Thousands of Norwegian residents became «millionaires» due to a mistake in the state lottery code — winnings were overstated by 10,000 times
Last week, a short-lived wave of euphoria swept across Norway as thousands of residents received notifications that they had become millionaires after winning the Eurojackpot lottery. It would seem that everything should have ended with the purchase of luxury cars and housing, but instead, the «winners» received significantly smaller amounts and…
The developers of The Alters «got burned», who use AI — in the game, found the chatbot's answers
11 bit Studios had to admit that they used AI during the development of The Alters. The creators were not lucky enough to hide their secret.
Chinese students bypass AI detectors... with artificial intelligence — because they mark real texts as generated
It turns out that to prove that your text was not written by artificial intelligence — you just need to ask artificial intelligence for help.
Facebook is trying to lure data for its AI from your gallery and unpublished photos
Facebook is testing a new feature that requires users to have access to your entire gallery and photos you haven’t posted yet — officially, to offer you versions «improved by AI»; and possibly to collect data to train its artificial intelligence models.
«You shall not pee!»: in LEGO «The Lord of the Rings» Balrog does something funny and non-canonical to Gandalf
The new LEGO set based on the novel «The Lord of the Rings» with Balrog and Gandalf caused a lot of comments in X due to a not-so-good marketing photo.
Tiktoker donated a pair of Apple AirTag sneakers to the Red Cross — he found them at a second-hand store in Bosnia
The Apple AirTag showed how donations to the Red Cross work. A TikTok user found his charity sneakers 800 kilometers away and bought them back for €10 at a second-hand store.
Danish residents to receive copyright on body, voice and face to protect against AI
Denmark is planning to introduce the first rules in Europe to protect citizens from AI dipshits and grant them copyright to their own body, voice, and facial features.
A developer from Cherkasy has created a clone program Reserve+ to avoid problems with the CCP and earn extra money
A developer from Cherkasy found a «original» way to avoid problems with the TP and earn extra money at the same time — he created a copy of the Reserve+ app, which could supposedly be presented in the same way as the original.
Apple pissed off iPhone owners with ads in Apple Wallet — the app sends notifications with a movie announcement «Formula 1»
Apple has found an original way to promote its own movies — through the Apple Wallet app, which is currently issuing notifications advertising cheap tickets to «Formula 1» with Brad Pitt.
Court allows Anthropic «to steal» legal AI training books — to pirate
It turns out that using officially purchased books to teach AI without the permission of the authors — is «fair use». At least, this is the opinion of the California District Court, which sided with Anthropic in a copyright infringement lawsuit.
«Elon Musk does not use a computer»,— his lawyers say
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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»
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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