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CNET leadership was reportedly aware that its deeply flawed AI had a habit of fabricating facts and plagiarizing others' work — and deployed it anyway.

Artificial Intelligence

Red Ventures Knew Its AI Lied and Plagiarized, Deployed It at CNET Anyway

By Jon Christian

Leaked messages from CNET's parent company, Red Ventures, show deep concern about a potential consequence of AI-generated content.

Artificial Intelligence

Leaked Messages Show How CNET’s Parent Company Really Sees AI-Generated Content

By Jon Christian

CNET's sister site Bankrate published a new AI generated article -- and, like CNET's, it wasn't the most accurate thing we've ever seen.

Artificial Intelligence

CNET Sister Site Restarts AI Articles, Immediately Publishes Idiotic Error

By Jon Christian

The AI bot that CNET is using to churn out personal finance articles has a relatable problem: it keeps making dumb mistakes.

Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors

By Jon Christian

Hackers have taken over a subdomain of wired.com, and used it to promote an Indonesian online casino. Wired does not appear to be able to kick them out.

Hackers Took Over a Subdomain of Wired.com for Several Months and Replaced It With Sleazy Online Casino Content

By Victor Tangermann, Jon Christian

This morning, CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo broke the site's lengthy silence on its decision to publish dozens of AI-generated articles on its site.

Artificial Intelligence

News Site Admits AI Journalist Plagiarized and Made Stuff Up, Announces Plans to Continue Publishing Its Work Anyway

By Jon Christian

CNET's AI-generated articles appear to show deep structural similarities, amounting to plagiarism, with previously published work elsewhere.

Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism

By Jon Christian

CNET and Bankrate parent company Red Ventures says it's pausing its AI-generated content efforts -- until the negative press dies down, at least.

Artificial Intelligence

CNET and Bankrate Say They’re Pausing AI-Generated Articles Until Negative Headlines Stop

By Jon Christian

CNET insiders are making a startling claim: that the tech site has been secretly publishing material that wasn't labeled as bot-written at all.

Artificial Intelligence

CNET Secretly Used AI on Articles That Didn’t Disclose That Fact, Staff Say

By Jon Christian

Newly-minted Twitter owner Elon Musk is mass suspending the accounts of journalists who have written critically about him. Here's why.

Free Speech Champion Elon Musk Is Mass Suspending Twitter Accounts of Journalists Who Criticized Him

By Jon Christian

Reuters reveals a federal probe about animal wellbeing at Neuralink by the USDA Inspector General, at the request of a federal prosecutor.

Prosthetics and Devices

Neuralink Employees Admit Company Has Killed 1,500 Animals So Far

By Jon Christian

A NASA mission known as DART slammed into an asteroid just moments ago, in a test of tech to defect a killer asteroid from Earth.

NASA Slams Spacecraft Into Asteroid to Test Earth Saving Tech

By Jon Christian

On the day of its next launch attempt, NASA's Moon-bound Space Launch System is dealing with a fuel leak on the launchpad.

NASA Moon Launch Canceled When Super Expensive Rocket Starts Leaking on Launch Pad

By Jon Christian

Here's what Chris Farley might have looked like as the Joker, thanks to the magic of text-to-image artificial intelligence Midjourney.

Artificial Intelligence

Here’s How It’d Look If Chris Farley Played the Joker, According to AI

By Jon Christian

A new study has found that, counter to popular belief, smoking weed doesn’t appear to actually make people lazy and apathetic after all.

Neuroscience and Brain

Pot Smokers Not More Likely to Be Apathetic or Lazy, Scientists Find

By Jon Christian

Insider reports that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's brood of children is even larger than previously known, with two twins been born last year.

Elon Musk Reportedly Had Two More Secret Children This Year

By Jon Christian

Suspended Google engineer Blake Lemoine says that the lawyer who had signed on to represent a "sentient" AI has been "scared off" the case.

Google Engineer Says Lawyer Hired by “Sentient” AI Has Been “Scared Off” the Case

By Jon Christian

The DALL-E Mini image generator is super fun to play around with — but like all neural networks, it has a pretty big racism problem.

Artificial Intelligence

That AI Image Generator Is Spitting Out Some Awfully Racist Stuff

By Jon Christian, Noor Al-Sibai

Insider dropped an alarming story today reporting that SpaceX paid one of its employees $250,000 to keep quiet about improper sexual advances from Musk.

SpaceX Reportedly Paid $250,000 to Silence Sexual Allegations Against Elon Musk

By Jon Christian

A new investigation in the New York Times provides surprising new details about Elon Musk's youth in South Africa under apartheid.

Why Elon Musk Got Bullied In High School

By Jon Christian

Musk's Twitter buy raises the inevitable question of why he's pouring resources in something as earthbound as a messy, controversial social media platform.

