Despite calling for the death penalty for drug dealers, president Donald Trump pardoned Ross "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ulbricht, the man behind the seminal online drug marketplace Silk Road, which facilitated the sale…
Long Boy Incredible things are happening in China: a company there has announced the release of a 26 meter — that's an astonishing 85 feet, for those who struggle with the…
Boy Genius While disgraced FTX cofounder Sam Bankman-Fried rots away behind bars for fraud, his parents are making the rounds in Trumpworld and trying to plant the seeds for a…
A young man with severe asthma used to be able to get his inhaler for cheap, but after UnitedHealthcare's drug arm jacked up the price, he had to go without…
The emergence of Chinese AI startup DeeSeek upended Silicon Valley earlier this week, punching a massive $1 trillion hole through the tech industry. The company's highly efficient yet high-performing "reasoning'…
Security researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and hardware conglomerate Cisco have found that DeepSeek's flagship R1 reasoning AI model is stunningly vulnerable to jailbreaking. In a blog post published…
Rich Man's Game When it comes to scamming online retailers and getting free stuff, wealthy Gen Z and millennials are way ahead of the game. Known as "digital shoplifting," this…
Critical Thinking An AI-powered social media bot seemingly deployed to boost pro-Israel narratives online appears to be going wildly off script, instead criticizing the Israeli and American governments in strongly-worded…
Cave Man A former Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officer is going away for a long time after admitting to swapping bricks of seized cocaine with 3D-printed decoys. As the Associated Press…
Uber Against the World Uber has filed a lawsuit claiming that it's the victim of an elaborate fake car accident racket to scam it out of its money, Bloomberg reports…
Forbidden Treasure It looks like Elon Musk and his buddies have forced another US official out of government. The Washington Post reports that senior Department of the Treasury official David…
The US Department of Agriculture under Donald Trump is taking a bold new stance toward climate change: out of sight, out of mind. A new report by Politico reveals a concerted…
Earlier this month, as Aftermath first reported, the G/O Media-owned business news website Quartz quietly started churning out a huge number of AI-generated news articles. Surprise: its news bot is already…
China's DeepSeek, which threw Silicon Valley into chaos this week, makes no qualms about sending all of your sensitive data straight to the Chinese government. It's also no secret that…
Scaredy Cats The release of DeepSeek's low-cost R1 model has precipitated an existential crisis in Silicon Valley, whose executives are now begging the government to protect their AI companies from…
Honest Elon After repeatedly insisting for over a decade that Tesla was on the verge of legitimate full self-driving (FSD) — and selling cars with pricey computing hardware, based on the…
Email Empowerment Turns out that putting underqualified kids in charge of the federal government's HR agency wasn't the smartest move. Last night, an exploit in the Office of Personnel Management's…
Remember the plot to the 1984 sci-fi blockbuster "The Terminator"? "There was a nuclear war," a character explains. "Defense network computers. New... powerful... hooked into everything, trusted to run it all.…
Google might be one of the wealthiest corporations in the world, but that doesn't mean the multi-trillion-dollar company won't resort to downsizing. Over the last year or so, employees in…
As officials are still trying to piece together what led to the deadly midair collision between a commercial jet and an Army helicopter in the nation's capital, president Donald Trump…