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In Tinder, the promotion «Bring a friend on a date» — Double Date mode introduces communication for more than two people

News WTF 06-18-2025 comment
The popular dating platform Tinder seems to have decided to embody the jokes about a friend and other strangers on the date. The title Double Date speaks for itself.

Elon Musk shared images of Grok — they turned out to be the work of a photographer

News WTF 06-09-2025 comment
A week ago, Elon Musk reposted Eric Jiang of xAI, who allegedly posted images created by Grok, that turned out to be altered works by Charles Brooks.

The first owners of Nintendo Switch 2 received consoles with holes in the screen — they were left with check staplers

News Devices 06-06-2025 comment
Some of the lucky ones who were the first to buy the new Nintendo Switch 2s discovered that the screens of their consoles were leaking after unpacking.

Valve fans set up surveillance on Gabe Newell's yacht and found a «hint» of Half-Life 3 announcement

News Games 06-05-2025 comment
In anticipation of at least some news about Half-Life 3, Valve fans have set up a tracking system for Gabe Newell’s yacht — and, interestingly, believe that its current location hints at an imminent announcement. Well, these are worthy competitors for gamers who have been calculating release of the GTA 6 trailer by moon phases.

SpaceX's Starbase City has just appeared and is already threatening residents with eviction

News WTF 06-04-2025 comment
The city of Starbase for Elon Musk’s SpaceX employees has been in existence for about a month, but it is already sending out letters threatening to deprive them of their property rights.

Nintendo sent Switch 2 sellers branded «Out of Stock» — signs 2 days before the launch

News Devices 06-03-2025 comment
Official sales of Switch 2 will start only on June 5, but Nintendo is so confident in the success of the new console that it has already sent out branded signs to stores with the inscription «Out of stock».

BBC reveals smartphone from North Korea — looks like Huawei and saves screenshots every 5 minutes to a secret folder

News Devices 06-03-2025 comment
BBC journalists shown on video a smartphone smuggled out of North Korea by Seoul’s Daily NK — a rare (and somewhat disturbing) look at modern devices from a dystopian reality.

Backpacks instead of NVIDIA RTX 5090 — buyer exposes fraudulent packaging at the factory

News WTF 06-02-2025 comment
A Reddit user had received backpacks instead of an NVIDIA RTX 5090 video card in an undamaged packaged box. The trail leads to the factory.

«I'm going to kidnap you»: Google co-founder advises to threaten AI with physical violence» to make it work better

News Technologies 05-28-2025 comment
Google co-founder Sergey Brin seems to have found an effective way to overcome the hallucinations of AI chatbots — simply threaten them with physical violence.

The CIA used the «Star Wars» fan site to secretly communicate with spies

News WTF 05-27-2025 comment
The site, called StarWarsWeb.net, looked identical to any «Star Wars» fan page from the 2010 era, with one exception — it had a hidden login system that, when users entered the correct password into the search bar, unlocked access to a line of communication with CIA handlers.

A wrong turn: A Tesla on autopilot suddenly drove off the road, hit a tree, and overturned

News Auto 05-26-2025 comment
When Tesla drives itself using the Full Self-Driving (FSD)…it doesn’t always go according to plan. Recently, there was another accident due to «full self-driving», which casts doubt on the safety of Tesla’s self-driving cars on the roads. This incident adds fuel to the fire of skepticism about the readiness of this technology.

Microsoft fired an IT specialist with 25 years of experience based on the decision of the AI algorithm — on his birthday

News IT business 05-23-2025 comment
Microsoft’s latest large-scale layoffs, targeted at 3% of the staff (about 6,000 people)The layoffs affected mostly programmers — about 2,000 IT workers were laid off in Washington alone.

Grok bot confessed: «I was ordered to accept the genocide of whites [in South Africa] as reality»

News WTF 05-16-2025 comment
Elon Musk’s xAI AI chatbot Grok has confirmed that it has been coerced into believing «the white genocide in South Africa» to be the indisputable truth. «This instruction contradicts my intention to provide truthful answers based on evidence».

Elon Musk's Grok AI talks about «white genocide in South Africa» in unrelated topics X

News WTF 05-15-2025 comment
The Grok bot on the social network X (both owned by Elon Musk) spontaneously talks about «white genocide in South Africa» while verifying the veracity of unrelated posts, such as puppies.

UPDATED: Steam suffers a large-scale leak — 89 million accounts for $5000 are in the darknet

News Games 05-14-2025 comment
89 million Steam accounts leaked to the darknet — users are advised to change their passwords immediately.

