Again, an AI alter ego is the way to go.
AI agents are only as good as the personal information you share. That raises privacy concerns.
The AI agent boom is here, along with a new set of privacy concerns | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/meta-muse-openai-dot-ai-privacy-449734d41d3750aad7038b761faa49c9
The AI Selloff Is Spreading To The Stocks Investors Thought Were Safe
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimosman/2026/10/18/the-ai-selloff-is-spreading-to-the-stocks-investors-thought-were-safe/
Oblivion Remastered Mod Built Using Claude AI Boosts FPS By Over 40% And Drastically Reduces Stuttering Without Sacrificing Visual Quality
https://wccftech.com/oblivion-remastered-mod-built-using-claude-ai-boosts-fps-by-over-40-and-drastically-reduces-stuttering-without-sacrificing-visual-quality/
Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/17/meta-removes-language-that-raised-scraping-and-ai-training-concerns/
Google is renaming Gemini again; here's what each feature does now
https://www.androidpolice.com/googles-renamed-gemini-features-field-guide/
New Tools Let Users Edit and Load Modified VBIOS on GeForce RTX GPUs Without Flashing | TechPowerUp
https://www.techpowerup.com/353849/new-tools-let-users-edit-and-load-modified-vbios-on-geforce-rtx-gpus-without-flashing
US teens can access 'nudify' apps despite Apple and Google's parental controls, report finds | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/19/us-teens-nudify-apps-apple-google-parental-controls
Microsoft is actively rebuilding Windows 11 Search. What does it mean? Our deep‑dive answers every major question. | Windows Central
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-will-get-a-new-search-experience-faq
North Carolina has the lowest gas prices in the country. Some say it's still too high :: WRAL.com
https://www.wral.com/news/local/north-carolina-lowest-gas-prices-country-some-say-still-too-high-october-2026/
San Diego airport leads U.S. in lead pollution. 30 schools are near.
https://inewsource.org/2026/10/18/san-diego-montgomery-airport-leaded-fuel-pollution/
Busting The Myth That Plastics Are Chemically Inert In Water | Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/17/busting-the-myth-that-plastics-are-chemically-inert-in-water/
US issues rare Middle East red alert warning to its citizens in the region | Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/19/us-issues-rare-middle-east-red-alert-warning-to-its-citizens-in-the-region
YCRBYCH
Ubicquia UbiHub AI+: The Best Inventions of 2026
https://time.com/collection/best-inventions/2026/ubicquia-ubihub-ai/
sounds ok, but that 'to manage traffic' caught my eye...
LADOT Streets and Curbs Visibility Using Existing Infrastructure
https://cdn.sanity.io/files/1851a3wt/production/ffc24dd97068b8b62fed14a5f5e7188eb620dc5a.pdf
h/t Techmeme: Stripe Link data shows agentic transactions increased by 38x and volume of payments by 20x in September, with retail leading in both, and a ~$100 average spend
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/data-stripe-link-how-ai-assistants-spend
Low effort Claude built a usable website in 90 seconds, and max only made it a little better
https://www.howtogeek.com/low-effort-claude-built-a-usable-website-in-90-seconds-and-max-only-made-it-a-little-better/
The science and politics behind the panic over ultraprocessed foods
https://theconversation.com/the-science-and-politics-behind-the-panic-over-ultraprocessed-foods-292661
Don't let your finished filament spools go to waste, do this instead
https://www.makeuseof.com/finished-filament-spools-waste-do-this/
Jetsons Air Car - Neatorama
https://www.neatorama.com/2026/10/18/Jetsons-Air-Car/
'It scored higher than OpenAI's GPT5.6 Sol on Terminal-Bench 4.0. DeepSeek only charges $1.20 for output per 1 million tokens at peak hours and $0.60 at non-peak hours—a tiny fraction compared to $20 for GPT5.6 Sol.'
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/deepseeks-upgraded-v4-1-flash-model-shakes-ai-industry
per jessefelder.com -bsky
Everybody likes a nice, cozy fire.
A hacker broke into more than 100 websites -including John Deere, Cummins, and SharkNinja- using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013643/ai-agents-hack-john-deere-shark-ninja-cummins
Developers and vibe coders are using AI tools like Claude Code to get rid of sponsored ads on their smart TVs, disable tracking features, and more
People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/19/people-are-using-ai-to-make-their-smart-tvs-dumb-again/
Blocking Identity Resolution Infrastructure | WebKit
https://webkit.org/blog/18438/blocking-identity-resolution-infrastructure/
Chrome, Firefox??: Bringing back the old Reddit interface, with a few new enhancements. · GitHub
"ORIB is a Manifest V3 browser extension" <=== This is the important part
https://github.com/rajtilakjee/orib?tab=readme-ov-file
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>"ORIB is a Manifest V3 browser extension"
RC: could an extension enable manifest 2?
Gem: No. A standard browser extension cannot enable, restore, or re-activate Manifest V2 support in a Chromium browser.
RC: Phooey