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November 2026

1. 6 NovStart Up No.2779: AI stocks drop abruptly, US Congress readies tech inquisition, French writing winner admits AI use, and more
2. 5 NovStart Up No.2778: Barrister cites AI search hallucination in court, more fridge hacking, the tech fallout from US elections, and more
3. 4 NovStart Up No.2777: Google’s AI search ultimatum for US schools, Italian police find stolen art via LLMs, publisher kills its AI, and more
4. 3 NovStart Up No.2776: more supermarket fridge hacks, is crypto centralised really?, solving the power grid blip mystery, and more
5. 2 NovStart Up No.2775: are your secrets in bankrupt AI?, Binance investors pull funds, Altman wants all the RAM, cocaine ahoy, and more

October 2026

1. 30 OctStart Up No.2774: China’s spy plot on Nvidia, the neoclouds prepare for death, GM settles car data suit, an AI book prize?, and more
2. 29 OctStart Up No.2773: how to use AI agents, why Apple (finally) made a touch Mac, pondering maths’ future, election AI, and more
3. 28 OctStart Up No.2772: Amazon’s Bee raises AI surveillance questions, never-ending cruise.. ends, the safe internet is over, and more
4. 27 OctStart Up No.2771: Anthropic files S-1, iPhone Duo hits bumps, Rest of World faces uncertain future, Torvalds takes AI, and more
5. 26 OctStart Up No.2770: where’s the AI benefit?, human given AI-made virus, Apple’s new old iPod, Sweep those Mines!, and more
6. 23 OctStart Up No.2769: AI agents found in US bank accounts, the trouble with vulnerability research, can we fix plants?, and more
7. 22 OctStart Up No.2768: Meta fined $25bn over data privacy, AI infects estate agents’ pictures, iPhone Duo needs time, and more
8. 21 OctStart Up No.2767: how chatbots sucked up slop statistics, CoreWeave’s debt trouble grows, BoA rushes to fix software holes, and more
9. 20 OctStart Up No.2766: the coming world of AI agents everywhere, food inflation soars, NIST’s curves exonerated, HomeView Twirl?, and more
10. 19 OctStart Up No.2765: websites start banning AI agents, Microsoft exits UK data centre project, X checks “liveness”, and more
11. 16 OctStart Up No.2764: AI agents used to catch scammers, the passkey reality, the AI spending trap, climate change speeds up, and more
12. 15 OctStart Up No.2763: Nividia’s neocloud trouble, fridges wide open to hackers, how Americans stopped falling in love, and more
13. 14 OctStart Up No.2762: why nation states will fail to dim the Sun, a quick look at Apple’s HomeView, the cut-happy movies, and more
14. 13 OctStart Up No.2761: Anthropic warns of IoT chatbot worms, phishing an AI, Epic says no more games coding by hand, and more
15. 12 OctStart Up No.2760: Ukraine takes out Russian data centres, OpenAI pulls 3/722 maths preprints, .si domains boom, and more
16. 9 OctStart Up No.2759: OpenAI revenue disappoints, man versus robot, the Sad Wives of AI, BBC’s Brittin offers future plan, and more
17. 8 OctStart Up No.2758: LLM reverse engineers Adobe clones, ChatGPT does your school photos, the Disney adult debtors, and more
18. 7 OctStart Up No.2757: Asos app shows hacking message, the gamer decompilation, Google data centre halted in Finland, and more
19. 6 OctStart Up No.2756: BT to absorb failing TalkTalk, Siberia watches for plague, Norway eyes smart glasses law, RAM hike to go on, and more
20. 5 OctStart Up No.2755: another OpenAI safety staffer quits, F1 stalled by software bugs, Meta wants to infuse Muse, nine albums?, and more
21. 2 OctStart Up No.2754: Meta’s data centre tax tricks, AI Overviews evade antitrust, Swiss glacier melt speeds up, RIP SMRs?, and more
22. 1 OctStart Up No.2753: researchers query Anthropic gene find (and its financials), join the OpenAI Dots?, petrol from plastic!, and more

