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Techmeme surfaced WIRED’s September 10 report, “OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal”. People close to OpenAI told WIRED that the company has recently asked members of Congress for guidance on whether frontier AI labs could coordinate an industry-wide slowdown without violating antitrust law.

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US Marshals find 79 missing children in Ohio during Operation Meridian (r/news)

• phznmshr: We have to keep up the ruse that every stranger is an enemy. It always starts with think of the children to get us to hate our neighbors. I’m so tired of being told to fear everyone and everything while the real enemy is picking mine and everyone else’s pockets.
• 09f3jns: Just about every AMBER Alert in my area happens after one parent violates custody. Those are important calls, but that’s not what anyone thinks about when thinking about child abduction, which is what the AMBER Alert system was made for.
• Thelonius_Dunk: Im curious how many Amber Alerts are custody cases too. Ive heard its pretty common but don’t know the stats on it.

The Tate brothers must stay locked up during their UK extradition fight, US judge says (r/news)

• MC_chrome: Can these two pieces of flotsam “accidentally” fall into the Thames?
• TintedApostle: The tried to flee Romania. Yeah they are a flight risk.
• vibe4it: Good. This is the lifestyle to which they should become accustomed.

People whose job is to read strangers for a living (poker dealers, bartenders, TSA agents, loss prevention): what’s the tell you clock in the first 10 seconds that people don’t realize they’re broadcasting? (r/AskReddit)

• Quick-Operation4805: It’s crucial to have a baseline before you can give a good read.
• SnooCats4137: Family law attorney here: when a potential client explains something with “and then for NO REASON” ..there’s always a reason, and it is usually because that person did something shitty.
• snowflake-57: Various private security roles: someone who is carrying a weapon, who isn’t proficient at carrying weapons, will be constantly fidgeting around wherever it’s concealed to reassure themselves that it’s still there. Caught more than a few knives from people nervously playing with their pockets.

Americans that moved to europe what shocked you the most? (r/AskReddit)

• cyrixlord: 220V
• GBreezy: In Germany you have to buy the kitchen for your rented apartment. The people before you probably took theirs when they moved out
• Dependent-Sign-2407: How prevalent smoking still is

Would you accept 10 million if you had to live in the same house with everyone you’ve ever dated for 1 year? Why or why not? (r/AskReddit)

• deadbeef4: I’ve been married to her for 25 years, so sure?
• Reading_Rainbows718: Define “dated”
• domesticbland: Some of them would sort themselves out I think. There’d be teams.

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DOL suspends all Cognizant PERM applications (Blind)

• crazzak (Microsoft): Do Microsoft and Amazon next. Tired of these layoffs impacting Americans when the company is still sponsoring more H-1Bs.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): This is huge. Dol suspending perm for an employer means the employer really really messed up.
• CbzP51 (Google): Now time to revoke all previous green cards from this company.

How fare are you from FIRE / Retirement? (Blind)

• SЕV0 (Meta): I reached fat fire years ago but somehow still grinding with the current trayectory it feels low 8 figures won’t be enough
• nqpO26 (Petrobras): If you’re more than 3 years from FIRE, you’ll be fired by AGI, clock is ticking
• LuciferO07 (Google): Already reached , 10M in stocks .

Why is Everyone in Tech So Sad (Blind)

• k7me7: Humans weren’t meant to stare at a screen for 9 hours a day. It’s not just bad backs and tech neck that it causes either, psychologically we were never meant to do this as a species. It’s not that complicated.
• rhydon1x (Capital One): People in tech are sad because losers who thought the YouTube losers posting about only working 2 hours a day was real and they forced their way into the field only to drag everyone else down with them
• ed5e6cfb (Pinterest): I don’t get this, honestly. The only time I’m sad is when my work is not recognize. These dreams of quitting and going off grid is great if you have the money stashed away, but that’s not the case for all of us. I’m gonna be on this treadmill till the day I die, for better or worse. It’s easier to just accept this and work within those constraints.

Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation (r/technology)

• ha-hahnoo: A surveillance company upset about being filmed in public. The jokes write themselves.
• TheWoodser: Something, something….pot….kettle
• adorkablegiant: What do a surveillance company and a predator during a hunt have in common? They both like watching their prey but hate being watched themselves.

An Anthropic researcher just quit, saying OpenAI and Anthropic are ‘gambling with our lives’ (r/technology)

• Proud-Ninja5049: This thread might legit be bots fighting bots.
• Atrium41: “AGI! Soon, guys!”
• Labrontus: So we are going full into the Terminator timeline?

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Replacing a cryptographic algorithm is rarely just a cryptography project. In DNSSEC, a stronger signature changes packet sizes, transport behavior, compatibility rules, and the meaning of a successful validation. Cloudflare’s first production step toward post-quantum DNSSEC is therefore less about dropping a new primitive into a library than about making the surrounding protocol migration safe enough to observe at Internet scale.

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Lottery tickets are famously poor investments, but the mathematics is subtler than that slogan suggests. Under rare circumstances, a jackpot can grow large enough to give a ticket a positive expected value. Even then, however, the bet may remain irrational for an individual. The distinction reveals both the power of expected value and the limits of reducing a life-changing gamble to a single average.

