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A single photo can now put your boss's face on a live video call. One finance worker watched his “colleagues” fill the screen — and wired away $25 million.
A free tool that hit #1 on GitHub lets anyone wear another person’s face in real time on a video call. The wonder, the $25M trapdoor, and the one-word fix that still beats it.
Your browser can now book your whole holiday while you sleep. A stranger can hide one sentence on a webpage and point it at your inbox instead.
A new kind of browser doesn't just show you pages — it clicks, fills forms, and checks out for you. It's one of the most useful things AI can do right now. It's also why a single line of invisible text can talk your browser into emptying your inbox. Here's the marvel, and the trapdoor.
A 6-month-old app just sold for $80 million. Its founder never wrote a line of code. Neither, it turns out, did the locks.
"Vibe coding" — building real software by just describing it in plain English — went from party trick to a $4.7B industry this year. The magic, and the trapdoor.
AI now forecasts the weather in 60 seconds. There's one storm it keeps missing.
It does in one minute what used to take a supercomputer hours — and it's beating the machines we trusted for 50 years. But there's one kind of storm it keeps getting wrong, and it's the one that matters most.
