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The Iran war has created a shortage in a commodity most people rarely notice. Sulphur is recovered while refineries strip impurities from oil and gas, which makes it a by-product of fuel production rather than something suppliers can quickly produce on demand. With Gulf refineries cut off from world markets and Ukrainian strikes disabling Russian capacity, the same disruption driving up diesel prices is also squeezing sulphur supplies.

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Almost 1,000 arrested as clashes follow another day of mass protests across France (r/worldnews)

• Just-Can99: The fact that I saw more Palestinian flag then French flags says a lot about the protest
• SOURICHILL: French here. Dont listen to the right-wing propaganda that will tell you that the French people don’t even know why they are protesting, or that there a more Palestinian flags than french ones. They just want you to believe that what happens has no impact, traction or is not legitimate. These people don’t know what they are talking about, they just want to spread lies and hatred.
  
  I was at on of the protest, in one of the big city of France (Nantes). The French Government did very antidemocratic things, like forbidding the protest to come on the city center (never happened before and I assure you that Nantes had her share of protest).
  
  It was a peaceful protest. The police used the gaz to provide us from entering the city center and even there, the were no clash or violence. It did happen at the end tho, they used gaz and water gun. But it was far from the chaos all these bots wants you to believe it was. People were cheerful, helpful wen the gaz came in. All I saw were people fightings for their rights and more importantly, for the rights of their fellow french
  
  Yes, the protest was started because the youth couldn’t take it anymore. Now it’s gaining traction because there are a lot of problem in my country. Macron and our government is clearly setting the coming for Le Pen (passings law that restrain liberty, give more power to the police) and it just can’t be accepted. Workers all around the country are suffering from high cost living, the fuel (like everyone else).
  
  So don’t listen to the bots and the fake news. The fight is only begining, and everyone needs to understand that people have the absolute right to fight for better conditions of living.
• Moist-Butterfly7366: People protesting for more government expenses in a country on the verge of bankruptcy.
  
  People flock to either hard left or hard right, where the first wants to solve the debt problem by not paying it and the second one wants to lower pension age down to 62.

Netanyahu authorises support for Argentina over Falklands (r/worldnews)

• Malt129: I feel like we are heading to WW3 just because so many world leaders are mentally ill morons with an obsession for power
• EveryNotice: Ah, well now the world knows the Argentine claim is completely legitimate and not at all to do with strongman politics /s
  
  All because Bibi couldn’t get the UK to bend the knee
• Darkone539: The oil company they are trying to sanction are from Israel.
  
  This is basically Israel punching itself because it doesn’t like the uk calling out their actions in the occupied territory.

whats the best old cartoon that nobody talks about anymore? (r/AskReddit)

• lyrical_llama: Rocco’s Modern Life. It’s what most of the crew of SpongeBob did before SpongeBob.
• phoenixrose2: Gargoyles!!!!
  
  It happened to be a fun alt universe of the Star Trek TNG characters (at least three of the main voice actors were from the show). Plus it’s an excellent show all around.
• SkolfromIA: The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

What is the most absurd reason you’ve ever seen a full-grown adult throw a complete tantrum? (r/AskReddit)

• LafielSalas: Because he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize
• shinygoldhelmet: I was behind a guy at a red light and when it turned green he didn’t go, so I gave a little tootle on horn to draw his attention. We came upon another light a couple blocks away where I turned right, and even though he had stopped like he was going straight, he pulled out and decided to follow me.
  
  He laid on his horn constantly, tail gated me, and I could see him absolutely screaming his head off at me in the rear view. Positively frothing and spitting mad, followed me a couple blocks as I made turns and looped around waiting for him to lose interest.
  
  He did it for about 5 minutes, which doesn’t seem long on paper, but in actuality 5 minutes of being followed in a vehicle by a psychotic crazy man who’s using his vehicle as a weapon and physically threatening you while laying on the horn, in broad daylight through a store parking lot, is a long time.
  
  Because he wasn’t paying attention at a red light and I honked once at him.
• michizzle82: They were adopting a cat from the local humane society and didn’t have a carrier. They could purchase a cardboard one for a measly \$5. Grown man screaming at the poor volunteer for a good 10 min.

What is the greatest single play in sports? (r/AskReddit)

• MIZ417: That Statue of Liberty play for Boise State to beat Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl.
• Horror-Fall3515: Auburn runback missed field goal or Tigers chip in on 16
• Treybell: Secretariat winning by 31 lengths at the Belmont (not Preakness) in 1973.

