2026-07-10

Horseshit

• He Earns $33 an Hour as a Costco Cashier. Now He's a Millionaire

• The Age of Reading Is Over

• Looksmaxxing influencer who fled police found dead

• Counterfeit Air-Bags Are Killing U.S. Drivers–and the Government Can't Stop It

• FIFA president targeted by complaint to Olympic ethics body

• MSG database tracked hundreds. Labels include "LGBTQIA," and low to high "risk."

• Animal model of xray reading: Detection of lung abnormalities in CT by pigeons

• Tinder activity surges by 34% in NYC, NJ during World Cup — and most lovebirds are international.

• Vintage IKEA Began as Cheap Furniture. Now It Commands Thousands of Dollars

  • Particle board is a tough thing to preserve; the glues weren't stable in many formulations.

• Parents' Phone Addiction Affects Bond with Kids, New Study Finds

• Rise of the Gen-Z Luddite

• How to Hide from Killer Drones

• GeForce Trading Cards: Series 1 Celebrates the Generations of GeForce

Obit

• Bonnie Tyler, singer of Total Eclipse of the Heart, dies aged 75

  • Bonnie Tyler latest: Legendary rock singer dies 'unexpectedly' in Portugal

  • Bonnie Tyler, ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ singer, dead at 75

  • Bonnie Tyler–80s pop legend known for 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' dies aged 75

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Facebook takes no action on AI far-right influence campaign flagged a month ago

• I co-founded Wikipedia, but an anonymous mob runs the show – and now I'm banned

• AI software that generates 'rage bait' developed by Germany's far-right AfD

• What Does a 13-Year-Old See on Snapchat in a Normal Week?

• Korean law targeting fake news takes effect as journalist groups raise concerns

• Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a surprising story

Musk

• It's a World-Class Investment. It's a Junk Investment

• The robotaxi law that could ban Tesla

• SpaceX closes below debut price in two-day slide after Nasdaq-100 inclusion

• Grok 4.5 is here.

  • SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5 model for coding, agentic tasks

• Elon Musk has capped Tesla employees' spending on AI at $200 (£150) a week

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Companies must address self-driving car interference with emergency vehicles

  • Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders

• Waymo Calls Police on Teenage Riders Who Were Drinking

  • Two teens learn the hard way not to do toy gun drive-bys from a Waymo

  • A self-driving Waymo just reports its own passengers to police

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%

• International timekeepers to vote on changing the leap second to a leap hour

• New 'do no harm' test targets low-earning college degrees

• California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine guns

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• If Microsoft sold off Xbox, who would even buy it?

• Former GitHub CEO launches competitor designed for the age of vibe coding

• Microsoft's gaming strategy has misfired badly

• Google Earth Pro desktop downloads will end in 2027

  • Google Discontinues Google Earth Pro for Desktop

• John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

• Meta Is Toying with the Idea of Smart Glasses That Record All the Time

• The console wars have been lost

  Valve really does win by doing absolutely nothing while the rest of the industry shoots itself in the head. I fear for what happens when Gabe Newell retires and the MBA cancer fully infects Valve.

  • Valve doesn't do "nothing"; they provide an honest, limited service, reliably. refraining from chasing ways to alienate customers is obviously difficult; very few companies seem to be able to do it.

• New York to ban smart glasses from all courthouses

• Microsoft's patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger

• Disney is exploring adding a free tier to Disney+ as YouTube draws TV viewers

• Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability, allowing guest VM escapes

• Allstate accuses Broadcom of auditing it because it quit VMware

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• New Horizons Pluto probe just woke itself up after 321 days of hibernation

• Interior Department asks: Can oil platforms be used for space launches?

• Blue Origin reportedly raising $10B at $130B valuation.

• Payloads used to dictate the terms of launch. That's changing

• Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations?

