The Current

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Aug 24, 2026

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9 min read

🚨 That AI butler? It's a guy in VR

Plus: new iPhone that opens like a book, a taxi with nobody to tip, servers sleeping with the fishes, a Windows deadline you can't skip, NASA's favorite productivity hack, and a robot face-planting in Beijing.

Aug 23, 2026

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9 min read

🔐 Your 150 logins are wide open

Plus: police searching your car's whole life, a $513 ring guessing your sleep, Apple leaking its own gadgets, your flashlight's hidden dimmer, typing a sentence into a video game, and an Amazon drone nailing the pool landing

Aug 22, 2026

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2 min read

🚨 A cop ran his ex 717 times. Flock’s CEO admitted it - The Kim Komando Show

Plus: Amazon shredding rare books for AI, elbow deep in an airplane toilet, McDonald's 515-page file on you, $260K electricians with no degree, 50 Waymos trapped by one prank, people marrying their chatbots and a fake FBI call that cost $4.3 million