UFC arena under construction on White House lawn

• Trump administration to send Americans exposed to Ebola to Kenya

  • Trump admin to block Ebola-exposed Americans from US

  • Aren't they supposed to go into nursing homes and ensure the "most vulnerable populations" get exposed widely? That's what we did last time...

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• US law enforcement warns of "anti-tech extremism" as AI hatred grows

• Hacker who sold access to Oregon state emergency network for Bitcoin gets prison

• Four Big Takeaways from the FBI's Report on Internet Crime

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Supercarrier to Act as Floating Nuclear Power Plant

• US data brokers sold Americans' location data to foreign adversaries

• Volvo gets US approval to bypass Chinese connected-car ban

World

• Dutch govt. blocks US company from acquisition, citing 'risk to public interest'

• Spanish police raid headquarters of PM Sánchez's Socialist Party

  Spanish police searched the headquarters of the ruling Socialist Party on Wednesday as part of an investigation into possible financial wrongdoing linked to party member who allegedly tried to influence police and legal cases that could damage the party.

• UK poised to shun social media ban but outlaw addictive features

• The underground mega tunnels redrawing the railway map of Europe

• 'Catnomics': how Japan's feline fixation has become an industry worth billions

• Germany, Spain Push Back on Europe's Plans to Ban Huawei Gear

• The Most Surprising Capitalist Makeover Is Under Way in Sweden

• North Korea tests AI-guided missiles for the first time

• Irish data watchdog pushed Norwegian citizen to settle privacy case with Meta

• How the plastic bottle cap became a parable for the value of EU regulation

• Five of seven people trapped in Laos cave found alive by rescuers

• Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers

• UK Births fall to the lowest level in 50 years

Iran / Houthi

• After 88 Days of Censored News, TV and Chat, Iranians Are Coming Back Online

• Internet Starts to Return in Iran After 3-Month Blackout

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Leaked Documents Reveal Russian 'Cognitive Strikes' Against the West

China

• China installs largest floating wind turbine in deep water test

• China overhauls biggest surveillance network with advanced AI

• Solar poverty program raises incomes and lowers air pollution in China

• South Korea detains dissident who fled China in rubber boat

• Inside Xi Jinping’s Strategy to Export Ideas on State Control

• China's Huawei touts chip design breakthrough in bid to defy U.S. sanctions

• China is keeping its best AI talent to itself via travel restrictions

Health / Medicine

• Marathons and ultramarathons may be linked to colon cancer

• Blood test added to colorectal cancer screening options by cancer group

• Scientists are raising new questions about vitamin B12 and cancer

• IXI's autofocusing lenses are almost ready to replace multifocal glasses

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Bangladesh measles cases: children die within months

• The Ebola Story You're Getting Is True. It's Also Built to Be Forgotten.

  The element most often missing from short-form coverage is the economic and geopolitical one, and it reframes the entire event. Eastern Congo holds enormous reserves of cobalt, copper, lithium, tantalum, and gold, the critical minerals in demand for batteries and electronics. The war is, in large part, a contest over that wealth. In December 2025 the United States, the DRC, and Rwanda signed a set of agreements in Washington that traded mineral access for security guarantees.

  Africa CDC has cited a need for roughly $264 million for operations and an additional $54 million for “preparedness” in neighboring countries that currently have no cases. Preparedness budgets for places with zero infections are the line items that justify itemized accounting, because that is where emergency spending tends to harden into permanent institutional structure that outlasts the emergency. Scrutiny of how the money flows and which structures survive the outbreak is better aimed than scrutiny of whether the outbreak is real.

• The Viruses Causing New Outbreaks Are Less Familiar to Science

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Dubious Chinese Carbon Projects Expose Depth of European Market's Flaws

• 'Corpse Point' in the Arctic Is Melting, Disturbing Centuries-Old Bodies

• Data vs. Drama–The 20-Year Legacy of Al Gore's Climate Warnings

• How Many Solar Panels Would It Take to Equal One Nuclear Reactor?

• 'Mind-bogglingly crazy': Europe's deadly, early heatwave is smashing records

• They call it stupid hot for a reason: Heat muddles animal brains

• Individuals living within 1 mi of golf course have 126% higher Parkinsons risk