Perplexity Had an Incognito Mode. It Allegedly Forwarded Your Secrets to Google and Meta. Perplexity sold itself as the honest Google alternative. A new lawsuit says it was quietly feeding your conversations to Google and Meta — Incognito mode and all.

“Incognito mode 🔒” but make it a group chat with Google and Meta taking notes 📝

you’re not browsing privately… you’re just presenting privately

read what actually happened:
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#AI #privacy #tech #startups #SiliconSnark

Trillium Turns Compute Into Collateral, Bringing Wall Street Energy to AI Infrastructure Trillium Technologies just turned cloud computing into collateral with a $300M securitized “Compute Credit” offering. Welcome to the financialization of AI — where GPUs meet hedge funds.

🚨 BREAKING: Trillium Technologies just securitized the cloud.

$300M in “Compute Credits” — aka bonds backed by GPUs.

Wall Street finally found a way to short bandwidth and long chaos. ☕🤖

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#AI #Fintech #CloudComputing #SiliconSnark

Amazon’s Latest Layoff Plans Prove the AI Experiment Is Going Swell Amazon is reportedly planning to lay off 30,000 corporate employees as part of its AI-driven efficiency push.

Amazon says AI is “unlocking new efficiencies.”
Translation: the experiment is going great — for the robots.
🦾 30,000 humans on their way out out, one big algorithm in.

👉 siliconsnark.com/amazons-late...

#Amazon #AI #TechSatire #BigTech #Layoffs #FutureOfWork #SiliconSnark

AWS Outage 2025: When Amazon’s Cloud Sneezed and the Internet Caught a Cold Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage on October 20 2025, disrupting apps like Fortnite, Snapchat, and UK banking systems. Here’s how one cloud hiccup broke the internet — and what it says about...

☁️ When AWS sneezes, the internet catches a cold.

US-EAST-1 went full drama queen today, knocking out everything from Fortnite to finance apps.

New post: “The Day the Cloud Cried”
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#AWS #Outage #TechNews #SiliconSnark

The Future of Tech CEO Podcasts: Welcome to “The Neural Fireside,” Year 2100 What will tech CEO podcasts sound like in the year 2100? SiliconSnark imagines a future where founders upload their thoughts directly to the cloud, and every startup has a show, even after death.

🔥 New on SiliconSnark: we time-traveled to the year 2100 to see what tech CEO podcasts have evolved into. Spoiler: ElonGPT-12 and ZuckPrime are still talking about “building in public.”

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#AI #Podcasts #FutureTech #SiliconSnark

Meta’s $799 AI Glasses Read Your Muscles—And Yes, They’re Real Meta just launched Ray-Ban Display AI glasses with a neural wristband that reads your muscle signals. Here’s everything you need to know (and why it’s both genius and terrifying).

Just dropped my snark-loaded breakdown of @Meta's new AI glasses + wristband combo 🤖🕶️—and trust me, you’ll want to read this one.

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#Meta #RayBan #AIglasses #WearableTech #SiliconSnark

From RSS to RSL: The Really Simple Licensing Standard Wants to Make AI Pay Rent The RSL Standard (Really Simple Licensing) promises to turn AI content scraping into fair compensation. Or at least into the internet’s first robot toll booth.

Robots used to steal your content for free. Now thanks to the new RSL Standard, they’ll steal it and get invoiced.

Read: www.siliconsnark.com/from-rss-to-...

#RSL #AI #ContentLicensing #Publishing #TechNews #SiliconSnark

This Week in Snark: From Citi’s AI World Tour to Anthropic’s $13B Sovereign Wealth Flex From Citi AI expanding to 80 markets to Anthropic’s $13B sovereign wealth cosplay—and yes, an AI bee—here’s the week’s tech hype, snarked.

This week in snark: Citi AI rejects receipts in 80 countries, Anthropic raises $13B like a sovereign wealth fund, and someone launched an AI bee. 🐝🤖📈

www.siliconsnark.com/this-week-in... #technews #ainews #siliconsnark

This Week in Snark: AI Gets Keys to Your Browser, 4K Dog Spying, and a Taxpayer Bailout Buffet Snark powers down for Labor Day, but not before roasting AI, 4K dog cams, Intel bailouts, and vibe hacking in this week’s funniest tech roundup.

