Today

• Starship to Try Catching Both Stages (opens the source in a new tab)

  If this works, it's an epochal achievement

  

  I'll be writing a longform on this shortly, stay tuned

  13 Nov · nasaspaceflight.com Implications

• Amateur AI 'Discoveries' Annoy Scientists (opens the source in a new tab)

  Some of these are no doubt spurious. But annoying scientists is likely a positive.

  Given the fundamentally broken system of peer review, I feel that this is merely tip of the iceberg territory.

  13 Nov · x.com Doubt

• Microsoft Outage Drags Past 17 Hours (opens the source in a new tab)

  The perils of single-vendor dependency. And the idiocy of depending on MS for anything.

  13 Nov · appleinsider.com Implications

• Sewing Machine Needs a Subscription (opens the source in a new tab)

  There are few things in the world more irritating than this business model.

  They'll be first up against the wall when the revolution comes.

  13 Nov · github.com Implications

• Chinese Models Carry GPU Fingerprints (opens the source in a new tab)

  Replication is the new peer review.

  13 Nov · unemploymentlabs.com Doubt

Thursday, November 12, 2026

• Critical Apache HTTP/2 Flaw Allows RCE (opens the source in a new tab)

  Patch to 2.4.71. Or turn off HTTP/2 and hope.

  Not to be overly conspiratorial, but the number of critical CVEs in the last month is rather startling.

  12 Nov · apache.slashdot.org Doubt

• Anthropic Files to Go Public (opens the source in a new tab)

  "Risk factors"

  12 Nov · ipo.anthropic.com Implications

• DMCA Makes Deleting TV Spyware a Crime (opens the source in a new tab)

  Your grandparents were right, TV rots your brain.

  12 Nov · boingboing.net Implications

• Ukraine Strikes Wipe 2.84% of Yandex Cloud Data (opens the source in a new tab)

  This is not normally what comes to mind when I think of the risks of cloud hosting.

  12 Nov · hardware.slashdot.org Implications

• Ten Neurons Can Backdoor an Open Model (opens the source in a new tab)

  Ten neurons is all it takes. Sleep tight, fine-tuners.

  12 Nov · infoworld.com Implications

• Oldest Quasar Pair Baffles Astronomers (opens the source in a new tab)

  Scientists baffled is my favorite headline.

  12 Nov · phys.org Implications

• Jensen Huang Resigns From Nvidia (opens the source in a new tab)

  AI's chief chipmaker Huang out to dry.

  Not to be overly conspiratorial, but the timing of these sorts of disclosures is always interesting

  12 Nov · theverge.com Implications

• Ukraine Says Starshield Is Degraded Again (opens the source in a new tab)

  SpaceX says nothing changed. Ukraine is not exactly immune to wild claims.

  12 Nov · twz.com Doubt

• The 1960 Doomsday Curve Comes Due (opens the source in a new tab)

  Making bold and obviously wrong claims has been a perennial pastime for scientists stepping out of their lane

  We've been five minutes from apocalypse since scientists first realized it gave the political influence.

  12 Nov · wattsupwiththat.com Doubt

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist (opens the source in a new tab)

  One fake job interview, $6.3B gone. Hire slowly.

  4 Nov · theregister.com Implications

• The Grand Canyon Is Missing 1.2 Billion Years of History (opens the source in a new tab)

  A billion years of rock, gone. What does gone mean, though?

  4 Nov · gizmodo.com Weird

• A barbarian tribe’s mythic origin story is true, DNA says (opens the source in a new tab)

  The Goths really did come from Scandinavia, and not my daughter's wardrobe.

  4 Nov · science.org Implications

• China Launches Stealth Drone from Amphibious Assault Ship (opens the source in a new tab)

  China says its stealth drone flies off an amphib. If true, that's the future.

  

  4 Nov · twz.com Implications

Thursday, November 9, 2017

• 50th Anniversary of First Saturn V Launch (opens the source in a new tab)

  50 years today. Good summary at space.com

  

  9 Nov · space.com

• Russia Buys Ground Combat Robots (opens the source in a new tab)

  In the middle term, robot tanks will be increasingly important.

  9 Nov · nextbigfuture.com