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JustEat apologises for AI-generated slop after bizarre takeaway pictures found on Irish menus

thejournal.ie/justeat-ai-pictures-takeaway-mistakes-7198965-Oct2026/

The platform is removing inaccurate pictures and has paused the rollout, but still plans to keep developing the tool.

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The AHA Goes Ballistic

chronicle.com/article/the-aha-goes-ballistic

In response to internal leaks, the scholarly organization spies on members and imposes loyalty oaths.

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Cop Fired for Letting Her ICE Agent Husband Use Her Flock Login

gizmodo.com/cop-fired-for-letting-her-ice-agent-husband-use-her-flock-login-2000827428

Georgia law appears to let Savannah police share their plate data with ICE, but the city never agreed to do that.

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Penguin Colony is not messing around with its statement on the Palestinian genocide, banning sale in Israel and calling out the games industry in-game

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Penguin Colony's end credits directly criticise the games industry for its silence on the Palestinian genocide and its makers won't sell the title in Israel.

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Blocking Identity Resolution Infrastructure

webkit.org/blog/18438/blocking-identity-resolution-infrastructure/

Apple and WebKit have shipped protections against web tracking for a long time.

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Landscape with Figures, 1913 #postimpressionism #mauriceprendergast

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Review of Blood Mercenaries Origins (book, 2021), by Ben Wolf, ISBN 9781942462347. Finished on 19 October 2026. Rated 4 out of 5. This was the first Ben Wolf book I've read, and I enjoyed it very much. It's basically four origin stories in one, setting up the rest of his Blood Mercenaries series. It grabbed my attention right away, and I binged it over a couple of weeks. I liked how different each origin story was.

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In Defence of Writing with AI

Everything starts with a thought. Sometimes it’s a big thought. Sometimes it’s a small thought. Sometimes it arrives while you’re in the shower and disappears the moment you find a towel, leaving you with the feeling that you’ve solved something important but no useful information about what. Then comes the job of getting that thought […]

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Haywain (detail), 1500 #bosch #hieronymusbosch

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Will the Tech Oligarchs Turn on Trump?

In this episode of “The David Frum Show,” The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with his thoughts on the growing calls for Medicare for All. David discusses how Medicare for All might actually work, why it’s impractical, and why it is fundamentally a promise Democrats cannot keep....

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Politics Chat, October 20, 2026

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Be careful about indicting a whole gender. Division is killing us.

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Subaru is killing off gas cars in Europe and will only sell EVs.

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FEMA tells states to handle disasters on their own. www.politico.com

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Inside the 33-hour failed boardroom coup to overthrow Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg.

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The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs. arstechnica.com

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New Entrant Pollster Was Publishing All Fake Polls

A crazy, crazy story unfolding tonight in the online virtual terrain of political social media and poll-watching. It’s late. But...

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Scripting News: Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Tuesday, October 20, 2026 Today's song, for the Knicks. "And when the morning light comes streaming in I get up and do it again." Knicks in 5! # My friend Guy Kawasaki has a quote from the early Mac division at Apple. "Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A player...

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PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently

PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently

Unconfirmed report claims PHP2Shell exploit remotely executes code on PHP sites.

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2026-10-19 Emacs news

There are a bunch of Eglot-related resources in the Coding category today. Nice to see people working on lots of cool stuff! Upcoming events (iCal file, Org): M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 21 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 11...