# GAMING & CULTURE

# GAMING & CULTURE

vlgr Oct 10, 2026

Palm Beach Pete Spends Years Trying to Prove He's Not Epstein. Or Does He?

Palm Beach Pete's latest "attempt" to establish his identity involves Israeli DNA technology, the Ministry of Defense, millions of spectators and a party umbrella.

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vlgr Oct 8, 2026

EU and Britain show their love for Linux by banning it. Only de facto, not de jure.

New product liability rules in the EU and proposals under discussion in Britain could have far-reaching consequences for Linux and the wider open-source ecosystem. Add growing government enthusiasm for age verification and operating-system-level controls, and the future of independent computing starts looking rather less independent.

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vlgr Oct 5, 2026

American “Free Speech” is “The Opposite of Free Speech”, says Macron

Hitting someone, stabbing someone, insulting someone online and damaging someone’s property are all examples of exceeding the permissible limits of "our freedom". Information, Macron says, has to be treated within “public order.” People posting inconvenient things online should feel the consequences to save "our democracy".

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vlgr Oct 3, 2026

Bill Gates, an expert on everything, proposes to tax robots and AI usage

Gates made his money on software that sat on other people’s computers. He now feels as a standing authority on pandemics, food systems, energy, education, and the correct tax treatment of a language model.

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vlgr Sep 21, 2026

Do YOU Have Alien DNA? CIA Wants to Know.

You mailed your saliva because you wanted to know whether you were 14 percent Irish. The CIA allegedly wants to know whether Grandma came from another solar system. The CIA has been accused of secretly searching consumer DNA databases including 23andMe and Ancestry for people carrying extraterrestrial DNA.

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vlgr Sep 9, 2026

OpenAI Solves a Century-Old Math Problem Using a Method Previously Known as “The Customer”

OpenAI says its AI has cracked a famous mathematics problem. Researchers who put their unpublished work into its tools would like to know how much of the intelligence was artificial.

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vlgr Aug 3, 2026

Europe Demanded Age Verification. Europe Could Not Build Age Verification.

Europe spent years rewriting legislation to protect children online, reaching from digital-ID verification to access the internet to banning children from communicating in multiplayer games. Then came the implementation phase.

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vlgr Aug 3, 2026

VLGR Predicts This Week’s Ickonic Episode - SpaceX to Patch the Moon on Wednesday

At approximately 06:35 UTC on August 5, a spent Falcon 9 upper stage is expected to strike the lunar surface near Einstein Crater at roughly 5,400 miles per hour. The impact will release energy equivalent to around three tons of TNT. David Icke Expected to Discover Who Really Benefits.

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vlgr Jul 26, 2026

The Holy Ghost didn’t help the Vatican devs secure the personal data

The Vatican’s official prayer app exposed personal data from 719,517 accounts. An ethical hacker reported it in January. Apparently neither heaven nor the developers could be bothered.

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vlgr Jul 25, 2026

Europe’s Most Successful Technology Business Is Fining Foreign Technology Businesses

Google, Apple, Meta, Temu and AliExpress have all discovered Europe’s latest digital innovation: the regulatory invoice. The fines enter the EU budget, national payments continue rising and Brussels remains dependent on the same American and Chinese platforms it cannot reproduce.