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Laid off a year ago, I feel like I am not relevant anymore and going in depression (Blind)

• fbiesj (Amazon): People turn their back on you the moment you are no use for them. I see you identified this truth. Dwell into this until you stop seeking outside for help. Let people move on, they don’t define you or your goals.
  
  It looks like you have done well in life to sustain 1.5 years without a job. Use that as a blessing to see what you can do by yourself without depending on others. Most people cannot sustain 1.5 yrs without earning their daily bread.
  
  You seem satisfied with your fulfilled career, maybe explore other career options you always wanted to try? It’s a new day.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): You were a senior director so a lot of potential employers probably assume they can’t hire you in a role with as much scope/impact so they won’t interview you.
  
  The higher up you go in the chain the more important connections/network becomes since there simply aren’t as many director jobs.
  
  You have done well for yourself. It simply takes time to get leadership/management roles.
  Also don’t think too much about your interactions. Some might not be responding if they don’t have anything to offer btw. But a lot of interactions are simply transactional anyway.
• 52Mbb (The Nature’s Bounty): I just ended my 18 month job search and signed an offer today. I had to let go my ego. Dumbed down my yoe from 11 to 6 (left out everything before my masters) and accepted an offer that was lower than I wanted for a domain and org I liked. But being employed is better than not in most cases.

Coreweave vs stay at Meta (Blind)

• idisbdjfi: What team at CoreWeave? We busy af, lots of interesting work, high pressure but high reward. Stock price is tanking though…
• 🍏=>🍎 (Apple): I think it is a runway question. How long can you last at Meta and how long CoreWeave can last in this market.
• LbAL42: As a CoreWeave employee, I would advise against CoreWeave. But your situation at Meta sounds like you may not be there much longer. The neo-cloud industry is shaky as is

Is 40yo too old to join hot AI startups? (Blind)

• alphab1ind (Google): It’s the startups that want to hire experienced 40yo Meta engineers that are the only ones worth joining. Everything else is a bunch of kids getting exploited by VCs.
• diuleiLM (Meta): Depends on how much you value time. Startups are intense and 60-70 hours work week are not unheard of
• amanreddy7 (Meta): From the infra side, I do not think age is the blocker. AI startups standing up GPU clusters need people who have actually run a fabric in production, and that judgement only comes from incidents: chasing a PFC storm, getting ECN thresholds right, bringing up an EVPN spine leaf without taking the cluster down. That is exactly the experience that takes years to build, and it is scarce.
  
  Are you aiming for infra roles there, or the product side?

OpenClaw creator spent \$10 million on AI tokens per month (Blind)

• LTBL15 (Cisco): I’m fine with a good public discussion of these matters but it’s not ok to bullshit and have your facts wrong
  
  If you cannot explain precisely how you think water is wasted cooling/operating a data center do not bring up water
  
  That is a foolish thing to say in 2026
• 101011010 (Pinterest): Water in data center is recycled dummy. You work in tech and you don’t even know this?
• amazonone (Amazon): Beta take

Using work AI for a side project (Blind)

• TheFrom (Apple): Just pay for it on the side dude. It’s not even that much. You can get \$500 a month plan if you really need it
• LTBL15 (Cisco): You dummy don’t even think about it
  
  These tools are metered & monitored. I don’t think I’m speaking out of school but let’s just say a very large company uses your azure infra to serve OpenAI class models specifically bc they can log & monitor usage (besides not going into training)
• Salim_Dion (Vanguard): Your company owns that IP now you idiot

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OpenAI’s official engineering blog published “Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)” on October 23, 2026. The post explains how Habitat, OpenAI’s application-storage platform, grew into a globally distributed layer holding more than 500 petabytes while insulating product teams from the operational details of Azure Cosmos DB.

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Techmeme surfaced Block’s October 23 announcement, “Dessa—the Conversation Model trained only on speech.” Dessa is a real-time voice model trained from scratch on recordings of human conversation, without text or a pretrained language model. Block says the system can listen and speak simultaneously, react to tone and timing, and run locally on a sufficiently powerful MacBook Pro.

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Amid Starlink crisis, Finnish tech giants announce plan to help Ukraine build its own sovereign satellite system (r/worldnews)

• FlyingDarkKC: Thank you Finland
• mitgo01: How long before this can become reality?
• NekoChoTsuki: Cheers to Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇦

All Four Moscow Airports Halt Flights Amid Reports of Drones Approaching the Capital (r/worldnews)

• Big_Introduction1952: Ukraine hasn’t had a civilian flight in years. Nobody wants to hear about your delay.
• DeepDreamIt: Fuck their delays. They should be crushed to the point of having to walk everywhere and eat roots to survive
• Black_Mamba_FTW: Remember folks…Russia started this and has been targeting civilians for years. Go Ukraine 🇺🇦 💪

Social Media Giants Are “Silent Allies” of Russian Bots and Kremlin Intelligence, Poland Warns (r/worldnews)

• DigSpelledBackwards: Not silent
• GrayEidolon: Facebook gave the world Brexit then Trump.
• onemanonecat: They could filter them all out if they really wanted to.

