https://thehypeindex.com/ The Hype Index takes one loud public claim per edition, in AI, security, business, money, science, health, culture or sport, traces it to the primary source, and scores it from 0 to 100. Every claim gets a verdict, published component scores, a dated call, and a permanent record marked held or missed. Tuesdays and Thursdays. en-us Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:21:10 GMT https://thehypeindex.com/edition/security-keys-stop-100-percent-of-phishing/ https://thehypeindex.com/edition/security-keys-stop-100-percent-of-phishing/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:00:00 GMT The paper reports no targeted-attack figure for security keys at all. The famous zero comes from the blog post about the paper. https://thehypeindex.com/edition/48-million-unfilled-cybersecurity-jobs/ https://thehypeindex.com/edition/48-million-unfilled-cybersecurity-jobs/ Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:00:00 GMT Its publisher quietly retired the metric in December 2025. The figure has outlived the study that produced it. https://thehypeindex.com/edition/plastic-spoon-in-your-brain-dementia/ https://thehypeindex.com/edition/plastic-spoon-in-your-brain-dementia/ Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:00:00 GMT The plastic is really there and the paper is real. The spoon is an interview, and the paper's own text rules out the causal claim built on top of it. https://thehypeindex.com/edition/superhero-movies-are-dead/ https://thehypeindex.com/edition/superhero-movies-are-dead/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:00:00 GMT Marvel's decline is real and it is steeper than the market's. The genre being dead is refuted by two of the biggest films of the last two years. https://thehypeindex.com/edition/95-percent-of-enterprise-ai-pilots-fail/ https://thehypeindex.com/edition/95-percent-of-enterprise-ai-pilots-fail/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:00:00 GMT The research is real. The number is real. What people do with it is not.