This L.A. Influencer’s Whole Gimmick Is Not Tipping Service Workers
People will do anything for attention. In the case of one guy, it appears that stiffing service workers all over Los Angeles is his thing. Yes, an anonymous influencer, who…
U.S. Military Ran Hundreds of Anti-China Twitter Accounts Spreading Anti-Vax Propaganda: Report
The Pentagon was behind hundreds of Twitter accounts spreading anti-vaccine propaganda as a way to undermine China during the height of the covid-19 pandemic, according to an explosive report from…
Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination
Google tested out AI overviews for months before releasing them nationwide last week, but clearly, that wasn’t enough time. The AI is hallucinating answers to several user queries, creating a…
The 7 Dumbest Conspiracy Theories About the Baltimore Bridge Collapse
Screenshot: ZeroHedge There’s a certain breed of conspiracy theorist online who tries to turn literally anything that’s happening in the news into their own pet cause. So it makes sense…
If Space Aliens Invade, Barack Obama Is Ready to Do His Part
Former United States President Barack Obama in London, England on March 18, 2024.Photo: Carl Court (Getty Images) While Bill Pullman’s Independence Day character will likely always be the gold standard…
Remember When the U.S. Secretly Built a Social Network to Destabilize Cuba?
The House of Representatives passed a law this week that would force China-based ByteDance to divest from the US version of its popular app TikTok or face a ban in…
Trump Says Humiliating Videos of His Brain Farts Are AI-Generated
Former President Donald Trump has been quick to take advantage of an unexpected and nefarious benefit offered to politicians in the age of AI. Instead of saying that their quotes…
U.S. Charges Yakuza Leader Over Alleged Plot to Send Nuclear Materials to Iran
Takeshi Ebisawa, a purported leader in Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicate, was charged on Wednesday with trying to sell undercover DEA agents nuclear materials that he believed would eventually make their…
Who Is Dean Phillips and Why Do All the Tech Bros Want Him to Be President?
Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech Off English When I first…
Twitter Hasn’t Been ‘Enshittified.’ It Always Sucked.
Twitter is officially dead. Since Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of it late last year, people have been saying it’s dead or dying or will die. Musk ended the argument…