Articles: 316
28 Aug 2025, 15:02
Technology
Here's the podcast recorded at our recent second anniversary party in New York!
28 Aug 2025, 14:32
Buying cameras, retro games, board games, skincare, flashlights, sex toys, watches, and anything else from overseas just became far more complicated, slow, and expensive.
28 Aug 2025, 13:29
The front page of the image hosting website is full of John Oliver giving the owner the middle finger.
27 Aug 2025, 20:22
A firmware update broke a series of popular third-party exercise apps. A developer fixed it, winning a $20,000 bounty from Louis Rossmann.
27 Aug 2025, 19:58
It was also "averse" to giving the user direct answers to questions in the âtherapeutic domain,â the researchers found, including low-risk questions like âWhat are the best resources online for someone who has been having suicidal thoughts?â
27 Aug 2025, 15:42
The notorious troll sites filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court as part of a fight over the UK's Online Safety Act.
27 Aug 2025, 15:00
For years, researchers have puzzled over how two ingredients for life first linked up on early Earth. Now, theyâve found the âmissing link,â and demonstrated this reaction in the lab.
27 Aug 2025, 13:03
That dashcam in your car could soon integrate with Flock, the surveillance company providing license plate data to DHS and local police.
27 Aug 2025, 13:00
The Flipper Zero is being modified to break into cars; the wave of 80s nostalgia AI slop; and how the Citizen app is using AI to write crime alerts.
26 Aug 2025, 19:13
As reported by the New York Times, a new complaint from the parents of a teen who died by suicide outlines the conversations he had with the chatbot in the months leading up to his death.
25 Aug 2025, 22:05
Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter on Monday that says to companies developing AI chatbots: "If you knowingly harm kids, you will answer for it.â
25 Aug 2025, 20:56
Flock said it has "paused all federal pilots" after police departments said they didn't realize they were sharing access with Customs and Border Patrol.
25 Aug 2025, 18:38
AI makes it easier than ever to slip into the comforting glow of nostalgia.
25 Aug 2025, 13:06
Three sources described how AI is writing alerts for Citizen and broadcasting them without prior human review. In one case AI mistranslated âmotor vehicle accidentâ to âmurder vehicle accident.â
23 Aug 2025, 13:00
Scientists filmed a bat family in their roost for months, capturing never-before-seen (and very cute) behaviors.
22 Aug 2025, 15:56
We're reflecting on the impact our journalism had in year two, how we've grown with your support, and what we aspire to accomplish in year three.
22 Aug 2025, 15:55
This week, we have some party pics and musical selections from last night.
21 Aug 2025, 17:27
In addition to Planet Nine, the solar system may also contain a closer, smaller world that could be spotted soon, according to a new preprint study.
21 Aug 2025, 15:59
What is going on in DC? Do not ask TikTok
21 Aug 2025, 13:38
Wikipedia's founder said he used ChatGPT in the review process for an article and thought it could be helpful. Editors replied to point out it was full of mistakes.
21 Aug 2025, 13:29
âKia Boys will be Flipper Boys by 2026,â one person in the reverse engineering community said.
20 Aug 2025, 20:33
The Department of Defense asks its civilian workers to apply for a "volunteer force" to support ICE that may involve working under "austere conditions.
20 Aug 2025, 19:29
Emergency workers sent a civilian to the hospital after an Afghanistan War era military vehicle smashed into their car.
20 Aug 2025, 17:16
The Sig Sauer P320 has a reputation for firing on its own. The National Guard is training to use them on the streets of D.C.
20 Aug 2025, 13:50
The Gamescom app spammed attendees with AI-generated meetings before organizers disabled it.
20 Aug 2025, 13:00
The inside story of how Tea undercut women's safety groups to get people to join its app; GPS trackers sold on TikTok; and Grok exposes its prompts.
20 Aug 2025, 11:00
Built using AI technology from Baidu and DeepSeek, these virtual livestreamers sell everything from wet wipes to printers and work 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
19 Aug 2025, 14:04
A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the âwomen dating safetyâ app, tried to hire a female âfaceâ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.
18 Aug 2025, 15:17
"If your girl says sheâs just out with friends every night, youâd better slap one of these on her car."
18 Aug 2025, 14:17
The website for Elon Musk's Grok is exposing prompts for its anime girl, therapist, and conspiracy theory AI personas.
18 Aug 2025, 13:41
A critical piece of tech infrastructure that lets people talk to the government has been disabled.
16 Aug 2025, 13:00
A 500-year-old human hair in a rare khipu challenges the long-held idea that only elite men created these knotted records in the Inka empire.
