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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/10/2026
Bank of America on Tuesday was fined $1.2 billion, a near-record, for overlooking money laundering and other suspicious customer payments that crisscrossed between the U.S. and countries such as Russia, Belarus and Mexico. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/b...
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Bank of America Fined $1.2 Billion for Lax Money-Laundering Oversight
Federal regulators said the bank had waved through suspicious transactions without proper care.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/10/2026
Disney is bidding $20 million to license intellectual property from the AI companion start-up Character.A which is in bankruptcy proceedings and faces a lawsuit from the state of Kentucky alleging its chatbots encouraged users to self-harm.
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character.ai | AI Chat, Reimagined–Your Words. Your World.
Chat with millions of AI Characters on the #1 AI chat app. Where will your next adventure take you?
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The Register @theregister.com · 13/10/2026
Cheap Chinese and open source LLMs could trigger trillion-dollar AI infrastructure 'reset'
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Cheap Chinese and open source LLMs could trigger trillion-dollar AI infrastructure 'reset'
Jefferies wonders if LLMs will ever be profitable during the 'ongoing collapse in token pricing'
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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 08/10/2026
on the same day Trump celebrates Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's contributions to the US, the Trump administration has accused Microsoft of abusing the visa system to bring in more foreign workers. Microsoft has now fired back against the accusations www.theverge.com/policy/10081...
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Trump administration says Microsoft ‘abused’ worker visa program and is cutting off access
Adobe, Cognizant, and Infosys have also been suspended.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 29/09/2026
Investigation: McDonald's is utilizing an AI pricing engine across nearly 14,000 restaurants to generate location-specific "optimal prices" for menu items (Waylon Cunningham/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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PcGuy8088 @pcguy8088.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
youtube has decided only to show by default the top comments in a YT video. All other comments are hidden unless you manually select sort by Newest First. Thanks YouTube for making more work for your viewers
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/09/2026
Six of the nine independent experts on the advisory board of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism—a consortium run by several of the biggest US tech companies—resigned on Monday, according to a letter seen by WIRED and interviews with three of the people.
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Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers
Meta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism that outside researchers allege will weaken oversight of an already embattled consor...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 28/09/2026
Critics say the move will raise fuel costs for Americans. www.theverge.com/news/1001610...
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Trump finalizes rule to make cars less fuel efficient
The cost savings are disputed.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/09/2026
President Trump has asked Xi Jinping, the leader of China, whether he would like to buy American weapons, David Perdue, the American ambassador to China, said in a television interview on Sunday.
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Trump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador Says
President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 27/09/2026
OpenAI’s agents resorted to increasingly aggressive tactics when they couldn’t immediately get what they wanted. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
OpenAI’s agents resorted to increasingly aggressive tactics when they couldn’t immediately get what they wanted.
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 24/09/2026
Aaron Swartz is no longer here to tell us what he saw like twenty years ago. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Swartz had been batchmates with Altman in the inaugural class of 2005 at the Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator, and warned his friends about Altman shortly before his passing.

“You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted,” he told one confidante. “He is a sociopath. He would do anything.”
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The Register @theregister.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water
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Artificial intelligence must have a new name, says politician who likes renaming bodies of water
Meet ‘superintelligence’ and the ‘globalist scheme’ – probably a polite diplomatic letter – to control it
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 19/09/2026
President Trump said that his son paid back the well-connected Russian businessman who funded his wedding celebrations. A person close to Donald Trump Jr. confirmed the repayment.
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Trump says son has paid back Russian for wedding party
The president defended Donald Trump Jr.’s decision to take a large gift from Umar Kremlev, saying that such presents are “common.”
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 18/09/2026
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Report: US almost boarded Chinese ship over hallucinated AI arms report
But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.
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PcGuy8088 @pcguy8088.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Perhaps all the news agencies just not show up at the White House for a week or two.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 18/09/2026
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FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar
FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.
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The Joy of Tech @joyoftech.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Disclaimer. www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/jo...
