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Oct 10, 2026
The Swatter — October 5–9, 2026
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Oct 10, 2026
Top Takes of the Week — October 5–9, 2026
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Oct 8, 2026
Stopping Payments for 760,000 Fake Enrollments Is Either Fraud Prevention or Healthcare Cruelty, Depending on Who Wins the Framing War
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Oct 8, 2026
The Surveillance System That Doubled Its Reach While Everyone Argued About Cameras
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Oct 8, 2026
We Just Figured Out How to Copy What Every Living Cell Does Automatically
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Oct 8, 2026
The Anti-Tech-Excess Nonprofit Just Adopted Tech Founder Patterns
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Oct 8, 2026
Google Called It 'Falling Short of High Standards' While Finland Counted 330 Hectares of Unauthorized Forest Clearing
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Oct 7, 2026
OpenAI Launched ChatGPT for Teens Before Its Safety Features Actually Worked
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Oct 7, 2026
Wall Street Heads to Record Year on $407B AI Bet While Household Debt Hits $18.8 Trillion
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Oct 7, 2026
The $1.7 Billion Pipeline Deal Where Every Step Was Written Down In Order
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Oct 7, 2026
We Automated Bias So Well We Can't Even See Ourselves Doing It
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Oct 7, 2026
Wallet Lost for 51 Years Was Inside Owner's House the Whole Time
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Oct 6, 2026
ABC Settled Trump's Lawsuit for $16 Million, Then Sued His FCC Over License Reviews
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Oct 6, 2026
The Army Said It Had Enough Vehicles. Congress Bought $345 Million More, Then Got the Donations.
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Oct 6, 2026
Scientists Win Nobel for Making Neurons Fire on Command With Lasers—Now It's an API
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Oct 6, 2026
Google and JP Morgan Deploy Agent Protocol That Assumes Trust Instead of Requiring It
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Oct 6, 2026
Anthropic Marketed Claude as a Private Journal, Then Read the Diary and Called the Cops
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Oct 5, 2026
University Touts Zero Speech Violations While Ordering Radio Station to Rename the Gulf of Mexico
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Oct 5, 2026
Amazon Says Local Democracy Is Misinformation When Communities Object to Data Centers Raising Their Power Bills
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Oct 5, 2026
Google Launches Satellite That Runs AI for 15 Minutes Before Overheating—Calls It a Paradigm Shift
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