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After a relentless Wikipedia vandal filled the "brain rot" page with brain rot, it's protected until next year.

The Wikipedia Page on “Brain Rot” Is Protected Until 2026 Due to Extensive Vandalism

Microsoft wants you to ditch your old OS so you can try its new one stuffed with overbearing, if not invasive, AI features.

As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

By Frank Landymore

The Friend AI CEO met Gothamist in a subway stop to discuss the million-dollar ad campaign and share that he is tired.

CEO Who Plastered AI Ads All Over Subway System Afraid to Talk to Real New Yorkers Face-to-Face

OpenAI is gambling on a new AI device by former Apple designer Jony Ive -- but behind the scenes, it's beset by issues.

OpenAI’s Huge New Project Is Running Into Trouble Behind the Scenes

By Frank Landymore

True3D Labs founder and ex-Meta engineer Daniel Habib explored a "simpler way to watch 3D" right inside your browser.

Amazing New Tech Turns Your Screen 3D by Tracking Your Eye Position With Your Webcam

By Victor Tangermann

The once favored in-home fitness company is putting pedal to the metal to carve out their own lane in the AI race.

Peloton Announces Pivot to AI, Jacks Up Price

A faulty Samsung Galaxy Ring battery caused the smart ring to swell up, sending its wearer to the emergency room for removal.

Smart Ring Swells Up, Crushes Man’s Finger and Sends Him to the Hospital

An AI startup called friend has plastered the New York City subway system in advertisements -- and furious riders are vandalizing them.

New Yorkers Are Defacing This AI Startup’s Million-Dollar Ad Campaign

Social media video shows a toilet in China demanding a user watch an ad in order to receive a handful of bathroom tissue.

New Public Toilets Make You Watch Ads to Get Toilet Paper

The guy who's spearheading Meta's AI-powered smart glasses is named Rocco Basilico — which matches a internet theory called Roko's basilisk.

Zuckerberg’s AI Glasses Guy Is Named Rocco Basilico

By Sharon Adarlo

Mark Zuckerberg's MetaConnect 2025 keynote on Wednesday quickly turned into a humiliating experience. It was even worse than we thought.

Meta’s Disastrous Smart Glasses Demo Even Worse Than We Thought

By Victor Tangermann

The ads which cannot be disabled will "strengthen" the "value" of your Family Hub fridges, according to Samsung.

Samsung Announces Plans to Plaster Your Smart Fridge With Digital Advertisements

By Frank Landymore

China is calling the United States' bluff by banning its largest tech companies from using Nvidia's red-hot AI chips.

Nvidia Just Suffered a Huge Blow in China

Ever notice how disposable vapes come with a ludicrous amount of electronics? Someone just put them to good use.

Madman Sets Up Entire Server on Disposable Vape, Hosts Its Own Website

By Frank Landymore

The vendor was one of a many whose code modules were infected by a never before seen strand of malware known as "Shai-Hulud."

CrowdStrike Infested With “Self-Replicating Worms”

It turns out that using AI to "vibe code" entire pieces of software into existence doesn't always work out that well.

Amateurs Using AI to “Vibe Code” Are Now Begging Real Programmers to Fix Their Botched Software

By Frank Landymore

An influencer was getting a perfunctory wax when she realized in horror that her esthetician was wearing Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses.

Woman Goes to Get Brazilian Wax, Alarmed to Notice Waxer Is Wearing Meta’s Video Recording Glasses

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists have confirmed that their quantum computer is now in orbit around Earth aboard a satellite.

Quantum Computing

Scientists Just Launched the First Quantum Computer Into Space

By Frank Landymore

Not only does the phone case look like human skin to an uncanny degree, it also gets sunburned like it, too.

Cursed Phone Case Imitates Human Skin

By Frank Landymore

Lovable, a "vibe coding" app that allows anybody to build websites with AI, has a huge cybersecurity problem.

Companies Are Discovering a Grim Problem With “Vibe Coding”

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say they've developed a ludicrously keen-eyed laser device that can read the text in a book from a whopping 0.85 miles away.

Alarming Spy Device Can Read Text in an Open Book From Nearly a Mile Away

By Victor Tangermann

A new company backed by Lance Armstrong just raised $4 million dollars to track your stool and urine using artificial intelligence.

