More from Maggie Harrison Dupré (Page 4)

In some cases, Apple's new AI summaries of iPhone messages might not be ideal. Exhibit A: the breakup text.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple’s New AI Summarized a Series of Breakup Texts in the Most Brutal Way Possible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Before checking into federal prison today, disgraced former FTX co-CEO Ryan Salame took to LinkedIn to issue a career update.

Former Crypto CEO Posts Hilarious LinkedIn Update Right Before Going to Prison

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New NASA data shows a supermassive black hole on a merciless killing spree, destroying one star and using its body as a new weapon.

Murderous Black Hole Goes on Rampage, Leaves Path of Wrecked Stars in Its Wake

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meteorologists are getting death threats from conspiracy nuts, who believe they're covering up government weather control. Obviously.

Science & Energy

Meteorologists Are Getting Death Threats From Insane Hurricane Conspiracy Theorists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI slop threatens to degrade the useability of the digital stalwart Wikipedia — and Wikipedia's editors are fighting back.

Artificial Intelligence

Wikipedia Declares War on AI Slop

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Parts of the Sahara Desert in southeastern Morocco experienced a surprise deluge of heavy rains last month, leaving behind lake-filled oases.

Our Climate Is So Screwed Up, It Rained in the Sahara Desert

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk said that Starlink, SpaceX's satellite internet provider, would be free for victims of Hurricane Helene. Shockingly: it's not.

No, SpaceX’s Starlink Internet Isn’t Free for All Hurricane Survivors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's Las Vegas Hyperloop tunnel reportedly has a trespassing problem — the latest annoyance for a generally plagued project.

Confused Drivers Are Somehow Getting Lost in Elon Musk’s Goofy Las Vegas Tunnel

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Satellite imagery shows the might of powerful Hurricane Milton, which is due to make landfall in Florida's western coast this afternoon.

Hurricane Milton Is so Insanely Powerful, It’s Literally Just a Giant Red Smudge on Meteorological Maps

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Hera mission is officially underway to investigate the aftereffects of DART, NASA's successful planetary defense test.

Europe Deploys Spacecraft to Investigate Extraterrestrial “Crash Scene”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An ancient rock — or rather, the living microbes inside of it — could offer an unprecedented glimpse into early life on Earth.

Scientists Cracked Open a 2-Billion-Year-Old Stone and Discovered Something Entirely Unexpected

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

X owner Elon Musk has promoted several debunked claims and toxic conspiracies about the government's response to Hurricane Helene.

Elon Musk Is Spreading Dangerous Hurricane Helene Conspiracy Theories

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA researchers believe that a layer of molten goo, which shifts and moves like ocean tides, sits between the Moon's mantle and core.

Something Massive Is Shifting Deep Inside the Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A core component of NASA's Gateway lunar space station just passed a grueling round of pressure tests, a big win for the project.

NASA’s Lunar Space Station Just Took a Massive Step Towards Launching

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The battle over remote work continues — and it looks like CEOs are overwhelmingly willing to take extreme measures to get folks back to the office.

Vast Majority of CEOs Ready to Make Remote Workers’ Lives As Miserable As Possible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI might be worsening carbon emissions, but at least we have this fake video of Mark Zuckerberg leg-pressing chicken nuggets, we guess.

Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off Bizarre Video of Himself Leg Pressing Chicken Nuggets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

No, Donald Trump didn't wade through Hurricane Helene-caused flooding in blue jeans. That "photo" you saw was AI.

Artificial Intelligence

No, Donald Trump Isn’t Wading Through Hurricane Floodwaters, You Absolute Morons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaire Elon Musk thinks that the ancient and famously difficult to master game of chess is dumb. Why? Because space lasers. Obviously.

Elon Musk Posts Bananas Rant About How Chess Is Stupid Because It Doesn’t Have Space Lasers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pro-Trump influencers including close Trump ally Laura Loomer were fooled by an AI-generated image of an alleged victim of Hurricane Helene.

Artificial Intelligence

Gullible Trump Cronies Losing Their Minds Over Fake AI Slop on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI just raised nearly $7 billion, raising its value to around $157 billion. Investors had to be willing to keep things exclusive.

OpenAI Stamps Feet, Says Investors Aren’t Allowed to Back Its Rivals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pair of Harvard students successfully rigged Meta-formerly-Facebook and Ray Ban's smart glasses with facial recognition software.