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• China issues 'backdoor' security alert over Anthropic's Claude Code

• The UK plans to ban romantic AI chatbots for under-18s

• San Francisco homes sell for $1M above asking price amid AI boom

  • Wealthy AI workers send San Francisco house prices soaring

• China Weighs Limits on the AI Models American Companies Love

• Google patched AI chatbot flaw that could expose customer conversations

• AI as a weapon of mass cognitive destruction

• AI is creating economic winners, says IMF

• What's slowing down the AI buildout

• Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds

• AI models' values are different from most people's

• AI bills are baffling the C-suite after shift to usage-based pricing

  • Execs Confused and Horrified by the AI Bills

• Data Centers Are Quietly Taking over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic

• Google DeepMind Unionization Talks Are Off to a Rocky Start

• Mythos 5 offered outside the US by Anthropic

• Zuckerberg Pledges 'Aggressive' Pricing with Meta's First Pay-to-Use AI

• New York Times-led group asks court to sanction OpenAI in US copyright dispute

  • New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial

  • News outlets urge a judge to sanction OpenAI in a high-stakes AI copyright fight

• Deadly bacteria found in city's wastewater system tied to Meta data center

• LinkedIn and X Are Flooded with AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests

• 'Siri AI' Lawsuit Update: Apple to Pay Owners of These iPhone Models

• Ben Bernanke Appointed to Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust

  • Anthropic appoints former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke to its independent trust

  • Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust

• The Problem with Google's A.I. Overview

• Many economists believe that AI will lead to more inflation. Why?

  • Cleveland Fed's Hammack says AI could fuel inflation, rate hikes may be needed

• Too Old for Silicon Valley? Think Again. AI Is Changing the Math

• OpenAI faked inability to search training data, hid billions of logs, NYT says

• AI chatbots are coming for white-collar job interviews

• China, Russia and Others Seek to Inflame Debate over A.I. Data Centers

• Silicon Valley Wants to Save You from AI Layoffs

• OpenAI's No. 2 Executive to Step Down in Latest Leadership Shake-Up

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Banks, card networks, fintechs partner on 'low-cost' stablecoin

• Goldman Sachs limits prediction market betting for employees

Economicon / Business / Finance

• US rare earths flow to Asia as domestic demand is slow to emerge

• SpaceX and AI startup wealth fuels demand for private jets

• Samsung chip division's 1-year profit beat past 40 years of profits, combined

• Meet SK Hynix, the trillion-dollar chipmaker debuting on U.S. markets

• Almost $1B Later, the US Still Can't Make a Medical Glove

• Venture investment smashes an annual record with half a year left to go

• US home prices hit an all-time high as sales slow and mortgage rates rise

• Block agrees to pay $45M due to fraud and provide live customer service

• Worker shortage endangers US chip production plans

• Employers who laid off workers citing AI are starting to regret it

• The economy's K-shaped dynamic could be changing

• Warsh picks ex-BoE chief Mervyn King and tech boss Marc Andreessen to reform Fed

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump bet on the same 10 stocks

• Victor Marx wins Colorado's three-way Republican primary for governor

Trump

• Vance announces investigation into alleged H-1B visa fraud.

Democrats

• Graham Platner: ‘We are Suspending Campaign Operations’.

  • Platner drops out of crucial Senate race after bombshell rape allegation torpedoes campaign

• When European voters don’t do as they’re told, Europe keeps holding votes until they get it right. When Democrat primary voters pick the wrong candidate, Democrat insiders are happy to pick a new one for them.

Left Angst

• Energy Department wants to weaken efficiency standards for home appliances

• Top Legal Adviser to Joint Chiefs Is Stepping Down a Year Before Completing Term

• Former Judge Hannah Dugan avoids prison, fined $5k in ICE obstruction case

• How the Smithsonian Lost America's Plot

• The Price of Palantir's Politics

• Feds Are Pushing a New Gas Station Chain Selling Cheap Fuel

  The White House account on X introduced the nation to the Freedom Fuel Network on Tuesday, advertising $3.47 per gallon for regular. The company’s connection to the federal government is unclear. A White House spokesperson reportedly told CBS News that Freedom Fuel is privately owned, that “the Trump administration is not involved with the company and is not subsidizing the gas stations,” and that, “the stations can offer lower prices by reducing their profit margins.”

• Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Were Pressured to Self-Deport

• A Proposed Rule Would Politicize Medical Research. Scientists Are Not Happy

• What will define Elon Musk's legacy? DOGE cuts to USAID Ebola programs

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Police department relieved of duty in West Virginia town

  In a Facebook post on Tuesday, the Barrackville Police Department announced that, effective immediately, every member of the department has been relieved of duty by the Barrackville Town Council and the mayor. The entire police department at the time consisted of just two officers. One of the officers, former Barrackville Police Sgt. Hunt told Nexstar’s WBOY that after arriving at the department Tuesday morning, he found that someone had broken into the evidence room. Hunt then called a meeting with Mayor Tom Straight and the Barrackville Town Council to discuss the situation, noting that the council previously mentioned a desire to inventory the department without any officers present. Councilmember Alex Neville also confessed to taking a set of police keys, Hunt said. Hunt said that when he alleged that members of the town’s government broke into the evidence room, he and the other officer on staff were immediately placed on inactive status.

• Ex-Epoch Times CFO pleads guilty in $67M multinational money laundering scheme

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers

  The US military has lost dozens of Reaper drones collectively worth more than $1 billion while carrying out surveillance and attack missions over Iran. Now the Pentagon is seeking large numbers of cheaper drones that can perform such missions despite the expectation that many will be lost in combat.

• Former acting DHS secretary warns Chinese criminal organizations are infiltrating America’s hemp industry.

• The Glass Backbone: Why the Army's Logistics Will Break in the Next War

• Syria deal gives Trump potential route to bypass Hormuz

World

• Hungary's Public Broadcaster Goes Dark, Confessing 'Years of Lies'

  The state broadcaster abruptly halted news shows, admitting it ‘became a platform for spreading hatred and lies’ under Viktor Orban’s previous government and vowing to change.

• GTA 6 players will need to provide real life ID to play in Australia

• Why electric cars cost more to insure – and what's being done about it

• EU's border check needs complete 'overhaul', says Greek airports chief

• Argentina to Repay $4B, Defying Critics Who Doubted Tack

• Meta to build its first $13B data centre in Canada

  • Meta to build C$13B Alberta data center, its first in Canada

• Quebec is the only province where you can pre-approve your death

• Farage left fighting a trash can as the UK populist's election gamble backfires

• France to ban advertising for fossil fuels

• Australian Police seize control of network of encrypted phones

Iran / Houthi

• Finnish Supermarket truck appears in Khamenei funeral procession

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Ukraine: How a kamikaze drone partially AI operated is attacking Russian convoys

China

• Nobel-winning chemist leaves US to direct AI materials lab in China

  • Nobel-Winning U.S. Chemist Will Move to China to Lead A.I. Institute

• Outspoken Chinese economist who doubted official GDP data dies

• You're already living in the Chinese Century

• Wall Street Banks Miss Multibillion-Dollar AI Deals in Hong Kong

• What the CE mark means on your electronics

Health / Medicine

• Cancer cases worldwide are expected to soar in the coming decades

  • Cancer cases expected to soar worldwide, WHO report finds

• Kaiser nurses say surveillance of them is undermining healthcare

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Michigan's explosive outbreak of diarrheal parasite jumps to over 1,200 cases

  • Cyclospora: How to Stay Safe from the Stomach Bug That's Going Around

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Urban heat island effect in Brussels during the late June 2026 heatwave

  • Why heatwaves hit women harder

• Artificial Climate Controls Might Become Ineffective – Because of Climate Change

• Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

• Space Lasers Show How Venezuela's Earthquakes Reshaped the Earth's Crust

• Ocean floor witnessed splitting apart for the first time – releasing lava

• Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds

• Should we spray burn scars with glyphosate? Californians reckon w/ grim reality

• Metamorphic sulfur release as a driver of sustained cooling and mass extinction

• New York sues 3M, DuPont, others over 'forever chemicals' in consumer goods

• Daily global sea surface temperatures break records for the time of year

• Collapse of AMOC ocean current may be locked in