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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/openai-attack-1200×675.jpg”] Two people were arrested Sunday for allegedly firing a gun near OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house in San Francisco, according to a report from the San Francisco Standard. The arrests came just a day after a 20-year-old man was arrested for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Altman’s home and then driving…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/02/altman-impact-1200×675.jpg”] Over the weekend, OpenAI’s chief new revenue officer, Denise Dresser, sent a memo to employees meant to detail the company’s strategy going forward, but somehow ended up spending a considerable amount of ink on how little the company thinks of Anthropic. The memo, reported on by The Verge, included some direct shots…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/g-love-crypto-theft-1200×675.jpg”] Musician G. Love lost his life savings after downloading a fake Ledger Live app from Apple’s Mac App Store, according to a post made to his X account. Noted blockchain investigator ZachXBT traced the stolen 5.92 bitcoin, worth about $424,000, through nine transactions to deposit addresses at KuCoin, an exchange with a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/PeterCapaldi_DoctorWho-1200×675.jpg”] A lot of pressure comes with playing a famous character. While Peter Capaldi was aware of that when he joined Doctor Who, he recently admitted one surprising lesson he had to learn during his time as the Twelfth Doctor. As a guest on the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg (watch the Instagram…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/maul-shadow-lord-recap-devon-vs-maul-1200×675.jpg”] This week’s batch of Maul: Shadow Lord episodes are perhaps a high point of what has been shown to critics so far—not just because the show continues its crime noir strengths and continues looking great, but because these two chapters begin to dive into the two most fascinating questions of the show so…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/turntable-sequencer-1200×675.png”] There are two types of people in this world: people for whom beatmatching just clicks immediately, and people for whom it … does not. For those in the former category—like my ex-roommate, who spent months in vain trying to teach me how to match the tempo between two records—the idea of a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/Shigella-bacteria-1200×675.jpg”] Gird your toilets, everyone: superbug strains of Shigella bacteria, a common diarrhea-causing infection, are becoming a larger problem. Federal and state health officials detailed the trend in a recent report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since 2011, they found, an increasing percentage of Shigella cases documented nationwide have…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/08/metazuck-1200×675.jpg”] People have long said that Mark Zuckerberg acts like a bot. Now he finally actually is one. According to a report from the Financial Times, Meta is in the process of building an AI version of its CEO that employees can interact with, which seems like a great opportunity to say, “Ignore…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/star-trek-first-contact-battle-of-sector-001-enterprise-e-1200×675.jpg”] It might seem like Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is a done deal, but that’s not necessarily the case. While David Ellison’s company managed to outmaneuver Netflix in its bid to take over the veteran studio, there are still hoops to jump through before the two megacorps will officially become…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/trump-jesus-AI-top-1200×675.jpg”] Donald Trump picked a fight with the Pope on Sunday night, claiming he was “WEAK on crime” and “terrible for Foreign Policy,” among a host of other wild accusations. The president immediately followed up his Truth Social post with an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ, setting off a fierce debate…