Cybertrucks Come With Special Tricks: Breaking Fingers and Slicing Legs
The Cybertruck continues to make us laugh with how bad it is, and now it’s literally breaking people’s fingers and slicing their legs. The strange, secretive AI model referred to as “gpt2-chatbot” has resurfaced. Check out the rest of the big tech news for the week.
Cybertruck Owner Breaks His Finger Trying to Show Vehicle Is Safe
What happens when you stick your finger in the closing trunk—or, in this case, the “frunk”—of a Tesla Cybertruck? It’s a question that way too many Cybertruck owners are asking themselves these days. And a new video posted to YouTube appears to show the most grotesque answer to date. - Matt Novak Read More
Future Swiss Army Knives Won’t Have Blades, Maker Victorinox Says
The Swiss Army Knife has become such a shorthand for multifunctionality that companies producing does-a-lot-of-stuff wares will often say that their goods are the “Swiss Army Knife” of whatever category they’re a part of. You can use the tool to cut stuff, snip stuff, uncork stuff, file stuff, in some cases download stuff. - Melvin Backman, Quartz Read More
Powerful New Chatbot Mysteriously Returns in the Middle of the Night
The mysterious AI chatbot, “gpt2-chatbot,” returned to the major large language model benchmarking site, LMSYS Org, on Monday night roughly a week after it abruptly disappeared. But now, there are two: “im-a-good-gpt2-chatbot” and “im-also-a-good-gpt2-chatbot.” These models exhibited the same GPT-4 level capabilities, with some saying they’re even better than the original. - Maxwell Zeff Read More
Tesla Quietly Removes All U.S. Job Postings
Tesla is a massive company, employing 140,000 people as of late last year. But over the past month, layoffs have torn through the electric vehicle maker — and now a hiring freeze appears to be in effect in North America. - William Gavin, Quartz Read More
Fans Rename Drake’s Mansion ‘Kendrick’s House’ on Google Maps
Kendrick Lamar fans have renamed Aubrey “Drake” Graham’s famed mansion in the Bridle Path region of Ontario to “2024 Kendrick’s House” on Google Maps, as the rappers enter their fourth consecutive week of lyrical combat. DJ Akademiks, a live streamer closely following the rap beef, first noticed the Google Maps change in a tweet on Sunday afternoon. - Maxwell Zeff Read More
Boeing Admits That Its Employees Falsified Aircraft Records for 787 Dreamliner
In the latest disturbing twist to the Boeing saga, the company admitted to falsifying records related to the inspection of its 787 Dreamliner plane. The company publicly disclosed this after news broke of yet another federal investigation into the company. - Lucas Ropek Read More
Open-Source Cybersecurity Is a Ticking Time Bomb
In March, a software bug threatened to derail large swaths of the web. XZ utils, an open-source compression tool embedded in myriad software products and operating systems, was found to have been implanted with a backdoor. - Lucas Ropek Read More
Tesla Cybertruck Door Leaves a Gash in Owner’s Leg
After a social media video circulated showing the Tesla Cybertruck’s frunk chopping veggies, we went through a week of idiots posting videos online to prove that the frunk was actually safe. Only then we saw that it wasn’t after one owner damn near got his finger broken trying to prove a point. Now, just over a day after that same man was willing to put his toes in danger to prove…something. Now, there’s word that another part of the Cybertruck may be just as dangerous. - Lawrence Hodge, Jalopnik Read More
Jack Dorsey Calls X ‘Freedom Tech’ After Departing Bluesky’s Board
Bluesky confirmed Jack Dorsey’s departure from the decentralized social media company’s board of directors on Sunday. Earlier this weekend, Twitter’s founder and former CEO tweeted a simple “no” in response to a user’s questions to announce his exit from Bluesky, a platform he helped create. - Maxwell Zeff Read More
Apple Apologizes for Ad That Crushed Creativity
Apple apologized on Thursday for a new iPad Pro commercial that featured several creative objects—including a piano, video cameras, and cans of paint—being destroyed by an industrial crusher, telling Ad Age that it “missed the mark.” The ad was met with fierce backlash from people who thought Apple’s ad was at odds with what Steve Jobs, and the company at large, claimed to stand for. - Maxwell Zeff Read More
