Author: Rachel Cooper

City Installs Smart Streetlights That Whisper Passive-Aggressive Comments About Your Outfit

In a groundbreaking initiative launched on October 1, 2023, the city of San Francisco unveiled its latest technological marvel: smart streetlights that not only illuminate the streets but also provide unsolicited fashion critiques. Residents were bewildered when the lights began to murmur comments like, ‘Those shoes with that dress? Bold choice!’ as people walked by, […]

WinRAR Zero-Day Exploit Plants Malware During Extraction

BERLIN – Security researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute and an incident-response collective calling itself Grayhand disclosed a WinRAR zero-day on Friday that allows code execution the moment a booby-trapped archive is extracted. The teams, working with Germany’s BSI and two EU bank CERTs, say the exploit has already been used in targeted intrusions against financial […]

White House Threatens Harvard’s Patents in Retaliation Over ‘Ideological Bias’

WASHINGTON — In an unprecedented move, the White House has signaled it may revoke or reassign several lucrative patents held by Harvard University, citing what it calls “institutional ideological bias.” While no official list of grievances was released, senior aides privately described the bias as “a troubling pattern of honesty, intellect, and decency” in public […]

NSA Admits to Boredom, Starts Grading Citizens on Life Choices

On August 12, 2025, in a surprising turn of events, the National Security Agency announced that it has officially graded American citizens on their life choices due to overwhelming boredom. The announcement came during a routine press conference where NSA Director William Jones humorously suggested that the agency had inadvertently developed a penchant for scoring […]

IRS Launches New App That Tells You How Screwed You Are

On August 12, 2025, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced the launch of its latest technological advancement, the IRS Screwed-O-Meter, an app designed to inform taxpayers just how much they owe in taxes. Interestingly, the app also predicts when youâll be visited by a friendly neighborhood tax collector riding a unicycle, creating a sense of […]

Congress Passes Bill Mandating All Laws Be Written in Comic Sans to ‘Increase Relatability’

In a move hailed by supporters as a “bold step toward a more approachable democracy,” Congress has passed H.R. 5472, officially requiring all federal legislation to be drafted and published exclusively in Comic Sans. The bill, championed by Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in a rare bipartisan effort, sailed through […]