Terrifying Smart Glasses Hack Can Pull Up Personal Info of Nearby Strangers in Seconds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A huge solar flare caused a radio blackout on Earth yesterday — and we could be in for another powerful geomagnetic storm later this week.

A Colossal Solar Flare Just Triggered a Radio Blackout on Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT creator OpenAI is hemorrhaging massive amounts of cash that it's failing to make up for in revenue, according to investor documents.

OpenAI Is Putting Profits First, Yet It’s Bleeding an Astronomical Amount of Money

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI slop posters are already using fake images of alleged Hurricane Helene devastation to capitalize on the still-unfolding natural disaster.

Facebook Is Being Flooded With Gross AI-Generated Images of Hurricane Helene Devastation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A tattoo parlor put bizarre AI-generated advertisements all over Brooklyn. We decided to get to the bottom of them.

Artificial Intelligence

What’s Up With Those Sloppy AI-Generated Tattoo Posters in New York City?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage at 2024's Connect conference in a shirt that made a self-reference to Roman Emporer Julius Caeser.

You Are Not Prepared for How Mark Zuckerberg Is Dressing Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk posted — and later deleted — an unhinged post wondering why no one has tried to murder Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Elon Musk Deletes Deranged Post About Assassinating Kamala Harris

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A local newspaper in Hawaii called The Garden Island is using AI to power fake news anchors. Unsurprisingly, they're freaky.

Artificial Intelligence

Journalist Alarmed When Newspaper Replaces Humans With Glitchy AI Bot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

So-called "stablecoins" are far from stable. But Donald Trump's sons have a new stablecoin-forward crypto venture — which Trump is backing.

Trump’s New Crypto Project Is a Type Linked to Organized Crime and Terrorism

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Adam "WeWork Guy" Neumann's crypto company has been discreetly refunding investors after years of failing to do anything said it would do.

You’ll Be Shocked to Hear That the WeWork Guy’s Crypto Startup Is Shriveling Up and Dying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk built a massive, fume-emitting data center for xAI in South Memphis. Locals reportedly had little to no input.

Elon Musk’s Huge AI Supercomputer Visibly Spewing Fumes Into Surrounding Community

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Should you smear human feces on a balloon to potty train your kid? According to Google Search's AI Overview, the answer is yes.

Google’s Search AI Suggests Smearing Fecal Matter on Balloon to Potty Train Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cops in New Mexico used an AI-generated image of fake teenage girl to attract pedophiles, a lawsuit filed by the state shows.

Artificial Intelligence

Cops Use AI-Generated 14-Year-Old Girl to Lure Sex Criminals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The GOP's House Judiciary Committee posted used AI to further debunked and unconfirmed social media rumors about Haitian immigrants and pets.

Artificial Intelligence

Desperate Republicans Using AI to Generate Fake Photos of Donald Trump Saving Kittens

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An astrophysicist's TikTok video about gas in galaxy clusters went viral – but because kids were looking for a different kind of galaxy gas.

Astrophysicist Surprised to Learn Why Her TikTok on “Galaxy Gas” Was Suddenly Blowing Up

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Shady Firms Say They’re Already Manipulating Chatbots to Say Nice Things About Their Clients

Artificial Intelligence

Shady Firms Say They’re Already Manipulating Chatbots to Say Nice Things About Their Clients

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Louisiana abortion law could cause doctors to take misopristol, used to treat life-threatening postpartum hemorrhaging, off emergency carts.

RX and Medicine

Deranged Anti-Abortion Law Will Keep Hospitals From Saving Dying Women, Doctors Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaire X owner Elon Musk has repeatedly engaged with media flowing from a multimillion-dollar Russian propaganda scheme.

Elon Musk Repeatedly Promoted “Conservative” Outlet That Was Secretly Being Funded by Moscow, According to DOJ Indictment

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Dondald Trump's campaign strongly appears to have quietly used an AI-generated image in a social media-shared political advertisement.

Artificial Intelligence

If You Zoom Into This “Photo” Trump Posted, You’ll Find Something Very Strange

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Donald Trump shared an AI-generated image of Kamala Harris designed to invoke Joseph Stalin — but she actually looked much more like Mario.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Posts AI-Generated Image of Kamala Harris as Joseph Stalin, But Instead It Just Looks Like Mario

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A slew of major news publishers and top social media websites are blocking Apple from scraping their websites for AI training purposes.

Artificial Intelligence

No One Wants Apple To Scrape Their Websites for AI Training

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tom Hanks is warning his fans not to fall for fraudulent deepfakes that depict him hawking "miracle cures" and other products.

