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Elon Musk

Grok Just Issued a Brutal Beatdown to Elon Musk

"More than one thing can be true, but this isn't one."

By Joe Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence

Google Alarmed by Formidable AI-Powered Zero-Day Cyberattack

"It's a taste of what's to come."

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

Angry Mom Defeats Entire AI Data Center

“When you speak about wanting changes for cleaner air, and you have a child who's impacted, it hits differently."

By Joe Wilkins

A woman in academic regalia, including a black gown and cap, is speaking at a podium. She is smiling and raising her left hand. To the right, a crowd of graduates in black caps and gowns are jeering.
Artificial Intelligence

Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying AI Is the Future

"What happened?"

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

New Data Center Equivalent to Setting Off 23 Nuclear Bombs Per Day, Professor Finds

Unfathomable.

By Frank Landymore

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OpenAI

OpenAI Sued for Mass Shooting: “If ChatGPT Were a Person, It Would Be Facing Murder Charges”

It's the latest lawsuit over ChatGPT's alleged role in mass shootings.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Pollution

The Military Base Home to Air Force One Leaked 32,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel Into the Potomac River Over the Last Few Months

"There's an equation with a lot of blank spaces that have to be filled in."

By Joe Wilkins

A person wearing a blue hoodie and a gray cap with a yellow "M" holds a protest sign that reads "BIG TECH BILLIONAIRES: HANDS OFF MICHIGAN NOW" with two red handprints and a red underline. Another person in a gray jacket and blue beanie stands in the background holding a partially visible sign. The scene appears to be outdoors in a city with some snow on the ground.
Ethics

Residents Furious After Their Town Board Rejected an OpenAI Data Center, But a Billionaire Developer Forced It Through Anyway

"I feel like I'm playing by a different rule book. Like I'm playing baseball and they're playing football."

By Joe Wilkins

Four men in suits stand in an office holding a large drone made of cardboard. The drone has the word "AirKanuy" printed on one wing. The office features wooden paneling, maps on the walls, and a desk in the background.
Drones

Japan Deploying Combat Drones Made of Cardboard

"This model can be manufactured at any cardboard plant, ensuring high mass production capability and a robust supply chain."

By Joe Wilkins

Inflatable punching bags with added pictures of Elon Musk and Sam Altman are seen outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and US Courthouse as the Musk v. Altman trial begins in Oakland, California, on April 27, 2026.
Machine Learning

ChatGPT Is Saying Weird Things in Chinese

"We don't know how to say: 'this is good writing, but if we do this good writing thing 10 times, then it's no longer good writing."

By Joe Wilkins

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Pollution

Oracle Forced to Cancel Incredibly Polluting Natural Gas Plant to Power AI Data Center

"I don't know that this is the clean energy solution that they're saying it's going to be."

By Joe Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Alarmed by AI That Can Self-Replicate Into Another Machine

"We're rapidly approaching the point where no one would be able to shut down a rogue AI."

By Frank Landymore

Comet C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS, which was only discovered last year, has been visible to stargazers in the northern hemisphere for weeks now.
Astronomy

Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System

It's an extremely rare opportunity to spot a "relic from the birth of the Solar System."

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

Vibe Coded Apps Are Spilling Users’ Personal Information Directly Into the Maw of Greedy Hackers

Be careful.

By Jon Christian

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Quantum Physics

Versions of You in Other Universes May Be Subtly Affecting Your Destiny, Oxford Physicist Says

"It's fair to say that all quantum experiments are really just more or less complicated versions of Schrödinger's."

By Joe Wilkins

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Robotics

Man Who Invented Roomba Moves Into Household Demon Market

Furry AI robots that are whole new levels of uncanny.

By Frank Landymore

In one Apollo 12 photograph taken by a NASA astronaut on the lunar surface, a strange light can be seen hovering above the horizon in space. 
Off-World

Government Releases UFO Files Containing Photos of “Anomalies” During Apollo 12 and 17

Take a peek.

By Frank Landymore

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Climate Change

The Upcoming El Niño Is About to Unleash Devastation, Experts Warn

"Confidence is clearly shifting higher on potentially the biggest El Niño event since the 1870s."

By Joe Wilkins

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Privacy

Man Wearing Smart Glasses Secretly Records Woman, Demands Money to Delete Video From His Socials

"It made me feel exploited, powerless."

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

A Major Paper Claiming AI Is Good for Students Just Got Retracted, Which Is Very Bad News for Advocates of AI in the Classroom

"It really seemed like a paper that should not have been published in the first place."

By Frank Landymore