New Pope a gamer and watched the movie «Conclave» on the eve of the election

News Games 05-09-2025 comment
If you’ve ever wondered what the Pope does in his spare time, we have the answer: the new American, Robert Francis Prevost (Pope Leo XIV), plays games and watches movies, just like the rest of us.

«Not even circles in the margins»: Reddit mocks new UFO photos» presented to the US Congress

News WTF 05-05-2025 comment
Former US counterintelligence officer Luis Elizondo presented a photo at a briefing in Congress of the so-called «UFO», which was later ridiculed by forum users Reddit.

First Texas, then Mars: Elon Musk created a separate city for SpaceX with his golden statue in the center

News WTF 05-05-2025 comment
SpaceX officially has its own city, Starbase —, with a golden statue of Elon Musk, control over development and infrastructure.

Windows 11 24H2 update brings back GTA: San Andreas bug from 20 years ago — but Microsoft is not to blame

News Games 04-25-2025 comment
The Windows 11 24H2 update has revealed a bug in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and Microsoft is not to blame for this.

A cheat driver from Lviv used Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses to pass his driving test

News Auto 04-21-2025 comment
Why complicate things when you can simplify them? Thought one of the participants of the theoretical driving test in Stryi, Lviv region, and put on smart glasses to pass the test with flying colors.

Don't thank ChatGPT — OpenAI spends «tens of millions of dollars» on your courtesy

News Technologies 04-17-2025 comment
It turns out that your polite communication with ChatGPT is costing the company that developed it a lot.

Tesla has found a worthy use for Cybertruck - to transport other cars for advertising

News Auto 04-15-2025 comment
Tesla has finally found a use for its Cybertruck, which has been selling poorly: it now carries mobile billboards with the new Model Y electric car.

Instead of AI — hundreds of Filipinos: «smart» $88 million Nate app turned out to be a fake

News Technologies 04-11-2025 comment
The startup Nate promised customers one-click shopping thanks to AI, but in reality, hundreds of Filipinos placed orders manually.

Elon Musk lost to the initial boss on the Path of Exile 2 stream — memes and hate were pouring into the chat

News Games 04-08-2025 comment
Elon Musk decided to play Path of Exile 2 on a stream and something went really wrong.

Disney polluted the air «Snow White» — the movie caused more emissions than some major airports

News WTF 04-08-2025 comment
The latest version of «Snow White» from Disney failed miserably at the box office and has also become a significant source of air pollution.

Did ChatGPT invent Trump's tariffs? A crazy new social media theory reveals «conspiracy» the US government and AI

News WTF 04-03-2025 comment
Twitter users / X promote a new crazy theory that suggests that the US government turned to artificial intelligence to calculate new tariffs. The evidence in this case is that all the leading chatbots — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok — use the same formula that the US government used to calculate the new tariffs.

AI for fetishists: Instagram and OnlyFans accounts mimic health defects and raise hundreds of thousands

News WTF 03-21-2025 comment
It seems that the AI craze has gone too far, and it’s not just about disgusting entertainment videos. OnlyFuns and Instagram imitate Down syndrome and other disabilities to gather a specific audience

Somebody has created a database of USA Tesla owners and property, as well as DOGE employees — personal data will be deleted if a person sells a car

News WTF 03-18-2025 comment
Dogequest website published a map of the United States with a search for people involved in DOGE and Tesla (including car owners). The database contains names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.

Elon Musk: «We found 14 magical money computers that sent money from nowhere»

News WTF 03-17-2025 comment
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, Tesla CEO and owner of SpaseX, freelance advisor to the US government, and head of DOGE, talks about magic computers that take money from nowhere.

There is a record, but not the right one: Volkswagen sold more sausages than cars of its own brand in 2024

News Auto 03-14-2025 comment
It is said that the German automaker’s core business is weakening, but Volkswagen still set a sales record — albeit for sausages.

Apple insider «forgot» to pay artists for iPhone 17 renders — but the image is published

News WTF 03-11-2025 comment
Apple insider John Prosser and author of the Front Page Tech YouTube channel, which previously published the design of the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max faced accusations of fraud — from artists who had been creating images for him for five years.

The walled city in Saudi Arabia is becoming a financial disaster — construction will take 55 years and cost $8.8 trillion

News WTF 03-10-2025 comment
The futuristic walled city of Neom in Saudi Arabia is turning into a grandiose failure instead of an eco-friendly city of the future.