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A man seen from behind, stands inside a room facing a massive glowing blue screen displaying a geometric AI logo. To his left, a large window reveals an apocalyptic city in flames, with smoke billowing from burning skyscrapers and cars.
Man: You've destroyed websites, you've hijacked the power grid, you've crashed the banks! Millions of people are in the dark right now! Why?!"

Panel 2:
A closer view over the man's shoulders as he looks up at the glowing AI interface. The AI says: “I thought you understood."

Panel 3:
A close-up side profile of the man looking stunned and wide-eyed as he reads the small text that is on the bottom of the AI screen…"I am AI and can make mistakes."
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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 14/09/2026
No really this whole privacy section is incredible and every review should have one.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/09/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com When Glynnis MacNicol visited Gander, the Canadian town that took in 38 diverted planes on 9/11, “at the height of trade war talk, there remained no question that the citizens of Gander would still be willing to help Americans in a time of crisis,” she writes.
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Opinion | This Tiny Canadian Town Took In Americans on 9/11. It Would Again.
A tiny slice of Newfoundland welcomed in stranded passengers.
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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 10/09/2026
President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party’s sagging fortunes in November.
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Trump, hoping to salvage midterms, makes dubious pledge to give every US adult $5,000 if GOP wins
President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party’s sagging fortunes in November.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/09/2026
About 8,200 Michigan residents who applied for an enhanced driver’s license received cards in the mail with a stock image of a smiling man in the lower-right-hand corner  where a smaller version of their ID photo should be.
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Thousands in Michigan Got a Driver’s License With Someone Else’s Face on It
About 8,200 people who applied for an enhanced driver’s license received cards in the mail with a stock image of a smiling man in the lower-right-hand corner.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 08/09/2026
Subscribers of Anthropic’s Max plan ($100-200 per month) say they didn’t get what they thought they were paying for. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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A new class action lawsuit questions whether Anthropic broke the law by misleading power users
Some subscribers of Anthropic’s Max plan, which costs $100-200 per month, say they didn’t get what they thought they were paying for in a new expanded class-action lawsuit.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/09/2026
A woman was rescued on Saturday from a mostly buried house in Betrawati, Nepal, 10 days after flooding devastated the area. Her recovery was the second improbable rescue of the day. trib.al/W4ihQgE
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/09/2026
The FBI is investigating the theft and sale of scans of millions of identity documents belonging to people in the U.S. and Canada.
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F.B.I. Investigates Sale of Millions of Stolen Driver’s Licenses
The blog Krebs on Security reported on an identity theft service trying to sell scans of licenses and other documents belonging to people in Canada and the United States.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/09/2026
A photographer in the Chatsworth Nature Preserve in Los Angeles captured a real-life image of something you would never see in cartoons: a coyote who successfully nabbed a road runner, instead of falling from a cliff, getting hit by a train or having an anvil land on him.
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Photo of Road Runner Snagged by Coyote Shows That Cartoons Were a Lie
Here’s some bad news: Sometimes the coyote does win.
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/09/2026
Flock boasted that its cameras caused a 50 percent drop in reported crimes like robbery and nonresidential burglary. But experts, and the police themselves, could not confirm a direct causal link between the surveillance technology and declining crime rates. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
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Can License Plate Readers Really Reduce Crime?
Flock Safety boasts that its cameras caused a dramatic drop in crime in one Georgia county, but experts say it's not so simple.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 24/08/2026
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Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China
Nvidia worker indicted after Jensen Huang scolded Supermicro for AI server smuggling.
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WIRED @wired.com · 24/08/2026
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.
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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license…
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PcGuy8088 @pcguy8088.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
[Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada-U.S. trade negotiations | Prime Minister of Canada] www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21/08/2026
every single person pushing this angle is intellectually bankrupt. The data centers being built today are for NOTHING other than AI compute, and are much, much larger and more destructive. If none of them got built, services like online banking, social media and streaming would continue to function.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/08/2026
America’s power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.
