surveillance, satellites, and secret rooms

Monday, October 19, 2026

Shiva came to my house and would not leave until I fed him.

1. Saudi OpenAI engineer arrested for bugging executive conference room
2. Body cam footage of the license-plate search a judge called mass surveillance
3. US threatens ‘devastating’ retaliation if Europe reserves satellite spectrum from SpaceX
4. Brian Potter on why robots can’t steal the training data trick that made LLMs work
5. SIGSALY: the room-sized scrambler Churchill used to call Roosevelt
6. The 1986 contest for the world’s most boring headline The winner: ‘Debate Goes on Over the Nature of Reality’