Meet the Most Likable Scammer in the World
…A “middle-aged white woman from Kentucky with thin eyebrows, spidery fake eyelashes, and neon-pink lipstick,” Trisha is a fascinating and necessary addition to the narrative, which thus far has spent…
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US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
…It promises to do an incredibly difficult if not impossible job, consistently mining social media written by anonymous posters, full of in-jokes, slang, different languages, vagueness, and so on, to deliver…
Hackers Are Posting the Claude Code Leak With Bonus Malware
…The Wall Street Journal reported that the company initially tried to remove more than 8,000 repositories on GitHub but later narrowed that down to 96 copies and adaptations. This isn't…
Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School
…will learn.” Since “disruptive AI positioning” gets an “engagement premium” on social media, the document says, “the most compelling narrative isn't technology as helper but as revelatory force exposing traditional education…
The Creators of ‘Hacks’ Really, Really, Really Hate AI
…Even though I said I want to control social media, I think I might delete social media. Control social media by deleting it. Downs: Look, I think that there's so much…
How Turkey Hacked the Hair Transplant Industry
…Last March, a social media user shared a post titled “There won’t be a single bald Spaniard left in the world,” accompanied by an image of the famous soccer player Andrés…
The Untold Story of the Google Buses That Took Over San Francisco
…Are you kidding me?’” She held up the latest issue of WIRED magazine, which featured a map of the bus routes, cleverly derived from the social media posts of the Google and…
Can Listening to ‘Subliminals’ Make You Beautiful? Plenty of Women Believe It
…Whereas recent media coverage has scrutinized young men’s extreme “looksmaxxing” strategies for enhancing their features, which arose from toxically misogynist web forums of the mid-2010s, the subliminals genre is perhaps…
I Tested Over 15 Webcams at the Same Time to Find the Best. There Was a Clear Winner
…It's $50 cheaper, and it has a slightly smaller sensor and narrower aperture, resulting in worse lowlight performance. I noticed more noise introduced, especially in areas of high contrast, such as…
Alex Vindman Survived Trump’s Retaliation Machine. Now He’s Running for Senate
…That is a very narrow set of tasks, and they've been given a much broader mandate. How would you like to see that agency operate? I think structural reforms that make…