Buying Twitter Seems Like a Huge Distraction for Elon Musk’s Mars Plans

By Jon Christian

He Jiankui, the scientist who gained wide notoriety for genetically modifying two human babies in 2018, has been released from prison.

Prosthetics and Devices

Scientist Who Genetically Modified Human Babies Released From Prison

By Jon Christian

Amazon is reportedly working on an internal messaging app — and employees working on it have discussed banning a hilarious number of labor-related words.

Amazon Discussed Banning the Words “Fairness” and “Pay Raise”

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk is joining the board of Twitter — and he's already throwing his weight around by promising big changes to the site.

Elon Musk Joins Board of Twitter, Promises “Significant Improvements”

By Jon Christian

New reporting from Scientific American leaves open the possibility that NASA could still change the name of the James Webb Space Telescope.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA May Still Rename James Webb Telescope Over Homophobia Controversy

By Jon Christian

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster site in Ukraine has been repatured from Russia, both US and Ukrainian officials are saying.

Science & Energy

Ukraine Recaptures Chernobyl After Russian Soldiers Reportedly Suffer Radiation Poisoning

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk is griping that Twitter's algorithm isn't fair, and that there should be more transparency around how it works.

Elon Musk Is Absolutely Furious at the Twitter Algorithm

By Jon Christian

Here are a few April Fools' shenanigans that, if they weren't necessarily works of comedic art, certainly caught our attention.

Okay, Here Are 2022’s Most Futuristic April Fools’ Jokes

By Jon Christian

Ukraine officials are now saying that the Russian military is making a hasty retreat from Chernobyl nuclear after troops suffered radiation poisoning there.

Russian Military Reportedly Panics, Flees Chernobyl After Radiation Poisoning

By Jon Christian

SpaceX's long-awaited Crew-4 mission, previously scheduled for April 19, is now slated for April 20, a day with particular significance to CEO Elon Musk.

SpaceX Is Launching a Bunch of NASA Astronauts to Space on 4/20

By Jon Christian

In a new photo of the International Space Station, you can actually make out two astronauts clambering on its exterior during a space walk.

Guy Snaps Photo of Space Station So Detailed You Can See Spacewalking Astronauts on Exterior

By Jon Christian

NASA just released a Hubble Space Telescope image of Earendel, which they say is the most distant and ancient star ever observed.

Science & Energy

NASA Releases Hubble Image of Most Distant Star Ever Seen

By Jon Christian

Sources are telling Reuters that when Russian forces seized Chernobyl, they drove a convoy of vehicles directly through the still-forbidden Red Forest.

Science & Energy

Chernobyl Workers Say Russian Soldiers Entered Forbidden Zone, Inhaled Radioactive Dust

By Jon Christian

This morning, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned from the International Space Station to in a Russian Soyuz capsule, along with two Russian cosmonauts.

NASA Astronaut Returns to Earth on Russian Spacecraft

By Jon Christian

University of Maryland quantum researcher Sankar Das Sarma says that quantum computing is progressing slower than you think.

Quantum Computing

Quantum Computer Researcher Warns That the Industry Is Full of Ridiculous Hype

By Jon Christian

Will Smith's Academy Awards confrontation with comedian Chris Rock has already hit the dubious world of blockchain, with a coin and even NFT drop.

Ah Yes, There’s Already an NFT Collection of Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock

By Jon Christian

A new proposition from NASA suggests encasing the entire planet of Venus in a giant shell, letting colonists create a breathable atmosphere above it.

NASA Scientist Releases Plan for Encasing Entirety of Venus in Giant Shell

By Jon Christian

Looters have reportedly seized radioactive dirty bomb materials from a lab near the site of the Chernobyl disaster, according to Science.

Robots and Machines

Dirty Bomb Ingredients Reportedly Stolen From Seized Chernobyl Site

By Jon Christian

An extraordinary image from the ESA shows the Sun from much closer than Earth — and spoiler alert, it's pretty incredible.

Scientists Release Stunning Picture Taken Really Close to the Sun

By Jon Christian

Well, turns out that SpaceX's latest Crew Dragon capeule, "Freedom," is probably going to be the last of the iconic spacecraft ever made.

SpaceX Says It’s Not Building Any More Crew Dragon Spacecraft

By Jon Christian

A physicist from the UK named Melvin Vopson is raising a startling possibility: that dark matter might be information itself.

Science & Energy

Scientist Says That Dark Matter May Be Information Itself

By Jon Christian

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk says that he's caught COVID — again, that is, because he already caught it, way back in 2020.

