Elon Musk’s Grok is still undressing men

After weeks of flooding the internet with nonconsensual sexual deepfakes, X has finally reined in Elon Musk’s rogue chatbot Grok. Musk claims Grok obeys local laws and refuses to produce anything illegal – except it hasn’t and it can. My testing shows Grok still readily undresses men and is still churning out intimate images on … Read more

Vivo and Oppo’s telephoto extender comes to iPhone

The RetroVa kit looks almost identical to PGYTech’s accessories for Vivo and Oppo. | Image: PGYTech PGYTech, the accessory manufacturer behind the official telephoto extender lenses for recent Vivo and Oppo flagships, has launched a Kickstarter for a new version developed for iPhones. The RetroVa Vintage Imaging Kit looks an awful lot like the camera … Read more

With Claude Code, Software Engineering Moves Up the Abstraction Stack

In this post I explore new paradigms brought by agentic development tools, lessons learned from building systems with AI tooling, and what that could mean for the software engineering practice (not “just coding”) within the next few years. “AI is making developers 10x” [link], “AI is making developers less productive” [link], “AI is coming for … Read more

When Genius Became a Weapon

:::info Astounding Stories of Super-Science March, 1932, by Astounding Stories is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. The Affair of the Brains – Chapter III: The Wave of a Handkerchief Astounding Stories of Super-Science March 1932: The Affair of the Brains – Chapter III The … Read more