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Amazon is accused of controlling workers through a surveillance dragnet, while skirting responsibility for their wellbeing.

Amazon Tells Driver to Keep Delivering Packages Amid Raging Wildfire

Earlier today, another AWS outage in tandem with a major Microsoft Azure blackout was reported by users across the globe.

Amazon Denies That AWS Just Went Down Again After Mass Layoffs

A recent survey uncovered several mysterious objects in the night sky, photographed before the first satellite ever made it to space.

Scientists Find Strange Lights in the Sky in Photographs Before First Satellites Were Launched, Clustered Around When Nuclear Weapons Were Tested

The company charged him with eight separate offenses, including copyright infringement and "defamation by implication"

Lock Company Sues Man Who Picked Its Lock, Gets Horribly Humiliated

Starting early Tuesday morning, thousands of workers for Amazon Web Services began receiving texts and emails baring the bad news.

After Bringing Down Internet, Amazon Announces Biggest Mass Firing in Its History

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Leaked Document Shows Amazon Scheming to Keep AI Data Center Water Use Secret

Diella will soon be sharing her "children" with government officials loyal to Edi Rama's party, the center-left Partia Socialiste.

World’s First AI Minister is “Pregnant” With 83 Offspring Government Announces

Andreessen Horowitz has injected $1 million into Doublespeed, a startup meant to flood social media with gobs of for-profit spam.

AI “Phone Farm” Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam

In an internal memo, Meta informed its risk management workers their jobs were being automated thanks to advances in AI.

Meta Tells Employees Their Jobs Are Being Automated

One man's robot vacuum was constantly communicating with its manufacturer, sending a detailed 3D map of his house halfway across the world.

Internet Of Things

Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

A Chinese firm has just unveiled the world's first underwater data center, cooled by the ocean and powered by wind.

Chinese Company Launches Wind-Powered Data Center at the Bottom of the Sea

The company has brought on a defacto consultant to oversee the company's transition to AI-based script writing.

The WWE Says It’ll Use AI to Write Storylines, in the Latest Case of Forcing AI Into Everybody’s Lives

3I-ATLAS could be an alien craft slamming on its breaks to orbit Mars, noted astrophysicist Ari Loeb argues.

The Mysterious Interstellar Object May Be Slamming on the Brakes, Scientist Says

Russia and China are allegedly deploying their finest babes to seduce tech industry professionals, a tactic known as "sex warfare."

If You’re a Tech Worker With an Attractive Girlfriend, We Have Extremely Bad News

The astronomical community is horrified at plans made by a for-profit company to flood the night sky with sunlight.

Scientists Oppose Huge Array of Mirrors in Space That Shines Nighttime Sunlight on Wealthy Customers

OpenAI's outstanding debts now exceed $1 trillion, which could lead to drastic consequences for the rest of the US economy if it fails.

Sam Altman Now Has the Power to “Crash the Global Economy,” Financial Analyst Warns

Legal experts are now growing incensed not just about what's going into the chatbots, but what's coming out.

OpenAI’s Copyright Situation Appears to Be Putting It in Huge Danger

The self-driving squad car is rolling out as part of a year-long trial in coordination with the non-profit Policing Lab.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Florida Unleashes Autonomous Police Cruisers That Deploy Thermal Imaging Drones

The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.

Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

A worker fell into the nuclear reactor at the controversial Palisades Power Plant in Michigan, where they drank a little "cavity water."

Worker Falls Into Nuclear Reactor, Drinks a Little “Cavity Water”

Despite having a commanding lead over her opponent, a viral AI video surfaced appearing to show Catherine Connolly concede the election.

Meta Allows Deepfake That Irish Presidential Election Is Canceled to Go Viral

This officially marks the second time Google had to shutter this particular office due to a bed bug invasion.

Health & Medicine

Google Locks Down Manhattan Campus Due to Bed Bug Infestation

A Chinese rocket booster tumbled back down to Earth and exploded in a massive orange fireball as it impacted the ground.

Chinese Rocket Falls to Earth, Explodes in Epic Fireball

AI safety analyst Steven Adler began to doubt his own expertise after reading a lengthy conversation a man had with ChatGPT.

Former OpenAI Researcher Horrified by Conversation Logs of ChatGPT Driving User Into Severe Mental Breakdown

The world's leading Non-government organizations are weaponizing AI to produce heavily racialized misery porn.

Charities Using AI-Generated Photos of Starving Children to Raise Money

For just a couple dollars, Endless Summer will generate images in your likeness of a fantasy vacation that never has to end.

Meta Employee Creates AI App That Deepfakes the Dream Vacation You Couldn’t Afford

Apps and platforms relying on AWS were in a jam after an hours-long outage took down a sizable chunk of the world's internet.

Amazon’s AWS Goes Down, Takes Out “Half of the Internet”

Space armor is described as a series of lightweight tiles which protect craft and astronauts against "all untrackable debris."

Startup Reveals “Space Armor” to Protect Astronauts From Elon Musk’s Orbital Trash

AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for consumers in the west.

The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies

AI deployments have a problem: they can humiliate people who don't look the way the AI expects them to look.

DMV’s AI System Says Woman Doesn’t Have a Human Face

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

The Industrialists

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

By Joe Wilkins, Jon Christian

The government alleges the brothers exploited a software flaw to sucker crypto bots into dumping millions into their fraudulent currency.

MIT Grads Allegedly Googled “Money Laundering” Before Pulling Off $25 Million Crypto Heist

Among the worst offenders was meal-replacement company Huel, a long-time favorite among Bay Area builders.

