sugar, snakes, and sovereign machines

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

I cursed my own roses so no one could see them.

1. Britain’s postwar sugar rationing accidentally cut cancer risk for life
2. EU packaging rules just killed the garage hardware maker
3. Could a rogue LLM seize control of its own GPU server?
4. A pie-slice of Antarctica the size of a continent — and nobody noticed its geology until now
5. New snake species named after Slash — he’s been a reptile collector since childhood
6. Minimum wages hurt the poorest workers most, new NBER study finds