Tuesday, August 18, 2026
ArchiveIsrael creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
Israel funded a fake think tank that exists solely to feed AI chatbots curated answers on Gaza. The technique — LLM poisoning via synthetic expertise — is new, documented, and probably not unique to one government.
ICE Worked With Iranian Regime to Set Up Deportation Flights as Trump Laid Plans for War
Internal emails show ICE complied with Iranian requests to hand over specific nationals — while Trump planned airstrikes against Tehran. Then they deported the wrong person.
A Quiet War on the Seabed
Two cables cut off Perth in hours. The legal framework protecting the internet's physical backbone? An 1884 telegraph treaty with no enforcement mechanism. The gap between how the world actually works and how we assume it does.
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
A camera pointed sideways on a moving train, capturing one pixel-wide line at a time. The result: the entire railway corridor rendered as a continuous, surreal flatbed scan. Stupid-brilliant engineering at its finest.
Palestinian General Interview
Channel 5 sits down with a Palestinian general — no panels, no pundits, just a camera and a military commander rarely seen on screen. Callaghan's format strips the usual layers away.