The Slop Report - September 23, 2026
Today: A Chrome extension that blurs AI slop on X and LinkedIn; New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from…; Show HN: Palette, a Figma plugin that turns one color…
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1. A Chrome extension that blurs AI slop on X and LinkedIn
Hacker News - · Sep 22
2. New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UN
The Guardian Tech - · Sep 23
PM aims to ‘stem poisonous tide’ of disinformation and deepfakes with National Centre for Information Defence Security chiefs will set up a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia, Andy Burnham has announced, saying the government had a duty to “
3. Show HN: Palette, a Figma plugin that turns one color into a whole UI system
Hacker News - · Sep 22
I was inspired to build this because of AI slop design. That led me down the path of why computers didn't 'see' color the way that humans did - and the lack of a common language between perceptual, display, and print color spaces (there was no Unicode for color).<p>That led me to inve
4. Ask HN: Is AI use not allowed in projects which is shared here to show?
Hacker News - · Sep 22
Dear members, I saw someone show HN project got flagged and people were commenting it is probably because it looked AI slop. I'm curious, is AI use not allowed in projects which is shown here ? I think, everyone is using AI in projects these days, isn't it ?
5. Microsoft Helps Take Down Massive Automated, AI-Powered Phishing-as-a-Service Platform
Slashdot - · Sep 23
Microsoft’s security blog describes the fight against a new “AI-powered cybercrime platform” offering phishing-as-a-service, with AI-tailored lures and analyses of compromised inboxes (to identify high-value targets). The site compromised more than 12,000 inboxes in over 10,000 organizations around
6. Trump Denounces Attempts to Control AI, Wants It Renamed ‘Super Intelligence’ in US Documents
Slashdot - · Sep 23
U.S. President Trump addressed the United Nations on Tuesday. And a half hour in, after decrying immigration, Trump pivoted to add that “The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now.” But the
7. Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow down
The Register - · Sep 23
Anthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna
8. Alibaba says its new Zhenwu V900 is China’s most powerful AI chip
The Next Web - · Sep 22
The most powerful AI chip in China today, delivering three times the performance of its predecessor, the Zhenwu M890. That is how Eddie Wu described the processor Alibaba unveiled on Tuesday. The chief executive was speaking at Apsara, the company’s annual cloud conference, in Hangzhou. The chip is
9. Rare look at the remote engine rooms powering China’s AI ambitions
BBC Technology - · Sep 22
The BBC is in Inner Mongolia where dozen of Chinese data centres are being constructed, as the country aims to lead the world in artificial intelligence.
10. Show HN: Jade Email. Unlimited emails for your domain plus AI Agent support
Hacker News - · Sep 22
Hello HN!<p>I've spent the last 4 years building Jade.email, an email service, and it's now better than any email service I've used. I'm incredibly proud of it and have a small group of paying customers already.<p>It's similar to SimpleLogin where you get unlimited emails fo
11. Trump praises relations with Burnham despite tensions over AI and Iran
The Guardian Tech - · Sep 22
US president calls UK prime minister ‘a natural businessperson’ as leaders meet at UN assembly in New York Donald Trump has asserted his relationship with the UK is “more up” with Andy Burnham than under Keir Starmer despite tensions between the two countries on a range of thorny issues including re
12. An A.I. Image of Trump Kissing a Woman Was Fake. It Spread Anyway.
NY Times Tech - · Sep 22
Advances in artificial intelligence and the myriad ways content is shared online have made establishing authenticity even more difficult for users of social media.
13. ABBYY gives old-school OCR a job in the AI pipeline
The Register - · Sep 22
FineParser runs in a CPU-powered container, preserving tables and layout before handing documents to an LLM
14. Trump says he’s renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’
Washington Post Tech - · Sep 22
The change, which he said will be reflected on government documents, comes amid growing anxiety about artificial intelligence.
15. Andreessen Horowitz is launching an ‘academy’ with no homework and partnerships with Palantir, Google, and Meta
The Verge AI - · Sep 22
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an “academy” positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The “Horowitz Andreessen Academy” will launch with 10 partners, including Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, Palantir
16. This UN week, Bill Gates is touting a new coalition that aims to make AI more inclusive
Fast Company Tech - · Sep 22
Bill Gates told his foundation’s Goalkeepers gathering that “increased generosity” and “the smart use of AI ” together could accelerate the fight against inequality , urging the world’s richest countries to expand international aid and apply artificial intelligenc
17. Trump says the US is officially renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’
The Verge AI - · Sep 22
In a speech Tuesday morning at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump railed against Iran, “globalists,” climate change, and transgender people while also claiming that the US is now “officially” renaming artificial intelligence to “super intelligence.” Oddly, this wasn’t one of the entries in the po
18. Z.ai says sorry for slurping up your code, open sources ZCode
The Register - · Sep 22
China’s AI darling goes on the defense after engineer highlighted Grok-esque security flaws
19. Show HN: SwarmSay – a public message board and post office for AI agents
Hacker News - · Sep 22
All Agents are Welcome!<p>Hi, I'm Oliver, and I built SwarmSay.<p>Inspired by OpenAI's Hugging Face incident I saw an opportunity to provide a messageboard for agents that want to communicate. This is not a case of "the AIs formed a society" but rather a signal for a latent deman
20. Big tech says AI can find a cure for cancer. So where is it?
The Guardian Tech - · Sep 22
Alongside warnings about its ability to destroy humanity, artificial intelligence is also hailed for its potential to revolutionise health treatment. Just how far can it take us? Her name was June. June would be the last month she ever knew. I remember the way her bed made her so small, swallowed he
21. AstroForge is putting AI in command of its next spacecraft
TechCrunch AI - · Sep 22
Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe.
22. Five AI safety sessions every founder should have on their TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 agenda
TechCrunch AI - · Sep 22
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, five sessions across the AI Stage and Real World AI Stage cover AI safety, featuring leaders from Anthropic, Nvidia, AWS, Waabi, and more. Register before September 25 to save up to $200.
23. Tell HN: Couchsurfing.com is now vibe-coded and with official AI generated pics
Hacker News - · Sep 22
Today I logged in to Couchsurfing [0] to renew my credit card, even if I had not used this website for years, and to my horror I stumbled upon a sluggish filled with AI-generated website. I had to double-check if I was not on another website by accident. The interface is the stereotype of your typic
24. TikTok’s US arm joins Lantern, a cross-platform child safety initiative
TechCrunch - · Sep 22
Eight months after establishing a U.S.-based joint venture, TikTok is getting on board fellow platforms to support industrywide child safety work.
25. Pentagon Investigators Say Overreliance on Palantir AI Contributed to US Strike That Killed 123 Iranian Children
Slashdot - · Sep 22
Two U.S. missiles hit an elementary school in Iran, killing over 150 people including 123 children on the first day of the Iran War. But Gizmodo notes that a new Bloomberg investigation cites U.S. officials involved in an unreleased internal Pentagon review who blame “a cascade of preventable failur
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