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Apple Settles Alleged False Advertising Suit Over AI-Powered Siri (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-06 | get Apple Siri Voice Remote → | tags: apple, siri, false advertising

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Romanian leader of online swatting ring gets 4 years in prison (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-04-30 | get Swatting Prevention Kit → | tags: swatting, romania, law enforcement

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Scientists Experimenting With Quantum Effect That Some Fear Could Cause Chain Reaction That Ends Entire Universe (futurism.com)

2026-04-28 | by Victor Tangermann | get Quantum Physics Book → | tags: quantum physics, false vacuum, physical review letters

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Cellphone-Location Tracking Poses Privacy Test at Supreme Court (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

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This wooden 10-story office building wiggles to withstand earthquakes (feeds.feedburner.com)

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IBM just settled a major anti-DEI case for $17 million (feeds.feedburner.com)

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IBM folds to Trump anti-DEI push, admits no misconduct but pays $17M penalty (arstechnica.com)

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Google's AI search is producing millions of wrong answers every day (techspot.com)

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An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along (gizmodo.com)

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False hope (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-01 | by Jameson | tags: false hope virus, sunpower, dustpan attachment

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Facial Recognition Is Spreading Everywhere (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-03-30 | by Lucas Laursen | get Facial Recognition Doorbell → | tags: facial recognition, deep learning, law enforcement

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False claims in a widely-cited paper (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-26 | get Retraction Watch Database → | tags: cited, cited paper, claims

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Dolls, Not Tablets, Shine in Teaching Vital Skills to Children, Study Reveals (cnet.com)

2026-03-19 | by See Full Bio | get Educational Wooden Doll Set → | tags: cardiff university, dolls, false-belief understanding

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Meta’s AI glasses reportedly send sensitive footage to human reviewers in Kenya (theverge.com)

2026-03-05 | by Emma Roth | get Google Glass → | tags: kenya, meta glasses, nairobi

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The Little Bool of Doom (2025) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-08 | get Smartwatch → | tags: boolean, code, doom

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NFL-Related Accounts on Facebook Are Posting Some of the Most Shameless AI Slop Yet (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-19 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: claimed, claimed random, died

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'Fake Proof' and AI Slop Hobble Defenders (darkreading.com)

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"Fake Proof" and AI Slop Hobble Defenders (darkreading.com)

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“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-15 | by Eric Daigle | get WhatsApp → | tags: false, null, number

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“Super secure” MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone's phone number (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-15 | by Eric Daigle | get Secure Messenger → | tags: false, null, number

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Mozilla's latest quagmire (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-01 | by Ruben Schade | get Firefox → | tags: browser, browser ml, false

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I just want working RCS messaging (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-19 | get Smartwatch → | tags: apple, commcenter, debug

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Microsoft Teams to let users report messages wrongly flagged as threats (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Google is fighting the defamation battle Meta caved on (theverge.com)

2025-11-17 | by Lauren Feiner | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: claims, falsely, google

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Are you the asshole? Of course not!—quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem (arstechnica.com)

2025-10-31 | get science reference book → | tags: false, llms, models

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Tell HN: Locked out of Google account – 63K subscriber YouTube channel (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Chromecast → | tags: account, automated, false

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'Based on a True Story' (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Information Is Beautiful | get Emotional Intelligence book → | tags: beautiful, data, false

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Everything About Bitflags: How to store up to 32 booleans in one value? (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Igor Klepacki | get Meta Quest → | tags: bitflag, false, flags

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Benchmarks in CI: Escaping the Cloud Chaos (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: cv, false, performance