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«Elon Musk does not use a computer»,— his lawyers say

News WTF 06-24-2025 at 16:40 comment
According to his lawyers at the trial against OpenAI, Elon Musk does not use a computer. And all those fake records in games and posts on X about the laptop were probably made by Martians.

OneDrive user lost 30 years of data — Microsoft banned the account without explanation and ignored 18 recovery requests

News Software 06-23-2025 at 12:35 comment
OneDrive user wrote on Reddit, he wrote a lengthy post about a conflict with Microsoft, which suddenly blocked his account and, consequently, access to the cloud storage with data from more than 30 years of work — the company did not provide any explanation and ignores requests for restoration, sending only boilerplate replies.

Britain paid £500 thousand to move the dot on the logo of the Gov.UK website

News WTF 06-23-2025 at 09:47 comment
The government website Gov.UK helps UK citizens fill out tax returns and receive other useful services. Its rebranding angered the public.

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 at 15:04 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.

People turn to ChatGPT for love advice — this can make them unhappy

News WTF 06-17-2025 at 17:34 comment
It seems that not everyone understands that ChatGPT is not a living person, a source of unquestionable knowledge, or a psychologist. People are turning to AI for advice in romantic relationships, and this is a bad idea.

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

News WTF 06-09-2025 at 16:02 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 at 11:25 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 at 15:46 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 at 21:00 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 at 15:39 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 at 11:23 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.

Zoomers on TikTok pretend to be the creation of the Veo 3 neural network and collect millions of views

News WTF 06-02-2025 at 15:51 comment
Since the moment when Google introduced its Veo 3 model that can generate realistic videos based on text queries, distinguish between reality from AI creations has become much more complicated — and bloggers from TikTok are taking full advantage of this, pretending to be video versions generated by the technology and collecting millions of views.

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

News WTF 06-02-2025 at 13:44 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.

These 50 PINs are the most commonly used — they are best avoided

News WTF 05-30-2025 at 18:14 comment
The most common PINs were found in a database of 29 million records. If you find yours, it’s better to change it, as fraudsters know about them too.

«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…

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