September 2026

1. 30 SepStart Up No.2752: Oura puts off ringing IPO bell, Zuckerberg interviewed, OpenAI frets over 6.1, Google’s orbital plans, and more
2. 29 SepStart Up No.2751: OpenAI struggles with rogue agents, Google’s weird search, California’s eroding coast, Sony skips CES, and more
3. 28 SepStart Up No.2750: the trouble with Meta’s Muse, OpenAI admits to more web probes, AI pushing up US health costs, language!, and more
4. 25 SepStart Up No.2749: hackers get details on all FBI staff, Meta shows off keychain assistant and new VR glasses, passkeys?, and more
5. 24 SepStart Up No.2748: Australia says OpenAI hacked its Medicare, the Xbox wasteland, how wrong is Zitron?, toxic life on Mars, and more
6. 23 SepStart Up No.2747: Meta ignores smart glass row, Dyson toothbrush has damp reception, Fukuyama on AI risk, and more
7. 22 SepStart Up No.2746: Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse agent, chatbots aren’t customer service, the AI writing Alaska News, and more
8. 21 SepStart Up No.2745: US military followed false AI report, how AI found problem gamblers, life on Ozempic, Miami’s drowning, and more
9. 18 SepStart Up No.2744: can an AI beat Pangram’s detector?, Siri AI put to the test, AI-produced sitcom airs, charge up!, and more
10. 17 SepStart Up No.2743: Russia recruits UK vandals online, AI Odyssey film loses the plot, Samsung hurries to unfold new foldable, and more
11. 16 SepStart Up No.2742: US deploys its first space weapons, how agents are ruining the internet, home EV charging at last!, and more
12. 15 SepStart Up No.2741: China’s top spy warns on AI, UK grid needs rapid upgrade, EV price delta grows, Photosynthesis!, and more
13. 14 SepStart Up No.2740: AI chiefs call for slowdown, mathematicians say AI proofs don’t help, how words lost their meaning, and more
14. 11 SepStart Up No.2739: California warms to nuclear power, IDScan confirms 150m drivers licence hack, Huang nixes AI fears, and more
15. 10 SepStart Up No.2738: what’s the risk AI wipes us out?, US might bomb Chinese AGI, Apple unfurls foldable, vibe code this!, and more
16. 9 SepStart Up No.2737: UK government demands to know smartphone users’ age, EV batteries do last well, DeepMind goes genomic, and more
17. 8 SepStart Up No.2736: how AI is changing our perception of each other, relive one of 100 billion lives, Huawei on trial, and more
18. 7 SepStart Up No.2735: what if we had taxed the internet?, OpenAI swarm found on German site, Sony says games aren’t real, and more
19. 4 SepStart Up No.2734: UN warns that world will pass 1.5ºC warming, China’s emissions fall, the loneliness of the baseball viewer, and more
20. 3 SepStart Up No.2733: Google escapes adtech selloff in US, the “ghost creators” in American politics, Word to be less annoying, and more
21. 2 SepStart Up No.2732: how conscious are AI agents?, solar overtakes coal in China, Meta disables hacked smart glasses, and more
22. 1 SepStart Up No.2731: the depth of US data centre opposition, academia’s AI ghosts, the Superbox ripoff, Steve Jobs’s closed mind, and more

August 2026

1. 31 AugStart Up No.2730: a deeper look at the Hugging Face hack, Google AI Overview hurts web traffic, 3D AI models flop, and more
2. 28 AugStart Up No.2729: the devastation of the Nepal glacier disaster, Nvidia looks to hug open source LLMs, GTA6’s big ambitions, and more
3. 27 AugStart Up No.2728: did glacier fracture cause Nepal flood?, Meta settles child safety trial, rogue AI worse than thought, and more
4. 26 AugStart Up No.2727: US tech blames China on datacentres, Yahoo tries yet again, the pain of login, Vision Pro jobs cut, and more
5. 25 AugStart Up No.2726: US data centres’ politics problem, OpenAI warns of AI attacks, will your monitor track you too? and more
6. 24 AugStart Up No.2725: Iranian hackers shut UK power plant, waiting for AI disaster, Roku serves up TV slop, visualising LLMs, and more
7. 7 AugStart Up No.2724: ways to think about AI use, do we need artificial viruses?, South Korea hits record heat, finding GPS, and more
8. 6 AugStart Up No.2723: how an AI agent hacked multiple systems, world hits 3TW of solar, how Google is killing journalism, and more
9. 5 AugStart Up No.2722: US military suspected over GPS plane crash, data centre YIMBYs, Rhine river falls to new lows, and more
10. 4 AugStart Up No.2721: global warming is speeding up, why Time is showing adverts to bots, the AI fast food servers, and more
11. 3 AugStart Up No.2720: $88m bitcoin hack from bad code, the TikTok AI slop shop factory, Substack’s precipice, Apple’s bug fight, and more

