Is anyone ever going to make a good 7-8" android tablet again? (Rhetorical question...)

I try to suppress my contempt for the "news" organizations that fell for Musk's "flying car" con. But I fail. Almost everything that is wrong with journalism is embedded in that coverage of nothing real.

Meanwhile, Larry Ellison and his pals have locked out of TikTok the account promoting the new, scathing documentary about Elon Musk.

Big (Tech) Media is on a censorship rampage aimed to shut down the critics of the escalating right-wing extremism.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/musk-movie-tiktok-banned-theaters-showtimes-1236734308/

News stories about the weird and corrupt Kimberly Guilfoyle all seem to mention that she was Trump Jr.'s fiance but don't mention that she was married to Gavin Newsom.

Both are relevant or neither is relevant. (Both are.)

If you read nothing else on crypto and its spreading tentacles that aim to suck your money into its purveyors' bank accounts, you should follow -- and support -- White's sterling work.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-110/

The pro-crypto legislation didn't pass after all, and some of the credit for this surely must go to Molly White (@molly0xfff). She is without question doing the best, most relentless coverage of that irredeemably slimy and corrupt industry -- joined at the hip with the irredeemably corrupt Trump world. And there's ample evidence that her work informs the debate in a significant way.

Just noticed the new bookmark feature here. Fantastic. Now, how do I find old bookmarks?

The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk-documentary-trailer-rejected-tiktok-youtube-1236710259/

(Meanwhile, Corporate Journalism continues to support him. Of course.)

The AI panic looks like an orchestrated con: The bosses of these rapacious, sleazy, and infinitely sloppy companies are angling for government permission to be a cartel. This would be followed, as certain as day follows night, by the bailout they all know they'll need when their bubble deflates.

If you support "age verification" online, you are supporting a system that GUARANTEES privacy meltdowns -- endangering all of us -- because the giant databases of scanned IDs are perpetually hacked by criminals who sell private data. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/

A reminder that the journalists whom Trump served up as assassination decoys are the same ones who invited him to their fancy dinner and applauded him after a speech in which he taunted them.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/trump-air-force-one-deception-democrats

The AI companies are basically bragging -- "Oops, whoops!" -- about their LLMs hacking and damaging other companies' IT infrastructure. These are federal felonies when committed by humans. LLMs are created and programmed by humans. Why no prosecutions? Because the AI guys own Trump?

Meta/Facebook/Instagram/etc makes a deal with Newsmax to use the latter's right-wing spewings as AI training data, thereby ensuring that anyone looking for even remotely accurate output from the Ai is on a fool's errand: https://ir.newsmax.com/news/news-details/2026/Newsmax-and-Meta-Enter-AI-Content-Partnership-/default.aspx?utm_source=www.status.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=bari-s-new-60-slate

A hero for our authoritarian times: https://www.cltampa.com/news/a-77-year-old-republican-man-is-staging-a-solo-protest-against-st-petes-flock-cameras/

Google's Gemini is such hot trash. Get into a "conversation" and after a bit the responses disappear the second you click on them to scroll down. Apparently a well-known bug -- that makes the thing completely unusable.

Netgear just informed users of its older Orbi mesh routers that the gear had reached "end of lifecycle" -- another way to say "arbitrary end of security updates". Options? None really, except to buy new routers or eventually be hacked.

Do you own an EV? It'll work until the car maker says it won't.

The Trump regime destroyed federal cyber-security and then tried to rebuild it with idiots, and one result is this breathtakingly bad data leak of things that you definitely don't want the bad guys to know about.

Security journalist Brian Krebs has the grim details:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa-admin-leaked-aws-govcloud-keys-on-github/#more-73607

I wish a media critic with clout would ask the New York Times if it is still employing the reporter who did this -- read the "Editor's Note" attached to the end of the story; screenshot here -- and, if so, why.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/world/canada/election-carney-liberal-party.html

AI is flooding the web -- one of the ways Big Tech is wiping out the open Internet as fast as it can. How can we collectively stop them?

https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/?utm%5C_source=flipboard&utm%5C_medium=activitypub%5D%28https%3A%2F%2Fwww.404media.co%2Fstudy-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated%2F%3Futm_source%3Dflipboard

has Cloudflare has lost its corporate mind? Now it's giving the worst people a way to automate their worst behavior. https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/