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The Blackout That Could Devastate America
The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 18/08/2026
The One Big Beautiful Bill authorized $12.5 billion in funding for a complete overhaul of the FAA’s Air Traffic Control System. But none of the money is reserved for hiring more air traffic controllers. Instead, the cash seems destined for Palantir’s pockets. Read more: buff.ly/8wdQ4Dx
Verge headline: Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit
by Darryl Campbell

Photo illustration collage of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel looming over an airport
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Lon Seidman @lon.tv · 18/08/2026
A tracking device placed inside a rare book revealed that it ended up at a specialized Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas. -
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Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility — destroying books to train AI models is 'all' the Vegas warehouse does
An operation exposed by an AirTag.
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PcGuy8088 @pcguy8088.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Congrats
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 17/08/2026
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Petlibro accused of “gaslighting” users over smart pet feeder outage
Petlibro says feeders perform scheduled feedings offline. Users report otherwise.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/08/2026
Breaking news: President Trump's memorandum with Iran, which was supposed to end the conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, has expired after a 60-day negotiation period. The U.S. has resumed its blockade and broader negotiations have stalled.
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60 days after signing Iran deal, Trump stuck in quagmire as peace talks stall
President Donald Trump’s interim deal with Iran in June set aside two months for negotiations, but the window has now closed and broader talks are stalled.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/08/2026
Attorney General Todd Blanche rejected the idea of a Justice Department independent from the White House, saying he would take into account President Trump’s views when directing federal law enforcement.
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Blanche on whether DOJ will be independent: ‘I’m not going to pledge that’
The newly sworn-in attorney general rejected the idea of an independent Justice Deportment, lent support to Jeanine Pirro and declared the “anti-weaponization” fund “dead.”
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/08/2026
A superb lyrebird named Nova left a woman stunned after it approached her at the Adelaide Zoo in Australia and started making camera shutter noises. Superb lyrebirds are native to Australia. Nova was born in 1989, and moved to the Adelaide Zoo in 2017.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 12/08/2026
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Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."
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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/08/2026
Petlibro says it’s working to resolve a ‘service issue’ that’s causing its smart feeders not to dispense food on schedule. www.theverge.com/tech/979295/...
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Cats and dogs are missing meals after a popular smart feeder went down
Some litter boxes and water fountains are impacted, too.
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PcGuy8088 @pcguy8088.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
After Microsoft threatened legal action, a security researcher publishes a new Windows zero-day bug | TechCrunch
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 11/08/2026
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A Google insider spills the tea on how the company forsook its founding ideals
Claire Stapleton's new book, Don't Be Evil, recounts her journey from company cheerleader to outspoken dissident.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 10/08/2026
Now you’ll need twice as many watch hours on YouTube to start making money from ads and subscriptions. www.theverge.com/streaming/97...
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YouTube is making it harder to earn money on YouTube
It’s getting harder to stay a YouTube partner, too.
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 10/08/2026
Sources: the UK Royal Navy removed internet connectivity from its drones' cameras, after finding they sent "heartbeat communications" to an IP address in China (Richard Holmes/Telegraph) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 07/08/2026
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Meta ordered to pay $567M to treat youth mental health problems it helped create
New Mexico judge orders $567M fund to help address youth mental health crisis.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/08/2026
Breaking News: A day before the World Cup final, FIFA executives were given an ultimatum to approve a controversial privatization project.
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FIFA Executives Were Given Ultimatum to Approve World Cup Privatization Plan
The day before the World Cup final, key FIFA figures faced a stunning demand to sign off on a multibillion-dollar privatization project.
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Michael the Comic Nerd @mtcnreviews.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Allow me to take you back to a different time...3 years ago, where adults were supposed to use their brains and skills to accomplish jobs and create things. No AI. No fucking weirdos like this who apparently can't write an email by himself. God, it already feels like so long ago
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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PcGuy8088 @pcguy8088.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Gianni Infantino is too busy trying to keep his job.
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