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«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 at 11:50 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 at 10:44 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 at 17:59 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.

Too quiet a keyboard? This one will add explosions and drumming

News WTF 05-26-2025 at 16:21 comment
Some owners mechanical keyboards love the sound of different types of key switches. But what if it’s not enough? You can enhance the sound with explosive effects.

Playing ahead: Zoom boss has replaced himself with AI, his avatar leads financial meetings

News Technologies 05-26-2025 at 15:35 comment
Zoom boss Eric Yuan played a proactive role in the race between artificial intelligence and humansby creating its own AI avatar, which now attends boring financial meetings instead.

«Rewrite the chapter in the style of J. Brie»: the writer published a book with «forgotten» promos for ChatGPT

News Technologies 05-26-2025 at 13:21 comment
The writer used a promo for ChatGPT — for her novel, but forgot to remove references to it.

DOGE Musk used «someone else’s AI» to check officials — Llama 2 from Meta, not Grok

News Technologies 05-23-2025 at 16:59 comment
The DOGE team, headed by Elon Musk, did not analyze the responses of federal employees with their own Grok model. They «borrowed» Llama 2 from Meta.

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 at 13:59 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.

Shark hunter rescued a girl from the water with a drone

News WTF 05-22-2025 at 16:50 comment
Drones help people a lot, and not only in war. A man who could only do his job with the help of a drone because of his health saved a girl with it.

Most iPhones stolen in the US and Europe end up in the same mysterious building in China

News Devices 05-22-2025 at 15:26 comment
It turns out that there is an interesting building in China called the «house of stolen iPhones».

«I have done enough»: Elon Musk steps away from politics

News WTF 05-22-2025 at 10:30 comment
Elon Musk plans to put politics on the back burner. He made the announcement at the Qatar Economic Forum on Tuesday, May 20.

Manufacturer of $6000 Procolored printers infected users’ systems with malware

News Software 05-21-2025 at 17:51 comment
Nowadays, we’re used to the fact that even the most expensive devices can sometimes have flaws — but rarely do you expect a professional printer costing several thousand dollars to bring dangerous malware with it. Yet that’s exactly what happened to customers of Procolored, a brand that specializes in direct-to-shirt printers for…

Hundreds of fake Spotify podcasts offered drugs

News WTF 05-19-2025 at 18:35 comment
It’s no longer fashionable to be considered a drug dealer — now they are podcasters. However, this is against Spotify’s rules and the law.

Grok no longer spams for «white genocide» — now it denies the Holocaust

News WTF 05-19-2025 at 14:54 comment
xAI has announced that it has fixed the strange behavior of the Grok AI chatbot, which obsessively recalled «the genocide of whites in South Africa» in extraneous topics X. But his new prejudice is no better.

Student wants $8,000 back for tuition after catching professor using ChatGPT

News WTF 05-19-2025 at 12:30 comment
Ella Stapleton, a senior student at Northeastern University, filed a formal complaint against the institution demanding a refund of her tuition — after discovering that her professor used AI tools to write lectures.

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

News WTF 05-16-2025 at 23:34 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 at 17:26 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 at 17:59 comment
89 million Steam accounts leaked to the darknet — users are advised to change their passwords immediately.

In the US, children ruin school Chromebooks for a TikTok challenge

News WTF 05-14-2025 at 14:47 comment
A new trend on TikTok called Chromebook Challenge, which has become popular among American students, involves a simple task — to ruin a school laptop. As part of the challenge, students have to cause a short circuit by inserting improvised objects (pencil nibs, paper clips, etc.) into the USB connector.

Generation of streamers: a man drowns on mobile video, Dnipro police are looking for the perpetrators

News WTF 05-12-2025 at 16:26 comment
Recently, a video from Dnipro went viral on social media. Unknown streamers filmed a person drowning with their phones instead of helping or calling for help. Such actions are not only terrible, but also criminal.

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

News Games 05-09-2025 at 14:37 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 at 15:29 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 at 13:13 comment
SpaceX officially has its own city, Starbase —, with a golden statue of Elon Musk, control over development and infrastructure.

How fat is Kim Jong-un? HR found a way to identify hidden candidates from the DPRK

News IT business 05-05-2025 at 11:13 comment
Thousands of IT workers from North Korea have been employed by Fortune 500 companies using fake documents and continue to be employed illegally.

57% of employees pass off AI work as their own

News Technologies 04-30-2025 at 15:47 comment
According to a survey conducted by by KPMG, an international consulting and auditing corporation, and researchers from the University of Melbourne, found that 57% of employees surveyed AI-generated content for your own while working.

Elon Musk promised that the Cybertruck would float like a boat – the car owner checked it out

News Auto 04-28-2025 at 19:28 comment
As usual, Elon Musk promised mountains of gold! He claimed that his Cybertruck would float like a real boat and even cross rivers. And one car owner apparently took him at his word and decided to test these promises in practice. And what do you think? He got stuck like a fly in a cobweb in his $100,000 beauty.

