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Creepy browser interface with shadowy figures collecting user data for targeted ads

Perplexity’s Creepy Browser: Turning Your Clicks Into Ad Gold

25 Apr 2025
Windows 11 error screen with Grand Theft Auto code glitch elements visible

When Time Travel Attacks: How a 2004 GTA Bug Is Haunting Windows 11

25 Apr 2025
Modern AI-powered trash can in a Bulgarian city with recycling symbols and digital interface

Bulgaria’s Uncanny AI Trash Cans Know Your Garbage Better Than You Do

25 Apr 2025
Spreadsheet with EU flag overlay and Big Tech logos symbolizing regulatory measures

Governments Weaponize Spreadsheets Against Big Tech Dominance

24 Apr 2025
Padlock with Florida flag overlay symbolizing state encryption legislation

Florida’s Encryption Crackdown Makes Your Privacy a Political Pawn

24 Apr 2025
Teen working late at night with glowing brain activity overlay

Early to Bed, Sharp as a Knife: Why Night Owl Teens Pay a Brain Tax

24 Apr 2025
Young person having emotional conversation with glowing AI chatbot interface

Soul in the Machine: Why Gen Z Thinks Their AI Chatbots Feel Things

23 Apr 2025
Developers collaborating around a whiteboard covered in colorful code architecture diagrams

Draw Your Code: This Whiteboard IDE Breaks Dev Tools Out of the Box

23 Apr 2025
FBI seal overlaid with digital code and a shadowy figure symbolizing cybersecurity secrecy

FBI’s Hacking Tools Just Vanished, And So Did Their Excuses

23 Apr 2025
Group of chimpanzees congregating around overripe fermented fruit in a natural forest setting

Chimps’ Happy Hour: Boozy Fruit Parties Rewrite Human Social History

22 Apr 2025
Digital illustration of AI chatbots with Russian flag motifs spreading propaganda across social media networks

Russian Bot Farms Are Teaching AI Chatbots to Spew Propaganda

22 Apr 2025
Young adults surrounded by branded products and digital devices in a neon-lit urban environment

Forever Teens: How Capitalism Invented Extended Adolescence

22 Apr 2025
Futuristic AI neural network glowing within a cosmic nebula environment

AI’s Cosmic Playground: How Machine Dreams Outsmart Einstein

21 Apr 2025
Microscopic view of microplastics infiltrating human ovarian tissue

Microplastics Invade Human Ovaries: The Silent Fertility Crisis

21 Apr 2025
Visual illusion demonstrating an impossible color that challenges human brain processing

Scientists Give Mice Golden Eyes, and Humans Might Be Next

21 Apr 2025
Comparative brain scan imagery showing neural patterns associated with authoritarian political orientations

Your Brain on Authoritarianism: Politics Literally Rewires Neural Hardware

20 Apr 2025
Scientist examining lab-grown tooth specimen in biotech research facility

Your Dentist’s Drill Might Be Headed for a Museum Display

20 Apr 2025
Vibrant prismatic light spectrum emerging from a laser-focused eye

Scientists Discover Impossible Color Your Basic Human Eyes Can’t Handle

20 Apr 2025
Glowing digital eye surveilling personal data streams in dark cyberspace

Your Data’s Identity Crisis: Uncle Sam Knows You Better Than You

19 Apr 2025
A father joyfully engaging in childcare activities with his children

Brain Rewired: How Men Are Hacking Gender Stereotypes to Unlock Caring Traits

19 Apr 2025
Figma's Dev Mode interface with a trademark symbol overlay on a computer screen

Figma Wants to Own ‘Dev Mode’ Because Apparently Words Are NFTs Now

19 Apr 2025
Engineers inspecting a molten salt thorium reactor core in a Chinese nuclear facility

Salty Nuclear: China’s Thorium Gambit Has America Playing Catch-Up

18 Apr 2025
Smartphone displaying Signal app with disappearing messages and shield encryption icon

The Vanishing Act: How Signal Became Government’s Favorite Magic Trick

18 Apr 2025
Palantir software interface overlapped with ICE badge and taxpayer dollar symbols

Palantir Just Got $50M to Track ‘Known Populations’ With Your Tax Dollars

18 Apr 2025