Kurt Schlichter, a retired Army colonel with over 620,000 X followers, worked as a civilian government employee under the Pentagon's undersecretary for personnel and readiness, part of a task force targeting 'woke' content at military war colleges. WIRED reviewed years of his social media posts containing extremist and anti-democratic rhetoric, including a 2021 call for authoritarian crackdowns on liberals, which had not previously been reported alongside his Pentagon role.
wired.com
· 2026-09-29
A commentary piece discusses how even celebrated experts and public figures sometimes make confident but questionable claims outside their expertise. It cites tech investor Jason Calacanis's podcast remarks, including his view that the Russia-Ukraine war could be resolved through land swaps and that governments shouldn't regulate mergers and acquisitions.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-29
Major U.S. airlines and industry analysts say ticket prices could remain elevated even as jet fuel costs decline, citing volatility in fuel prices since the Iran war began. Government data show average fares rose from $405 in late 2025 to $436 by mid-2026, even as jet fuel benchmarks fell sharply from an April peak to a wartime low in June.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-28
A 162-page White House report released in July criticized the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, citing exhibits like 'The Electric Dr. Franklin,' which speculated Benjamin Franklin may have used enslaved people in electrical experiments. The report argued the museum has shifted from historical education toward what it called 'extreme political activism.' The Franklin exhibit closed in 2025 but remains viewable online.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-09-27
A Russian drone struck a business centre in Kyiv's Solomianskyi district on September 25, killing four people and injuring seven, while damaging a data center belonging to telecom firm Datagroup. Datagroup said no employees were hurt and customer data was safe, with services shifted to backup sites. Russia's defence ministry confirmed it targeted the facility, alleging it processed military intelligence, and separately claimed strikes on other providers including New Telco, United DC, Kyivstar and Parkovyi, with Ukraine's digital ministry reporting about 100,000 households lost internet access after related attacks.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-27
Georg Zoeller describes using an AI model, Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next, to reverse engineer the 1989 game War of the Lance and port it to a Three.js browser engine over about a week, limited by running a single lane due to VRAM constraints. He is now further modernising the port into a Total War/Heroes of Might and Magic-style game while retaining the original game's underlying logic, and separately tested Fable 5.1 for generating Blender models via Python scripts, producing roughly 80-100 usable models per week of subscription.
this.os.isfine.org
· 2026-09-26
Russia has begun striking data centers and telecom infrastructure across Ukraine, including a Kyiv facility hit by a drone that killed four people. Russia says it targeted Datagroup and other providers such as New-Telco, United DC, Kyivstar and Parkovyi, claiming military use, while Ukrainian officials say the strikes have knocked out internet access for about 100,000 households.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-26
Artist Doaly has created a minimalist poster inspired by 'Avengers: Infinity War,' built around Thanos's line 'Everything.' The design plays on the villain's famous cost-of-power exchange with Gamora from the film.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-24
The source content titled about the Intel 8088 chip contains no technology information at all; instead it is a biographical overview of American writer Charles Bukowski, describing his 'dirty realism' style and literary influences. There is no factual reporting on the 16-bit Intel 8088 processor in the piece.
allpoetry.com
· 2026-09-22
Researcher Carter Leffer submitted a decryption of the German Army Enigma message MVUEH, sent 10 July 1941 and logged by an SS-Totenkopf radio unit, which had remained unbroken since 2005. The AI-assisted break, using OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, revealed a completely different key setup—including a different wheel order—than other messages from that day, yet produced plaintext nearly identical to a previously solved message, Nr. 173 (SIPVX). Analysis of the newly recovered key also uncovered transcription errors in the original ciphertext and pinpointed the exact letter at which the Enigma machine's left wheel turned over.
cryptocellar.org
· 2026-09-22
A Bloomberg investigation citing an unreleased Pentagon review found that overreliance on Palantir's Maven Smart System contributed to a strike that killed over 150 people, including 123 children, at an elementary school in Iran on the first day of the war. Outdated intelligence wrongly labeled the school an IRGC facility, and Maven surfaced it as a recommended target without flagging the stale data, officials said. Palantir denies responsibility, saying it does not own the underlying intelligence data, while the Pentagon retains accountability for what is fed into the system.
news.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-22
A Bloomberg report citing Pentagon investigators found that the February 28 double-tap strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school, which killed over 150 people including at least 123 children, resulted from outdated intelligence compounded by heavy reliance on an AI targeting system. Investigators described the tragedy as a cascade of small errors rather than a single mistake, involving technology similar to systems used to fast-track thousands of strikes earlier in the war.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-21
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