NEW: Meta paid contractors to pose as teens and probe rival chatbots with disturbing and bizarre prompts involving suicide, sex, eating disorders, drugs, and child-safety scenarios.
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@sarahlovescali I made a bet with myself at the start of COVID to avoid *buying alcohol for myself* and I've stuck to it beyond my own expectations. I hope exposing every wound to the subscribership of the New Yorker will pay off for you in unexpectedly positive ways. RIP Josh
I am going to buy geofenced data associated with every phone at this event and figure out a way to trick them into making a monthly deposit into my bank account
my latest investigation for @ConsumerReports is based on months of reporting and 120+ lab tests of popular snacks
we found over a third of grocery products had more additives or contaminants in one serving than what health agencies have identified as safe to consume daily (π§΅)
The hipster music discussion has devolved into 35 year olds trying to out-cool each other with what they listened to and frankly thatβs the hipster spirit, right there
A Ring doorbell camera in Florida captures a pizza delivery driver placing orders at a residence as Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explodes during a static fire engine test at Cape Canaveral, May 2026.
One time scammers hacked the email server at the Benedictine convent where my cousin lives so hundreds of people got urgent messages from her account claiming she was stuck in Manila and needed us to wire cash
As evidenced by the unbridled promotion and implementation of technology at the expense of human dignity, we are truly experiencing an eclipse of the sense of what it means to be human. It is imperative to recover an understanding of the true meaning and grandeur of humanity as intended by God. It is in this sense that the challenge we currently face is not technological, but anthropological, and it is my hope that the Encyclical Letter to be published within a few days will contribute to answering this challenge.
Making yourself feel powerful by sending special forces to arrest a 94 year old former leader of an island nation impoverished by U.S. sanctions doesn't exactly suggest a strong, self-confident and ascendant superpower.