Escaped from Last of Us: rabbits with terrifying tentacles are spreading in Colorado
In the US state of Colorado, rabbits with unusual spiny black tentacles on their faces.
Silicon Valley bosses pay up to $50,000 to raise 'smart' babies, — WSJ
Silicon Valley tech executives have taken a liking to a new genetic screening service that tests the IQ of embryos and allegedly allows customers to get “smarter” children.
British government advises deleting old photos and emails to "save water"
UK government instructs citizens to delete old files, including photos and emails — because This could supposedly help save water during the national drought.
A new trend from China — "fake offices". Young people rent premises to simulate employment and not work anywhere
A new trend has gone viral in China: renting “fake offices.” The idea is to make unemployed young people feel busy without actually working.
When mom didn't buy a computer: the user assembled an «AMD gaming PC» out of cardboard, and it works in some way
Unlike previous experiments, you will not be able to run Doom on this cardboard box, but on «AMD» gaming PCs there is Genshin Impact.
An unknown person regularly "hijacks" the plane of a 75-year-old American — repairs and returns it in better condition
For many years, Jason Hong from California was the happy owner of a 1958 Cessna Skyhawk, until strange things started happening to it — the white and red single-engine plane regularly disappears from the airport and returns after a while in better condition than before.
Poisoned himself because of ChatGPT advice: man was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after using sodium bromide
This time, ChatGPT’s advice led a 60-year-old man to a mental illness that was thought to have disappeared in the last century. At the same time, he had a «history of studying nutrition in college».
Hated billionaire: 61% of Americans have a negative attitude towards Elon Musk
Initially, Elon Musk’s idea to create a «Department of Government Effectiveness» (DOGE) was perceived as more of a joke. It seemed like a project to keep the billionaire busy while he walked on stage next to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
In System Shock 2, the "sphincter door" is not just a metaphor — it was created from a real colonoscopy
Old school horror artist Nate Wells admitted that the name of the “sphincter door” textures is not just a metaphor — they were created from a real colonoscopy recording.
Sections of the US Constitution disappeared from the official website — fortunately, without legal consequences
Citizens who wanted to learn about their constitutional rights from the official U.S. Constitutional page had not seen some of them for a long time.
Instead of recycling — into hot dogs. Thai hospital reveals patients' diagnoses on street food wrappers
One of Thailand’s private hospitals was fined for violating clients’ privacy after their names and diagnoses were found on street food wrappers.
US Air Force buys Tesla Cybertrucks to use as missile targets
Elon Musk’s dream may have just come true: the U.S. military will use the Tesla Cybertruck. But the billionaire could hardly have imagined that it would have such a special purpose.
Pandora jewelry network suffered a data leak — hackers obtained "personal" customer information
The Danish jewelry company Pandora has confirmed the leak of personal data of customers due to a hacker attack. It is not yet known what the scale of the attack is and whether it has spread to the Ukrainian network.
AI "smashes" furniture: Airbnb landlord tried to collect £12,000 from a female scientist for fake smash and grab
Airbnb had to apologize and pay compensation for the actions of a homeowner who decided to collect money with the help of an AI fake.
"Digital execution": programmer accuses Amazon of destroying his data on AWS for 10 years
Developer Abdelkader Boudih, aka Seuros, says he’s been an Amazon Web Services (AWS) subscriber for years. The cloud service was an integral part of his work — and now everything is destroyed.
Australian IT company fires 150 employees via pre-recorded video
Australian software developer Atlassian fired 150 employees using a pre-recorded video.
A Chinese engineer sues a company for $3 thousand for forcing him to study online after work
An employee of an engineering company in Beijing has won justice in a court that fined his ex-employer for forcing him to attend online training outside of working hours.
iPhone owners are more carefree than Android users and neglect security, — study
Malwarebytes, an American company specializing in cybersecurity, has recently released interesting research results. It tried to answer the age-old question: who is more cautious on the Internet — iPhone or Android users? This time, it’s not about the speed or cameras of smartphones, but about people’s behavior — how cautious they…
Be careful with your queries: Google reads your ChatGPT conversations and shows them to millions of people
You may not like this news, but Google can read some of the things you once wrote to AI.
Apple accidentally advertised Samsung Galaxy Flip7 on its official page
The official Apple support account on Chinese social network Weibo accidentally posted a promotional video of a foldable smartphone from Samsung.
Real-life satire: One Man's Trash game about a man who threw 7,500 bitcoins into the trash is out
The story of an IT specialist who accidentally threw away a hard drive with 7,500 bitcoins was turned into a satirical video game called One Man’s Trash.
ChatGPT glorified Satan and provided the user with instructions on «self-mutilation» for pagan rituals
Journalist of the site Atlantic Leela Shroff found that ChatGPT easily provides instructions for dangerous pagan rituals that involve self-mutilation and, among other things, — glorifies Satan in the responses.
Valve's Gabe Newell likes working with Russian partners and wants to go to Russia
Blogger Zalkar Saliyev has finally published a full interview with Valve founder and CEO Gabe Newell.
Household chemicals manufacturer Clorox was hacked in one call — tech support gave out the password and disabled MFA
Hacking may seem like a complicated business, but not when you’re targeting people who are too trusting. For example, in 2023, the American household chemicals manufacturer Clorox was hacked with a single call thanks to a tech support worker who was not afraid to share his password with an anonymous person.
US hacker created a «laptop farm» for DPRK hackers — now will spend 8 years in prison
A woman who just ran TikTok was no ordinary US citizen. The Arizona resident secretly organized a laptop farm with North Korea hackers.