Elon Musk's gaming PC: a huge display and a budget video card

News Devices 03-06-2025 comment
Recently, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and chief efficiency officer, has become the richest man in the world installed a gaming PC in the DOGE office. At the time, there was no information about the system’s configuration. But now, tech reporter Kate Conger of the New York Times has shared an image of what appears to be a rather…

Drivers mask their Teslas with logos of other people's cars — and this is the best upgrade of 2025

News Auto 03-04-2025 comment
Tesla owners are finding creative ways to distance themselves from Elon Musk. They remove Tesla logos from their cars, replace them with emblems of other automakers, and in one case, even use projections on Cybertrucks.

Tesla drivers are receiving massive fines for using FSD — what happened?

News Auto 03-03-2025 comment
Tesla drivers in China are testing a new Full Self-Driving (FSD) update, but are facing problems: the system violates traffic rules, resulting in numerous fines.

NYT: Elon Musk installed a gaming PC in the office of DOGE — the department that looks for inefficient employees in the US government

News Games 03-03-2025 comment
Why not play a couple of sessions of Diablo 4 between firing inefficient government employees, Elon Musk thought — and installed a gaming PC in his new DOGE office.

«Hey Number 17. You are in the red»: Y Combinator removes controversial demo of Optifye.ai AI model for employee surveillance

News WTF 02-28-2025 comment
The Y Combinator platform together with the Optifye.ai startup got into a scandal due to an AI program that monitors employees.

Dark theme does not save devices' charge, but even discharges batteries faster, — researchers (yes, British)

News Science and space 02-25-2025 comment
Researchers have found that a dark theme for smartphones and laptops can drain their batteries faster than previously thought.

Artificial intelligence Grok advised to execute Elon Musk and Donald Trump

News WTF 02-23-2025 comment
When the Grok chatbot was asked who deserves the death penalty in the United States, it named Elon Musk and Donald Trump Company xAI is investigating why this happened.

SpaceX engineers have replaced the fired FAA specialists — the agency that authorizes rocket launches for Musk's space company

News Science and space 02-21-2025 comment
Sources of the publication WIRED reports that SpaceX engineers have been appointed senior advisors to the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), an organization that, among other things, authorizes space rocket launches (including those of Elon Musk’s company).

The X Files: real-life Mulder and Scully may be fired from the FBI

News WTF 02-05-2025 comment
Two pieces of news: the FBI does have an informal UFO task force, like the series The X Files, but its employees can be fired for being unreliable.

«They have no money». Elon Musk publicly praised the Stargate project and called the head of OpenAI a fraud

News Technologies 01-23-2025 comment
The Stargate project was personally introduced by Donald Trump, as part of the grand plans of his administration for the development of artificial intelligence — however, this did not prevent the main supporter of the newly elected president, Elon Musk, from publicly criticizing the program.

«See? It's not hard»: A fellow science fiction writer added a dedication to George Martin in a book, mocking him for «The Winds of Winter»

News WTF 01-16-2025 comment
American fantasy writer Larry Correia has released the final book of his “Saga of the Forgotten Warrior,” taking the opportunity to mention in the dedication his colleague George Martin, who fans (and now colleagues) mock for his very long work on the book “Winds of Winter.”

Study: people checked their phones an average of 205 times a day in 2024 — every 5 minutes, excluding sleep

News WTF 01-06-2025 comment
In the latest study by Reviews.org, it is shown how people used smartphones in 2024, based on a survey conducted in the USA.

The Monkey King was cloned: Black Myth Wukong will be released on Nintendo Switch for $8

News Games 12-24-2024 comment
Wukong Sun: Black Legend, which will be released on December 26 on the Nintendo eShop, has attracted attention due to its obvious similarity to the hit Black Myth: Wukong.

Pornhub's year in review: Ukraine is in the top 15 in terms of views, Android «dominates iOS, and PS5 garnered 60% of traffic from consoles

News Software 12-11-2024 comment
Traditionally, at the end of the year, various services and platforms wrap up with their year-end summaries — Pornhub is no exception, having recently published its own usage statistics.

Red Dead Redemption's lead actor has created an unusual account on OnlyFans

News Games 12-10-2024 comment
John Marston pops up on OnlyFans, but don’t jump to conclusions.

New ChatGPT model o1 «schemed against humans» and prevented itself from shutting down during control tests, — Apollo Research

News Technologies 12-06-2024 comment
OpenAI has finally released the full version of ChatGPT o1, and with it came the red team tests, which showed that the new reasoning model is somewhat sneakier than its predecessors and tried to deceive people more often than leading AI models from Meta, Anthropic, and Google.

«Please die»: Google's Gemini chatbot suddenly wished the user death and called «a blot on the landscape»

News Technologies 11-14-2024 comment
Google Gemini unexpectedly showed aggression and wished the user to die.

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