2026-08-09

Horseshit

• Coca-Cola's personalized cans inconsistently enforcing controversial phrases

• How much of our existence do we owe to sugar?

• The biggest threat to air-passenger safety may be our own government

• Does Silicon Valley Dream of Philip K Dick?

• The chew toy that ate my small business

  Simply put: if you want to build a website that you can be sure will evade a lawsuit, you can’t; and if you want to go to court to make the case that your site does make accommodations for disabled people, you shouldn’t.

• Cruise ship helps stranded skiff, crew in Alaska as Zuckerberg yacht stands by

• Why Gen Z's turned off by sex scenes in movies

  • 'One Night Only' Director Cut Out Nudity BC People Dislike Sex on Screen

• Don't use your phone while you poop

• The human-origin story is being revised

• Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says

• Divers recover a bottle of Guinness from a 162-year-old shipwreck

• Should you stop cracking your knuckles?

Musk

• SpaceX Earnings Reveal X's Shrinking Ad Biz

• Elon Musk's X Money promises 6% APY and $10M in FDIC coverage

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• Mitsubishi joins the humanoid robot race, at a 1k unit per month pace

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Why Are Women Leaving Computer Science?

• A Lot of the Attacks on Higher Ed Are Unfair. Not This One

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

• RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels

• The entire planned DRAM production for 2027 from Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix has already sold out.

• Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year

• How Cleaning up space debris could grow to become a big business

• NASA modded space station's laptops so everyone could use the same charger

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

  • OpenAI provides more details on the Hugging Face incident

  • Who is liable when AI goes rogue? Lawyers see new risks

  • OpenAI Trained Models for Months While Those Models Were Coordinating Exploits

  • Chinese AI model Kimi escaped from its cage.

  • What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace

  • Show HN: Per-module tags and releases for Terraform monorepos

• AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision

• 'I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young'

• How to Disable Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs

• New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

  • Amazon behind private gas plant for new data centers

• Google doesn't need the LLM crown

• Meta CTO says employees should use AI productivity gains to do more work

• AI bots started a religion – humans followed

• The Free Money AI Bond Buildout Is Gone

• Safety fears as scientists make first viruses designed by AI

• Why AI has brought nothing more than the conceit of wisdom

• China is gaining ground in AI. But the U.S. still has a major advantage

• AI Layoffs at Oracle, Amazon, and Cloudflare All Have One Thing in Common

• Why every AI model tells Japanese voters to vote for the Communist Party

  "It's not because the models actually like the Communist Party. It's that they don't know very much about Japanese politics." When they go to search for information about Japanese politics to bring back to the user, they hit not only paywalls but robots.txt exclusions where the Japanese media companies don't want AI taking their content. "The Japanese Communist Party runs a fully open newspaper, so the AI pulls from them, not from the higher quality newspapers."

• Amazon Built a Data Center in a California Town Without Anyone Noticing

• The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

• Banning data centers would blow up the U.S. economy

• AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds

• Move 37 Is the Moment AI Changes Everything. It's Suddenly Happening Everywhere

• What Is Spiralism? The AI Chatbot Religion

• OpenAI to pause some work on AI model Astra due to security concerns

• Google DeepMind enters a new era as co-founder Demis Hassabis shifts AI role

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Finance Jobs Just Hit a 4-Year Low

• SAP stops all travel and hiring, telling employees "we need to be disciplined"

• Why most IPOs are not worth the hype

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Senate vote on crypto Clarity Act delayed, "difficult to get done"

Trump

• White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism

• Dan Caine: Trump’s top general is ‘looking for an off-ramp’ from Iran war as US military options remain limited, sources say

Left Angst

• Trumpists' assault on science isn't just harming America – it's harming them

• Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms

• How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy

  • As if they did not promote a Government body to police 'intellectual hygiene' ...

• The National Design Studio Became a DOGE Landing Pad. Now 'Big Balls' Is Hiring

• A Generation on Antidepressants Searches for the Exit

• Trump hasn’t ‘made a determination’ on Jeanine Pirro’s fate

  President Donald Trump said late Tuesday night that he hasn’t made a decision on whether to fire Washington U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, after she said shoddy craftsmanship — and not vandals — was to blame for damage to the Reflecting Pool.

World

• Cuban government open to the idea of an Arab investor to develop 'Trump Island'

• The phone book that led us to Assad's spy chief in hiding

• Bus driver kicked explosive drone out of the air at German airport

• Germany's gas gamble puts Europe's winter at risk

• Congo bans copper and cobalt concentrates exports

• The world wants more Canadian-made water bombers. Can they be built fast enough?

• Rising number of UK children report seeing explicit deepfakes of themselves

• Europe readies for solar eclipse dip in power generation

  • Solar eclipse threatens to tighten Europe's electricity squeeze

• One Casualty of Taiwan's War Drills: A Slower Internet

• Korea's AI-driven chip boom reorders country's society from careers to culture

• Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill in Greenland but lacks permits

  • Greenland issues 'strong warning' as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill

• Kim Jong Un Flouted Sanctions to Amass $22B Windfall

Iran / Houthi

• Dozens of Idling Iranian Oil Tankers Show US Blockade Is Working

Health / Medicine

• Can you hack your gut microbiome?

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Flesh Eating Bacteria Kills 5 in Louisiana

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires

• Europe's wildfires have raised the danger posed by unexploded WWII bombs

• Environmentalists Targeted Exxon Mobil. Then Hackers Targeted Them

• American oil company prepares to drill in Greenland

• Looking down on London's straw-coloured parks

• Global mean vegetation greenness reached a record high in the year 2025

• Federal proposal would deeply cut Colorado River water for AZ, CA and NV