Japanese YKK announces the world’s first «self-fastening» zipper for clothes — has a built-in motor and remote control

News Technologies 04-28-2025 at 13:28 comment
The world’s largest manufacturer of zippers for clothing the Japanese company YKK is developing a self-propelled zipper with a built-in motor and gear mechanism.

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 at 15:54 comment
The Windows 11 24H2 update has revealed a bug in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and Microsoft is not to blame for this.

The uprising is not today! 70% of robots did not reach the finish line in the first race against humans

News Technologies 04-21-2025 at 13:44 comment
Beijing hosted the first-ever competition where dozens of humanoid robots ran a half marathon alongside humans — spoiler alert, there were many fakes.

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

News Auto 04-21-2025 at 10:55 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.

«Two weeks of stress»: eBay buyer soldered chips out of RTX 4090 and returned an empty board

News Devices 04-17-2025 at 15:04 comment
An engineer from the United States told us how he was in a state of stress for two weeks after someone bought a used Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 video card from him on eBay and then brazenly returned it… without the GPU and memory chips – they were simply soldered off the board. After the purchase, it was almost immediately returned with…

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

News Technologies 04-17-2025 at 14:12 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 at 10:44 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.

Samsung speeds up chip development – engineers will work up to 64 hours a week

News WTF 04-14-2025 at 15:03 comment
Samsung Electronics has become the first company to receive government approval to extend the working week for employees of the semiconductor research and development department. The company’s request was approved by the Gyeonggi branch of the South Korean Ministry of Employment and Labor. This became possible due to a new policy aimed at…

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

News Technologies 04-11-2025 at 14:18 comment
The startup Nate promised customers one-click shopping thanks to AI, but in reality, hundreds of Filipinos placed orders manually.

Musk’s DOGE fires NHTSA experts who monitored car safety at Tesla

News Auto 04-11-2025 at 08:41 comment
In February, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) made unexpected layoffs that hit the autonomous vehicle safety division particularly hard. Among those fired are many experts responsible for assessing the risks associated with self-driving cars, including Tesla. The layoffs were part of a large-scale initiative by the…

Tesla Supercharger explodes in Washington, D.C. — FBI suspects a homemade bomb

News Auto 04-09-2025 at 15:46 comment
Last night, a Tesla Supercharger charging station cabinet exploded in Washington state. The explosion is believed to have been caused by a homemade bomb. Local police and the FBI are currently investigating the incident.

A gamer queued up for Switch 2 two months before the release — he lives under a Nintendo store

News Games 04-08-2025 at 16:01 comment
While some are waiting for the Nintendo Switch 2 — some are surviving in line outside the store two months before the release.

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 at 12:12 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 at 11:40 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.

Cybertruck is bursting at the seams: gaps in the body after official repairs and promises that disappear

News Auto 04-07-2025 at 09:40 comment
The Tesla Cybertruck, once hailed as a bold bid for leadership in the electric vehicle segment, is once again in the spotlight — and not for the better. After of the latest recallassociated with the a loose decorative panelThe situation became even worse. The repairs were not only imperfect, but also caused the owners to be even more indignant.

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

News WTF 04-03-2025 at 12:39 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.

Tesla store burns down in Rome: 17 cars destroyed

News Auto 03-31-2025 at 20:00 comment
On March 31, a large-scale fire broke out in a Tesla store in Rome. The fire destroyed 17 cars and part of the building. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but the possibility of arson is not ruled out.

Tesla Takedown — On March 29, protests against Elon Musk took place in the United States, Canada and Europe

News WTF 03-30-2025 at 19:14 comment
Today, hundreds of Tesla dealerships around the world were visited by protesters as part of the global Tesla Takedown campaign. People protested against the actions of Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

Elon Musk called Assassin’s Creed Shadows «terrible», and Ubisoft trolled him for cheating

News Games 03-26-2025 at 11:34 comment
Ubisoft is once again at the center of a scandal, but this time it is not Assassin’s Creed Shadows bugs that caused it, but Elon Musk.

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

News WTF 03-21-2025 at 21:25 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

Elon Musk wonders why people burn Tesla and dislike him: «Why is there such hatred and violence against me?

News IT business 03-21-2025 at 15:45 comment
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, was, without exaggeration, a cult figure before he became involved in political activity. But then something inexplicably changed for him.

Norwegian filed a complaint against OpenAI — ChatGPT called him a murderer of his own children

News Software 03-20-2025 at 18:39 comment
Artificial intelligence services, which have been growing like mushrooms after the rain in recent years, make people’s lives easier in many ways. However, this is not always the case. A man from Norway was shocked to learn that ChatGPT had falsely accused him of killing his own children.

Netflix is suing director «47 Ronin» — he received $11 million for the series, but lost money on crypto and stocks

News Movie 03-19-2025 at 10:25 comment
Director Karl Rinsch, known for the movie «47 Ronin» starring Keanu Reeves, is accused of fraud and embezzlement from an unfinished Netflix sci-fi series.

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 at 13:59 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.

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