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Sam Altman: 'I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'(gizmodo.com)

27 points by warrenmiller 1 day ago | 13 comments

Gizmodo article on Sam Altman telling Stanford GSB students that AI-driven cybersecurity threats can no longer be handled by just patching bugs.

Password, Please: Border Searches of Laptops, Phones Up 32% This Year(gizmodo.com)

20 points by gumby 2 days ago | 2 comments

Gizmodo article reporting that U.S. Customs and Border Protection searches of travelers' laptops and phones rose 32% in fiscal 2026, with privacy advice for travelers.

YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops(gizmodo.com)

605 points by gumby 16 days ago | 330 comments

Gizmodo article about a YouTuber who says police visited him after he built a Flock-style license plate camera to track police vehicles.

Earth Tipped on Its Side During the Age of Dinosaurs–and Not Just Once(gizmodo.com)

4 points by gumby 23 days ago | 0 comments

Gizmodo article on research finding Earth tilted to restore rotational balance multiple times during the dinosaur era, shifting sea levels globally.

Hair Loss Was Just the Start. Ozempic Users Are Also Reporting Nail Trouble(gizmodo.com)

44 points by gumby 23 days ago | 32 comments

Gizmodo article reporting on two studies finding GLP-1 drug users like Ozempic patients are more likely to experience hair loss and nail problems.

Colorectal Cancer Is Rising Among the Young, Even Kids and Teens(gizmodo.com)

14 points by gumby 23 days ago | 1 comments

Gizmodo article reporting research that colorectal cancer is rising in people 20 and under, often aggressive and diagnosed late, and differs from adult disease.

Scientists invent underwater umbrellas to protect coral reefs(gizmodo.com)

28 points by giuliomagnifico 24 days ago | 12 comments

Gizmodo article about scientists deploying underwater umbrella-like shades to protect coral reefs from bleaching, with early results suggesting it works.

AI Doomlord Jacob Coxon's Media Tour Has Begun(gizmodo.com)

11 points by jjj123 1 month ago | 5 comments

Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets(gizmodo.com)

72 points by Gaishan 1 month ago | 18 comments

GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB(gizmodo.com)

115 points by gumby 1 month ago | 57 comments

Wisconsin Tracks Man Across State Line with Flock Cameras to Arrest Him for Weed(gizmodo.com)

26 points by CGMthrowaway 2 months ago | 0 comments

Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner"(gizmodo.com)

66 points by ghuroo1 3 months ago | 39 comments

Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV(gizmodo.com)

155 points by speckx 4 months ago | 125 comments

US Government Reportedly Allowing Federal Data Center Rules to Expire(gizmodo.com)

25 points by 01-_- 4 months ago | 2 comments

U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub(gizmodo.com)

104 points by neogodless 5 months ago | 19 comments

RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both(gizmodo.com)

97 points by cainxinth 5 months ago | 82 comments

The Oscars just banned AI from winning acting and writing awards(gizmodo.com)

46 points by ZeidJ 5 months ago | 18 comments

Sam Altman's Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed with Zoom and Tinder(gizmodo.com)

69 points by speckx 6 months ago | 30 comments

Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in UAE(gizmodo.com)

16 points by Betelbuddy 6 months ago | 1 comments

Apple Removes iPhone Vibe Coding App from App Store(gizmodo.com)

34 points by randycupertino 6 months ago | 36 comments

Flipper Zero gets an AI upgrade(gizmodo.com)

18 points by poopcat 7 months ago | 0 comments

Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Polls Find(gizmodo.com)

42 points by randycupertino 7 months ago | 8 comments

FCC Chair Wants Networks to Pledge Loyalty for America's Big Bday(gizmodo.com)

30 points by geox 7 months ago | 8 comments

South Korean Police Lose Seized Crypto by Posting Password Online(gizmodo.com)

70 points by WarOnPrivacy 7 months ago | 14 comments

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says(gizmodo.com)

212 points by cdrnsf 8 months ago | 202 comments

Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans(gizmodo.com)

