Month: July 2026

Gritt Crawls Out of Stealth With a Pile of Cash and a Robot Construction Boner Right, here’s the gist, because apparently someone has to read this startup fluff so you don’t. Gritt has stumbled out of stealth waving $34...

Stanford Booed Sundar, and Honestly, What the Hell Did They Expect? Right, so here’s the deal. Stanford invited Google boss Sundar Pichai to give the commencement speech, presumably expecting the usual bland corporate oatmeal...

Halliday’s New Smart Glasses Skip the Camera, Because Apparently Not Everything Needs to Be Creepy as Hell Right, so Halliday has rolled out a pair of smart glasses that do something shockingly sensible for once: they don’t...

Deezer’s Drowning in AI Slop, and Apparently That’s the New Music Industry Well, what a surprise — Deezer says that more than 50% of the music uploaded to its platform every damn day is AI-generated. That’s right: more...

US Threatens Sanctions Against Chinese AI Models Over IP Theft, Because Apparently We Needed Yet Another Bloody Circus Right, here’s the gist of this shitshow. The U.S. government is threatening sanctions against Chinese AI...

A Sneaky Hacking Tool Is Creeping Around AI Infrastructure While Everyone’s Looking the Other Damn Way Right, here’s the miserable gist. The article is about a stealthy little pile of shit called a rootkit—specifically one...

Data Centers Are About to Suck Down 4x More Power by 2035, Because Apparently We Hate the Grid Right, here’s the cheerful news: according to the TechCrunch piece, data centers are on track to use roughly four times more...

This Former Intel CEO Thinks Light Will Save Moore’s Law, Because Apparently Electrons Aren’t Suffering Enough Pat Gelsinger, former Intel bigwig and longtime semiconductor evangelist, is back waving his arms about the future...

AI and the Rise of the Universal Entertainment App, or: One App to Hoard All Your Attention Like a Greedy Little Goblin Right, so this TechCrunch piece is about the increasingly obvious march toward the so-called universal...

Jack Dorsey Wants to “Fix” Work Chat Again With Buzz, Because Apparently We Didn’t Have Enough Bloody Messaging Apps Jack Dorsey, apparently unable to sit still without launching yet another thing for people to ignore in a...