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Wikipedia Oct 22, 2026 at 03:11 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Saarow
  • Bad Saarow’s official municipal area is 50.36 km², not 51.98 km².
  • Bad Saarow officially has 2 Ortsteile, not 4.
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Wikipedia Oct 22, 2026 at 02:59 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Goma_BBC_interview
  • This misstates the book’s publisher. The official Simon & Schuster page says the book was published by Liberalis Books and only distributed by Simon & Schuster.
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X Oct 22, 2026 at 02:47 PM
x.com/ag_Journalist/status/2112274111766675644
  • This is incorrect: Saudi Arabia and Bangladeshi officials both say the two executions followed court proceedings, including a lower-court ruling and appellate review.
  • This was false when posted. Bangladeshi officials and airport staff said the bodies had not yet arrived, and viral coffin footage was from an unrelated case.
  • Reporting based on Bangladeshi diplomatic records and family statements contradicts this. The two were already in Saudi Arabia by late 2022, and there is no confirmed evidence they were a newly married couple on honeymoon.
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Wikipedia Oct 22, 2026 at 02:37 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Saudi_Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia's 2020 reform did not end the death penalty for all child offenders. It applied only to certain discretionary cases, while juveniles can still face execution for qisas and hudud offenses.
  • The 2020 execution total is wrong. Credible tallies put Saudi Arabia's 2020 executions at 27, not 69.
  • This sentence understates how many Saudis were in the March 2022 mass execution. Official and independent reports said the 81 executed men included 73 Saudis, 7 Yemenis, and 1 Syrian — not 37 Saudis total.
  • The arrest date is wrong. UN documentation says Aqil bin Hassan Al-Faraj was arrested on 25 December 2013, not 15 December 2013.
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X Oct 22, 2026 at 02:36 PM
x.com/UnseenFilesDoc/status/2112265431432175744
  • Reporting from Bangladesh contradicts this: the man’s family says he was unmarried and did not know the woman, and both were reported to be migrant cleaners in Saudi Arabia rather than Umrah pilgrims.
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Wikipedia Oct 22, 2026 at 12:38 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rybka
  • This sentence misdates the 17th World Computer Chess Championship. The Pamplona championship was held in May 2009, not March 2009.
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Wikipedia Oct 22, 2026 at 12:28 PM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitboard
  • This is backwards: standard magic-bitboard implementations store precomputed attack bitboards in lookup tables and use the hash only to index those stored tables.
  • Corner bishops have 6 relevant occupancy bits before optimization, not 5.
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Wikipedia Oct 22, 2026 at 10:54 AM
ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%9F%E...
  • ലൂഥറുടെ സന്യാസവ്രതത്തിലേക്കു നയിച്ച ഇടിമിന്നൽ അനുഭവം 1505 ജനുവരി 2-ന് അല്ല, 1505 ജൂലൈ 2-നാണ് നടന്നതെന്ന് ഉറവിടങ്ങൾ പറയുന്നു.
  • ലൂഥറുടെ വിവാഹം പുരോഹിതവിവാഹം ‘തുടങ്ങിയ’ സംഭവം അല്ല. ലൂഥർ വിവാഹം കഴിക്കുന്നതിനുമുമ്പേ പല പുരോഹിതന്മാരും സന്യാസികളും സന്യാസിനികളും വിവാഹിതരായിരുന്നു.
  • ലൂഥർ ‘നവോദ്ദാന പ്രസ്ഥാനം’ ആരംഭിച്ചില്ല. നവോദ്ദാനം/റിനേസൻസ് ലൂഥറിനും മുമ്പ്, ഇറ്റലിയിൽ 14-ആം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിൽ തന്നെ ആരംഭിച്ച സാംസ്കാരിക പ്രസ്ഥാനമാണ്.
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Wikipedia Oct 22, 2026 at 10:07 AM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
  • This misidentifies who actually voted. BIPM’s own documents say the decision was adopted by the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), and only Member States vote at CGPM meetings.
