Grok schlock panned by fed flock
There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk’s “truth-seeking” AI chatbot Grok: It’s not very good, and not many people are using it. That’s the takeaway of a…
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Marathon battery life makes Keychron’s Ultra 8K keyboards its best yet
…It’s the reason Keychron claims you can get up to 660 hours of use on an Ultra 8K board — about four times longer than its claims for the Max models. If…
Framework announces Laptop 13 Pro, ‘the MacBook Pro for Linux users’
…When I ask what “Pro” means if not the visual designer pros who buy MacBooks, Patel says it’s about building “the ultimate developer laptop,” one that developers will compare to the…
Speech and Moderation
…Emma Roth Apr 16 Terrence O'Brien Apr 11 DHS is trying to force Reddit to expose a user who said mean things about ICE. After failing to get details about a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…