A hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower
…While the company initially claimed to us, too, that its “diagnostic environment is not publicly accessible” and suggested there was little to worry about, Yarbo senior PR manager Showan Hou told us…
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Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’
…Users gleefully had bots — originally built to post ads and farm engagement — writing poetry, drawing pictures from punctuation, and posting grim non sequiturs about world events and history. It was chaos. Glorious…
Peloton, stay in your lane
…The camera lingers as Williams planks, shadow boxes, pumps iron, runs on the treadmill, and oozes the effortless charm of that guy she told you not to worry about. Aw yeah…
AI avatars in digital blackface want to sell you this belt buckle
…misinformation, encourage a lack of discernment from users, who have been trained to want to scroll to the next video rather than think about what they are watching. “[These platforms] are being…
Logitech’s new Mobi Fold squeezes a lot of functionality into a tiny folding mouse
…As the name implies, the Mobi Fold is a compact mouse that can fold in half using a hinge that can pivot about 130 degrees. At $79.99 in graphite, off…
Sony’s Xperia 1 VIII is still a phone for the fans
…Sony claims you’ll get two days of life out of the 5,000mAh cell, but I don’t see how. I’m a light-to-moderate user most of the time…
Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax
…Substack cofounder Hamish McKenzie pushes back on claims that the platform is a “walled garden,” saying “no walled garden would let you export your mailing list, content, and even payment relationships at…
The midterms are going to be a data security nightmare
…As the 2026 midterm elections approach, election and privacy experts are sounding alarms about the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program, which President Donald Trump’s…
Backrooms is at the forefront of horror’s YouTube wave
…These platforms are increasingly becoming more and more botted, atomized, and just not user-friendly, and I think it would be very dishonest to claim otherwise.” Backrooms is in theaters now.
Are you ready for what it takes to stop ghost guns?
…Those meetings reportedly led several 3D printer manufacturers to update their user agreements and policies to prohibit firearm manufacturing. At least one file-hosting site also notified users that printing firearms is…