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Spotify removed 57,000 fake podcast episodes promoting opioids, modafinil, and crypto on unregulated sites — with 94% having zero plays. The podcasts are almost certainly AI-generated, marking a new vector for automated drug trafficking.
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iFixit's teardown of the Trump phone confirmed long-standing suspicions by physically swapping the mainboard of a Trump phone into an HTC U24 Pro chassis and vice versa — both devices worked, proving they share the same SoC, form factor, and board. The phone is manufactured in Shenzhen, China. Christina Warren adds that the entity building it is likely an ODM licensed under the HTC name, as the real HTC was largely acquired by Google. The FCC pivot draws sharp criticism: the agency wants telecoms to collect government IDs from all prepaid phone customers, which Christina argues won't stop spam or criminal activity — bad actors will just use fake IDs — but will create a new surveillance apparatus for domestic abuse survivors, journalists, and privacy-conscious users.
A CrowdStrike report found North Korean hacking group Famous Chollima accounted for 47% of all state-backed intrusions targeting the US tech sector.
CrowdStrike found that North Korea's Famous Chollima hacking group — posing as remote workers and recruiters — accounted for 47% of all state-backed intrusions at US tech companies from April 2025 to May 2026. Half of all hands-on-keyboard attacks at US tech companies are North Korean.
Spotify found and removed 57,000 fake podcast episodes promoting illegal drugs including opioids and modafinil, with 94% having zero plays.
Game apps keep users engaged long enough for ads to pay off. Tool apps don't — so if you're building a utility, ads are almost always the wrong call and subscriptions are your only real lever.
Inside SEO Bot, a single button labelled 'Boost My Domain Rating' routes users directly to Listing Bot. That one interaction converts a user of one tool into a user of two — without any marketing cost.
Directory listings are a powerful but underrated growth channel — but only if your product is genuinely interesting enough to earn the click. AI products have a natural advantage here because they're easy to package in a compelling, clickable way.
The fastest path to Twitter growth isn't volume — it's forming sharp opinions about how the platform works and sharing them immediately. People cluster around those who understand the rules and say so out loud.
Sam had no coding knowledge, so he used ChatGPT voice mode to generate his entire codebase and copy-pasted it into Notepad. A friend later introduced him to Cursor, and he never looked back.
Copy days of Discord chat history, paste it into ChatGPT, and ask it to list recurring pain points. The ones that come up most often are your best product bets.
Sam's top advice: when prompting Cursor, tell it to architect code for 100,000 users from day one. The AI changes its approach, building scalable frameworks instead of brittle one-user code.
With AI coding tools like Cursor, Bhanu replicates an existing free tool for a new keyword in under 5 minutes. What used to be a multi-day build is now a lunch-break task.
Ahrefs, SiteGPT, Cal.com, PostHog, Datafast, Sibyl AI, Bento, Feather, Featurepace, Mintlify, Cloud Code, ChartMogul — Bhanu runs his entire business solo with these 12 tools.
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