Artificial Intelligence

Tom Hanks Warns That Deepfake Scams Are Stealing His Face

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cops across the US are moving to embrace AI-generated police reports. Experts, unsurprisingly, are sounding the alarm.

Artificial Intelligence

Cops Say Hallucinating AIs Are Ready to Write Police Reports That Could Send People to Prison

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a forthcoming coffee table book, former president Donald Trump cites conspiracy theories while threatening to jail Mark Zuckerberg.

Trump Threatens to Imprison Mark Zuckerberg

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Texas handyman strapped a working laundry dryer to the back of his Cybertruck and drove it around. Obviously, we had some questions.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Spotted With Built-In Laundry Machine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

RFK Jr. wants a job in Trump's possible next administration — and likely a health-focused one. Let's revisit his history with animals?

The Guy Who Wants to Be Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services Keeps Doing Weird Stuff With Animals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI-generated content flooding the web. That could be a problem for AI models, which are widely trained via web-scraped data.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Appears to Be Slowly Killing Itself

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Project 2025's chaotic and contradictory AI policy is rooted in bizarre isolationism, slashing already-nonexistent regulations, and spying.

Artificial Intelligence

Project 2025’s AI Policies Are a Baffling Stew of Grievance and Contradictions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk amplified a plagiarized article bylined by a fake writer. The original source? An alt-right website riddled with conspiracies.

Elon Musk Tweets Plagiarized Article Bylined by Fake Writer

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

This AI company says its helping lower advertising costs for underfunded progressive campaigns. Its product feels anything but progressive.

Artificial Intelligence

Democratic Startup Proposes Flooding the Web With AI-Generated Political Ads

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New research shows that AI models need to be completely retrained to learn new concepts — which is an expensive problem for AI companies.

Artificial Intelligence

There’s a Humongous Problem With AI Models: They Need to Be Entirely Rebuilt Every Time They’re Updated

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A rocket exploded yesterday during a test in the UK's Shetland islands, resulting in a massive fireball that engulfed the entire launchpad.

Rocket Explodes in Epic Fireball During Test

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The iPad-focused design app Procreate is declining to incorporate generative AI into its platform — and its CEO isn't mincing words.

Artificial Intelligence

Tech CEO Admits That He “Really F*cking Hates” Generative AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Conspiracy theorist and brain worm haver Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says that he gets fooled by fake AI content "all the time." We believe him!

Artificial Intelligence

RFK Jr. Says He Constantly Gets Fooled by Fake AI Content

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Federal Trade Commission just moved to ban fake, AI-generated reviews and testimonials, including ones attributed to fake authors.

Artificial Intelligence

The US Government Just Banned Fake AI-Generated Reviews

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Donald Trump posted fake images of Taylor Swift and her fans endorsing him for president. A lot of Swifties — a feared group! — are mad.

Artificial Intelligence

Swifties Erupt in Fury After Donald Trump Uses AI to Fake Taylor Swift Endorsement

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Donald Trump is using AI imagery to double down on his attack line that Kamala Harris is a "communist" a week after accusing her of using AI.

Artificial Intelligence

After Falsely Accusing Kamala Harris of Using AI, Donald Trump Posts AI Slop About Her on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk Accidentally Reveals That He Completely Missed the Point of These Famous Movies

Elon Musk Accidentally Reveals That He Completely Missed the Point of These Famous Movies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Northwestern Arkansas has a new local news site — and it's entirely AI-generated, complete with "AI reporters" and all.

Artificial Intelligence

This Entirely AI-Generated Local “News” Site Is Incredibly Depressing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, AI companies should "steal" content first, and lawyer up to deal with the "mess" later.

Ex-Google CEO Says It’s Fine If AI Companies “Stole All the Content”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaire ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is walking back his questionable claim that remote work is to blame for Google's AI failures.

Former CEO Blames Working From Home for Google’s AI Struggles, Regrets It Immediately

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cybertruck owners, beware of treating your Tesla truck like a truck. You might just bend the tailgate out of shape.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Tailgates Are Deforming After Doing Regular Truck Stuff

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Donald Trump returned to Elon Musk's X-formerly-Twitter. Meanwhile, shares for Trump's media company, which owns Truth Social, crashed.

Trump’s “Truth Social” Stock Crashes After Chaotic Return to Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The bad news: scientists have discovered two new dementia risk factors. The good news: these new risk factors are "modifiable."

Neuroscience and Brain

Two New Dementia Risk Factors Have Been Uncovered — And You Can Actually Do Something About Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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