Hardware Volkswagen's electric car allegedly switches on hidden diesel engine when nobody's looking After weeks of extensive road testing, several motoring journalists have reported a suspicious noise coming from under the hood of the new EV from Volkswagen. While many happy owners suspect
Programming Developer says he can fix the Suez canal problem by adding more containers onto the ship A quarter-mile-long, Japanese-owned container ship en route from China to Europe has been stuck in the Suez canal for several days. It is blocking more than a hundred other ships,
Business Facebook acquires Somalia to escape regulations, renames country to Zuckerbergstan Social networking giant Facebook has finalized the acquisition of the African state of Somalia for the price of 4.31 Instagrams. Formally, the unusual business transaction was planned to "connect
Hardware Programmer invents non-moving car, claims "premature optimization is the root of all evil" An ambitious software engineer Nathan Zander, native of Northern California, decided to get into one of the most difficult industries: car manufacturing. To help the transition, Nathan is taking advantage
JavaScript Client-side JS surpasses porn in global traffic stats Pornography has been the top contributor to Internet traffic for a long time. This month another type of morally questionable content had surpassed porn and became the top contributor to
Google Google employees can't pass CAPTCHA asking to "click on squares containing privacy violations" A regular working day of one of Google's numerous departments has come to a halt on Friday afternoon, when a mundane security update forced all employees to re-authorize. The process
Programming God continues to allow new JS frameworks despite endless prayer The official spokesperson of the Roman Catholic Church and The Holy See published a press release filled with clearly worrying undertones. The Church is saying that God still continues to
Business Medical startup struggles to hire full-stack doctors with 75+ years of experience An ambitious medical startup, promised to revolutionize the world of medicine, faced an unexpected challenge: so far, the HR department has managed to hire zero out of necessary 3500 full-stack
Science 14% of energy consumption on Earth attributed to package managers installing other package managers According to the latest Climate Change Reports, nearly 14% of total energy consumption on Earth is attributed solely to package managers installing other package managers as dependencies. For example, npm
Startups Hacker hacks into startup, rewrites complex backend with PostgreSQL and cron, forces CEO to fire 40% of devs and devops A hacker of unknown origins hacked into servers of Complify, a rapidly growing VC-funded startup. When Complify's security specialists noticed the breach, it was too late. However, unexpectedly, the hacker's
Web JS devs don't believe colleague who claims browsers have native scrolling An experienced web developer, who joined a large tech company in Nottingham last month, claims to have discovered a hidden, secret feature built into all web browsers: page scrolling. According
Web Woman forgets why she exists after accepting cookies, denying notifications, rejecting newsletter, blocking location request and closing help chat What started as a mundane web search ended with a deep existential crisis for a young Janet in Baltimore. A regular modern website on the first page of Google search
Web Janitor becomes front-end dev, decides to go back to old job after 4 months Jeffrey R., 47, has lived through a modern story with a happy ending, but not the one you'd expect. After many years of low-paying jobs as a janitor in local
Google Google reveals Fitbit Ankle Bracelet with "check in at Google HQ" feature Last month Google had finalized the acquisition of Fitbit, manufacturer of fitness tracking devices. Today Google has finally revealed the newest hardware product in Fitbit lineup: a fitness ankle bracelet.
Google Google rewrites terms of service in language of Mordor after allegedly achieving quantum supremacy A recent update to Google's terms of service confirm a rumor that tech giant has finally achieved quantum supremacy. The new terms of service is written in so called The
Apps New version of Slack supports VMs and containers inside chats The relentless growth of Slack does not seem to stop. After multiple relatively small features during 2020, the popular team communications platform finally dropped the big update which allows running
Science Cave painting dated 12000BC depict first LinkedIn invitation A large scale archeological dig in southern France reveal astounding results. Among the oldest known cave paintings was found what researchers believe to be the first even LinkedIn invitation. While
Programming VSCode releases AI-powered "recommended line of code" feature Witnessing tremendous success of various AI-powered recommendation systems increase engagement across multiple software projects, maintainers of VSCode, a popular text editor and light IDE, released an AI-powered feature of their
Google Google uses time travel to shut down product 2 weeks before initial idea Mountain View, CA—According to sources in Google, Inc, the company just shut down another large software product, one that was supposed to be actually beneficial to customers. While the
Programming Programmer surprised name change is so difficult after naming his son "asdf" It will takes weeks until all the paperwork is done. Until then, an 8 month old British boy is still legally asdf Graham. It's an unfortunate temporary name given by
Programming C++ developer hears son's first word 'NaN', suspects adultery Senior C++ engineer Bear Bigbirdtrup's idyllic family life changed forever as soon as he heard his son's first word: 'NaN'. The seed of doubt has been planted. Few weeks later
Design Designer charged for malpractice, sentenced to select text on webpages 3 hours per day Unprecedented class action suit against a team of UI/UX-designers came to an end this afternoon in Pueblo, Colorado. The victims claim that enterprise software designed by the team brought
Web JAM-stack means "Just Attempt Moving off of our paid service" Leaked internal emails from employees of several startups in the JAM-stack industry reveal the true nature of the acronym. While officially JAM stands for "JavaScript, APIs, Markup", the leaks support
JavaScript Priest denies absolution to Brendan Eich for inventing JavaScript Detroit, MI—Catholic priest Trevor Noll has openly denied absolution to Brendan Eich. Many believe that Priest Noll has personal reasons. But in order to maintain legitimacy he provided several
Programming NodeJS developer refuses to believe that gigahertz means billion hertz During a heated online discussion in one of Github's many threads, a young NodeJS developer firmly refused to believe that "giga" in gigahertz means "billion". In an emotional tantrum, they