30 points by tempestn 8 months ago | 9 comments

Dell admits it made a mistake when it abandoned XPS(gizmodo.com)

70 points by jnord 9 months ago | 80 comments

Librarians Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI(gizmodo.com)

63 points by vitalnodo 10 months ago | 41 comments

America's Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Mapped to Ridiculous Precision(gizmodo.com)

42 points by ourmandave 10 months ago | 14 comments

Map of all the buildings in the world(gizmodo.com)

155 points by dr_dshiv 10 months ago | 54 comments

Detection of triboelectric discharges during dust events on Mars(gizmodo.com)

91 points by domofutu 11 months ago | 50 comments

The Head of the Cybertruck Program Quit Tesla. Model Y Leader Left Hours Later(gizmodo.com)

27 points by rbanffy 11 months ago | 5 comments

$1T in Tech Stocks Sold Off as Market Grows Skeptical of AI(gizmodo.com)

110 points by pabs3 11 months ago | 133 comments

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming(gizmodo.com)

24 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 28 comments

NJ theme park puts animatronic dinosaurs on Facebook Marketplace(gizmodo.com)

117 points by ohjeez 1 year ago | 50 comments

Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say(gizmodo.com)

76 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 95 comments

First Murder-Suicide Case Associated with AI Psychosis(gizmodo.com)

12 points by Liwink 1 year ago | 12 comments

RFK Jr. Promises to Reveal the 'Cause' of Autism Next Month(gizmodo.com)

41 points by ulrischa 1 year ago | 15 comments

Light pollution prolongs avian activity(gizmodo.com)

104 points by gmays 1 year ago | 22 comments

HR Giant Workday Got Hacked(gizmodo.com)

61 points by avonmach 1 year ago | 11 comments

Whitehouse Moves to Destroy Satellite That Monitors Greenhouse Gases(gizmodo.com)

31 points by WarOnPrivacy 1 year ago | 4 comments

Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit(gizmodo.com)

12 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 3 comments

Crypto's Wild West Era Is Over(gizmodo.com)

12 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 33 comments

Black hole merger challenges our understanding of black hole formation(gizmodo.com)

47 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 42 comments

Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Happening(gizmodo.com)

62 points by Bluestein 1 year ago | 69 comments

Why We Should Care About This War over the Future of Money(gizmodo.com)

10 points by rntn 1 year ago | 8 comments

CEOs say AI is just a tool to help workers, but our jobs are already on the line(gizmodo.com)

40 points by rntn 1 year ago | 39 comments

Astronomers Just Solved the Mystery of the Universe's Missing Matter(gizmodo.com)

24 points by guerrilla 1 year ago | 11 comments

Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report(gizmodo.com)

79 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 57 comments

Sam Altman's Lies About ChatGPT Are Growing Bolder(gizmodo.com)

45 points by uladzislau 1 year ago | 7 comments

U.S. Woman Dies from Mad Cow-Like Brain Disease That Lay Dormant for 50 Years(gizmodo.com)

32 points by Vaslo 1 year ago | 17 comments

It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System(gizmodo.com)

13 points by prawn 1 year ago | 8 comments

GOP Senator Introduces Bill to Make All Porn a Federal Crime(gizmodo.com)

11 points by croes 1 year ago | 6 comments

MyPillow Founder's Lawyer Filed AI-Generated Brief with Near 30 Bogus Citations(gizmodo.com)

11 points by rntn 1 year ago | 0 comments

Amazon Just Happens to Hold Book Sale During Independent Bookstore Day(gizmodo.com)

233 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 170 comments

NASA's Project Scientist Faces Painful Choices as Voyager Mission Nears Its End(gizmodo.com)

88 points by rntn 1 year ago | 25 comments

Mass grave of Roman soldiers found under Vienna sports field(gizmodo.com)

96 points by speckx 1 year ago | 45 comments

The Pyrex Glass Controversy That Just Won't Die (2019)(gizmodo.com)

16 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 21 comments

Playstation Mod Turns the PSOne into a Crustacean(gizmodo.com)

95 points by ulrischa 1 year ago | 20 comments

Chicago-Sized Iceberg Hid Ancient Ecosystem, Scientists Reveal(gizmodo.com)

