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A political aspirant in Nigeria who presented himself as a 30-year-old man with dwarfism has stepped away from an upcoming election after documents emerged suggesting he is actually a teenager. Mahmud Sadis Buba, from Kaduna State, had been campaigning to represent the Sabon Gari Federal Constituency in the Nigerian House of Representatives ahead of the … Read more
Pope Leo XIV‘s first encyclical landed like a theological thunderbolt over Silicon Valley. Titled “Magnifica Humanitas,” the 235-page document stretched beyond 42,000 words, making it nearly the length of a full book. In it, the Pope warned business leaders to safeguard humanity from artificial intelligence. He argued that “technology is never neutral” and that it … Read more
When Microsoft released Office 2019 as perpetually licensed software, customers had every reason to believe they were making a lasting purchase. A perpetual license means you pay once and keep the software. However, Microsoft ended support for Office 2019 for Mac in October 2023. The company published a message on its website that read: “Rest … Read more
George Lopez sat down with Shaquille O’Neal on The Big Podcast with Shaq and opened up about a real-life encounter with the Secret Service that stemmed from a joke he posted on Instagram about former President Donald Trump. Lopez explained that the incident began when news broke that Iran had allegedly offered an $80 million … Read more
During his appearance on Trevor Noah’s podcast, influencer and political commentator Hasan Piker addressed one of the labels that has followed him throughout his rise in political commentary: being called the Joe Rogan of the left. Trevor Noah set up the comparison by explaining why some people see parallels between the two personalities. “They’re saying … Read more
A deeply unsettling video has gone viral showing a self-described prophet named Kevin Leal tearing a page from the Bible and compelling a teenage boy to eat it during a live church service. In the footage, Leal instructs the teen to turn to the Book of Proverbs before ripping out a page and handing it … Read more
During Chris Williamson’s recent podcast episode featuring neuroscientist Andrew Huberman, comedian Tom Segura, and comedian Matt McCusker, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen became a major topic of discussion when the group turned to the online trend known as “r*tardmaxxing.” Huberman introduced Andreessen while explaining the origins of the trend. “There’s looksmaxxing, then there’s a guy who … Read more
At a time when virtually every transaction, movement, and communication is logged by some platform or another, David Anthony Burke (popularly known as d4vd) allegedly left a paper trail so thorough that prosecutors now have approximately 40 terabytes of digital evidence to work with. From food delivery apps to Amazon orders placed under a fake … Read more
A new academic study from researchers at the City University of New York and King’s College London has handed Elon Musk‘s xAI chatbot a distinction no technology company would want: the most dangerous AI model tested when it comes to reinforcing delusional beliefs in vulnerable users. The paper, titled “AI Psychosis in Context: How Conversation … Read more
The hosts of the podcast Decoding the Gurus recently criticized what they see as one of the defining contradictions of the current political moment: figures like Joe Rogan and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being elevated as voices on health and science within the Trump administration while, at the same time, the administration cuts away at … Read more
