Tech (1)
- Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%
- New York has banned smart glasses in all 1,240 state, county, city, town and village courts.
- Flock Cameras Screw Up, Swarm Innocent Man With Armed Police
- Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
- County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’
- OpenAI faked inability to search training data, hid billions of logs, NYT says — OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight
- The ChatGPT browser is already dead / Less than a year after launch, Atlas is being shut down.
- $70 EA Sports College Football 27 Locks Single-Player Content Behind Microtransactions And Earns ‘Mostly Negative’ Rating On Steam Within 24 Hours Of Release
- Data Centers Are Quietly Taking Over Texas. The Pollution Could Be Catastrophic
- Federal Investigators Say Certain DOGE Records were Deleted
- Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free
- Xbox CEO Asha Sharma named as adviser to US Federal Reserve on "Jobs and Productivity"
- Anthropic Caught Secretly Spying on Users
- In-Car Cameras Are Now Required in Europe. US Isn't Far Behind
- New York becomes the first state to ban smart glasses in courtrooms
- Big Tech Is Now Targeting Native American Land for Massive Data Centers
- ICE agents are making house calls for online critics
- T-Mobile faces backlash over new customer support restriction: disabling screenshots of customer support chat
- Palo Alto CEO Arora says AI pricing needs to fall 90% as token costs skyrocket
- American Tech Companies Are Suddenly Sweating Bullets as China Catches Up on AI
Fake History Porn (1)
- Candid photo of Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell during his college years, 1961.
- The invention of democracy (508 BC)
- The birth of Donald J. Trump. June 14, 1946.
- Mitch McConnell & Family . Kentucky State Fair, 1977.
- Roosevelt announces the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- Henry House Hill, a major objective in the Battle of Bull Run, as depicted by Ray Liotta in the American civil war movie Goodfellas (1861)
- Melania Knauss, working a dreary, low-paying gig before her triumphant breakthrough into soft core porn. (1992 - 1997)
- Norwegian Folk Metal band, GWAR, named champions at Eurovision (1969)
- Volvo, Caterpillar and Hyundai cranes on display at the 2009 Tel Aviv Auto Show.
- The Habsburgs begin inbreeding (1496)
- Gentrification of the Underground Railroad 1866
- Mitch McConnell in 1996
- (1991) Hannibal Lecter Finally Faces Justice
- Mel Gibson and Danny Glover at the world premiere of 'Lethal Weapon 2' (July, 1989)
- Horse Warlord Chaka Khan, first ruler of the Mongol Empire, takes a break from massacring Central Asia to record 'I'm Every Woman' (1205 CE)
- Actor Samuel L. Jackson as his, “Mace Windu” character in, “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace”. (1999)
- Roman gladiators forced to fight in the Arena, waiting for the right moment to rise up and overthrow their masters (73 BC, colorized)
- Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Finance (1)
- Eric Trump loses $600M in risky Bitcoin bet as value of Trump-backed company plummets
- SpaceX stock closes below debut price at $148 in two-day slide after Nasdaq-100 inclusion
- Netflix is down 42% from its high and trading cheaper than the S&P 500, the July 16 earnings are going to be fascinating
- Kevin Warsh buried an unusual, unhedged promise in his first Fed minutes—and one economist says it's the strongest signal in the document
- China aims to revive physical stores, make them ‘immersive’, as shield against e-commerce
- Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free
- Labor force participation falls to 61.5%, the lowest in 50 years outside COVID, and economists say it's not just people giving up
- 'Boomers Won’t Retire And It's Screwing The Rest Of Us,' Says A Millennial Who's Been Stuck In A Role For 'Half A Decade With No Path Forward'
- If you bought any MAG7 for the next 1-5 years, which would it be?
- Meta jumps into AI coding market in effort to chase Anthropic and OpenAI
- Palantir is worth $302 billion based on its market capitalization. That’s more than the total national wealth of 160 countries.
- Our selfish boomer parents are living their best lives while we struggle
- Student-loan borrowers are pushing off retirement, delaying children, and taking on 3 jobs to prep for repayment changes
- Meta's building its own AI chip backed by a $145B infrastructure budget this year. Capability win or capex concern
- America's emergency oil supply is just 19 million barrels from its operational floor, and the world is about to lose its only remaining safety buffer against the Strait of Hormuz conflict
- Goldman Sachs limits prediction market betting for employees
- Pearls Before Swine | Thursday, July 9, 2026
- Deadly bacteria found in major US city's water system traced to Mark Zuckerberg's $800m data center
- Workers keep leaving the US labor force. Experts can't agree why
- America’s Support for Capitalism Has Declined Over Last Decade