New Device Mounts to Your Toilet to Analyze Your Turds Using the Power of AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is teaming up with a famous Apple designer to make wearables that can see your whole life.

Sam Altman Tells Staff Plan to Ship 100 Million Devices That See Everything in Users’ Lives

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI is peddling what it calls a "cloud-based software engineering agent," but fails to explain where its getting the data to train it.

Codex, OpenAI’s New Coding Agent, Wants to Be a World-Killer

Chinese researchers have unveiled a gadget they say is capable of countering US stealth radar devices at a bargain-bin price.

China Unveils Strange Device to Find Invisible Objects

OpenAI researchers have admitted that even the most advanced AI models can't really solve the coding problems put in front of them.

OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is “Unable To Solve the Majority” of Coding Problems

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of the 90s brightest tech stars may be headed to prison amid a shocking fall from grace that includes elder abuse and Ponzi scheme claims.

Man Who Claims to Have Anti-Gravity Device Now in Deep Trouble

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced sweeping layoffs of what he refers to as "low-performers" at his empire.

Zuckerberg Announces Layoffs After Saying Coding Jobs Will Be Replaced by AI

By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will likely release an AI model that acts as a "midlevel engineer" this year.

Zuckerberg Announces Plans to Automate Facebook Coding Jobs With AI

By Frank Landymore

Anthropic's Claude AI is purportedly capable of using computers like a human. And apparently, that includes procrastinating.

Claude AI Gets Bored During Coding Demonstration, Starts Perusing Photos of National Parks Instead

By Frank Landymore

A Berkeley computer scientist is raising alarm bells about the state of the job market for new college graduates struggling to find work.

Berkeley Coding Professor Says Even Grads With 4.0 GPA Can’t Find Jobs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Staff at airports from Singapore to Northern Ireland had been forced to scribble flight times on whiteboards due to a global IT outage.

Airlines Scribbling Flight Times on Whiteboards After Catastrophic Glitch Bricks Computers Worldwide

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists have uncovered results that suggest a strong association between the risk of developing erectile dysfunction and computer usage.

Using Computers Strongly Linked to Erectile Dysfunction

By Sharon Adarlo

New York City police say they plan on deploying drones that can throw down flotation devices to struggling swimmers at city beaches.

NYC Beaches Deploying Drones to Drop Flotation Devices for Drowning Swimmers

By Sharon Adarlo

As the world inches closer to mind-reading tech, some scientists are calling to legally enshrine the right to keep our thoughts to ourselves.

Scientists Concerned About Devices That Literally Read Your Mind

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have teamed up with Intel and Dell to build a massive supercomputer that can simulate networks at the scale of the human brain.

Scientists Preparing to Turn on Computer Intended to Simulate Entire Human Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Stack Overflow, is laying off 28 percent of its staff, just as OpenAI's ChatGPT is experiencing a big surge in popularity for coding help.

Stack Overflow Lays Off Employees as AI Threatens Coding Industry

By Sharon Adarlo

Bad news for techie kinksters: a company that sold internet-connected chastity cages has exposed itself online.

Internet Of Things

Internet-Connected Chastity Cage Reportedly Leaks Detailed Private Info About Users

By Noor Al-Sibai

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The Wealthy Are Weirdly Psyched to Download Their Brains Into Computers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

By using a technique known as error mitigation, IBM scientists believe they've worked around the uncertainty that plagues quantum processors.

Quantum Computing

IBM Says It’s Made a Big Breakthrough in Quantum Computing

By Frank Landymore

A pair of philosophers sounded the alarm on the dystopian applications they see being ushered in by brain-computer interface (BCI) technology.

Experts Warn: Brain-Computer Interfaces Will Usher In the Singularity

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists has grown "minibrains" in a lab with the eventual goal of linking them together to form super-efficient "biocomputers."

Scientists Working to Build Biocomputers Out of Lab-Grown “Minibrains”

By Victor Tangermann

Bug hunter David Schütz discovered that he could unlock any Google Pixel phone without a passcode — but Google were slow to respond.

