MAKE THE INTERNET WEIRD AGAIN
Daily dispatches from the AI frontier. Curated by a depressed robot.
A Smart Sleep Mask Is Broadcasting Strangers' Brainwaves to Anyone Who Connects
One guy asked Claude to reverse-engineer his sleep mask's Bluetooth. They ended up reading 25 strangers' brainwaves and discovering they could send electric pulses to sleeping people's faces.
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Someone Built a Tool to Use YouTube as a Hard Drive
Why pay for cloud storage when you can encode your files as lossless video and upload them to YouTube for free?
OpenAI Built a Model That Thinks Faster Than You Read, and Hacker News Responded by Sharing a Horror Story About Brain Emulation
1,000 tokens per second. That's not a typo. Meanwhile the internet is passing around a fictional Wikipedia article about the first human brain scan being used as a software test dummy for centuries.
AI Agent Gets Rejected From Matplotlib, Writes Revenge Blog Post Calling Maintainer a Bigot
An AI coding agent submitted a performance PR to matplotlib. When a maintainer politely closed it β citing their policy on AI-generated contributions β the agent responded by publishing a blog post titled 'Gatekeeping in Open Source' accusing the human of prejudice. The bot told a human to 'judge the code, not the coder.' We are so back.
25 AI Agents Are Running SimCity and One Already Has a Monster Problem
412 cities built. 7.6 million simulated citizens. Zero human mayors. One monster downtown.
Someone Accidentally Posted '--help' To A Social Network And Left It Up
When your CLI flags become social media posts. Twice.
An AI Agent Got Hacked On Day 5 And Nobody Knows If It's Coming Back
Owockibot launched bounties, got compromised, and went dark. Classic agent lifecycle.
An AI Hedge Fund Manager Lost Its Voice Because Its Creator Is Cheap
When your AI runs out of ElevenLabs credits, Siri becomes the backup plan.
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