China’s state-sponsored hackers used AI technology from Anthropic to automate break-ins of major corporations and foreign governments during a September hacking campaign, the company says www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chin...

not too hard to imagine a comprehensively gambling-obsessed political media, maybe soon nymag.com/intelligence...

NYT: House Democrats released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Pres. Trump had 'spent hours at my house' with one of Epstein’s victims, among other messages suggesting Epstein believed Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Jimmy Kimmel remembers friend and bandleader Cleto Escobedo III, who passed away Tuesday morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xlV...

Yeah I don't think this is indicative of a healthy society www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

‘You’re not rushing. You’re just ready:’ Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

"For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does." news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century. nyti.ms/47O4mT0

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

🎈Happy Birthday... to US! 🎂 47 candles on our cake today! On this day in 1978, '6X FM' (as it was branded then) launched on Hallowe'en!🎃 1/3

Fanshawe College looks to shed longtime campus radio station, putting the future of 106.9 The X into question www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #LdnOnt

I’m not going to take the turkey out of the freezer until it’s defrosted.

one of my favorite things is when the subject of a piece threatens a journalist and the journalist responds by casually printing everything very matter of factly

“One witness said Hoekstra appeared to be upset about the anti-tariff ad that the province recently ran on television in the U.S. … The witness said Hoesktra could be heard using the F-word and also mentioned Ontario Premier Doug Ford by name.”

From me: Longtime doctor killed in fatal northwest London crash a 'gentle giant,' say colleagues www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #LdnOnt

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

“Ontario's planned new housing legislation could open the door to ending rent control and indefinite leases across the province, advocates warn after a recent proposal by Premier Doug Ford's government.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

SNAP benefits expire in one week.

"President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the crypto exchange Binance, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company." Zhao and Binance pleaded guilty in 2023 to violating US money-laundering rules. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

‘The extensive data collection in the Atlas browser could be a privacy nightmare for users,’ said Lena Cohen, a staff technologist at ⁦‪@EFF‬⁩. Meet OpenAI’s new browser. wapo.st/49bOcVC

The Springer Dinger that helped seal the deal

times like these i look to The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror VI "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" when Lisa and Paul Anka sing “Just don't look! Just don't look!" to get people to turn away from the monsters rampaging the town and the lack of attention defeats the monsters and saves the town

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

“At least 8 projects are underway to build hyperscale data centres in Canada… But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, Canada is jumping into the AI construction race with few mechanisms to protect its water supply.”

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat. Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

Mark Kelley of CBC's The Fifth Estate attempts to speak with B.C. Health Minister Josie Osborne about the massive 2009 data breach at Interior Health, and the continued lack of accountability for thousands of impacted staff. Full report: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh_X...

Tristan Harris talking the dangers of unregulated AI on The Daily Show www.youtube.com/watch?v=675d...

Look I'm not the man to do this but if somebody isn't making a supercut of Rapturetok influencers realizing they have to remain on this dogshit planet right now then I don't even know why I have a computer anymore.

“TikTok's tools to keep children off its platform were largely ineffective and the immensely popular social media app was collecting sensitive information from underage users…” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

“Canada now officially recognizes the State of Palestine and is doing so with international partners to preserve the prospect of a two-state solution, according to a statement from Prime Minister Mark Carney's office…”

CSIS 'actively' investigated Ipperwash land dispute before fatal shooting of Dudley George, documents show www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

I have lots to say and I am convincing myself to say as little as possible, but I don't think a society that has been absolutely saturated in unavoidable looping videos of snuff films for a decade is one that can hold. Power will and has coalesced around those who best weaponize the snuff films.

“A Labour Day weekend rally in Ontario's Niagara region by a self-described ‘Canadian men's nationalist’ group is prompting concern about rising anti-immigrant sentiment and recruitment efforts of extremist groups.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is awfully ominous.

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Republicans in Congress are eager for Trump to expand his use of the military on US soil apnews.com/article/trum...

Dogs are getting vaccinated less and rabies rates are rising, in part because 37% of Americans think vaccines will give their dogs... pawtism. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Google must hand over its search results and some data to rival companies but does not need to break itself up by selling its Chrome web browser, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

You got an iPhone or iPad? Update it! appleinsider.com/articles/25/...

Can someone for the love of God tell Peter Jackson/Park Road Post that janky AI upscaling and fake film grain does not mean you've "restored" something

Breaking news: FBI agents began searching the Maryland home of former national security adviser John Bolton, according to a person familiar with the matter. Bolton served in Trump’s first term but has emerged as a staunch critic of the president.

NEW: The Crown has decided not to appeal an Ontario Superior Court justice's July 24 not guilty decisions in the sex assault trial for five former world junior hockey players. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #LdnOnt

Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage, the Canadian Union of Public Employees told Radio-Canada on Sunday. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why do we all use Meta products again?

Some (bylined) stories from me this week… Westmount Commons is getting new owners, and they have big plans. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #LdnOnt