July 2026

1. 31 JulStart Up No.2719: the Wikipedian and the chatbots, the TV streaming stick fraud, our average age, and more
2. 30 JulStart Up No.2718: Google breaks up AlphaFold team, EVs rise in UK sales, the data centre building challenge, and more
3. 29 JulStart Up No.2717: AI stocks fall as investors get edgy, eBay pays for harassment campaign, are smart rings AI’s gadget?, and more
4. 28 JulStart Up No.2716: Apple’s AI advantage, AI lobbying explodes, the dangers of underscored usernames, bad AI forecasts, and more
5. 27 JulStart Up No.2715: what shall we do with superintelligence?, smartphones in North Korea, Nvidia corners RAM supply, and more
6. 24 JulStart Up No.2714: Google loses results scraping lawsuit, more on OpenAI’s hacking machine, Samsung has a Fold for all, and more
7. 23 JulStart Up No.2713: how OpenAI’s agent hacked Hugging Face, secondhand books feed chatbot, alerting to Claudefishing, and more
8. 22 JulStart Up No.2712: Meta’s smart glasses as creep enablers, the car alarm that hacks your car, Fable disproves big maths problem, and more
9. 21 JulStart Up No.2711: China intensifies the open source AI war, Meta’s unhappy engineers, how France saved the UK grid, and more
10. 20 JulStart Up No.2710: how vibe coding could hurt open source, Kimi shocks the LLM world, Tokyo’s workers get shorty, and more
11. 17 JulStart Up No.2709:
12. 16 JulStart Up No.2708: Meta’s AI ads go screwy, US soldiers targeted by Iran via phones, Suno hack reveals extent of scraping, and more
13. 15 JulStart Up No.2707: UK mulls midnight social media curfew for teens, sayonara OnePlus, Google sued over AI for books, and more
14. 14 JulStart Up No.2706: Uber’s sneaky self-driving strategy, Meta pulls AI image maker, the colours screens can’t show, and more
15. 13 JulStart Up No.2705: Palantir’s erroneous NHS England data, going analogue!, fake aircon, Apple sues OpenAI, and more
16. 10 JulStart Up No.2704: professor catches out the AI student users, London’s teenager millionaire hacker, ragebait by bot, and more
17. 9 JulStart Up No.2703: X accused in CSAM class action, SCO zombie lawsuit lives again, Netflix to try shorter content, and more
18. 8 JulStart Up No.2702: AI tweaks meaning of writing drafts, data centres push up electricity costs, the Xbox disaster, and more
19. 7 JulStart Up No.2701: Microsoft lays waste to Xbox staffing, should we ban parents from phones?, the secret ad industry, blog death, and more
20. 6 JulStart Up No.2700: huge datacentre project cancelled, the book club scam explained, AI superforecasters are here, and more
21. 3 JulStart Up No.2699: source denies Trump-Anthropic stake talks, Google loses antitrust cases, batteries go big, and more
22. 2 JulStart Up No.2698: Apple’s unhidden email, Xbox and PlayStation plan disc-free future, the silencing by the tech bros, and more
23. 1 JulStart Up No.2697: Tata leak shows iPhone 18 video, San Francisco’s dogs, Google fooled by copyright claims, and more