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Techmeme surfaced Anthropic’s September 10 report, “Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026”. The report is a casebook drawn from operations Anthropic says it detected and disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026. It spans cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, scams, weapons development, biological research, and attempts by rival labs to extract Claude’s capabilities.

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This summary covers The Economist’s August 22nd, 2026 Business article listed in the contents as China's spreading supply chains and published under the headline Routes and branches.

Globalisation is not retreating so much as changing address. Chinese manufacturers are building factories across the world, but the result is not a clean shift away from China. Instead, Chinese companies are extending their own industrial ecosystems into new countries, carrying suppliers, logistics networks and strategic technologies with them.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced the September 9 episode, an interview with Codex co-creator and OpenAI product leader Tibo Sottiaux about how the coding agent was built and how it is changing software work inside the company. The conversation’s strongest idea is that a useful coding agent is not merely a language model in a terminal. Its performance comes from a coupled system: the model, the harness around it, a reproducible execution environment, access to organizational context, and the tests and review practices that turn generated code into trusted changes.

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American Airlines passenger duct-taped to seat after mid-air meltdown loses his job (r/news)

• Different-Courage679: “Taped in front of a live audience.”
• Bcjglx: Are they rolling a die to decide when they blur his face out in the picture?
• Helios4242: Oh to legally be able to duct tape unruly customers

Eiffel Tower closed in row over women removed for Hindu group (r/news)

• daemenus: The French do love a strike. Good for her
• dinoderpwithapurpose: As a Hindu, I’m fully applauding the French. The delegate can f right off. Don’t make accommodations for groups that discriminate.
• ReggieCorneus: If they don’t want to interact with women, they have all the rights to do so at their own home. The moment they open the door that right goes away.

Gym bros, what sacred knowledge of getting Gains do you swear by and will always recommend? (r/AskReddit)

• FlaniganWackerMan: Most people over estimate what progress they can make in 6 weeks, but vastly underestimate what progress they can make in 6 months.
• CliveBixby1974: Consistency is key.
• flyingturkeycouchie: Even the shittiest workout is better than a skipped workout.

Medical professionals of reddit what is something so common yet so dangerous that people dont know about? (r/AskReddit)

• fgtrtdfgtrtdfgtrtd69: Socks and hardwood stairs
• buttermellow11: Diabetes. It will fuck everything up. Kidney failure, strokes, heart attacks, foot wounds (and infections and amputations as a result), the list goes on.
• Beneficial_Bed2537: Binge drinking and taking prescription drugs, so many accidental overdoses

Do you sleep with your bedroom door open or closed? Why? (r/AskReddit)

• Stars-in-the-night: Open. Why? Because the 8 pound lord and master of the house demands it.
• MpMeowMeow: closed. if there is a fire I want there to be some barrier to try and slow it down so I have a better chance to wake up.
• StormFallen9: Closed to keep the dogs in and the monsters/burglers/fire out

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Anthropic just asked me the craziest questions during my interview on Friday (Blind)

• kaizen (Meta): This is obviously satire but at this point a small part of me still doubts it
• GceB52 (Millennium Management): Testing fable safeguards live
• WNfP16 (Wiz): If we decided to murder you, would you still work for us?

I fear for the future of tech. This new generation of engineers is genuinely cooked (Blind)

• ㄗㄗ (ex-Google): Did you really think Amazon is hiring good engineers?
• Iknwyuan (ex-Bank of America): 10 years of onboarding and your process still lets people ship code they can’t explain?
• hiou (Silver Lake): This exact post existed in 2005 about copy-pasting from Stack Overflow. And in 1995 about IDEs. And in 1985 about compilers. The kids were fine every time.

Good Paying Remote Are So Hard To Get (Blind)

• yHoDjk9 (LinkedIn): You can’t retain tier 1 location salary and move to tier 2 or 3 for better COL. They’ll just adjust you down
• whysosrs (Coinbase): Coinbase is fully remote and pays well (400k+ fully remote as IC5), but the culture is highly team dependent. Company and industry is very volatile as well
• ygdfg (fuboTV): Google has offices all over the country. Why not move to another office (and a new team)?

A data center in Denmark gives away heat that data centers often waste. It runs water from the city’s heating network through its cooling units and into heat pumps that raise it enough to fill the radiators of 11,000 homes (r/technology)

• National_World944: This works because Denmark already has district heating pipes under most of its cities. The data center just plugged in. The real engineering happened decades ago.
• Additional-Staff-326: This is good tech. This only works if the local area is already built for it or going to build for it. Cant retrofit most cities to do something like this.
• sirhackenslash: Yeah, but in america helping others is woke, so it’s global warming and you’ll like it

Australia to force social media platforms to allow users to opt out of algorithms (r/technology)

• kiwiboyus: This is a good approach and hopefully others will follow
• SnotRight: Queue some kind of “freedom of speech” bot campaign.
• Exciting_Turn_9559: Opaque algorithms should be illegal. It’s a matter of national security.