Tech Bros Have Been Accidentally Poisoning Themselves With Severe Brain Toxins for Years

Ads are no longer merely interrupting games; they're delaying live broadcasts that consumers pay to watch.

Live Sports Are No Longer Live Thanks to Extremely Long Ads

NASA is gutting the Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- the storied research center that oversees all the agency's Mars rovers.

NASA Guts Workforce at Lab Responsible for Mars Rovers

In an analysis of recent economic trends, economists wrote that "jobless growth" is pretty much the new normal.

Goldman Sachs Says Gen Z Is Pretty Much Permanently Screwed

Halloween came early this year for a man in the UK who landed in hot water after trying to collect "every element on the periodic table."

Police Arrest Mad Scientist

Konstantin Ganich was found dead in his Lamborghini after the crypto crash, but some say there's more to this story than meets the eye.

Crypto Kingpin Turns Up Dead in Lamborghini After Market Crash

Using an $800 consumer satellite dish, researchers were able to pick up text messages, industrial data, military chatter, and more.

Researchers Alarmed to Discover Satellites Broadcasting Unencrypted Military Secrets

The lead US military commander in South Korea told reporters he's becoming really close with ChatGPT lately.

Top US Army General Says He’s Letting ChatGPT Make Military Decisions

Over the weekend, a prankster went viral after calling some 50 self-driving cars to "the longest dead end street in San Francisco."

Man Launches “World’s First Waymo DDoS” by Ordering 50 Robotaxis to Dead End Street

A jealous wife tries to get her husband's smartphone because she suspects him of infidelity.

ChatGPT Is Giving Men Such Bad Advice on Dating That It May Actually Be Trying to Keep Them Single

US president Donald Trump has received multiple vaccines -- while his allies and appointees continue to rage against them.

Trump Admits He Got Jabbed With Multiple Vaccines That His Allies Say Are Poison

Eight months after relaxing its policy guidelines around naughty content, ChatGPT is finally loosening its guidelines.

OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut

A new startup is helping job seekers brute force their way into one of the worst job markets since 2009, consequences be damned.

Parasitic Startup Pollutes Job Market by Applying to Jobs for You Automatically

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

Now on year seven of his all-meat diet, the pseudo-intellectual is reportedly suffering from a nefarious "spiritual attack."

Strange New Health Issues Put Jordan Peterson in ICU

It's a fascinating look into the effort to drum up consent for an unprecedented crackdown on American cities.

Trump Supporters Are Using OpenAI’s Sora to Generate AI Videos of Soldiers Assaulting Protesters

Canada's fisheries minister has stepped in to deny the transfer of 30 white whales to a suitable facility in China.

Canada Considering Doing Something Unforgivable to its Beluga Whales

Instead of learning about loss from the death of a family pet, this lesson comes from an artificially generated voice module.

Little Girl Sobs While Saying Goodbye to Her Broken AI Toy

After rolling out an AI tool to generate cheap thumbnails for his videos, Jimmy Donaldson says the tech is creating "scary times."

MrBeast Concerned That AI Slop Will Put Him Out of Business

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

As of October, there are more than 8,000 active Starlink satellites clogging up the planet's Low Earth Orbit.

Astronaut Captures Footage of SpaceX Junk Cluttering the Atmosphere

The Wall Street Journal has confirmed that Trump thought he was sending a direct message -- but accidentally posted it on main.

Top Official Horrified When Trump Thought He Was Sending Direct Message But Accidentally Posted It on Main Account

Amid an prolonged attack on Wikipedia for perceived "ideological bias," crackshot legal expert Ted Cruz has waded into the fray.

Ted Cruz Baffled by How Wikipedia Works

In a new report, Sanders asserts that AI and automation has the potential to put some 100 million US workers out of the job.

Bernie Sanders Has a Fascinating Idea About How to Prevent AI From Wiping Out the Economy

The investment bubble created by AI hype is already magnitudes bigger than the dot-com and subprime mortgage bubbles, one analyst warns.

AI Investment Is Already So Much Larger Than the Subprime Mortgage Bubble That You’ll Physically Flinch

A dazzling video shows a quadcopter drone gently shooing unwanted critters away from poultry farms with a laser light show.

Japanese Farmers Send Out Automated Laser Drones to Defend Chickens

The consequences to his neighbors will be devastating, but it's a small price to pay if it means making a tech billionaire happy.

Elon Musk Building Huge Secretive Facility

Without AI spending, the US economy would lose one of the last industries actually bringing in any healthy revenue.

The Entire Economy Now Depends on the AI Industry Not Fumbling

The renowned tech critic's book "Enshittification" hasn't even been out for a full day, and Amazon is already selling AI-generated knockoffs.

Amazon Caught Peddling AI Slop Version of Cory Doctorow That’s So Ironic That We Have to Go Outside and Stare at the Sky for a Bit

As it turns out, corporate contractors like SpaceX aren't anymore efficient at building spacecraft than the government.

A New Paper Studied Whether NASA Actually Saves Money by Hiring Corporations to Build New Spacecraft, and the Results Are Embarrassing

Famed sci-fi author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow has a spectacularly grim warning about the coming AI-fueled economic disaster.

Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse

The multinational IT firm has laid off 11,000 employees as part of a $865 million plan to "upskill" its "reinventors."

Accenture CEO Says It’s Sacking Employees Who Won’t Embrace AI

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