36 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 7 comments

WWI's 'Dazzle' Camouflage Seemed Effective Due to Unexpected Optical Trick(gizmodo.com)

112 points by ilamont 1 year ago | 66 comments

Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners(gizmodo.com)

73 points by rntn 1 year ago | 70 comments

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Is a Stone-Cold Masterpiece(gizmodo.com)

189 points by adrian_mrd 1 year ago | 103 comments

Microsoft's Relationship with OpenAI Is Not Looking Good(gizmodo.com)

61 points by djhu9 1 year ago | 40 comments

Doge Is Replacing Fired Workers with a Chatbot(gizmodo.com)

16 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 7 comments

State Department Will Use AI to Search for 'Pro-Hamas' Students to Deport(gizmodo.com)

40 points by wahnfrieden 1 year ago | 16 comments

Sam Bankman-Fried thrown into solitary over Tucker Carlson interview: report(gizmodo.com)

133 points by rntn 1 year ago | 143 comments

NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument(gizmodo.com)

153 points by 01-_- 1 year ago | 58 comments

Nearly 25 years later, Terminator 2 is getting a new video game(gizmodo.com)

45 points by ulrischa 1 year ago | 10 comments

Google's Sergey Brin: Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI(gizmodo.com)

7 points by rntn 1 year ago | 1 comments

Apple Comes Crawling Back to X Like a Dog(gizmodo.com)

16 points by belter 1 year ago | 2 comments

NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' from Its Websites(gizmodo.com)

19 points by ceejayoz 1 year ago | 1 comments

Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries(gizmodo.com)

645 points by jsheard 1 year ago | 298 comments

Gizmodo article explaining that adding a profanity like "fucking" to Google searches suppresses AI Overview summaries in results.

NordVPN says its new protocol can circumvent VPN blockers(gizmodo.com)

31 points by mikece 1 year ago | 24 comments

Cali's AG Tells AI Companies Almost Everything They're Doing Might Be Illegal(gizmodo.com)

150 points by clumsysmurf 1 year ago | 127 comments

1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds(gizmodo.com)

358 points by belter 1 year ago | 305 comments

Gizmodo news article reporting a study finding that about one in five online job postings are fake or never filled, so-called ghost jobs.

Apollo Landing Keypad Shrunken into Coolest Calculator Watch(gizmodo.com)

8 points by CharlesW 1 year ago | 0 comments

41% of Employers Worldwide Say They'll Reduce Staff by 2030 Due to AI(gizmodo.com)

93 points by miles 1 year ago | 89 comments

Squirrels hunting and eating meat(gizmodo.com)

52 points by ulrischa 1 year ago | 48 comments

The Bering Land Bridge was more like a swamp(gizmodo.com)

52 points by bikenaga 1 year ago | 17 comments

Tiny Black Holes Could Have Left Tunnels Inside Earth's Rocks(gizmodo.com)

21 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 9 comments

Y Combinator Funded AI Firm's 'Stop Hiring Humans' Billboard Sparks Outrage(gizmodo.com)

47 points by alister 1 year ago | 26 comments

Space Startup Spins the Living Crap Out a Satellite–and It Survived(gizmodo.com)

12 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 0 comments

How much do I need to change my face to avoid facial recognition?(gizmodo.com)

241 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 226 comments

Landlords Are Using AI to Raise Rents(gizmodo.com)

51 points by elorant 1 year ago | 38 comments

Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'(gizmodo.com)

47 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 31 comments

Tesla is looking to hire a team to remotely control its 'self-driving' robotaxis(gizmodo.com)

52 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 72 comments

Judge Rules in Favor of School That Gave Student a Bad Grade for Using AI(gizmodo.com)

32 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 36 comments

Senators say TSA's facial recognition program is out of control(gizmodo.com)

133 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 124 comments

Teslas Are Involved in More Fatal Accidents Than Any Other Brand, Study Finds(gizmodo.com)

26 points by doener 1 year ago | 5 comments

Judge Rules Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Not So Decentralized in Law(gizmodo.com)

