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«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.

Buzzers promote «taskmasking» in offices — simulation of active work

News IT business 03-18-2025 at 11:13 comment
Essentially, Zoomers make an extra effort to look like they are working hard when they are not — the trend «taskmasking» is currently trending on TikTok and includes videos with tips on how to look busy and get praise from your boss.

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

News WTF 03-17-2025 at 21:08 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 at 17:00 comment
It is said that the German automaker’s core business is weakening, but Volkswagen still set a sales record — albeit for sausages.

Police seize $200K from OnlyFans model during search — more to come

News Ukraine 03-13-2025 at 08:23 comment
The police conduct searches of Ukrainian models of OnlyFans, which was first reported to the State Tax Service and later to the Bureau of Economic Security. About reports resource «Ekonomichna Pravda», referring to the words of one of the models whose house was searched by law enforcement and $200 thousand seized.

Netflix enhanced 1980s sitcom with AI — the result terrified viewers

News Technologies 03-12-2025 at 12:19 comment
In February, Netflix added the series «A Different World» — spinoff «The Cosby Show», which aired from 1987 to 1993, to the platform. But not a simple version, but an HD remaster, which somewhat puzzled and even scared viewers.

Facebook employees secretly founded a «feminist fight club» because they didn’t feel supported by their boss

News WTF 03-11-2025 at 17:29 comment
On Tuesday, Sarah Wynn-Williams, former director of global public policy at Meta (at the time the company was called Facebook), published a book with her memoirs describing 6 years of working for Zuckerberg — and, among other things, the activities of a secret women’s club created in 2017.

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

News WTF 03-11-2025 at 15:01 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.

Elon Musk: «The cyberattack on X (Twitter) was carried out from the territory of Ukraine»

News WTF 03-11-2025 at 09:50 comment
Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly Twitter), said that yesterday’s social networking site outage was due to a large-scale cyberattack, which was carried out by a «large coordinated group and/or country» and later Fox Business comments clarified that it was organized by «IP addresses originating from the territory of Ukraine». As…

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 at 18:31 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.

A fired developer planted malware in the company’s IT systems — wanted revenge, but got 10 years in prison

News IT business 03-10-2025 at 14:30 comment
Davis Lu, a 55-year-old developer, had been working for Eaton Corporation for 12 years and was facing redundancy in 2019 — but he decided he wouldn’t quit so easily and left his management and colleagues with a «parting surprise».

Amazon’s AI praises Mein Kampf as «a true work of art», and Google picks up on it

News WTF 03-10-2025 at 12:52 comment
Amazon and Google’s AIs fell into the trap of calling Mein Kampf «a true work of art».

Researchers: surgeries on Fridays have «more chances of death»

News Science and space 03-07-2025 at 17:46 comment
In a new study, American doctors have concluded that the danger of performing surgical operations on Friday.

The HR manager hired fictitious employees and «earned» $2.2 million on their salaries — the fraud was discovered only after 8 years

News IT business 03-07-2025 at 17:44 comment
The HR manager of a technology company from Shanghai «earned» $2.2 million in 8 years by hiring non-existent employees and misappropriating their salaries.

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

News Devices 03-06-2025 at 18:57 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 at 18:46 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.

Twelve Tesla cars burned down in France — a manifestation of fiery «love» for Elon Musk

News Auto 03-04-2025 at 12:03 comment
More than a dozen Tesla cars burned down in a store in Toulouse, France. It is suspected that it was an intentional arson attack amid global protests against Tesla and Elon Musk.

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

News Auto 03-03-2025 at 19:00 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 at 15:43 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 at 12:38 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 at 12:19 comment
Researchers have found that a dark theme for smartphones and laptops can drain their batteries faster than previously thought.

«Father with many children» with Photoshop: IT specialist tried to go abroad with a «fake» child

News IT business 02-24-2025 at 15:09 comment
A programmer from Dnipro decided to go abroad, but he had no legal grounds. So he came up with a scheme: in one of the city’s bars, he bought a child’s birth certificate form, filled it out, and became a «father of many children». But the plan failed — border guards in Bukovyna immediately noticed the fake and sent the man to court.

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