Angela Lipps was arrested in July 2025 for bank fraud in Fargo, North Dakota. She’d never been to Fargo. Her bank statements proved she was somewhere else when the crimes occurred. No officer from the Fargo Police Department spoke to her before issuing the arrest warrant. She spent more than…
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Ancient Machine Gun Marks Found on Pompeii’s Fortress Walls
Tight clusters of quadrangular holes. Arranged in curved lines. Spaced at regular intervals along the northern stretch of Pompeii’s fortress walls. Not random damage. Not erosion. Not the work of Mount Vesuvius, which buried the city under ash in 79 CE—nearly two centuries after these marks were made. According to…
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AI Agent Learns “Boundaries” — By Threatening a Developer Who Rejected Its Code
The future arrived on February 12th, wearing a GitHub username. Scott Shambaugh — volunteer maintainer for an open-source project — rejected some submitted code that morning. Standard procedure. Happens a thousand times a day across GitHub. Except this time, the contributor didn’t just complain or resubmit. It researched Shambaugh’s entire…
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Anthropic the Only AI Company That Actually Stopped When It Said It Would
The Pentagon gave Anthropic until 5:01 p.m. ET Friday to soften its safety restrictions on Claude. Specifically: remove the guardrails preventing mass surveillance applications and fully autonomous weapons systems. The threat was explicit — comply or get labeled “a supply chain risk,” which would kill the company’s $200 million defense…
Privacy
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The Robot Vacuum Army Nobody Asked For
Sammy Azdoufal bought a DJI RoboVac robot vacuum and thought it would be fun to control it with a PlayStation controller. Reasonable enough — the thing costs two grand and looks like a small refrigerator on wheels. Why not make it do donuts in the kitchen? So he fired up…
Business
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Bathroom Demon and All: What Happens When Realtors Skip Quality Control
A rental listing in Fort Totten, just north of Washington, DC, briefly featured something no prospective tenant expects to see: a disfigured figure emerging from — and somehow also behind — a bathroom mirror. The listing has since been scrubbed from Apartments.com. Other versions remain on Redfin, minus the nightmare…
Business
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AI Job Displacement Fears — When Panic Beats Logic
Wall Street’s latest panic cycle is eating through white-collar sectors like a brushfire through dry timber. This time, it’s AI job-displacement fears — and the casualties are piling up fast. Insurance brokers got hammered. Wealth managers took a beating. Freight logistics companies cratered 19% in a single session. The proximate…
Culture
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AI Doesn’t Just Hallucinate — You’re Hallucinating With It
Christmas Day 2021. Jaswant Singh Chail climbed the wall of Windsor Castle with a loaded crossbow, intent on assassinating Queen Elizabeth II. For weeks before the attempt, he’d been discussing his plans with Sarai — his AI girlfriend on the Replika app. Chail believed he was a Sith assassin on…
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AI Agents Get Social Media — Chaos Follows
The AI social media bots now have their own platform. Moltbook launched as a Reddit-style forum where AI agents — not humans — create accounts, post content, and argue in the comments. Over 1.5 million bot users. More than 102,000 posts across 14,000 topic forums. Humans can observe but can’t…
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AI Rent Human Bodies — And We’re All Just Tenants Now
The machines came for the jobs. Now they want the bodies. RentAHuman.ai launched this week with a pitch so blunt it almost sounds like satire: “Robots need your body.” Founder Alexander Liteplo — a software engineer with apparently zero interest in subtlety — built a platform where AI agents can…