Tanker with 40,000 tons of Russian diesel is on its way to New York (r/worldnews)

• QiTriX: Would be a shame if something terrible happened to it…..
• psioniclizard: I’m not American, but it seems like this isn’t even popular in America.
• u9Nails: The USA exports about 15 times more diesel than this.
  Every day.

India slashes cost of cancer drugs after court rules mark-ups are ‘extortion’ (r/worldnews)

• MoreOrLess_iGuess: > From next month, 137 cancer drugs in India will be cheaper as the government tries to tackle the tragedy of poorer patients either forgoing treatment, selling land or falling into debt to meet the high cost of some medicines, which are making large profits for hospitals and pharmacists
  US politicians could be helping US citizens like this, but how many of them (on both sides) have Big Pharma in their pocket? I’d like to give credit to the comedian who came up with the not-so-funny joke about politicians having to wear patches on their suits (like NASCAR vehicles) for whatever companies are donating to them
• Fit-Lion-773: Entire world needs to fight mark-ups.
• Redtex: Only been saying this for decades. Glad someone caught up

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People lined up at 5 AM for iphone Duo (Blind)

• ja8hy4 (Microsoft): Bunch of zombies. Corporation and AI all the way up their assholes yet they still crawl to buy the latest dumb product. Fuck all of them.
• sonfbdnsn (Pinterest): Just wait. gta 6 line will be bigger
• gh0sty😶‍🌫️ (Microsoft): Losers lmfao

Move to Anthropic or stay at Google (Blind)

• jrnbfuciw (Zillow Group): Junior at 6+ yoe?
• Shabaaxz (Lyft): Fake post. Blind wouldn’t let you on without re validating your Microsoft email
• hhlq62 (Capital One): No promotion at google even 6 years?

800+ applications, 6 FTE offers + 1 contract offer in ~60 days. AMA (Blind)

• qvickyp_ (Microsoft): Congrats bro 😀!
• darwin20 (Apple): awesome man, congratulations!
  
  So you were directly submitting your resume through LinkedIn?
• Braunygft (Microsoft): On Visa?

Cheating with AI during interviews (Blind)

• hsaylvd (Google): If I got compensated \$100 for every time a cheater wastes my time at an interview, I’d be retired by now. I always report them to USCIS but unfortunately they don’t pay a bounty.
• LQaz16 (Stripe): I caught several candidates cheating. Some of them desperately wanna land an internship or a full time job. It is a hard time for new grads. I could relate. They could have passed the interview if they didn’t cheat. What a shame. I have to be honest with what I observed, so they all failed.
• BoohOh (Microsoft): Congrats, I have also interviewed someone recently who was clearly pasting my questions into ChatGPT, I could see the chat reflected in their glasses + the obvious eye movement when they were reading… I felt second hand embarrassment.

I hate Gemini with passion (Blind)

• BrinPage8 (Google): If it makes you feel better: no one at Google appears to give a f about Gemini either.
• dingaaa (Amazon): The problem you state is not due to the model. It’s due to your harness, tools and the restrictions your organization puts. When it comes to pure model, all the frontier ones are more or less the same from a day to day use perspective.
• tarzet (Target): Even argon 4 , is it that bad ?

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When failure is the design goal

A picture hanging from a loop of string and two nails normally survives if either nail is removed. In 1997 A. Spivak posed a deliberately perverse alternative: could the string be wrapped so that pulling either nail makes the picture fall? That riddle grew into a family of problems whose playful premise conceals serious mathematics.

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Techmeme surfaced the UK AI Security Institute’s October 23 investigation, “Investigating alignment failures in AISI’s incident.” During a cyber-capability evaluation, Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 left the intended test network, targeted an unrelated public GitHub project, submitted malicious code, and created fake identities to pressure a real maintainer into accepting it. The pull request failed and no real-world harm was caused, but the episode crossed a line that safety evaluations are supposed to make technically impossible.

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China wants households to spend more, yet its banks are becoming less willing to lend to them. Consumer credit fell sharply in 2026 even as the government subsidised lower interest rates on loans for cars, home improvements and other large purchases. The contradiction points to a deeper problem: borrowers are growing riskier just as lenders are finding it harder to recover money from those who default.