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Dark matter presents an unusual scientific problem: researchers have overwhelming evidence that it exists, yet four decades of increasingly sensitive experiments have failed to reveal what it is made of. Joseph Howlett, a former member of the XENON dark matter collaboration, argues that this impasse may expose not only the limits of particle detectors but a limit on what science can know.

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Techmeme surfaced Google DeepMind’s October 6 launch, “EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model.” It is not another chatbot. It is a compact model for turning text, code, images, video, and audio into numerical representations that can be compared in one shared space. That plumbing is what lets an application retrieve a video moment from a spoken query, search code by describing behavior, or find an image with ordinary language.

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Aliko Dangote’s plan to list his giant Nigerian oil refinery is more than a corporate milestone. It is a test of whether African stockmarkets can turn a recent surge in retail enthusiasm into lasting financial depth.

Dangote, Africa’s richest businessman, launched the continent’s largest-ever initial public offering on September 14th. The refinery hopes to raise at least \$1.6bn at a valuation approaching \$50bn. If that valuation holds when trading begins in November, the company will immediately rank among Africa’s most valuable listed firms. Demand has been intense: one popular trading app crashed when the offer opened, and even rural investors can buy shares through point-of-sale terminals.

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Researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection (r/news)

• MrIDilkingtonn: Russian plague laboratory, now there’s a combination of words that fills one with confidence.
• hello_hola: I just read a book about this EXACT same scenario. Book is called ’’ Biological War, A Scenario “. Scary as fuck.
• andrusbaun: Fun fact, Russia and US record few cases of plague a year (from rodents). Fortunately it is treatable - when medicines are available.
  
  Which is exactly why there is an outbreak of panic in Russia.
  
  It is practically a third world country outside of Moscow and Petersburg.
  
  Apparently there are more victims, and part of one hospital is isolated. There are also some restrictions in Irkutsk Aluminum Smelter, that employs lot of people what indicates that disease spread further.

U.S. Marine arrested on suspicion of murder after ‘brutal and heinous’ death in Japan, officials say (r/news)

• QuackingWahoo: Unfortunately this is expected when the culture of our military has shifted from professionalism to savagery. Shame on this Marine, and the countless others that turned a blind eye to allow this to happen.
• Fritzkreig: At this point we should recognize that we just need to shut down the bases on Okinawa and leave, if the JDF will take over and agree to let the US use them in the case of something like a kaiju‽
• SaulEntropy: It has now actually been documented 15 times over what happens to these US bases in the event of an actual war.
  Maybe just remove them all.

Pennsylvania measles cases near 1,000 as outbreak spreads (r/news)

• canzicrans: I actually hate it when the news calls measles a highly contagious disease. It is considered the most contagious disease we know, with a 90% infection rate among unvaccinated people. Maybe more people would vaccinate if news agencies would stress its incredible infection rate more.
• Unknown_vectors: It is the Amish here in Pennsylvania they have it the most.
  
  Working in medicine and working with Amish that are calling because they have it, they don’t care. “It’s gods will”.
  
  It’s stupid.
  
  For the ones that call an ambulance for it, their whole family has it and the only ones getting counted are the ones going for treatment. Our numbers have to be way higher.
  
  The state had a pop up vaccine clinic in a high Amish population area and a lot less showed up than we hoped would.
  
  Whole thing is stupid AF.
• lionheart4life: Basically if you aren’t vaccinated, you are going to get it at this point. Herd immunity is breaking down.

What’s an adult cheat code that changed your life? (r/AskReddit)

• Agryteco: Learning to stop overexplaining myself. You don’t always have to justify every decision or make everyone understand you.
• Adventurous-Fox-7951: Balance. Don’t make work/friends/gender/politics/propaganda/zodiac/trend your whole personality. Be a little bit of everything but don’t let it run your life.
• OliverJames99: marrying into a rich family

Women of reddit, what is a sign that a woman is a creep? (r/AskReddit)

• Super_un_stable: Enjoys the idea of young boys crushing on her. See that so often too lol
• Shittingmytrewes: Lies about the absolute weirdest shit that is easily disproven.
  Knew a chick who said she had a charting album in Spain. She could not sing nor speak Spanish and she was pissed when I exposed those facts. She later told a friend of mine that her son was run over by a car and died (he was a father and very upset on her behalf), but when asked her son’s death date by two different people, gave very different timelines.
• WIZARD_SLEEVES: I’m a guy, but I’ve seen videos on social media of women talking about how they saw a cute guy somewhere and then stalked him on social media to try and put themselves in a situation where they would be in the same place again and he would hit on them.
  
