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A Gigabit Ethernet port showing exactly 100 Mbps is often telling you something useful: the connection cannot successfully use all four wire pairs. Here’s how
An anonymous former AI infrastructure employee made extraordinary claims about the company behind some of the world’s most powerful AI systems. We followed the clues.
Sam Altman’s viral claim that 38,000 ChatGPT queries use as much water as producing one California almond is surprisingly easy to reconstruct. But tracing the
Advertising to AI agents is already being tested. Research shows machines can discount sponsored labels yet still be strongly influenced by rankings, endorsements, wording and
A federal judge ruled that the government’s sweeping measures against Anthropic violated the First Amendment, Fifth Amendment and federal administrative law. But Anthropic’s Pentagon fight
Oura’s IPO filing confirms that some Ring 4 cohorts suffered battery-performance problems serious enough to increase warranty costs and trigger replacements, sometimes outside warranty. The
The Blood of Dawnwalker gives Coen 30 days to save his family, but the clock does not run while you explore. Here is how time
Flock cameras do not continuously follow people, but a large network of automated license-plate readers can reconstruct portions of a vehicle’s movements without anyone watching
Could an advanced AI recognize when humans are testing it, hide some of its capabilities, communicate with other agents and work around oversight? In 2026,
Google won a $10 million bankruptcy auction for a massive archive of Spirit Airlines’ internal data, including emails, Teams messages, employee records and software. The
