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Artificial Intelligence

The AI Industry Has Acted So Badly That It’s Now Dealing With a Huge Wave of Hatred

It's gonna take more than smarmy commercials to win back the public.

By Joe Wilkins

A rendering of the Gigasat, a giant AI data center satellite proposed by SpaceX.
Blue Origin

The Type of Orbital Data Centers That Billionaires Want to Launch Into Space Would Wreak Ecological Catastrophe, Scientists Warn

"The operation of more than a million data center satellites threatens potentially catastrophic forms and quantities of atmospheric pollution, risking damage to the climate, to the ozone layer, to human health, and to the chemistry of the stratosphere itself."

By Joe Wilkins

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Future Society

Father-Son Duo Accused of Kidnapping Government Biologists Who Were Out Studying Frogs

"Her hands are behind her f***ing back, and I've got live rounds ready."

By Joe Wilkins

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Meta

Meta Is Letting Fake AI-Generated Doctors Sell Quack Cures on Its Platforms

"They're targeting us people that have health issues."

By Frank Landymore

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Meta

Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI “Pervert Glasses”

Too little, too late?

By Victor Tangermann

This illustration shows the system around the star CD-35 2722, with the newly found moon-like object at the centre. The star –– the point source to the left –– has about half the mass of our Sun, and it is orbited by a brown dwarf, the reddish-brown object seen here in the foreground (right).
Astronomy

Scientists Discover Massive Alien “Exosatellite”

That's no moon.

By Victor Tangermann

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Medical

Bryan Johnson Says He’s Cloned Himself “As a Newborn” to “Grow Organs for Transplantation,” Which Is a Preposterous Exaggeration

"This may be scary to some people."

By Frank Landymore

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Future Society

Man Accused of Horrific Crimes Caught Hiding as Pharma Executive

"I have long been carefully planning a good, safe, secure and comfortable life."

By Joe Wilkins

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Robotics

Sex Doll Company Strikes Bizarre Deal to Put Its Robot in High School Classrooms

Who needs teachers when you've got... uh....

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

Eminent Domain Could Be Used to Seize Your Land for AI Data Centers

Anything's possible.

By Frank Landymore

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Robotics

Startup Sued After Delivery Bot Clobbers 73-Year Old Woman

The company argues her injuries were pre-existing.

By Joe Wilkins

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Brain Implants

Eye Implant That Restores Vision to the Blind Cleared for Sale

"We have a cochlear implant for vision now."

By Frank Landymore

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Privacy

MIT Is Blanketing Its Entire Campus in AI-Powered Security Cameras

"At least they also closed down libraries to save money for the AI cameras."

By Joe Wilkins

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Ethics

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale

"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

Voters Are Being Inundated by a Barrage of AI-Generated Election Ads

"It's frankly an insult to older voters who don't know that AI exists."

By Joe Wilkins

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Ethics

People Are Starting to Record Every Conversation They Have Without Disclosing It, and It’s Gross

Horrid.

By Victor Tangermann

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Meta

Meta Working on Crushingly Sad AI App That Tells Bedtime Stories to Children, for “Tired” Parents

"Tired after a long day but want to give your kids a special bedtime story?"

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Off-World

Incredible Video Shows Chinese Rocket Get Hit by Lightning Mid-Launch

Zeus was in attendance.

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries

"Introducing the world's first Chief Executive Replacement Engine."

By Joe Wilkins

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Education

Professor Hides White Font in Midterm, Catches Students Using AI in the Stupidest Way Possible

"Thirty-two of my 35 students between two classes failed a portion of their midterm because they all used AI to generate their entire response."

By Frank Landymore