This Week in Snark: Cables, Coins, Close Your Rings, and Cyberattacks
Welcome back to This Week in Snark, your weekly field guide to the absurdities of the tech-industrial hype complex.
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Shill or Be Shilled: A Deep Dive into the Meme Coin Promotion Industrial Complex
A Deep dive into the world of meme coin promotion. This exposé traces the global history of meme coin consultants and promoters – from the innocent Dogecoin days to the present rogues’ gallery
Beats Cables Arrive: Finally, the Courage to Reinvent the Wire
Beats has unveiled its most revolutionary product since... well, the last time they changed a color: charging cables.
Streaming the Machine: 18% of Music Now Pure Robot Vibes
In honor of Deezer’s bold revelation that 18% of all new music uploaded is fully AI-generated, we here at SiliconSnark thought: why not fight fire with fire.
Say Hello to OpenAI's o3 and o4‑Mini, the AI Equivalent of That Friend Who Needs ‘Just One More Coffee’
OpenAI has released o3 and o4‑mini, its latest AI models that claim to be smarter, more “agentic,” and capable of juggling tools like a digital octopus with a PhD.
Apple Watch Declares National Guilt Day, Calls It “Close Your Rings Day”
On April 24, Apple invites you — no, encourages you — to "do something you love" so you can close all three of your Activity rings and earn the exclusive, once-in-a-year, extremely digital Global Close Your Rings Day award.
A Totally Serious Forecast of GPT 4.6 Through 10.0
GPT-4.1 just dropped. GPT-4.5 already teased. GPT-10.0 expected to ascend into pure light and judge us all by our browser history.