June 2026

1. 30 JunStart Up No.2696: WhatsApp to offer usernames, “frictionmaxxing” with iPods, Apple fights UK patent ruling, TikTok Today?, and more
2. 29 JunStart Up No.2695: how Android phones warned of Venezuela’s quakes, lessons from the RAM shock, Google rations Gemini, and more
3. 26 JunStart Up No.2694: Apple raises prices (but not on iPhones), Xbox ups prices, whistleblower sues Meta, Instagram’s TV plan, and more
4. 25 JunStart Up No.2693: downed US pilot talks of Iran drones, the data workers behind FIFA’s football AI, commanding Claude, and more
5. 24 JunStart Up No.2692: the extent of GPS jamming, how billionaires hijacked US broadband, AI stock selloff hits US market, and more
6. 23 JunStart Up No.2691: how Polymarket faked big wins, HR consultant wins case with AI, the holes in vibe coding, and more
7. 22 JunStart Up No.2690: our isolated headphone world, Julie Meyer’s trail of trouble, UK plans face scans for age checks, and more
8. 19 JunStart Up No.2689: Qualcomm says smart glasses will replace phones, Florida plans TikTok suit, Apple patches Beats hack, and more
9. 18 JunStart Up No.2688: trust in news sites keeps falling, the AI threat to internet security, memory crunch to hit Apple prices, and more
10. 17 JunStart Up No.2687: examining the UK’s social media ban for under-16s, will Siri AI kill chatbots?, the paid saboteurs, and more
11. 16 JunStart Up No.2686: Pinboard forgot to renew the domain.. so there are no links today.
12. 15 JunStart Up No.2685: Amazon caused Anthropic Fable ban, the deepfake expert, the GLP-1 scammers, solar beats US coal, and more
13. 12 JunStart Up No.2684: the trouble with smartphones, three questions about AI and jobs, SpaceX’s valuation questions, and more
14. 11 JunStart Up No.2683: search results are being slopified, German court rules against AI Overviews, NSO keeps spying, and more
15. 10 JunStart Up No.2682: Anthropic releases Mythos (sort of), Meta pulls smart glass recognition, deepfake ad scams spread on X, and more
16. 9 JunStart Up No.2681: Starmer challenges Apple and Google on nudes, iOS 27 makes itself exclusive, will chatbots kill sex?, and more
17. 8 JunStart Up No.2680: Apple to relaunch Siri *again*, jet fuel shortage hits Brazil, astrophysicists see LLM future, and more
18. 5 JunStart Up No.2679: Meta loads facial recognition into smart glasses, the AI tell, let us filter slop!, Bluesky dreams of Reddit, and more
19. 4 JunStart Up No.2678: Ted Chiang on AI consciousness, ChatGPT hits a billion MAUs, Windows laptops v Apple Neo, and more
20. 3 JunStart Up No.2677: Microsoft shows OS for AI devices, lawyers try to evade AI exams, Norse Atlantic’s flawed service, and more
21. 2 JunStart Up No.2676: the superintelligence problem, Instagram AI helps hackers take over accounts, trouble in the solar business, and more
22. 1 JunStart Up No.2675: Google engineer charged with insider prediction betting, solving maths in dreams, Nvidia PCs?, and more

May 2026

1. 29 MayStart Up No.2674: the AI boosters looking to replace humanity, the casino economy, an anti-snatch iPhone feature?, and more
2. 28 MayStart Up No.2673: Iran’s internet comes back slowly, Claude Code’s creator on programming’s future, killing the bitcoin ATMs, and more
3. 27 MayStart Up No.2672: the Filipinos writing those LinkedIn CEO posts, biomedicine’s fake citation problem, Uber mulls AI, and more
4. 26 MayStart Up No.2671: RAM shortage chokes cheap smartphones, Pope Leo warns on AI, LA’s hapless robots, big solar!, and more
5. 25 MayStart Up No.2670: the new Luddites, where LLMs get their writing, can AI fly the plane?, Ebola outbreak spreads further, and more
6. 22 MayStart Up No.2669: Waymo’s cars hit flood problem, Ofcom chief talks tough on tech bros, Meta begins layoffs for AI, and more
7. 21 MayStart Up No.2668: Google Search goes AI-first, Samsung boss sees end to RAM drought, the coming oil shock, EV sales leap, and more
8. 20 MayStart Up No.2667: the data centre opposition, Iran eyes internet cable fees, the handedness puzzle, micropayments redux, and more
9. 19 MayStart Up No.2666: Musk loses to Altman in OpenAI court battle, world energy tipping point nears, BBC faces the future, and more
10. 18 MayStart Up No.2665: the disposable vape disposal problem, beating pancreatic cancer, the US failure in Iran, personal software!, and more
11. 1 MayStart Up No.2664: AI outdoes ER doctors on triage, how token spend is rocketing, Meta fires smart glass observers, and more