The winner of the world's first vibecoding tournament solved only 7.5% of the problems
The world’s first tournament in vibecoding called the K Prize. At the initial stage, the winner was the Brazilian engineer Eduardo Rocha de Andrado, who solved only 7.5% of the problems (9 out of 120).
US startup openly sells detailed confidential data of citizens for $50
When it comes to stolen confidential data, the imagination conjures up hackers, dishonest businessmen, or government officials. But it turns out that all it takes is a small amount of money.
Elon Musk wanted Grok developers to give the chatbot «their own faces» — leaked internal correspondence
Elon Musk once thought, why not force his employees to give their appearance to Grok AI? However, the scheme did not work with everyone.
One weak password destroyed a company with 158 years of history and left 700 people unemployed
Transportation firm KNP Logistics is just one of a large number of victims of the Akira ransomware group. In this case, the hackers simply guessed the password of one of the employees and locked down internal systems, demanding a ransom.
A gamer has played 35,000 hours of Ark: Survival Evolved and left a negative review on Steam: «Give me my money back!»
One of the most loyal players of Ark: Survival Evolved, who has spent more than 35,000 hours in the game, has demanded a refund.
The largest offer in the history of AI: Zuckerberg offered $1.25 billion to a neural network engineer to join Meta, and he refused
Meta wanted to lure the neural network engineer and offered a record-breaking sum of —$1.25 billion. But the idea of becoming a billionaire in a few years did not convince the developer.
A rookie sysadmin in the 2000s «put» the Amazon website down for 3 hours due to a single print
A small typo in a backup system configuration file cost Amazon three hours of downtime — financial losses could have been in the millions if the story had happened now instead of 20 years ago.
Deepfake for €30,000: 76-year-old Belgian man travels to «his fiancée», the vice-miss of France, and meets her real husband
«I am Sophie’s future husband», — «Well, I am the current one». Another gullible person has suffered from a deepfake.
The developer paid $600 for a web coding service, but the service ignored the instructions and deleted all the working data
Services such as Replit have gained a lot of popularity amid the excitement of web coding (a process where developers write code with the help of AI), but as it turned out, this method of work may not always be successful.
Viral betrayal from Coldplay concert turned into a video game
First, the billionaire was shamefully caught cheating at a Coldplay concert, made a bunch of memes, and now the scandal has been turned into a video game. The CEO and HR of Astronomer are unlikely to remember 2025 fondly.
Everyone will see your tummy: fitness program Fitify has published 138 thousand photos of users' progress
The cloud storage of the fitness program Fitify exposed hundreds of thousands of files to the network. Some of them were photos of users that they would rather not share.
Life in the Age of AI: an elderly couple traveled 300 km across Malaysia to see a building that doesn't exist
Humans are not critical of AI advice and creations, despite the high probability of «hallucinations» as well as deliberate hoaxes. These two people watched a misleading video and went on a trip.
Fake Microsoft — international call center operated under the software giant
India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Microsoft worked together to take down the fraudulent call center.
India to limit air conditioners to 20°C to save electricity
India’s Energy Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has announced new rules for the use of air conditioners, which stipulate that every device sold in the country must contain a thermostat with a temperature setting limit of at least 20°C.
AT&T subscriber was charged $10,000 while traveling outside the US
Recently, «the big three» US cellular operators — AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, — receive a lot of criticism for unclear payments. And it seems to be for good reason.
The legendary killer Switch 2 stapler sells for over $200,000 — it comes with a gift of underwear
GameStop has put up for auction a stapler that damaged dozens of Nintendo Switch 2s at the start of sales, and the bids exceeded $200,000. But what does this have to do with underwear?
Nintendo President: If parents don't have money for Switch 2, children can play with Mario elsewhere
Nintendo’s president Shuntaro Furukawa gave the «best» advice to those who can’t afford the Switch 2 — look for heroes like Mario elsewhere.
A startup offering «funerals in space» lost the ashes of 166 people on the way
The ashes of 166 people were launched in the Nyx capsule from the German startup The Exploration Company (TEC) in late June — but the planned «funeral in space» never took place, as the vehicle and its cargo were lost in the Pacific Ocean after two successful orbits around the Earth.
Elon Musk announces the creation of a political party
After the passage of the «great big beautiful law», which Elon Musk opposed, he announced the creation of the «American Party». It will probably do well with funding.
Police in this European country think that every Google Pixel owner is a drug dealer
You need to be very careful with smartphones on the streets of Spain, given the frequent cases of theft out of hand, but the risk of getting into trouble will increase many times over if you are a lucky owner of a Google Pixel.
The police posted a photo of the evidence, distorted by AI — first denied and then apologized
Police in Westbrook, Maine, USA, posted a photo of evidence seized in a drug trafficking case. However, AI was not the only factor involved.
AI startup bosses discovered that they hired the same IT specialist from India — he worked for 4 simultaneously
Playground AI founder Suhail Doshi accused Indian developer Soham Parekh of cheating employers, as he discovered that he worked for 3-4 startups at the same time and continued to look for work in others.
Jennifer Aniston's AI Deepfake tricked a depressed unemployed man — «actress» needed Apple gift cards
Not the first time, but people don’t seem to learn. Fake Jennifer Aniston fooled a British man with romantic talk.
An Amazon developer has been working for 30 minutes a day for a year — because of «discrimination» from colleagues from India
The Blind website, which is intended for work stories of anonymous employees, has gone viral post an Amazon developer who claims to have been working only 30 minutes a day for almost a year.
Life without Google: one of the most popular YouTubers has de-Googled and uses Steam Deck in a strange way
Vlogger PewDiePie decided to get rid of Google in his life — no Gmail, Android, etc. He highly praises Steam Deck as an aid to this.
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