Buzzers promote «taskmasking» in offices — simulation of active work
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»
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
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
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
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
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
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»
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
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
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
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»
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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)
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
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.
Artificial intelligence Grok advised to execute Elon Musk and Donald Trump
When the Grok chatbot was asked who deserves the death penalty in the United States, it named Elon Musk and Donald Trump Company xAI is investigating why this happened.
«Do you want to be obeyed?» Sony reveals «sex emails» of Destiny 2 game director suing for unfair dismissal
Former game director Destiny 2 and Marathon Christopher Barrett has filed a lawsuit against Sony in December 2024, accusing the company of unfair dismissal, a sham investigation, and refusal to pay $45.5 million under the contract. The company immediately responded to the lawsuit and provided personal letters and recordings of Barrett’s…
SpaceX engineers have replaced the fired FAA specialists — the agency that authorizes rocket launches for Musk’s space company
Sources of the publication WIRED reports that SpaceX engineers have been appointed senior advisors to the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), an organization that, among other things, authorizes space rocket launches (including those of Elon Musk’s company).
Psychologists: working from home affects the formation of «strange» habits — and neglect of hygiene, including
Business Insider has released an interesting article, which includes interviews with psychologists and remote workers and, among other things, assesses how working from home affects the formation of our habitsRemote work has many advantages, such as no formal wear and no morning commute, but there are also disadvantages — and one of them is that…
Elon Musk doubled the price of X Premium+ subscription «a couple of hours» after Grok 3 announcement
Elon Musk’s Twitter (X) has doubled its Premium+ subscription, which includes the latest version of the Grok 3 artificial intelligence model — in fact, a few hours after its presentation, as the publication noted TechCrunch.
Google launches «false» earthquake alerts at 2 a.m. on thousands of smartphones — in a region where they almost never happen
On Friday, around 2 a.m., thousands of Android smartphone owners in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, among others, received false emergency alerts about a 5.5 magnitude earthquake. The alarm turned out to be fake, and Google was the main culprit.
Elon Musk has launched government sites for DOGE: one is a WordPress stub page, and the other is available for anyone to edit (it’s fun)
The official government website of Elon Musk’s Department of Efficiency (DOGE) appears to be receiving information from a database that can be edited by any third-party developers.
USAID executives suspect Gemini of spying and recording conversations through Google Workspace apps, — media
It is reported that the leaders of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have warned employees that Gemini can record their conversations through Google Workspace programs.
Overdoing it with the assortment: the Amazon app will show a list of products that the company «does not sell»
It seems that the huge assortment in the online store has forced Amazon to resort to strange updates — from now on, the Amazon Shopping app will provide a list of goods that the company does not sell.
Chinese woman sues Tesla over an accident with «faulty brakes» — court orders her to pay $23,000
Chinese citizen Zhang Yazhou sued Tesla in 2021 after she was involved in a Model 3 accident — allegedly due to «faulty brakes».
Elon Musk offered to buy OpenAI for $97 billion — Altman responded and seems to want Twitter instead
A group of investors led by Elon Musk plans to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion, reports The Wall Street Journal.
A Japanese IT company offers «sick leave for hangovers» and gives away free alcohol at work. What’s the catch?
And there is no trick to it — this is simply how a small IT company, Trust Ring, based in Osaka, is trying to attract new employees and compete with large players in the industry that offer higher salaries.
Moonshine machine with NVIDIA RTX 4090 FE? Billet Labs presents The Boiler, a compact PC
PC developer Billet Labs has unveiled The Boiler — a miniature steampunk-style copper and liquid-cooled computer equipped with NVIDIA RTX 4090 FE.
Tired of working «calls»? Researchers say our «ugly faces» are to blame
If you’re annoyed by work-related calls, you might just be bored with your face — at least that’s what researchers say in a new article published in the scientific journal PLOS One.
The X Files: real-life Mulder and Scully may be fired from the FBI
Two pieces of news: the FBI does have an informal UFO task force, like the series The X Files, but its employees can be fired for being unreliable.
A researcher has determined how artificial intelligence represents an average person: a woman in her 30s, working in IT and living… in Russia/Japan
Interestingly, American AI models do not suspect that anyone lives in China at all, while none of the — subjects could imagine a world outside the gender binary.
Odesa resident pretended to be an IT and crypto specialist — defrauded 14 acquaintances of UAH 760 thousand
A resident of Odesa district introduced himself as head of an IT company, a cryptocurrency specialist and other experienced professionals, and demanded money for services that he was not going to perform.
A gamer bought a new PlayStation 5 on Amazon, but received a PS3 in a «shabby» PS4 box
An Indian gamer who ordered a PlayStation 5 on Amazon discovered that after payment and delivery of the parcel, he received something else — instead of a PS5, he received a PS4 box with a PS3 inside.
«Time for them to die»: Elon Musk works to shut down USAID, says agency funded «biological weapons development»
Elon Musk, now head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the Trump administration, «is working to close USAID» — and the newly minted US president allegedly supported him in this
The priest and owner of the gaming site God is a Geek repeated «the Nazi gesture» Elon Musk — he was defrocked and the editorial staff quit
Priest, far-right political commentator and former games journalist Calvin Robinson imitated the Nazi salute during a speech against abortion on January 25, directly referring to Elon Musk’s infamous «gesture» after Donald Trump’s inauguration.
DeepSeek lost its trademark in the US — someone else registered it 36 hours earlier
On Tuesday, the Chinese startup DeepSeek filed an application for trademark registration with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), but it turned out that they had already been beaten to the punch by another company — and only by 36 hours.
«For the defense of freedom of speech»: Elon Musk nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Elon Musk’s activities have provoked a controversial reaction from members of the European Parliament: some accuse the billionaire of undermining democracy and call on the EU Commission to impose sanctions on him, while others —have nominated him for the Nobel Prize.
Facebook calls Linux «a cybersecurity threat» and bans people who mention the OS
It seems that Facebook is now banning some posts or threads that mention the word «Linux».
«Really insane»: Bill Gates criticizes Elon Musk’s remarks on foreign policy
Bill Gates talked about his three-hour dinner with Donald Trump in December 2024 and called Elon Musk’s foreign policy statements insane.
«They have no money». Elon Musk publicly praised the Stargate project and called the head of OpenAI a fraud
The Stargate project was personally introduced by Donald Trump, as part of the grand plans of his administration for the development of artificial intelligence — however, this did not prevent the main supporter of the newly elected president, Elon Musk, from publicly criticizing the program.
During TikTok’s ban, iPhones were sold on Ebay for $1 million — it turned out that old iOS devices were not affected by the blocking
The ban on TikTok in the USA, although it did not last as long as expected, caused panic among a large number of long-time users of the social network, so it is not surprising that some decided to make some money from this situation.
TikTok will pay for Trump’s inauguration party scheduled for January 19 — the day the social network is blocked
TikTok will contribute about $50,000 to Donald Trump’s inaugural party, effectively becoming one of its main sponsors, according to Politico.
«See? It’s not hard»: A fellow science fiction writer added a dedication to George Martin in a book, mocking him for «The Winds of Winter»
American fantasy writer Larry Correia has released the final book of his “Saga of the Forgotten Warrior,” taking the opportunity to mention in the dedication his colleague George Martin, who fans (and now colleagues) mock for his very long work on the book “Winds of Winter.”
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