Thursday, October 01
Daily News Stuff 1 October 2026
Siamese New Year Edition
Disclaimer: Flowers on the wall, why? Not understand.
Siamese New Year Edition
Top Story
- Google has announced Gemini 4 Argon, which the company is calling its most powerful AI model to date that you are not allowed to use. (Tech Crunch)
Thanks Google. Thanks for thirteen years of sucking.
- Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because fuck you that's why. (Tech Crunch)
Shut up, you're not my real dad!
Also, this:RSS, or Really Simple Syndication/Rich Site Summary, is a web feed that lets users and applications access updates to a website in a standardized format. The format became particularly popular in the blogging era, as it offered a way to subscribe to a site’s new posts in a news-reading app. Google once operated the most popular of these, but shut it down in 2013, ceding the market to companies like Feedly and other indie applications.
2013 was 13 years ago.
Tech News
- The Department of Defense has launched Project Meridian, a bold new effort to stop fighting the previous war. (Tech Crunch)
They've called upon Elon Musk, Palmer Lucky (CEO of defense contractor Anduril), and Newt Gingrich to offer their expertise, a move that has deeply offended the perpetually deeply offended.
- Speaking of the Pentagon, hackers stole millions of personnel record during a months-long data breach. (Tech Crunch)
Good work, guys.
- Speaking of months long data breaches, a teenage hacker found himself in an unprotected Microsoft internal environment with access to 17 trillion records. (Faav)
What is this, a database of ants?
- Moonshot AI, the Chinese company behind AI model Kimi K3, tried to hack into OpenAI... And failed. (WCCFTech)
You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, an I find it most ungentlemanly.
- Got my Christmas cakes, and my Japanese maple is showing signs of life. Also have my 12-bit 1980s personal computer emulator showing signs of life.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Flowers on the wall, why? Not understand.
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Please don't deadname the Department of War.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, October 01 2026 10:01 PM (1zWbY)
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I'mma gonna continue saying DoD, thank you very much. Meridian is an interesting idea, but the DoD historically does a lot of studies. We probably are in serious need of renewal of ideas, and reorientation. Gonna just have to see where this one goes.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Friday, October 02 2026 12:32 AM (6eVrQ)
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Reddit is one of the worst offenders in the "please use our app" sweepstakes. If you're browsing Reddit on a mobile device, not only do they stick a "please use our app" banner at the top taking up 5% of your screen, but after about a minute of browsing, a huge "Use the app to continue browsing" notification pops up, blocking what you were trying to read, and disabling all interaction with the page making it impossible to continue reading the page without using the app. An app which I refuse to use, on general principles: I'm sure it does its best to harvest data from other apps about what you do with your phone, and send that data home for targeted-advertising purposes.
Targeted advertising is a cancer, and Reddit is one of the reasons why. Their financial incentives to push you onto their data-harvesting app are so great that they will literally disable the website for you if you're on a mobile device.
"Reddit is better in the app?" Yes, that's technically true, because you Mister Falcons made the site impossible to use without the app, ON PURPOSE!
No, I'm not the slightest bit annoyed about that, why do you ask? (I wouldn't even use Reddit except that there's a pretty obscure computer game that I play with my wife, and that game's community has ended up settling on Reddit as the place to discuss it).
Targeted advertising is a cancer, and Reddit is one of the reasons why. Their financial incentives to push you onto their data-harvesting app are so great that they will literally disable the website for you if you're on a mobile device.
"Reddit is better in the app?" Yes, that's technically true, because you Mister Falcons made the site impossible to use without the app, ON PURPOSE!
No, I'm not the slightest bit annoyed about that, why do you ask? (I wouldn't even use Reddit except that there's a pretty obscure computer game that I play with my wife, and that game's community has ended up settling on Reddit as the place to discuss it).
Posted by: Robin Munn at Friday, October 02 2026 01:04 PM (dqnrn)
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