Dr. Annie Andrews has been endorsed by former South Carolina governors David Beasley (R) and Jim Hodges (D) for U.S. Senate.
Techdirt
• Tim Cushing
Trump’s Voting Fraud Squad Proudly Announces It Has Arrested 28 Of California’s 23 Million Voters
It’s essential to understand that this isn’t about protecting the integrity of elections from people who don’t have the right to vote. This is a suppression effort meant to intimidate people who do have the legal right to vote by making it seem like it might be better to sit out the mid-terms than be […]
Techdirt
• Daily Deal
Daily Deal: The Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2024 for Windows + Windows 11 Pro License Bundle
The Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2024 and Windows 11 Pro Bundle provides perpetual licenses of each for 1 Windows PC (not compatible with Mac or macOS). Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus provides a comprehensive and stable productivity suite for organizations that prefer a traditional perpetual license model. This version offers the complete set of Office […]
Techdirt
• Mike Masnick
Ofcom’s Fix For An Online Safety Act That Isn’t Working: More Online Safety Act
Ofcom’s media relations people know how to email me. I have ten press releases from them this year. They emailed me when they launched investigations of or took actions on X/Grok, Telegram, Pornhub, and Sanctioned Suicide. But when they recently published their required report on how the Online Safety Act is going… suddenly they’ve lost […]
Sacha Chua
• Sacha Chua
2026-10-26 Emacs news
The San Francisco Standard
• Kerry Crowley
The WNBA is making fans choose between work and a Valkyries Finals game
Game 6 of the WNBA Finals will start at 9:30 a.m. PDT on Thursday.
Scott Loftesness
• Scott Loftesness
Ghost Ramps: Interstate 280
Here’s episode 7 in our podcast series about Interstate 280 on the San Francisco Peninsula.
Electrek
• Reinette LeJeune
Bluetti Elite 300 3,014Wh power station $600 off, EGO Select Cut + Touch Drive mower with 10.0Ah battery $909 low, more
Racket
• Racket Staff
BareBones Halloween, MN Beer Day, Seitu K. Jones: This Week’s Best Events
Plus Rhiannon Giddens, Charlie Parr, and last call for ongoing spoooOOoooky events.
McSweeney’s
• Evan Dotas
How Will People Know Who to Vote for with Two Dan Sullivans and Zero Mohammeds?
Nude Series #georgiaokeeffe #okeeffe
Electrek
• Peter Johnson
The 2027 Lexus RZ starts at under $50,000 and offers over 300 miles of range
Electrek
• Fred Lambert
Tesla makes another joke of its Robotaxi geofence expansion

Tesla expanded its Robotaxi service area in Houston today, and it shaped the new geofence like a rocket. Plenty of people on X see something else in it, which is fair given the phallic Austin map Tesla posted in 2025.
It’s a cute nod to Houston’s space history. It’s also a service area drawn for a meme, and Robotaxi Tracker counts only 34 driverless Model Ys to cover it.
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Electrek
• Jameson Dow
Cybertruck driver stopped in Germany, “Monster truck” not allowed on roads

A Tesla Cybertruck was pulled over while driving in Germany, a reminder that the vehicle is generally not legal on European roads.
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Ars Technica
• Ashley Belanger
Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo
Investigators explain how highway thieves stole $100M in data center equipment.
The crowd at JD Vance's Montana rally minutes out from the start of the program
House Judiciary Democrats have uncovered reports alleging Trump was an "active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of young women in the mid-to-late 1990s."
New photo of Vivek Ramaswamy's 8th grade teacher protesting Vivek over his latest ad:
"SHAME ON YOU, VIVEK! I TAUGHT YOU BETTER!"
Bash: Did Trump direct you to file this lawsuit in Alaska?
Blanche: Trump has been very clear about his concerns about Alaska.
Bash: You didn't say no. And Trump is admitting this is political. Do you see your job as helping Republicans keep the seat?
6 U.S. citizens have sued Trump for banning media outlets from the White House, arguing that press bans violate the public's right to independent reporting.
