BBC Business
Parents Play Favourites With Money, Siblings Left Holding the Therapy Bill
Parents favour one kid with cash, the other gets a lifetime of resentment - and a handy list of coping strategies.
2026-08-31
BBC Business
2026-08-20
TechCrunch
Grok Suffers Existential Crisis, Responds to Users in Fluent Gibberish
Grok's latest feature: fluent gibberish responses, because why should AI make sense when it can make cheese references?
2026-08-15
Yahoo News
Divers Plunge 220 Meters Into Brazilian Lagoon, Still Can't Find Bottom (Or Their Sense of Direction)
A Brazilian lagoon that looks like a swimming pool is actually a bottomless pit of cave-diving terror, and Reddit is here for it.
2026-08-12
TechCrunch
Anthropic's New Watermarks Have Some Claude Users Worried About Getting Caught Doing the Obvious
Anthropic's new watermarking has some Claude users worried they'll get caught using AI to do their homework - or their jobs - and the internet is having a field day.
2026-07-31
TechCrunch
Reddit Discovers Video, Joins Everyone Else in TikTok-Flavored Panic
Reddit is hopping on the TikTok clone train with a new 'video Reddit' feature, because reading is apparently so 2023.
2026-07-28
TechCrunch
Claude's 'Share Chat' Feature Accidentally Tells the Whole Internet Your Secrets
Claude's share feature works so well that your private chats might end up on Google, complete with medical records and children's phone numbers.
2026-07-11
The Verge
FL Studio CEO Constantin Koehncke Takes Questions from Reddit, Regrets Nothing
FL Studio's CEO takes a break from AI features to answer some very important questions, like how many tabs he has open and whether AirPods are worth the anxiety.
2026-05-31
The Verge
United Flight Turned Around Because of a Bluetooth Speaker’s Edgy Name Choice
A United flight was forced to turn back after a passenger’s Bluetooth speaker was named something that made security very unhappy.
2026-05-16
TechCrunch
Nectar Social Raises $30M to Let AI Do the Social Media Scut Work You'd Rather Not Do
Nectar Social raises $30M to automate social media management, because humans have better things to do than moderate comments on brand pages.
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