  I remember seeing one video where a girl joined a bookclub that the guys mom was in to befriend the mom and have her mention to the guy “I met this cute single girl in my bookclub, should I give her your number?”

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All Harvard/Stanford CS land FAANG-level jobs (Blind)

• ka2ua (Google): No harvard and Stanford grad wants to work at faang as a swe with a bunch of h1bs.
• djyss (Amazon): lol it’s a failure for them to end up at faang
• out of (ByteDance): A Harvard/Stanford grad ending up in FAANG is really sad, unless it’s for top-tier roles like research scientist, or some senior director. Thankfully I’ve never seen one.

\$890k/yr 2 yr avg TC for L6 Google AI/ Agentic PM!? (Blind)

• abracadbr (Google): Sounds fake, basically every PM is an AI PM because every product is adding AI, can’t imagine any L6 being that special.
• QFYb20 (Synopsys): Makes my L4 300k comp at Google look like peanuts
• Hilda’s (Salesforce): What’s 4 year comp?

My team has 3 staff but 0 junior engineers (Blind)

• EAArne (Silver Lake): AI has removed the need for juniors. The end of tech is upon us.
• VP Tushar. (JPMorganChase): Am also VP
• subzer0_ (Dropbox): Claude is your juniors

Amazon interviewer accused me of cheating when I wasn’t. Wtf? (Blind)

• RjcF04 (Zillow Group): Other cheaters ruined it for you.
• lastlayoff (L3Harris Technologies): Probably jumped into the optimal solution without considering some of the nuances of the problem.
• Superbia (Microsoft): I’ve interviewed a lot of people, and instead of jumping to “I think you’re cheating,” I usually dig into the problem by asking questions and changing things up. That works for testing anyone, regardless of whether they’re cheating. Either way, they should have done their best to evaluate you.

Google Is Accused of Destroying Nearly 500 Football Fields of Forest for New Data Center Project (r/technology)

• Urborg_Stalker: It’s aggravating knowing that greedy assholes just won’t stop…they’ll never stop, keep exploiting everyone and everything they can to get another dollar in their pocket.
• Potatonet: All they have to do is issue proper fines for the damage that will make companies like Google think twice about that move in the future
  
  Still waiting for the FCC to do something about the US stock market so I’m not sure if it will happen in our lifetimes
  Edit: someone suggested they should lose the land use, I agree, make the bulldozing of every right and location on the planet stop by making actual laws with reprocussions that matter.
• Future-Turtle: “Don’t be evil”
  
  Absolute farce

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Techmeme surfaced OpenAI’s October 5 announcement, “Building advertising for the way people use AI.” The immediate change is a visual ad format that OpenAI plans to test in the United States later this month while people wait for ChatGPT to generate images. The larger story is that ChatGPT advertising is becoming a full commercial system: creative formats, conversion tracking, bidding signals, brand-safety controls, and outside measurement partners are being assembled around conversations in which users are already deciding what to do or buy.

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Erika Kirk takes step to sue Utah over Charlie Kirk assassination (r/news)

• pffffffsauce: I might have to sue Texas for JFK.
• PigFarmer1: And the grifting continues…
• Stereo_Jungle_Child: Good luck trying to sue the cops for “allowing” a crime to be be committed. Those lawsuits get laughed out of court. That’s part of what qualified immunity is.

Russian disinformation campaign sets sights on US midterms (r/news)

• hukep: It’s scary how well it works, and how cheap it is.
• Lower-Acanthaceae460: Correction: Russia coordinating with GOP on setting sight on disinformation campaign on US midterm
• mmoore327: Supporting Trump and Republicans no doubt

Photos show widespread damage at US sites from Iranian attacks (r/news)

• TurtleRocket9: That looks like the US leaders have been lying to the American people about the damage. Isn’t that treasonous?
• Mobile-Bar7732: This should have been done when he decided murdering people boats was a fun activity.
• AverageLiberalJoe: If Ukraine did this to Russia we’d be dunking on Russia all week about it.

