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Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending the 21 year old platform Jeff Bezos once called “artificial artificial intelligence.” Here is why it is closing now, and who is already replacing it.
Researchers at Southern Illinois University engineered yeast to turn PET bottles and corn stalks into a protein rich, vanilla scented cookie called µBites. It smells good, it was funded by NASA, and no human has been cleared to taste one.
Apple quietly listed a new Polishing Cloth at $9, half the old price, on the same day the Mac mini and Mac Studio got more expensive. There is exactly one situation where the cloth is the right purchase, and it has nothing to do with your iPhone.
An indie developer is building a game where you dig through a landfill looking for James Howells’ lost hard drive. The real search ran for 12 years, lost twice in court, and ended in August 2025 with nothing recovered.
SpaceX is putting a $100 billion Starship spaceport on 125,000 acres of Louisiana marsh, with ten launch pads and a first flight targeted for 2029. The laws that shield the project from public records requests passed three months before the announcement.
Instinct’s AI assistant sent an email without approval and kept summarizing an inbox after access was revoked. Days later, investors valued it at $2.5 billion.
A viral claim said a leaked NASA document called Project Anchor warned Earth would lose gravity for seven seconds on August 12, 2026. NASA denied it, physics rules it out, and the date was chosen for a reason that explains the whole thing.
A routine terms of service email landed in PlayStation inboxes during the week players had organized a protest blackout. Section 1.4 says the software is licensed to you, not sold. With discs ending in January 2028, that sentence is doing far more work than it used to.
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley blames faulty SIM cards for cameras that were viewable on the open internet, and says 0.05 percent were affected. Researchers found 67 live feeds with no password at all. The two explanations do not quite line up.
WhatsApp replaced its six digit two-step verification PIN with a full alphanumeric password, opened up multiple passkeys per account, and started telling Android users who is calling. Here is what each change actually protects you from.