The Daily Beast Latest Articles | ‘Survivor’ Style Corporate Retreat Descends Into Hellish Nightmare by Leigh Kimmins

Moniker PartnersA half-million-dollar corporate retreat to Honduras turned into a week-long disaster involving illness, wild animals, armed guards, and employees stranded on a remote island.

Tech media company Plex flew its 120 employees to a Honduran resort in 2017 for what was billed as a Survivor-style getaway. They called it “Plexcon.” The first harbinger of trouble was an email that arrived before the group departed, informing them that the hotel manager and chef had both quit within days of each other. Things went sharply downhill from there.

CEO Keith Valory, 54, had flown out a day early, intending to channel his inner Jeff Probst and welcome his staff off the buses like a game show host. Instead, he spent the arrival morning flat on his back. “I got E. coli, which is maybe the worst thing you could get, possibly, ever,” Valory told The Washington Post this week.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/survivor-style-corporate-retreat-descends-into-hellish-nightmare/

#monikerpartners #plex #plexcon #e.coli #techmedia

In covering the story of an AI agent apparently writing a hit piece blog post about someone who declined its GitHub merge request, Ars Technica posted a story that included fabricated quotes created by AI.

It's slop all the way down.

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

#ArsTechnica #TechPress #TechReporting #TechMedia #AIslop #MJRathbun #AIagents #Journalism #AIcodingAgents #VibeCoding #VibeJournalism

В соцсетях рассказали, как спалить сайт, который продает и сливает ваши данные — достаточно написать в строке «Отчество» его название.

Софи Онлифановна.

#techmedia #kiberded

AI didn’t “do” the harm. People did. In Adam Conover’s AI safety interview, anthropomorphism becomes cover for bad design and worse accountability. Naming the alibi.
#AI #OpenAI #Accountability #TechMedia #AISafety #NarrativeControl

http://cherokeeschill.com/2026/01/28/anthropomorphism-as-alibi-ai-accountability/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115827621936130046

This is such a stirling example of the exact kind of shitty, parroting, uncricital #tech coverage that got us here in the first place.

You know, "here" being a place where a bunch of companies with nary a product between them run economies bigger than whole countries, headed up by idiots who think they're God.

This happened because hokey claims like this is the growth story that lets them overvalue their stock by a factor of 10.

Fuck you right in the neck, @arstechnica & all of #TechMedia

TechSpot: AnandTech’s 27-year archive has vanished, but someone uploaded a 74 GB backup. “The thousands of articles from AnandTech’s 27-year history are still accessible through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, but they are no longer properly indexed…. Fortunately, a complete unofficial 74 GB archive is available for download, and users are attempting to clone the site at […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/08/techspot-anandtechs-27-year-archive-has-vanished-but-someone-uploaded-a-74-gb-backup/

Lol 2 of the 3 things this guy "needs" are completely out of the control of Linux devs

#linux #tech #techmedia #XDADevelopers #clickbait

https://www.xda-developers.com/3-things-linux-needs-to-have-before-i-can-make-the-swap/#thread

This obsession the mainstream tech media is having with the softlaunch of a general steamOS image is bizarre. There's nothing steamOS does that can't be achieved with a lot of other distros, Fedora, uBlue/bazzite and arch friends.

Does even the IT media need their handheld by some corporate sponsor to do anything?

#steamOS #steamdeck #linux #fedora #ublue #bazzite #tech #techmedia #linuxgaming #gaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do7B4gmAyVM&pp=ygU7YmV0dGVyIG9mZmxpbmUsIGhvdyB0aGUgZXRjaCBtZWRpYSBjYW4gYmVhdCB0aGUgcm90IGVjb25vbXk%3D

#BetterOffline

How The #TechMedia Can Beat The #RotEconomy

#EdZitron