April 2026

1. 30 AprStart Up No.2663: UK EVs pass 2m mark, are OpenAI’s big dreams fizzling?, the gloom of clipping, Musk v Altman, and more
2. 29 AprStart Up No.2662: the UK’s silent messaging, will AI pick your links?, Claude wipes database, OpenAI misses targets, and more
3. 28 AprStart Up No.2661: is OpenAI planning a phone?, Google prepares to meter Gemini, Trump purges US science, Substack v AI, and more
4. 27 AprStart Up No.2660: Ukraine’s rapid war feedback loop, Sam Altman’s human desires, EV ownership nears “tipping point”, and more
5. 24 AprStart Up No.2659: Meta to cut 10% of staff, the AI money squeeze is coming, aluminium prices rocket, the idiot intellectuals, and more
6. 23 AprStart Up No.2658: John Ternus on design, CDC blocks Covid vaccine study, the approaching energy disaster, post-scarcity?, and more
7. 22 AprStart Up No.2657: The challenge for John Ternus, what Tim Cook missed, Lufthansa cancels flights, biology’s motor, and more
8. 21 AprStart Up No.2656: Deezer says 44% of music uploads are AI, national parking app is here!, The Onion owns InfoWars, and more
9. 20 AprStart Up No.2655: RAM drought could last years, Europe’s jet fuel stocks running low, China looks to electric trucks, and more
10. 17 AprStart Up No.2654: Microsoft eschews carbon capture for AI, “workslop” weighs down workers, we’re evolving!, and more
11. 16 AprStart Up No.2653: Iran used Chinese spy satellite for US attack, FCC’s odd Netgear decision, sizing the proton, and more
12. 15 AprStart Up No.2652: the creator of Iran’s Lego propaganda videos, ending range anxiety, back means back, the cell mystery, and more
13. 14 AprStart Up No.2651: Internet Archive squares off with publishers, Beyond Meat’s journey down, how Japan makes trains work, and more
14. 13 AprStart Up No.2650: Greece plans under-15 social media ban, Europe’s airports approach jet fuel shortages, AI’s fake disease, and more
15. 10 AprStart Up No.2649: OpenAI cancels UK data centre project, oil industry fumes over Hormuz, our desire to name the masked, and more
16. 9 AprStart Up No.2648: Meta and Anthropic shake up AI and cybersecurity, Iran demands crypto for Hormuz, GLP-1 genetics, and more
17. 8 AprStart Up No.2647: Google Gemini’s millions of lies, social media’s freak show, the Copilot explosion, watching Trump, and more
18. 7 AprStart Up No.2646: how Iran is becoming a world power, the cybersecurity pro hacking drones, the AI news plagiarist, and more
19. 6 AprStart Up No.2645: the AI agent that set up a tech party, half of US data centres face pause, the food security timebomb, and more
20. 3 AprStart Up No.2644: how Sora burnt through OpenAI’s cash, a history of instant coffee, Wired UK stops printing, and more
21. 2 AprStart Up No.2643: how Steve Jobs learnt to nurture quality, petrol price teachings, RAM forces Raspberry Pi price hikes, and more
22. 1 AprStart Up No.2642: Artemis aims to recap Apollo 8’s journey, how Craigslist did kill US papers, Epic Games lays off 1,000 staff, and more

March 2026

1. 31 MarStart Up No.2641: book publishers fear the AI tide, the White House’s tracking app, the 1980 plan to capture Kharg Island, and more
2. 30 MarStart Up No.2640: Trump faces the Iranian quagmire, goodbye Mac Pro, Kash Patel hacked, the gap AI hype can’t bridge, and more
3. 27 MarStart Up No.2639: sycophant chatbots harm human judgement, Australia’s fuel stocks dip, PC shipments forecast to fall 5%, and more
4. 26 MarStart Up No.2638: Google patents AI site rewriting, Meta and YouTube lose ‘addiction’ trial, X improvement paused, and more
5. 25 MarStart Up No.2637: US bans foreign-made routers, Google rewrites news headlines, OpenAI dumps Sora, VW missiles?, and more
6. 24 MarStart Up No.2636: the hypocrisy at the heart of AI tech, energy price concerns grow, iPad or MacBook Neo?, and more
7. 23 MarStart Up No.2635: the lost fuel finder, from Reuters to Uber, the imaginary Army girl, how Europe and the US lost on EVs, and more
8. 20 MarStart Up No.2634: Long-haul Easter flights face fuel rations, our obese web pages, Land Registry paywall to fall?, and more
9. 19 MarStart Up No.2633: Meta cuts back Horizon Worlds, our over-friendly robots, UK ministers shrug on AI copyright, and more
10. 18 MarStart Up No.2632: Meta readies more job cuts, Kalshi indicted for “gambling”, LLMs used for Github attacks, Wired booms!, and more
11. 17 MarStart Up No.2631: Polymarket gamblers try to change the truth, Britannica sues OpenAI, hacking Companies House, and more
12. 16 MarStart Up No.2630: Google Fiber sold to private equity, AI companies train on “emotion”, Chromebooks’ RAM challenge, and more

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