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A Mother and Son Spent 5 Years Hand-Making a Chinese Cartoon So Rough That Audiences Call It Proof No AI Touched It. It’s Now Grossed S$3.2 Million
3+ week, 4+ day ago (338+ words) Updated 2 hours ago, August 18, 2026 Xin Yumeng and his mother, Sun Lifang, taught themselves 3D modeling, animation, voice acting, and music to build “Niu Lai” almost entirely on second-hand gear.The animation is so stiff and low-budget that Chinese audiences started buying…...
A Bookseller Hid an Airtag in a Shipment of 1,000 Rare Books and Tracked It to an Amazon Warehouse Where Workers Strip the Spines Off and Scan Them to Death
3+ week, 2+ day ago (392+ words) Updated 53 minutes ago, August 20, 2026 A judge already ruled this is legal. In the lawsuit that first exposed the practice, a court found that Anthropic cutting the pages out of millions of books, scanning them, and disposing of the originals was…...
Chinese Factories Are Already Running Humanoid Robots a Maker Says Match a Human Worker’s Efficiency at Moving Boxes
3+ week, 3+ day ago (186+ words) Updated 5 hours ago, August 19, 2026 Humanoid robots are no longer a lab demo. In Chinese factories, machines built to move boxes are already on the floor — and their maker says they now match a human worker’s efficiency at the task. According…...
Jim Thornton Was Reading a Google AI Answer About Chatroom Traceability After a Passenger Reported a Tor Session on His Laptop
1+ week, 17+ hour ago (109+ words) Updated 5 minutes ago, September 5, 2026 The captain had law enforcement meet the plane at LAX. Thornton was questioned and released. Sony Pictures Television suspended him days later, then fired him from “Wheel of Fortune,” effective immediately, after what it called “a…...
Robots Are Cage Fighting Like They’re in Street Fighter in China Right Now
3+ week, 3+ day ago (174+ words) Updated 26 minutes ago, August 19, 2026 EngineAI turned its booth at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing into a black MMA cage and sent two 5-foot-8 T800 humanoids inside to fight before a crowd filming on their phones. And honestly, what a great…...
Flock’s New Police AI Can Pull Up Your Whole Social Life From a Single License Plate Number
3+ week, 3+ day ago (273+ words) Updated 35 minutes ago, August 19, 2026 Flock’s AI could turn ordinary movements and associations into grounds for police suspicion. It’s too invasive and new reporting form Wired shows us just how invasive it really is. Police used to need a plate or…...
Beth Knight Was 17 When a Man With Meta Glasses Turned Her Into Content
1+ week, 5+ day ago (317+ words) Updated 9 minutes ago, August 31, 2026 Beth Knight never agreed to be filmed. She didn’t even know she had been — not until the clip surfaced in her own TikTok scroll, presented as proof that a stranger had “picked up” a teenager. She…...
‘Don’t Look Under the Bed’ Was So Scary in 1999 That Disney Channel Got Hate Mail and Quietly Killed Its Horror Lineup for Good
1+ week, 1+ day ago (149+ words) Updated 23 minutes ago, September 5, 2026 In 1999, a Disney Channel Original Movie went far enough into horror territory that it reportedly drew hate mail — and helped end the network’s scary-movie ambitions for good. The film was “Don’t Look Under the Bed.” Disney…...
Willie Nelson, 93, Is Telling His Texas Hometown to Fight the Data Centers “Invading Our Land”
1+ week, 4+ day ago (404+ words) Updated 6 hours ago, September 1, 2026 Willie Nelson has owned a home and farmland in Abbott, Texas since he was a kid, and he says he can still see the stars there at night. Now he’s asking his neighbors to stand up…...
The U.S. Army Spent a Decade Funding Robot Dog Research, Published It Openly, and China Turned It into a $9 Billion Company
3+ week, 3+ day ago (369+ words) Updated 17 minutes ago, August 20, 2026 A robot Ben Katz helped build at MIT ended up nearly cloned “to the millimeter” by a Chinese startup now worth $9 billion. The lab that made it possible was funded by the U.S. Army, which…...