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404 Media Supports Webmention
• Joseph Cox

‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World

‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World

404 Media has obtained a copy of ‘Haotian AI’, a popular piece of realtime deepfake software marketed to scammers. It can turn a fraudster's face into anyone else's on WhatsApp, Zoom, and Teams.

kottke.org Valid
Jason Kottke

“Podcast sloplords” are flooding the zone...

“Podcast sloplords” are flooding the zone with AI-generated podcasts. By one count, almost 40% of new podcasts are written by AI chatbots and presented by “AI voice synthesizers [that] can sound eerily humanlike”.

WIRED
• Julian Chokkattu

Google Is Rebranding the Fitbit App to ‘Google Health’

Google is sunsetting Google Fit by year’s end. While Fitbit remains very much alive, the rebranded Google Health app is your one-stop shop for all things health and fitness.

WIRED
• Boutayna Chokrane

Google Ditches the Screen With the New Fitbit Air (2026)

Powered by Gemini and designed around simplicity, the new Fitbit Air could finally give the screenless fitness tracker market a compelling alternative to Whoop.

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Jason Kottke

Lines, Ranked . “2. Assembly. It’s not glamorous,...

Lines, Ranked. “2. Assembly. It’s not glamorous, but hot damn is it effective.”

WIRED
• Julia Forbes

Sleep Number ComfortNext Lux Smart Bed: Redefining Support

Sleep Number’s new model leans plush, but its smart support might convert even die-hard firmness fans.

WIRED
• Kristin Canning

Best Bug Spray (2026), Tested and Reviewed

Our writer tried some of the most popular insect repellents during runs, hikes, and evening walks. These are the ones we recommend.

The Torment Nexus
• Mathew Ingram

Hear me out: AI also does things that are good

Hear me out: AI also does things that are good

I could be wrong, but I feel like this post is going to be similar to the one I wrote recently about crypto stablecoins. I know some readers never got past the headline, because they were busy imagining all the bad things about crypto — the rug pulls

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Darryl K. Taft

The introverts’ edge: How AI is leveling the developer floor

A nervous junior developer comes to work feeling neglected and spends time playing ping-pong rather than asking a senior developer

The post The introverts’ edge: How AI is leveling the developer floor appeared first on The New Stack.

McSweeney’s
• Robyn Sands

The Sixteen Steps to Owning an Eight-and-a-Half-Inch Skirt

Step 1: The Problem I’ve been reborn. My estrogen patch restored my sleep, energy, and hair back to age twenty-two. Time to reverse-age my wardrobe. Step 2: The Store Purdy Girl, a shop that mangles vowels and swaps consonants like a bra worn on the outside. The sales associ...

WIRED
• Luke Larsen

How I Fixed My Webcam Lighting for Zoom Calls (2026)

I have a horrendous lighting setup in my home office, but as a mixed-use room, my options for fixing it were limited.

WIRED
• Andy Greenberg

Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web

Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in seconds—and in thousands of cases, spill highly sensitive data onto the public internet.

WIRED
• Kate Knibbs

This Reggae Band Is in a Nightmare Battle Against AI Slop Remixes

When Stick Figure’s six-year-old song shot up the charts, the band was thrilled. But its viral moment was spurred by unauthorized AI remixes.

WIRED
• Kristin Canning

11 Best Sunscreens, WIRED Tested and Reviewed

We put 36 sunscreens to the test during summer hikes, spring ski days, and beachside hangs. Out of all the mineral, chemical, and spray varieties we tried, these are our top picks.

WIRED
• Miles Klee

Bottom G Wants You to Know He’s More Than Just ‘Gay Andrew Tate’

Brian Michael Hinds found accidental internet fame through a resemblance to the controversial manosphere figure. He’s still wrestling with what to do with it.

WIRED
• David Gilbert

There Is No Evidence the Trump Assassination Attempts Were Staged. People Still Believe They Were

Elements of the right and the left are united in the baseless belief that two attempts on Donald Trump's life were staged.

WIRED
• Adrienne So

Everyone Should Travel With a Pair of Cheap Wired Headphones (2026)

Admit it: It’s inevitable you will forget to charge your Bluetooth pair.

The Daily Updates instantly via WebSub
• The New York Times

What the End of Spirit Airlines Means for the Future of Flying

When Spirit Airlines shut down over the weekend, it brought an end to a company that had revolutionized air travel in the United States with its ultra-low-cost approach. Niraj Chokshi, who covers aviation for The New York Times, discussed why the company unraveled and whethe...

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

Trump’s Rage at Pope Backfires as Poll Reveals He’s Losing Fight Badly

Donald Trump has been raging at Pope Leo’s criticism of the Iran war for weeks, and he just unleashed his most vile attack yet. Trump accused the Pope of “endangering a lot of Catholics” by advocating for peace. Yet a new Washington Post pol...

404 Media Supports Webmention
• Becky Ferreira

Scientists Gave ‘Aggressive’ Fish Psychedelic Drugs. A Breakthrough Came Next

Scientists Gave ‘Aggressive’ Fish Psychedelic Drugs. A Breakthrough Came Next

“We really had no idea what we were getting ourselves into,” said one researcher involved in the first-of-its-kind study that dosed fish with psilocybin, the component in magic mushrooms.