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Elon Musk says that taking ketamine during periods of low mood is in the interests of investors

News WTF 03-18-2024 at 17:53 comment
Last year, Musk admitted that he prescribed ketamine for treatment and stated that he takes the drug for «periods» — at times when he experiences «chemical hot flashes» that can cause depression.

The CIA appears to have created fake social media accounts to «troll» the Chinese government

News WTF 03-15-2024 at 10:48 comment
The CIA operation, as noted by Reuters launched back in 2019 and was aimed at causing paranoia in Xi Jinping’s government by increasing the amount of negative news related to it.

Viral photo of «Hollywood Mountain» in California turned out to be a fake generated by a neural network

News WTF 03-14-2024 at 12:18 comment
Perhaps you’ve come across a stunning bird’s-eye view of «Hollywood Mountain» in California on Facebook or BlueSky? It turns out that it was completely generated by artificial intelligence — in fact, there is no place with that name.

Excerpts from the interview with showman Don Lemon that angered Elon Musk before breaking the deal with X seem down-to-earth

News WTF 03-14-2024 at 12:06 comment
The show’s host, Don Lemon, said that Elon Musk suddenly canceled his partnership with X because the billionaire was «angry» at him over a recent «tense» interview.

Trump offered Musk to buy Truth Social, — The Washington Post

News WTF 03-12-2024 at 17:15 comment
Both tried in different ways to create their own «platform for freedom of speech».

The British royal family was caught on poor photo editing

News WTF 03-11-2024 at 12:24 comment
After months of speculation about the whereabouts of Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales and future Queen of England, the royal family released a photo today that appears to have been edited. If the intention was to reassure the public about Middleton’s whereabouts, the photo has backfired.

Anthropic «forgot» to mention in the Claude 3 announcement that they compared the model to the «old» GPT-4, not the GPT-4 Turbo

News WTF 03-06-2024 at 15:40 comment
The company, founded by several former OpenAI employees, promoted its language model as «better than ChatGPT», but there is a nuance.

German man received 217 COVID vaccinations in 29 months — this is how it ended

News WTF 03-06-2024 at 14:01 comment
The vaccinations included 8 different vaccine formulations, including updated boosters.

OpenAI says Elon Musk wanted to merge it with Tesla for «absolute control»

News WTF 03-06-2024 at 09:40 comment
The ChatGPT developer has rejected the billionaire’s claims outlined in a lawsuit last week. Musk claimed that OpenAI was allegedly focused on making money and forgot about the primary goal — development «of artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity».

Bill Gates, Zuckerberg and Rihanna «showed» at the pre-wedding party of the son of Asia’s richest man

News WTF 03-05-2024 at 13:48 comment
According to Forbes, Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani is the ninth richest person in the world with a net worth of $118 billion. He runs Reliance Industries, a conglomerate that covers a variety of industries, from oil and gas to telecommunications.

The stolen Ferrari of «Formula 1*] pilot Gerhard Berger was returned after 28 years

News WTF 03-05-2024 at 10:46 comment
London police have solved a car «hanging». The Organized Automobile Crime Unit has recovered a Ferrari 512M that thieves stole from Formula 1 pilot Gerhard Berger 28 years ago during the 1995 San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.

«Hotbed of racism»: Tesla faces class action lawsuit from 6,000 black employees

News WTF 03-01-2024 at 17:28 comment
A California court has preliminarily allowed employees to file a class action lawsuit against Tesla on racism charges — the hearing is scheduled for October 2024.

Court orders spyware maker Pegasus to hand over code to WhatsApp representatives

News WTF 03-01-2024 at 15:32 comment
A US court has ordered NSO Group, the maker of the Pegasus spyware, to hand over its code and other WhatsApp spyware.

Wikipedia no longer considers CNET a «reliable source» — after scandal with AI-generated articles

News WTF 03-01-2024 at 15:08 comment
Amid the AI boom in 2022, CNET started using the technology to write some articles — and eventually faced criticism and removed part of the materials due to a large number of errors and plagiarism.

US White House urges developers to avoid C and C++, use «memory-safe» programming languages

News WTF 02-29-2024 at 10:10 comment
The U.S. government recommends abandoning C or C++ programming tools. In a new report, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) urged developers to use «memory-safe programming languages». The advice is a step toward «protecting the building blocks of cyberspace».

OpenAI accuses The New York Times of hacking ChatGPT to file a copyright infringement lawsuit

News WTF 02-28-2024 at 11:04 comment
OpenAI has claimed that The New York Times «paid someone to hack into OpenAI products such as ChatGPT to set up a lawsuit» against the leading AI vendor. In the lawsuit filed, OpenAI claims that «100 examples in which a particular version of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model allegedly generated several paragraphs of Times content in response to user…

Will Taylor Swift support Biden in 2024? The President says that’s «classified».

News WTF 02-27-2024 at 16:44 comment
Joe Biden has once again trolled conspiracy theorists who are spreading conspiracy theories about his agreement to receive Taylor Swift’s support in the election.

Musk blasts Microsoft because he couldn’t skip account creation during Windows 11 setup

News WTF 02-27-2024 at 15:24 comment
When setting up Windows 11, you usually need to sign in with a Microsoft account — some users are unhappy with this requirement, and now they Elon Musk joined the company.

Elon Musk has published a new video of a Tesla robot — but it seems that it was «filmed» back in the 2000s

News WTF 02-26-2024 at 15:38 comment
The video posted by the billionaire on Saturday in X was of such low quality that it looked like it was shot on a phone that was relevant two decades ago.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been sued by the widow of a pilot who died in a plane crash while transporting his plane

News WTF 02-26-2024 at 12:07 comment
According to the lawsuit, Breen allegedly tried to «destroy evidence of a crime».

M&M’s candy vending machines recognized the faces of university students — they will be dismantled

News WTF 02-25-2024 at 18:41 comment
Canada’s University of Waterloo is dismantling smart M&M’s vending machines from its campus. Students discovered that the machines were secretly performing facial recognition without students’ consent.

Elon Musk accuses Google of «insane racist, anti-civilization programming of its artificial intelligence»

News IT business 02-23-2024 at 13:40 comment
Elon Musk confronted Google after it suspended the Gemini image generation function because some users on social media reported that the artificial intelligence constantly generates images of people of color in an inaccurate historical context.

The FBI and the UK’s Serious Fraud Office dismantled the LockBit hacker group. One of the members was arrested in Ukraine

News WTF 02-20-2024 at 15:10 comment
A coalition of international law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the UK’s National Crime Agency, announced that they have shut down LockBit, one of the most prolific hacking groups of all time, including shutting down websites the organization used to pay ransoms.

Lara Croft in Tomb Raider I-III Remastered «rendered» by Russians

News Games 02-15-2024 at 17:13 comment
Tomb Raider I-III Remastered was created not only by the original developers, but also by Aspyr, a company with quite significant Russian roots. It also acted as a publisher.

A former YouTube kids star earned $100,000 in a year on OnlyFans and «has no regrets»

News WTF 02-15-2024 at 16:39 comment
Lizzie Capri launched her YouTube channel in 2018 and gained a million subscribers in just a couple of months, becoming a star among children’s content creators.

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