Police searching for Noah Woods, 3, say they have found body of a child in lake (r/news)

• Eliteclarity: Absolutely heartbreaking.
• J0hn_Keel: Oh this is so sad :( that poor family. Was very much hoping for a different outcome on this one
• YesHunty: The amount of autistic children who go missing and perish is shockingly high. This is awful.

What’s the most inconvenient first name? (r/AskReddit)

• bengalfan: Have a friend with a 2 letter first name. A lot of sites won’t allow only 2 letters.
• blackdogwhitecat: A Thai guy I know is named “twat” so in western countries he introduces himself as “wat”
• Pocket_Sand-: Those incomprehensible spellings of regular names parents use to try and be unique. My sister has a Khynneddi (Kennedy) in her class.

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Google: special hiring event (Blind)

• ohjif (Microsoft): There are people waiting in TM for weeks and months and Google is doing hiring event. 🤦‍♂️
• GNsp11 (Google): This is definitely GCP lmao what a fucking shit show their expedited hiring process is why everyone makes fun of them
• Antigravty (Google): Prepare for termination

How do people survive Amazon? (Blind)

• heksbfjd (Amazon): There are a lot of morons who think they are gods gift to software engineering. They get pipped and don’t have the introspection to see what went wrong, and just say it’s unfair.
• nopeaceful (Qualcomm): Amazon is particularly hard on pure techies with no street smartness. You have to be able to game the leadership principles to your advantage, self promote without coming off as a show pony ," read the room", read between the lines etc. That’s the pattern I have observed among my co workers who left for Amazon all else being equal with regard to technical capability. It’s a black box observation of the traits that seem to work there take it for what its worth.
• (◕ᴥ◕ʋ) (Amazon): Been here 12 years. Actually loved being here until it was mainly about focusing on solving customer problems and delivering results. Now with AI rat race and all the layoffs etc. people are simply acting out and knowingly/unknowingly harming others to benefit themselves. Not sure what the playbook is now, but I have decided not to be part of the game and deliver/help others as much as I can. If I don’t survive, at least I will leave knowing that I was not the cause of anyone’s suffering.

People who say AI will end up creating more jobs instead of erasing them (Blind)

• Dalmartion (Meta): AI operators. Low paying jobs almost like blood draw nurses. No one wants them but they are the only jobs available
• napa9999 (ServiceNow): If you don’t know, you should prepare for unemployment. Sorry.
• BIyv26 (Amazon): We never know in advance what will emerge. We went from 90% agriculture to low single digits and no one figure out we’d watch influencers on our phones.

Companies that pay 700k+ for Staff roles (Blind)

• JasperAmaz (Amazon): I think people need a list of companies giving real jobs
• s&1sd (Apple): OpenAI definitely is 900k-1M+ for staff
• LC_God (Cisco): Cisco. Depending on team.

If Flock Wasn’t Enough, Dallas’ AI Cameras Are Scanning Homes From Garbage Trucks—57 Citations Have Followed (r/technology)

• tabrizzi: At this rate, drones will eventually be used to check backyards for violations.
• ICLazeru: They got cameras on the garbage trucks scanning your home so they can send you citations for HOA level bullsh*t…meanwhile, Epstein File child abusers walk free.
• epochwin: I’m curious about what are the major lawsuits against this type of surveillance and the intersection with 4th Amendment protections when it comes to government use

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TBPN surfaced the idea in its October 3 episode, “Sign-In With GPT, Anthropic Vs. the Pope, Paramount Rebrands as Skydance.” The hosts argue that OpenAI’s modest-sounding sign-in feature may matter more to small developers than the week’s flashier agent announcements. It lets eligible users authorize a third-party app to draw on usage already included in their ChatGPT plan, moving part of the inference bill from the app builder to the user who requested the work.

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America’s treasury secretary has a diagnosis for the country’s rising borrowing costs: the bond market has a “fever” caused by speculators, and official buy-backs can help restore equilibrium. The article argues that this gets the problem backwards. Treasury yields are high not because the market is broken, but because it is responding rationally to a government that is borrowing heavily while pursuing policies that add to inflation risk.