2025-03-12
Harvey Silikovitz tried 10 times to get on Jeopardy! over 24 years...
Harvey Silikovitz tried 10 times to get on Jeopardy! over 24 years and finally made it. (And won!) “He’s pretty sure he has made history as the first Jeopardy! contestant...
Wu-Tang Clan's New Music Video Is Extremely AI-Generated
Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothin to eff with — unless, of course, you're an AI-loving music video director.
Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data
A company owned by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund just bought the most popular AR video game of all time.
Brazilian Court Gives Apple 90 Days to Allow Sideloading on iOS
Filipe Espósito, reporting last week for 9to5Mac: As reported by Brazilian newspaper Valor Econômico (via O Globo), a federal judge in Brazil ruled on Wednesday that Apple will have to...
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run. “You may believe that Khalil...
Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run. “You may believe that Khalil does not deserve free speech or due process. But if he does not have them, then neither do...
Robot Survived Failed Lunar Landing But Was Trapped Inside and Died Afterward
It is with heavy hearts we report that an intrepid little robot that made it all the way the Moon has met a horrible end. On Friday, Intuitive Machine's lunar...
The HackerNoon Newsletter: AI Coding Tools Are Bad News for Lazy Programmers (3/12/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, March 12, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, First Proposal for...
How I Vibe Coded the Pixel Icon Library Website Without Learning to Code (Thanks, Cursor AI!)
A designer without prior coding experience used Cursor AI to build the Pixel Icon Library website from a Figma design. With AI assistance, they set up the project with HTML,...
Behind the product: Duolingo streaks | Jackson Shuttleworth (Group PM, Retention Team)
#startup #founder #duolingo #productmanagement #productmanager
Trump Was Reading Notes for His Tesla Sales Pitch and a Photographer Got a Shot of Them
As a "show of confidence" in his buddy Elon Musk, president Donald Trump on Tuesday turned the White House lawn into a Tesla exhibit in all but name. The day...
Elon Musk Reportedly Wants the Government to Shut Down So He Can Do Something Dark
Unelected White House official Elon Musk is desperate for the federal government to grind to a halt — so he can continue dismantling it. As Wired reports, Musk is hoping...
404 Media has obtained a list of 200+ sites monitored by a...
404 Media has obtained a list of 200+ sites monitored by a contractor for ICE (Amazon, Apple Music, BabyCenter, Bluesky, Facebook, Github, GoFundMe, etc.). They can “pull a target individual’s...
'Pretty Vile:' Spotify Removes Andrew Tate 'Pimping Hoes' Class After Employees Complain
Internal Spotify communications viewed by 404 Media show Spotify’s own employees complaining about Andrew Tate’s course being available on the platform.
Apple Adds Disclaimers Regarding Delayed AI Siri Features
Benjamin Mayo 9to5Mac: Apple is still reeling from the last-week’s news that the most compelling new Apple Intelligence features for Siri have been indefinitely delayed. Over the weekend, it pulled...
Google Changes Chrome Extension Policies Following the Honey Link Scandal
Jay Peters, The Verge: Google has updated its affiliate ads policy for Chrome extensions after creators accused PayPal’s popular Honey browser extension of being a “scam.” Honey was accused of...
US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms. The...
US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms. The Us joins a list of countries with “deteriorating civic space conditions, in relation to freedoms of peaceful assembly,...
Lunar Lander Starts Drilling Into the Moon, Sparks Flying
While Intuitive Machines' Athena lander quickly met its demise after awkwardly stumbling and ending up on its side, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost spacecraft, which touched down a few days earlier,...
Trump's Failing Truth Social Was Doing Much Better Under Biden
As Elon Musk's Tesla is feeling the hurt, president Donald Trump's Truth Social meme stock is suffering a noticeably similar fate. Not unlike the EV maker's shares, Truth Social's owner...
The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring
404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily...
Podcast: We're Not Ready for Chinese AI Video Generators
We chat the lack of guardrails on China-based AI video models; how cops are using AI to summarize evidence from seized mobile phones; and the AI game that is making...
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