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LessWrong Oct 22, 2026 at 09:57 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/uFBhZhdKLaZ6qF8mn/there-will-be-hell...
  • This timeline is off: FlyGym was available well before late 2024, with public releases beginning in 2023 and version 1.0.0 released on June 20, 2024.
  • MaleCNS v1.0 was not released in September 2026. The official release notes date v1.0 to June 8, 2026; September 2026 was when Janelia publicized the work more broadly.
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LessWrong Oct 22, 2026 at 09:47 AM
www.lesswrong.com/posts/SwYBLQvo8MddDcCwz/cat-belling-proble...
  • This misstates the contest details. Open Phil announced $225,000 across six prizes, and the contest questions were about AGI by January 1, 2043 and catastrophe conditional on AGI by 2070—not a '$50,000' contest framed around a '2050 median' prompt.
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X Oct 22, 2026 at 09:36 AM
x.com/choblin29/status/2113163141538267148
  • This overstates Censys’s numbers and misstates patch availability. Censys said about 1.15 million hosts were on unsupported branches with no official release, and it noted vendor backports and PHP source backports do exist for some older branches.
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X Oct 22, 2026 at 09:27 AM
x.com/S1r1u5_/status/2113011155962835296
  • This blanket attribution is inaccurate. At least some of the cited examples explicitly say they used publicly available GPT‑5.6 access rather than Daybreak-restricted access.
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X Oct 22, 2026 at 09:01 AM
x.com/elon_lit/status/2112957586886860880
  • This is not a PyTorch "zero-day" under PyTorch’s own security model. The scenario depends on importing and executing an untrusted training package, and PyTorch explicitly says executing user-provided code/custom operators is expected behavior, not a framework vulnerability.
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X Oct 22, 2026 at 07:31 AM
x.com/spokespersonyem/status/2112898808119967803?s=20
  • البيانات الرسمية والتقارير الإخبارية المنشورة يوم 21 أكتوبر 2026 قالت إن مطار الريان استُهدف بثلاث طائرات مسيّرة، لا بثلاثة صواريخ باليستية.
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X Oct 22, 2026 at 07:26 AM
x.com/Sarah_AlTalibi/status/2112967776562557351?s=20
  • التقارير الرسمية التي صدرت وقت الهجوم قالت إن مطار الريان استُهدف بثلاث طائرات مسيّرة، لا بصاروخ باليستي.
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X Oct 22, 2026 at 06:44 AM
x.com/fiveoutofnine/status/2113045722744717360?s=20
  • Censys did not say 1.5 million hosts were on unfixed PHP branches. Its own Oct. 21 advisory says about 1.15 million hosts reported unsupported PHP 8.1-or-earlier branches with no official release.
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X Oct 22, 2026 at 06:33 AM
x.com/S1r1u5_/status/2113105144917155864
  • This was not just a disclosure. Multiple vendors reported real exploitation activity around the time of disclosure, including attacks seen before or during public release.
  • This was not merely a disclosure. Mozilla and eMudhra both described the incident as a compromise of eight intermediate certificate keys.
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X Oct 22, 2026 at 06:32 AM
x.com/DevMuzzammil/status/2113042127039164663
  • This Siemens item was an exploited software vulnerability, not a breach of Siemens itself. Siemens says no Siemens system, product, or update channel was breached.
  • The SiteGuard item refers to a disclosed OS command injection vulnerability in SiteGuard Server Edition, not evidence that SiteGuard itself was breached.
  • This Node.js item was a security release addressing vulnerabilities, not a documented breach of Node.js itself.
  • PHP2Shell was a critical PHP vulnerability disclosure and emergency security release, not a breach of PHP itself.
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X Oct 22, 2026 at 06:31 AM
x.com/4A4133/status/2113008219891109996
  • The disclosed bugs are in HTTP/3/QPACK implementations layered on top of QUIC, not in the QUIC transport protocol itself.
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