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Data Privacy

Meta’s Muse AI Agent Caught Leaking Users’ Intimate Personal Information

"We would have guessed that gathering these would take real effort. It took one query."

Future Society

Major Data Center Developer Rents Floating Prison Barge to House Contract Construction Workers

Talk about a commute.

Hacking

Trump’s Department of Homeland Security Secretly Ordered Cybersecurity Operatives to Acquire a Voting Machine and Hack It

"They could keep it in their back pocket to invalidate any [election] results they don't like."

Ethics

Experts Warn of Humans Becoming Empty Vessels Controlled by AI

Being lulled into our slowly unfolding doom.

Ethics

We Regret to Inform You That “GatGPT” Is Exactly What It Sounds Like

Custom vibe-coded guns for all.

Ethics

Google’s DeepMind Quietly Hiring Nuclear Physicists

The ideal candidate will be familiar with policy related to "stockpile stewardship, nonproliferation, arms control, or threat reduction."

Tesla

Wait, Was Elon’s “Flying Car” Just an Empty Shell?

"So the car must be an empty, lightweight shell."

Ethics

Recipe Scammers Are Using an AI-Generated Emily Blunt as a Slop Puppet to Promote Their Garbage

"It's all a lie."

Artificial Intelligence

Political Candidates Spending An Obscene Amount of Money on AI-Generated Election Slop

"I think what we're seeing with AI has surprised even us."

Investing

Truth Social Stock Hits All-Time Low as Userbase Craters on Trump’s Twitter Clone

Truth Social is in deep trouble.

Finance

IMF Warns That AI Bubble Could Take Down the Entire World Economy

Prepare for the gravy train to go off the rails.

Robotics

78-Year-Old Woman Hauled Off In Handcuffs After Blocking Delivery Robot

"It's my First Amendment right to publicly demonstrate on a sidewalk to protest against delivery robots."

Anthropic

Anthropic Secretly Lobbying Government to Only Shut Down an AI Model If It’s Poised to Kill More Than 50 People

"These are sensible policies we believe Congress should act on."

Ethics

Explosive Document Claims That AI Is Not What We Think

Industry figures praised it as a "major moment in scientific history."

Ethics

GLP-1 Apps Are Using Sobbing AI-Generated Women To Market Their Products

"I hid my GLP-1 from my sister for 6 months... she just sent me this."

Artificial Intelligence

The Average Man Is Such a BSer About AI That He’ll Claim to Know About an AI Executive Who Doesn’t Even Exist

Men caught hallucinating.

Artificial Intelligence

Director Blows $1.5 Million Generating Horrendous AI Slop Movie, Says AI Actually Saved Him Tens of Millions

The magic of Christmas, brought to life with horrendous slop.

Robot Dogs

Jungle Research Expedition Using Robot Dog Like a Pack Mule

Robo-dog meets world.

Astronomy

Scientists Discover Weird Conditions at Site of Star That Exploded During the Period of Japanese Samurai

It's an astronomy puzzle for the ages.

Artificial Intelligence

Bosses Deploying AI-Powered Spyware That Watches Workers Constantly

"You are being watched."