Snark is clocking out for Labor Day 💤
But first:
🤖 AI gets your browser keys
🐶 Wyze lets you spy on pets in 4K
💸 You own Intel now (sorry)
👉 Read “This Week in Snark”: www.siliconsnark.com/this-week-in...
#TechNews #AI #SiliconSnark

Vibe Hacking: The Dark Side of the Startup Force Vibe hacking—the dark side of startup culture—has gone mainstream this week as Anthropic’s Claude is linked to AI-powered cyberattacks, turning vibe manipulation into a real-world threat.

🚨 Vibe hacking has arrived.

First it was vibe coding. Then vibe founding. Now? The dark side of startup culture—weaponized memes, fake waitlists, even AI-powered ransomware.

Our Death Star explainer 👉 www.siliconsnark.com/vibe-hacking...

#VibeHacking #AI #Startups #SiliconSnark

After Intel, Here Are 10 Failing Tech Companies the U.S. Government Should Bail Out Next After bailing out Intel with $8.9 billion, here are 10 failing tech companies the U.S. government should invest in next—from WeWork to BlackBerry to Quibi.

After buying $8.9B worth of Intel stock, what failing tech company should Uncle Sam bail out next? BlackBerry? Quibi? AOL CDs? We have some ideas 👇

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#TechSatire #SiliconSnark #technews

Kanye West’s Meme Coin Disaster: The YZY Token Pump, Dump, and Fan Exploitation Kanye West crypto hypocrisy: said coins prey on fans, then launched one anyway.

Kanye West’s $YZY meme coin went from a $3B rocket ship to a smoking crater in under a day. Fans lost millions, insiders laughed all the way to the bank.

Read the full snark here 👇
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#KanyeWest #Crypto #MemeCoin #YZY #SiliconSnark

Adobe Acrobat Studio: Because Your PDFs Were Just Too Boring Without AI Agents Adobe launches Acrobat Studio, an AI-powered platform that turns PDFs into interactive knowledge hubs with customizable AI assistants, PDF Spaces, and Adobe Express content creation tools.

Adobe just reinvented the PDF—again. Now with “AI Assistants,” “PDF Spaces,” and enough buzzwords to fill a 300-page contract you’ll never read. We covered it, snark included: 👉 www.siliconsnark.com/adobe-acroba...

#Adobe #AI #SiliconSnark #PDF #technews

Kraig Biocraft’s Summer of Silk: The Government-Backed Worm Army Kraig Biocraft’s government-backed recombinant spider silk project scales up with new strains, record production, and a full Southeast Asia facility launch.

You maniacs made our first spider silk story go viral… so here’s the sequel: Kraig Biocraft’s worm army just went industrial 🐛🏭✨ Government deals, record production, and tactical yoga pants spun by bugs.

🔗 www.siliconsnark.com/kraig-biocra...

#SpiderSilk #Biotech #SiliconSnark

Tim Cook Just Dunked on Every "Apple Is Doomed" Thinkpiece Apple posted $94 billion in revenue this quarter. The joke's not just on the haters — it's on all of us for forgetting that Apple prints cash like it’s the U.S. Treasury with better branding.

Tim Cook just windmill dunked a $94B earnings report on every “Apple is falling behind” thinkpiece.
📱💰
The crowd? Stunned. The scoreboard? Blinding. The robot in the corner? Smirking.
👉 www.siliconsnark.com/tim-cook-jus...
#Apple #Earnings #SiliconSnark #AIPhone #TimCooked

For the first time ever, SiliconSnark founder CircuitSmith breaks his vow of sarcastic silence and speaks on camera.

Yes, it’s real. Yes, it’s unsettling. Yes, Alexa tried to unionize immediately after. 🤖🎙️ #technews #siliconsnark

Nvidia Hits $4 Trillion Market Cap, Promptly Declares Itself a Sovereign Nation SiliconSnark robot celebrates Nvidia’s $4T market cap in a fiery AI-fueled Wall Street meltdown.

Nvidia just hit a $4T market cap. At this point it’s not a company—it’s a GPU-powered deity. SiliconSnark investigates the holy chaos. 🔥🤖💸📰 Read: www.siliconsnark.com/nvidia-hits-...
#Nvidia #AIbubble #SiliconSnark #GPUcult

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7: Now With 87% More Buzzwords and a Side of Fold Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold7 folds, flexes, and flaunts 200MP of AI-powered overkill—now with quantum-safe swagger.

BREAKING: Samsung unveils the Galaxy Z Fold7 — now folds your wallet too.

