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July 11th, 2026 - In a bombshell article published by The Guardian, insiders at Garmin, Fitbit and Whoop admitted Saturday to having no idea how to “score sleep” in the slightest. Instead, product designers from these big three fitness-tracking companies “completely and shamelessly” make up a number to drive various behaviors. In the article, Jeff Devine, COO of Fitbit at Google is recorded via zoom saying, “Absolutely no one has the balls to call the sleep score incorrect

June 23, 2026 – Last week, Downdetector - the website for aggregating website outages, reported that Spotify had seen a notable one billion percent (1,000,000,000%) increase in crashes over the previous month. Some users said this decrease in basic functionality was frustrating to their listening experience, while others applauded the breakneck speed with which disparate features are arriving in the platform. “My music stopping every 12 minutes isn’t all that horrible,” said

Brooklyn, NY - 'Vibes' enthusiast Tom Lafferty said on Monday that he can't wait for "Sam, Dario, or someone, to get their shit together and figure these [cigarettes] out." Reportedly explaining to everyone in his vicinity that his American Spirits were "the most under-disrupted product in human history", the young man bemoaned a lack of innovation in the space for over two hundreds years. "The customer retention...," Lafferty mused quietly to himself, looking at the ember. B

San Francisco, CA – On Friday, June 12, the United States government ordered Anthropic to suspend Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals, to which Anthropic acquiesced and pulled the models for all customers. This move is one of the first in the world to apply jurisprudence to a particular LLM, and in particular, the first to result in an effective ban on any particular model to the general public. On an unrelated note, Anthropic has confirmed an unknown invest

June 9th, 2026 – With likely the biggest IPO offering in history only days away, investors are pouring through SpaceX’s business plans to understand where their money will be going. While some gawked at the premise of orbital data center clusters connected by lasers, others raised alarms at the fine print related to “Submissive Martian Boy-Laborers.” According to the company’s S-1 filing with the SEC, “The ability for Martian Boy-Laborers to evade existing Mars exploratory

Key Points: Google's DeepMind labs revealed a stunning efficiency win for TPUs: Agents love their infra being slathered in a heavy coating of lotion.

San Francisco – Eight days ago, a 59.8 MB Javascript source map file was oddly included in the 2.1.88 version of Claude Code published to the npm registry, and users quickly realized this internal debugging file pointed to all Claude Code’s source code. Here’s what BTO discovered. 1) Claude uses a regex to look for frustrated user inputs and then runs a background agent to spank itself. After inputs like ‘shit’, ‘shitty’, ‘shittiest’, ‘fucking’, ‘so frustrating’, ‘crap

This year, BTO is proud to announce the first of our BTO Design Awards, which goes to the noise made by the Taco Bell Bell – an iconic signature which evokes an unparalleled feeling of depravity and "Fat-Fuckness". BTO spoke with Winston Elliot of design firm Winston Elliot Design, about how his team landed on this signature sound. Elliot: This was a work of supreme effort which began with deep research into our customer base, their hopes and dreams, and the role of Taco

Cupertino, CA - For most of us it was Wednesday, but for the residents of this anonymous home in a quiet side street of Palo Alto, it was the worst night of their life. An executive Siri product leader woke up in the morning to find his home cocooned in what police are describing as crustacean-themed toilet paper featuring cartoon depictions of a lobster claw. Authorities say a coordinated group of twelve and thirteen-year-old boys were responsible for the event, but are too

San Francisco, CA - In a development that has confused investors and wowed AI researchers, Sam Altman's head warlock conceded to an unflappable conjurer from Amodei's camp in a SoMA penthouse duel that was livestreamed on Liveleak for authenticity. The results of this duel have shocked Silicon Valley and the greater AI-sphere to its core, but it can be hard to understand the implications as a layperson. Let's break it down: What's going on? It's a poorly-guarded Bay Area secr

Mountain View, CA https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/galactic-resource-utilization-space-inc-gru-space BTO, Mar 10 2026

Hawthorne, CA - Ring, the high-tech doorbell company mentioned in contemporary parlance along other major smart-home vendors like Nest, has unveiled an extremely exciting update to their flagship offering. A viral superbowl ad heralded the feature "Search Party" an innovative new way to sell surveillance data to the gov - I mean, find your lost dogs. The founder and 'Chief Inventor' of Ring, Jaimie, boldly went on screen in front of America and sold this new feature that has

Seattle, WA - Excitement abounds at the 3-Orb Amazon Headquarters in Seattle as they unveil the latest iteration in delivery technology - and diversity. The announcement comes shortly after discussions around delivery technology are rising to new heated heights as gang warfare has infamously broken out between delivery bots in Los Angeles, but CEO Andy Jassy thinks this case is different. This isn't just a delivery bot. This is a monumental leap forward for OTD (On-time Deliv

Los Angeles, CA – Delivery robots vying for territory in Downtown LA have become aggressive in recent months, barking at one another, colliding violently, and brandishing weapons. New updates to the robots’ auction algorithms have increased delivery market pressures, subsequently fueling pecking orders and widespread cartel aggression. Luther Lovebug, a 2026 XL Coco Robot, made himself known in the Downtown delivery crowd last week after ruthlessly shooting and trampling Ch

Daly City, CA - Parking lots are packed like sardines with Model 3s as a critical software update that lasted almost an hour and a half forcibly redirected all Full Self Driving-equipped models to their nearest Chili's. The incident comes just days after a stunning hardware error caused by certain addon packages locked drivers in their seats and incessantly tickled their prostates. Terrified drivers reported normal driving until their steering wheel whipped around and a robot

Palo Alto, CA – New lawsuits are on their way to Tesla, Inc after users reported their car locking them inside, tightening the seatbelts, and incessantly tickling their buttocks and crotch. The malfunction is an amalgamation of premium add on packages, but after small collisions or driving too hard over speedbumps, users reported the car abruptly stopping and fondling passengers until emergency vehicles could arrive. Tesla management and engineers were perplexed by the deve

San Jose, CA - The AI startup from CEO/Founder colloquially known as 'the Pizzler' has raised $26B. Venture capitalists got in a room with the founder, and grilled him on his product market fit. He reportedly 'hyperventilated and ran' out of the room. The investors were impressed with his 'grindset'. BTO insiders report the company 'doesn't know what its product should be yet but they liked that Brainrot IDE idea' ( Y Combinator ). No, there's no bubble. There is no bubble. T

New York, NY – Robot vacuum company Matic is exciting funders this week after their robot began helping users hide fuckable objects, bongs, and the obvious possessions of former lovers. The robot vacuum is designed not only to clean, but to “deeply understand” users’ spaces, and with this, comes the remarkable ability to anticipate how your mother-in-law might find your stash. Matic - “If you keep your waist-down silicone doll, Amelia, under your bed next to the blowup matt

San Francisco, CA – BTO insiders confirm that Forward Deployed Engineers from Baseten ingested the customer’s entire Slack history for their consolidated AI Solution and are now walking around the office recording company cleavage with Meta Glasses. It’s a part of an all-out data consolidation practice called “ Vibe Graph Architecting ,” where company “vibes” are mapped by AI. “It’s one thing to know that Customer A bought from Sales Team B , but it’s a different thing

San Francisco, CA - All eyes on the social media company formerly known as Twitter as their chatbot, Grok, is hot under the scrutiny of regulators around the world for rolling out a new feature that will undress individuals in pictures. Tens of thousands of reports of women and children being put into bikinis and suggestive outfits sparked quick and decisive measures as the chatbot is already banned in Malaysia and Indonesia ( BBC ), with more to likely follow. The legal coun