17 points by rntn 1 year ago | 6 comments

Chegg Is on Its Last Legs After ChatGPT Sent Its Stock Down 99%(gizmodo.com)

92 points by rntn 1 year ago | 71 comments

NASA Remains Silent on Why Crew Went to Hospital After Dragon Splashdown(gizmodo.com)

60 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 45 comments

DNA from Pompeii Victims Reveals Surprising Relationships Amidst the Chaos(gizmodo.com)

62 points by rntn 1 year ago | 10 comments

How to send a photo around the world in 1926 (2013)(gizmodo.com)

6 points by warsamw 2 years ago | 4 comments

Astronomers Found Something Cold and Wet Near Uranus(gizmodo.com)

8 points by wglb 2 years ago | 4 comments

Feds: You Don't Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books(gizmodo.com)

71 points by mikhael 2 years ago | 41 comments

The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair(gizmodo.com)

493 points by rntn 2 years ago | 204 comments

Gizmodo news article reporting that federal regulators are taking action against John Deere over right-to-repair restrictions on its equipment.

NASA freezes Starliner missions(gizmodo.com)

224 points by rntn 2 years ago | 241 comments

European Road Safety Orgs Are Terrified of the Cybertruck(gizmodo.com)

6 points by rntn 2 years ago | 1 comments

Washington's 'forgotten giant' volcano stirs(gizmodo.com)

67 points by rbanffy 2 years ago | 28 comments

Fluoride in Our Drinking Water May Not Be as Useful as It Used to Be(gizmodo.com)

21 points by rntn 2 years ago | 22 comments

Truth Social Users Are Losing Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams(gizmodo.com)

9 points by rntn 2 years ago | 1 comments

Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People Stealing His Work(gizmodo.com)

28 points by mikro2nd 2 years ago | 28 comments

Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links(gizmodo.com)

180 points by f_allwein 2 years ago | 77 comments

Hi-Tech Bifocals Improved My Eyesight but Made Me Look Like a Dork(gizmodo.com)

228 points by amichail 2 years ago | 97 comments

NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission Alive(gizmodo.com)

179 points by Stratoscope 2 years ago | 51 comments

Deepwater Sub Recovers Roman Battering Ram Used in Carthage in Punic Wars Battle(gizmodo.com)

101 points by rntn 2 years ago | 15 comments

Judge rules $400M algorithmic system illegally denied Medicaid benefits(gizmodo.com)

358 points by rntn 2 years ago | 95 comments

Gizmodo news article on a judge ruling that a $400 million algorithmic eligibility system illegally denied thousands of people Medicaid benefits.

CMG pitch deck on listening to your conversations to target ads(gizmodo.com)

10 points by JoshTriplett 2 years ago | 1 comments

The Arrest of Pavel Durov Is a Reminder That Telegram Is Not Encrypted(gizmodo.com)

112 points by rntn 2 years ago | 102 comments

Dinosaur Footprints on Either Side of the Atlantic Are Matching Sets(gizmodo.com)

25 points by nickthegreek 2 years ago | 7 comments

Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro(gizmodo.com)

28 points by paravirtualized 2 years ago | 8 comments

Astrophysicists May Have Found the Source of Mysterious Wow Signal(gizmodo.com)

6 points by amichail 2 years ago | 0 comments

Weird Object Careening Across the Cosmos at Ludicrous Speeds(gizmodo.com)

5 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 0 comments

Google Says AI Olympics Ad 'Tested Well' Before Inspiring Outrage(gizmodo.com)

20 points by rntn 2 years ago | 10 comments

Is a Universal Basic Income System Even Possible?(gizmodo.com)

7 points by rntn 2 years ago | 33 comments

Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska(gizmodo.com)

20 points by mikece 2 years ago | 22 comments

Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All but Dead, Market Analysts Say(gizmodo.com)

95 points by ripjaygn 2 years ago | 105 comments

Identity Verification Used by X, TikTok, and Uber Exposed Driver's Licenses(gizmodo.com)

112 points by nickthegreek 2 years ago | 59 comments