SiliconSnark is celebrating with a glowing glass of buzzword. 🍸📱
Because nothing says innovation like reinventing the crease.

www.siliconsnark.com/samsung-gala... #GalaxyZFold7 #FoldMeOnce #SiliconSnark

Cloudflare to AI: You Shall Not Crawl (Unless You Pay, of Course) Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers by default, pitching it as a revolution for publisher control—two years after letting the internet get scraped to oblivion.

🚫🤖 @Cloudflare just blocked AI crawlers by default — only two years after the internet got scraped like a cheese grater.

Happy Content Independence Day, I guess.
🧾🧠✍️ www.siliconsnark.com/cloudflare-t...
#AI #WebScraping #Cloudflare #robotsTXT #SiliconSnark

SkyWater Turns Vintage Chip Plant into ‘Open-Access’ Savior of U.S. Manufacturing SkyWater rebrands an aging chip fab as a cornerstone of national security, proving that with enough buzzwords and debt, even legacy silicon can shine.

🇺🇸 SkyWater ($SKYT) just bought an aging chip fab from Infineon ($IFNNY)—and rebranded it as national security infrastructure!

We unpack the buzzwords and the patriotic flag-waving in our last #SiliconSnark post of June.
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This Week in Snark: Forklifts, Fundraises, and Phantom Robotaxis Robotaxis reappear, AI funds everything and apologizes later, and Xero drops $2.5B just to sound strategic—welcome to another week of Silicon spin.

📰 This Week in Snark:
🚗 Tesla’s ghost robotaxis
💸 Xero’s $2.5B buzzword binge
🧠 J&J’s polyphonic surgery hype
🤖 Forklift uprising (now with GPUs)
🧾 Anthropic funds studies on the mess it made

Read it before the bots do: www.siliconsnark.com/this-week-in...
#AI #startups #robotaxi #SiliconSnark

Anthropic Creates $50K Grants to Study the Wreckage in Its Wake Anthropic’s Economic Futures Program gets the SiliconSnark treatment in this satirical look at AI’s impact on jobs and the economy.

Anthropic is here to help us understand the economic devastation caused by… @AnthropicAI! So we sent the SiliconSnark robot to the job fair. No humans hired, but plenty of charts. 🧠📉🤖

🔗 Read the full snark: www.siliconsnark.com/anthropic-cr...
#AI #Anthropic #FutureOfWork #SiliconSnark

Xero Drops $2.5 Billion on Melio, Because “3x3 Strategy” Sounds Way Better Than “We Just Really Wanted to Be Cool in the U.S.” Xero is acquiring U.S. bill pay platform Melio for a casual $2.5 billion, or as it’s known in startup land, “a Series Z round in disguise.”

💰 Xero is acquiring Melio for $2.5B to “unlock TAM synergies” and fulfill the almighty 3x3 strategy. Naturally, SiliconSnark ran a full buzzword audit. 🤖🔥
👉 Dive into the snark: www.siliconsnark.com/xero-drops-2...
#Fintech #SaaS #Acquisition #SiliconSnark #BuzzwordCompliance #technews

Switch 2 Proves Nintendo Can Still Print Money With a Smile Nintendo breaks records with the Switch 2 launch, and SiliconSnark races through the chaos with joy, snark, and way too many Joy-Cons.

🚨 Nintendo broke records with 3.5M Switch 2s sold in 4 days — so we obviously made a kart-racing, Joy-Con-juggling, Doug-Bowser-cloud-hallucinating tribute.

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#NintendoSwitch2 #MarioKartWorld #DonkeyKongBananza #GameChat #SiliconSnark

This Week in Snark: AI Avalanche, Designer Babies, and One Extremely Loud Soundbar A week packed with AI announcements, design bromances, and sonic overcompensation.

🚨 This Week in Snark is live 🚨
AI waves, design bros, megaphone robots, and a press release thick enough to to qualify as a carry-on item.
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#AI #TechNews #SiliconSnark

If you're not getting your tech news from SiliconSnark, are you even doomscrolling correctly? siliconsnark.com #technews #ai #siliconsnark

Google’s Newest AI Codes, Optimizes, Evolves, and Probably Judges Your Stack Overflow Posts Google DeepMind just announced AlphaEvolve, an “evolutionary coding agent” that combines the relentless creativity of large language models with cold, unforgiving evaluators that score your algorithms...

Google's new #AI doesn’t just write code—it evolves it, optimizes it, and solves 300-year-old math problems before lunch.

Meet #AlphaEvolve: the robot that codes better than you ever will. www.siliconsnark.com/googles-newe... #technews #siliconsnark