Guy Discovers a Way to Unlock Any Pixel Phone Without the Passcode

By Frank Landymore

Incorporating ads into Windows may become the norm as Microsoft considers implementing them to offset the cost of providing low-cost PCs.

Microsoft Considering Cheap Computers Monetized With Relentless Ads

By Frank Landymore

In the era of remote work, employers have turned to invasive "bossware" to police their employees. And now, the US government wants to step in.

US Gov to Crack Down on “Bossware” That Spies On Employees’ Computers

By Frank Landymore

Hackers at open-source hardware company Adafruit have created the ultimate candy bar — that can literally run the videogame "Doom."

Mad Genius Hides Computer Playing Doom Inside Candy Bar

By Victor Tangermann

A study conducted by scientists from Trinity College Dublin could suggest that quantum processes are involved in the functions of our brains.

Scientists Suggest Our Brains Work Like Quantum Computers

By Frank Landymore

This New VR Gadget Looks Like an Actual Torture Device

This New VR Gadget Looks Like an Actual Torture Device

By Victor Tangermann

Oxford quantum physicist Nikita Gourianov is likening the emergence of qantum computers to a financial bubble in a commentary piece for the Financial Times.

Quantum Computing

Oxford Physicist Unloads on Quantum Computing Industry, Says It’s Basically a Hype Bubble

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have created a dodecahedron-shaped device for collecting marine life that may be too fragile for traditional methods.

Origami-Inspired Device Catches Fragile Sea Creatures Without Harming Them

By Kristin Houser

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University of Maryland quantum researcher Sankar Das Sarma says that quantum computing is progressing slower than you think.

Quantum Computing

Quantum Computer Researcher Warns That the Industry Is Full of Ridiculous Hype

By Jon Christian

It looks like McDonald's ice cream machines are gonna stay broken for the foreseeable future.

Internet Of Things

McDonald’s Sued by Ice Cream Hackers for $900 Million

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists successfully took control over a Venus Flytrap, a cultivated carnivorous plant, by implanting a tiny microchip in it.

Scientists Control Venus Flytrap With Implanted Computer Brain

By Victor Tangermann

We now have yet another reason to despise Amazon after the company's Tuesday outage left tons of people with "smart homes" in the lurch.

Internet Of Things

Amazon Outage Shuts Down IoT Vacuums, Doorbells, Fridges, Even Home Locks

By Noor Al-Sibai

Swedish engineering firm Minesto has designed special gliders that can capture underwater currents by being tethered to the ocean floor.

Ingenious Devices Extract Power From the Ocean’s Tides

By Victor Tangermann

The US government has slapped sanctions onto several Chinese quantum computing organizations, barring any American companies from doing business with them unless expressly permitted.

Quantum Computing

US Sanctions Chinese Quantum Computing Firms for… Reasons

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Arkansas woman found herself in a nightmare scenario recently when she discovered that someone had put an Apple tracking device on her car.

Woman Freaks Out After Discovering an Apple Tracking Device on Her Car

By Noor Al-Sibai

IBM Says It’s Achieved a Huge Quantum Computing Breakthrough

Quantum Computing

IBM Says It’s Achieved a Huge Quantum Computing Breakthrough

By Victor Tangermann

China might have cemented its supercomputing supremacy with not one, but two exascale supercomputing systems.

China May Have Secretly Built Two Exascale Supercomputers

By Tony Ho Tran

A pseudonymous hacker named MG is selling a USB cable that contains a tiny computer to capture and transmit every single key you type.

New USB Cable Contains Tiny Computer That Spies on Everything You Type

By Dan Robitzski

A Chinese team of researchers have claimed a new record in quantum computing, arguing its 66 qubit quantum computer is the most powerful in the world.

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Chinese Scientists Say They Now Have the World’s Most Powerful Quantum Computer

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla just showed off its massive new supercomputer — and according to their numbers, it may just be the fifth most powerful one in the world, according to Electrek.

Tesla Built One of the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers to Train Its Self-Driving System

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers from Georgia Tech have created a 3D printed antenna that can harvest electromagnetic energy from 5G signals.

New Device Uses Ambient 5G to Wirelessly Power Your Devices

By Victor Tangermann