Friendster has returned! But you can only connect with offline friends.

Do you remember Friendster? The early-2000s social networking platform has now returned roughly 24 years later with a whole new gimmick: Users can only connect with real-life friends. The founder of the new Friendster, Mike Carson, is promoting the relaunched social media platform as being free of any ads and algorithms. But, that’s not all […]

OpenAI explains why ChatGPT suddenly loved goblins

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is currently embroiled in some courtroom drama, but the engineers back at the OpenAI lab just solved a minor drama (really a comedy) with ChatGPT. OpenAI published a lengthy, detailed report on its website about goblins. No, really. Since the release of GPT 5.1, ChatGPT models have developed a weird fixation […]

Spotify now verifies artists that are human, not AI

Still struggling to spot when you’re streaming AI-generated music instead of human-made tunes? Spotify is trying to help. On April 30, the streaming giant announced it would be launching an official “Verified by Spotify” badge across its platform to distinguish human artists from synthetic-only profiles. The badge, a light green check mark next to the […]