Tech & Code Article · 3 min read
Jeff Holden's Atomic Machines left six years of stealth on October 7, 2026, with $250 million and a claim that code alone can drive the manufacture of tiny machines. Its first product is a 150-amp relay for AI data centers. Here is what the company says, what independent reports confirm, and what no
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The World Article · 2 min read
10 stories across The world, Business / macro & markets, Technology, Science, Arts & culture, tracked on October 11, 2026.
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The World Article · 2 min read
11 stories across The world, Business / macro & markets, Bitcoin & crypto, Technology, Health & medicine, tracked on October 10, 2026.
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The World Article · 1 min read
7 stories across The world, Bitcoin & crypto, Science, Space, Arts & culture, Health & medicine, tracked on October 9, 2026.
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Markets & Economy Article · 8 min read
A 69-minute interview says the US will print money and buy stocks through a sovereign wealth fund, probably after the midterms and after a 25 to 35 percent crash. The headline is bolder than the speaker. Here is what he actually argues, which pieces check out, and which pieces do not follow.
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AI Article · 12 min read
A standing page on where Super Intelligence models actually stand, built from the scoreboards the Super Intelligence companies don't run. It covers who leads on human votes versus test batteries, how fast the models are improving, what a point of intelligence costs, how far open models trail, and wh
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AI Article · 8 min read
Google DeepMind says Gemini 4 Argon beats Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra on 13 of 19 benchmarks. I read the table, the methodology PDF and the independent scoreboards. The wins are real and mostly don't depend on Google grading its own homework, but the human-vote leaderboard and
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Bitcoin Article · 14 min read
A famous cryptographer said "we might lose public key cryptography," and Bitcoiners heard their own signature scheme in it. The thread turned out to be about Super Intelligence (SI) maths as much as quantum computers. The honest version is narrower: ECDSA and Schnorr are one door with two kinds of k
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The World Article · 2 min read
7 stories across The world, Business / macro & markets, Bitcoin & crypto, Technology, Science, Arts & culture, tracked on October 8, 2026.
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Bitcoin Article · 5 min read
Bitcoin Magazine says the supply of Bitcoin on exchanges just hit a seven-month low and tells you to "plan accordingly." This is a standing page that tracks that number by hand, says which provider it came from, and keeps asking the awkward question: did the coins leave for good, or just for a diffe
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Bitcoin Article · 8 min read
A $15 trillion asset manager footnoted a study saying AI models would save in Bitcoin and spend in stablecoins, and the footnote became a headline. I went to the study. Thirty-six chatbots, twenty-eight distinct questions, and a spread from 91.3% to 18.3% that tells you more about who trained the ch
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Arts & Culture Article · 3 min read
A standing page on Disney as culture and history, starting with a 48-minute 1968 television tour of Disneyland's workshop and the new Tomorrowland. Updated whenever there is a good piece of history, a rediscovered film, or news worth keeping.
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Health Article · 9 min read
A standing page on the benefits being claimed for GLP-1 drugs beyond weight loss, sorted by how strong the evidence is: four large randomized trials, one mechanism study, two observational signals, and a new preprint that says semaglutide turned back the proteomic age of the heart by 2 to 4 years.
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Policy Article · 11 min read
A standing page on the US minimum wage, refreshed as the numbers move. The 1938 law's 25 cents is about $5.92 in today's money, yet it was roughly 40% of the average factory wage while $7.25 is about 19% of average pay now. As of October 7, 2026, California's fast-food floor is $20 and its general f
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Treasury companies Article · 4 min read
Robinhood disclosed on 7 October 2026 that it bought about $25 million of Bitcoin for its own balance sheet, the first time it has ever done so. The company's own crypto chief says the position "is not going to change a lot of the current trajectory of the company." Held against Robinhood's size and
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The World Article · 2 min read
9 stories across The world, Business / macro & markets, Bitcoin & crypto, Technology, Science, Space, Health & medicine, tracked on October 7, 2026.
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Markets & Economy Article · 4 min read
Saudi Aramco's chief executive told a London conference that less than six billion barrels of commercial oil inventories remain, "the vast majority not practically available." A viral post set that beside JPMorgan's "operational floor" of 6.8 billion and implied the line had been crossed. The two nu
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Markets & Economy Article · 4 min read
On Friday CME Group withdrew its filing for a 24/7 oil futures contract, and a widely shared post made it sound like an exchange that couldn't find weekend staff. The record is stranger and more useful than that — a regulator's stay in July, a stated worry about unintended consequences, and a list o
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The World Article · 6 min read
In September the Houthis took the Yemeni side of the Bab al-Mandab strait, including Perim (Mayyun) Island, just as Iran's closure of Hormuz had pushed Saudi oil onto the Red Sea. Here is why that narrow gap matters, how much oil moves through it, and why Washington has so far declined to strike.
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Mining Article · 12 min read
Jason Lowery, the MIT researcher behind Softwar, posted that Bitcoin is "tokenized compute" and that AI will need BTC to afford its own actions. Some links in that chain hold and some strain. Here is what his thesis actually says, what the numbers on AI payments look like today, and where I think th
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The World Article · 42 min read
A standing page on the oil war, rewritten as it moves. As of October 10: Gulf crude exports recovered to around pre-war levels in September, by pipeline and by shuttle tanker rather than through an open strait, but tanker attacks hit a wartime high in early October; Brent settled at $104.72, 44% abo
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Bitcoin Article · 8 min read
FinCEN withdrew its 2023 proposal to label crypto mixing a "primary money laundering concern." I read the withdrawal notice and the original proposal. Neither says the word Lightning, but the proposal's definition of mixing was written so broadly that a literal reading brushes against how Lightning
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The World Article · 2 min read
8 stories across The world, Business / macro & markets, Science, Space, Bitcoin & crypto, Health & medicine, Arts & culture, tracked on October 6, 2026.
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Markets & Economy Article · 9 min read
The London Gold Fix did not disappear. Since 2015 it has been an electronic auction at the same two times of day, run by an exchange company instead of five banks. Here is how the auction works, what the old fix was actually caught doing, and whether the new one can be spoofed the way JPMorgan spoof
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History Article · 5 min read
The whitepaper is nine pages and cites eight sources. Behind those eight sits a thirty-four-year pile of other people's work, from TCP/IP in 1974 to Hal Finney in 2004. Here is the whole stack in two minutes of video.
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