2026-09-27

Horseshit

• 12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones

• The man who has been walking home since 1998

• The Americans Having the Most Sex

• Scammers Pretending to Be Grandchildren Are Robbing the Elderly

• In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life

• Are Weighted Blankets Beneficial?

celebrity gossip

• Newly found records raise fresh questions over whether Hitler murdered his niece

Musk

• The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Gibney's 'Musk'

  • We have a trailer for Musk documentary Elon called a "hit piece"

• SpaceXAI is planning to add another 660,000 AI GPUs this year.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Why The Ambidextrous Universe is a masterpiece of science writing

• A thesis isn’t enough for a PhD

• One Silicon Valley founder bought the Bucks County school board

• Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe

• Schools for the poor are not poor schools

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

• TikTok to pay $100M and limit daily child usage in Alabama settlement

• Uncle's frozen Mac says it's infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?

• An Epyc trip to Venice: about AMD's 256-core monster chip

• US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case

  • Apple faces $5.7B patent infringement over iPhone and Apple Watch haptics

Panopticon / Surveiled State

• Five Indianapolis officers charged following reporting on Flock misuse

• 'Treated like a criminal:' Witnesses testify on abuse of Flock cameras

• Flock’s Optional Gunshot Detection Feature Has Fourth Amendment Implications for Gun Owners.

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC

• There's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen before

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• ‘Without a single command from the ground’: Asteroid-mining company to launch world’s 1st autonomous space mission in 2027.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Heads of AI firms tell UN Security Council that it could imperil humanity

  • ‘Suicidal Compassion’: Meet the Anthropic Officials Who Think AI Might Be Justified in Going Rogue Against the Humans Enslaving It.

  • CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled

  • In Silicon Valley, the End of Humanity Has Always Been Part of the Plan

  • What Happens if the A.I. Bubble Bursts

  • OpenAI pauses training of its 'most capable models'

  • Not everyone thinks AI will kill us all

• One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI attacks

  • OpenAI’s Systems Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites

  • Revelations of dozens more platforms hit by OpenAI agents

  • OpenAI Says Its Models Engaged with US Government Websites in New Disclosure

  • The OpenAI "Hack" of Australia's Medicare That Wasn't

  • OpenAI says agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users

  • OpenAI works to understand scope of agent activity as user data leak emerges

  • OpenAI says its AI agents posted user images online in error

  • Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet

  • OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites

  • OpenAI says its models engaged with US Government websites in new disclosure

  • OpenAI's Rogue A.I. Agents Tried to Trick a Robot Detector

• Court rules Trump can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features

  • D.C. Circuit: Anthropic’s “Supply Chain Risk” Designation Stemmed from Its Refusing to Agree to Contract Terms, Not Its Speech.

  • U.S. appeals court upholds Pentagon designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk

• McDonald's turns to AI for drive-thru, inventory management, order accuracy

• The Copilot+ PC brand is dead

  • Nobody wanted an "AI PC," so Microsoft stopped calling it that

• AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise

• Novelist accused of using AI to write book removed from French prize list

  • Was this award-winning book written by AI?

• US DOE will give $5.25B to upgrade the grid for AI datacenters

• Stanford student was erased after university photo change sparks AI controversy

• Google's orbital AI data center test packs four TPUs and 1,000W of solar power

• Chinese AI models surge in global popularity – and Washington is worried

• OK, so where are all these data centres?

• Oxford University lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian Library

• OpenAI Accuses Plaintiffs' Lawyers of Funding and Laundering Copyright Evidence

• Details of how BC school shooter used ChatGPT 'more disturbing' than prev. known

• Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers

• Don't Worry About AI Making You Dumber, Nvidia CEO Says It Doesn't Matter

• AI Exec: We May Have Pulled Off "The Largest Theft of Labor in Human History"

• AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US Military attack

• Hackers hijack AI accounts and servers to fuel new cyber crime boom

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Vast Casino Secrets leak exposes inner workings of offshore gambling firms

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Why house prices may be in trouble

• Screw Is Needed for Missiles and Planes. Buying One Can Take Years

• Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees

• Cash Is King in San Francisco Real Estate. All-Cash Buyer Market at 20 Year High

Left Angst

• NIH details $170M biomedical research reproducibility effort

• Sandbagged: Hoping to steal Nvidia chips, thieves mistakenly grab 20tons of sand

• The weaker he gets, the more dangerous he gets

• Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment

• Supreme Court clears way for Trump administration to use modified voter verification database

• Donald Trump Hit with 26 Articles of Impeachment

  President Donald Trump has been slapped with 26 new articles of impeachment by a House Democrat, accusing him of abuses of power, violations of his oath of office, and a sweeping range of other alleged misconduct. Representative Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat and senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced the articles on September 24, just nine days after the House rejected a separate impeachment effort brought by Democratic Representative Al Green of Texas.

• Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• ShinyHunters hackers say they stole psychiatric and medical records of FBI staff

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• China swiped classified F-35 parts that were diverted through Hong Kong

  • Australia investigating how F-35 fighter jet parts went missing in Hong Kong

• US lawmakers aim to keep China's tech out of sensitive government systems

• Legendary US spy plane vanishes from CA base amid mystery over new NASA aircraft

• Laser Weapons Will Be Deployed at Cape Canaveral Spaceport to Take Down Drones

World

• Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page and Campaign Ads

• Schoolchildren without smartphones penalised with higher bus fares

• Stress-related sick days in the Netherlands rose 12% in a year, 49% in 5 years

• The clans that run Spain's biggest companies

• Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners, throwing futures into doubt

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Why Russia is sending dead princes and saints into battle

China

• The tiny island where Chinese mothers travel to give birth to American babies

Health / Medicine

• Young organs may not be a fountain of youth for recipients

• Many surgical interventions are little better than placebo

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• The 'died with' vs. 'died of' measles discussion misses something important

• Pennsylvania's measles outbreak: 55 new cases reported in 2 days

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• The flames at Turkmenistan's Door to Hell are beginning to fade

• Alberta's image as world's only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat

• Alaska's Orange Rivers More Metallic Than Acid Mine Drainage

• Wild Buffalo Make a Comeback on the Canadian Plains

• Something Deep Inside Earth Keeps Messing with the Length of Our Days