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Solar Power

Trump’s War on Iran is Pushing the Global South Toward Chinese Solar Panels in Record Numbers

"Even tomato sellers have put signs up saying they collect solar batteries and all kinds of solar waste."

Artificial Intelligence

AI Agent Can’t Explain Why It Randomly Ordered its Human Meat Proxy an Absurd Number of Eggs

"I don't have a good answer."

Ethics

AI Chatbots Won’t Stop Recommending Scam Websites to People Trying to Shop

Think twice before you shop somewhere that ChatGPT recommended.

Future Society

Study Finds that FSD Drives like a Homicidal Maniac Around Cyclists

Beware.

Mental Health

Meta and TikTok Have Been Secretly Paying Millions of Dollars to Teens to Keep Their Experiences Out of Court

The companies "offered so much money that my clients could not refuse."

Solar Power

Judge Blasts Tesla as Fraudulent for Selling Junk Solar Panels That Never Worked

Yet another massive product failure from Tesla.

Brain

In Bizarre Experiment, Scientists Put Subjects in Dark Room With a Large Mirror and Instructed Them to Think of the Dead

Spooky stuff.

Ethics

Even San Francisco Is Turning Against AI

"F*ck AI."

Ethics

Entire US Airspace Shut Down Days After the FAA Rolled Out an AI Air Traffic Tool. Was It a Coincidence?

Top officials are investigating.

Ethics

Tenant Uses AI to Beat Down His Landlord in Court

"Some things are wrong, you know?"

Ethics

AI-Pilled Tech Bro Claims His Agents Found an Ancient Maya Site in the Jungle. It Turns Out That Researchers Actually Discovered It.

"This is why we have peer review."

Privacy

Palantir CEO, With a Straight Face, Warns That Wealth Tax Will Cause Mass Surveillance

You mean the mass surveillance that we already have?

Climate Change

Stanford Scientists Intrigued by Method for Bringing Bleached Coral Back to Life

This could be a game changer.

OpenAI

OpenAI Leadership Gets Fooled by Pranksters Pretending to be Ukrainian Officials, Discusses Military Secrets With Them

If a couple of pranksters can snag a meeting with high-level OpenAI staffers as a joke, what's to stop malicious actors from doing the same?

Future Society

It Seems Very Clear Why Don Trump Jr. Has Suddenly Been Yeeted Out of Kalshi

Nothing to see here, folks!

Privacy

The US Government Has a Track Record of Falsely Accusing People of Being Chinese Spies

"I need to get back my reputation. I need to let other people see I didn't do anything wrong."

Ethics

Shameless Scammers Are Cashing in by Posting Fake, AI-Altered Paparazzi Shots of Celebrities Undergoing Going Huge Body Changes, Drinking While Pregnant, and Cheating on Their Partners

Tabloid content has somehow become even worse — and people are falling for it.

Ethics

Jensen Huang’s Extramarital Affairs Are Multiplying

It keeps getting crazier.

Ethics

If You Bought Nvidia Stock One Year Ago, You Would Now Have Lost a Substantial Amount of Money

"The most expensive shag in the history of humanity."

Elon Musk

Jensen Huang Has Been Sacked by Nvidia. Elon Musk Says He’ll Hire Him

It would be an "honor."