Elon Musk Says He Has COVID Again

By Jon Christian

Could a powerful slap actually kill a person, as was suggested after Will Smith's Oscars altercation with Chris Rock? Let's examine the science.

Can You Die From Getting Slapped Too Hard?

By Jon Christian

Insider reports that last summer, an experimental Amazon delivery drone crashed in Oregon and caused a large fire that consumed several acres.

An Amazon Delivery Drone Crashed and Caused a Large Fire

By Jon Christian

Newly released emails show NASA employees agonizing over allegations of the homophobic legacy of James Webb, the namesake of its new space telescope.

James Webb Space Telescope

Internal Emails Show NASA Employees Agonizing Over James Webb’s Homophobic History

By Jon Christian

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stuck a tweet in his mouth today, tweeting a meme that compared Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau to the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

Elon Musk Deletes Adolf Hitler Tweet After Widespread Outrage

By Jon Christian

The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange is investing $200 million into Forbes so that the website can become publicly traded.

The World’s Biggest Crypto Exchange Is Investing $200 Million in Forbes, a Site Where Anyone Can Shill Crypto

By Jon Christian, Noor Al-Sibai

The identities of the creators of the wildly successful NFT project known as the Bored Ape Yacht Club have seemingly been revealed.

Creators of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Reportedly Doxxed

By Jon Christian

According to MarketWatch, John McAfee's body is the subject of a dramatic legal conflict involving his daughter, his ex-wife, and Barcelona investigators.

Various People Are Fighting Over John McAfee’s Body, Which Is Stuck in a Spanish Morgue

By Jon Christian

An updated lawsuit claims that a DNA analysis of the sandwich chain Subway's putative tuna shows that the substance contains anything but.

Science & Energy

Lawsuit Claims That Subway “Tuna” Contains Extremely Weird DNA

By Jon Christian

The US government's Office of Foreign Assets Control declaring this week that numerous NFTs, and even one entire exchange, are now verboten.

The US Government Says These NFTs Are Now Illegal

By Jon Christian

According to new financial filings, Elon Musk appears to have unloaded approximately $1.1 billion worth of his stock in Tesla.

Elon Musk Just Sold $5 Billion of His Tesla Stock

By Jon Christian

Former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman says he feared drowning during a spacewalk, when a malfunction threatened to fill his spacesuit helmet with water.

NASA Astronaut Says He Almost Drowned During Spacewalk

By Jon Christian

Tesla CEO Elon Musk waded into tax discourse this weekend, saying that he'd sell $21 billion in Tesla stock depending on the results of a Twitter poll.

Elon Musk Is Letting a Twitter Poll Decide Whether He Sells $21 Billion in Tesla Stock

By Jon Christian

Once the James Webb Space Telescope got to an ESA spaceport, officials donned protective gear and took it out of its enormous box.

James Webb Space Telescope

Video Shows Glorious Unboxing of James Webb Space Telescope

By Jon Christian

A NASA astronaut stationed aboard the ISS acknowledged this week that the crew of her SpaceX return journey will need to wear diapers.

NASA Astronaut: SpaceX Forcing Her to Pee in Diaper Is “Suboptimal”

By Jon Christian

FCC commissioner Brendan Carr went on a Twitter rant this week about robodogs, citing apocalyptic science fiction movies and television

FCC Commissioner Says He’s Afraid of Robodogs and We Can’t Tell If He’s Joking

By Jon Christian

Several Musk's tweets appear to have crossed a line even for him — because, after an outcry, he deleted them, in a rare reversal for Musk.

Elon Musk Deletes Sexist Tweets

By Jon Christian

A top VR developer at Facebook sounds like he's not entirely on board with the company's refocus on the metaverse -- and his remarks were interesting.

Facebook’s Top VR Expert Seems Pretty Annoyed by Metaverse Push

By Jon Christian

After news came out that Facebook is considering changing its name, a former Facebook employee has a theory about what it might be.

Is This Facebook’s New Name?

By Jon Christian

Scammers are cooking up fake Harvard students to shill brands on the university’s website -- and the practice appears to be widespread.

Scammers Are Creating Fake Students on Harvard.edu and Using Them to Shill Brands

By Jon Christian

William Gibson, widely credited with coining the term "cyberspace" and imagining the internet, says he can't send emails due to a glitch.

Man Who Coined the Term “Cyberspace” Says He Can’t Send Emails

By Jon Christian

NASA boss Bill Nelson made some eyebrow-raising remarks about possible connections between military sightings of UFOs and the search for alien life.

Head of NASA Suggests That UFOs Could Be Alien Technology

By Jon Christian

Scientists at the University of Chicago say that they've successfully created a "strange" new state of matter in the laboratory called "superionic ice."

Scientists Say They’ve Created a “Strange” New State of Matter

By Jon Christian

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