Smartphone autofocus VCMs are typically gearless but still have mechanical friction.
Claim:
A voice coil motor (VCM) used for smartphone autofocus has no gears and no friction.
MOSTLY BS
Tech
Claims about technology, AI, and the companies that build it.
Utah filings describe a large-load service plan with customer cost protections.
Claim:
Rocky Mountain Power redirected all electricity generation capacity it owns to provide backup power for a newly built AI data center in Utah.
TOTAL BS
Broad cross-organization estimates put AI-assisted code creation in the high 20% range.
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More than 30% of newly written source code in the United States is produced using AI coding tools.
SOME BS
Studies find AI fact-checkers materially disagree on verdicts about 15–30% of the time.
Claim:
Substantive disagreements between AI models on fact-checking outcomes are common.
NOT BS
As of Q1 2026, benchmarks don’t show frontier coding models beating experts.
Claim:
As of Q1 2026, frontier AI coding models exceed expert human performance on real-world software engineering tasks, as demonstrated by SWE-bench Verified and HumanEval+ results.
MOSTLY BS
Claude cannot break Bitcoin’s secp256k1 cryptography or hack the blockchain itself.
Claim:
Claude AI cannot directly crack Bitcoin encryption or hack into a blockchain.
NOT BS
No independently verified evidence confirms a SARS breach on 23 May 2026.
Claim:
A Nigerian hacking group hacked the South African Revenue Service (SARS) on 23 May 2026.
TOTAL BS
LiveKit agents can only process media streams that exist inside LiveKit rooms.
Claim:
LiveKit agents can only listen and respond to humans in meetings held inside LiveKit rooms, so a Google Meet or Microsoft Teams meeting must be bridged into a LiveKit room for a LiveKit agent to interact with the meeting audio/video.
HARDLY BS
Neptun Deep began drilling in Romania’s Black Sea EEZ in 2025.
Claim:
The Neptune Deep offshore natural gas project has started drilling in Romania's Black Sea exclusive economic zone about 160 km from the coast of Bulgaria.
SOME BS
Zenya’s ISO/IEC 27001 certification is audited and certified by DNV.
Claim:
Zenya (Infoland) holds ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certifications that are audited by DNV GL.
HARDLY BS
Singpass is Singapore’s national digital identity for accessing government services.
Claim:
Singapore has a national digital identity system called Singpass that is used to access government digital services.
NOT BS
ANSSI CSPN certificates can be recognized by Germany’s BSI under a CSPN-BSZ arrangement.
Claim:
France's Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information (ANSSI) and Germany's Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) have a mutual recognition agreement between France's Certification de sécurité de premier…
HARDLY BS
Debian Security Advisory DSA-180-1 covered a Cyrus SASL username buffer overflow.
Claim:
Debian Security Advisory DSA-180-1 describes a Cyrus SASL username buffer overflow vulnerability.
NOT BS
Cyrus SASL 2.1.9 and earlier contain CVE-2002-1347 username canonicalization buffer overflow.
Claim:
Cyrus SASL library versions 2.1.9 and earlier have a buffer overflow vulnerability that can be triggered by long inputs during user name canonicalization.
NOT BS
No evidence shows a “Cloud Workflow Insights” report with this 98% alert finding.
Claim:
A report titled "Cloud Workflow Insights" states that 98% of nearly 3,000 monitored organizations across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia received a throughput alert from a supplier domain during a 7-day window in…
TOTAL BS
Wosar’s Jabber contact was used for cybercriminal dispute tips, not performance bottleneck reports.
Claim:
Fabian Wosar opened a dedicated Jabber account to receive anonymous reports from disgruntled power users about performance bottlenecks.
TOTAL BS
ChatGPT’s free plan is restricted to supported countries and regions.
Claim:
ChatGPT is free to use for everyone.
MOSTLY BS
Publicly available PS4 jailbreak methods work on firmware 13.00 or lower.
Claim:
A Sony PlayStation 4 can be jailbroken on system software version 13.50.
TOTAL BS
Many modern seatbelt retractors lock the belt spool during sudden deceleration.
Claim:
Modern seatbelt retractors use an inertia-locking mechanism that locks the belt spool during rapid deceleration.
HARDLY BS
Most newly created online content in the past year remained primarily human-made.
Claim:
More than 50% of newly created online content produced in the past 12 months was produced with AI assistance or generated by AI.
MOSTLY BS
No checks match that verdict.