This is actually good. I occasionally tell people which ones are unreliable but I've decided to now keep it to my in-group. After all, HN and other such communities of pseudo-smart-money decided that SuperMicro was spying on every CPU instruction because Bloomberg told them that. Easy money on SMCI, boys.

I'm really hoping that this kind of stuff happens slightly more (not a lot more, that undermines the market). Just a few high-profile things that play to the kind of paranoia common here: Maybe another Facebook/CambridgeAnalytica would be a good one. Something to do with Google spying on Android phones maybe? Amazon Echos reporting to the Chinese government?

Holding out hope for a nice panic journalist to put one out. Delicious. Come on. There's got to be someone who'll do it.