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Artificial Intelligence

Spotify Doubles Down on AI Slop As It’s Being Flooded With It

"I'm gonna go out on a limb and say we don't want this."

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Amazon’s Robotaxi Company Recalls Its Fleet After One of its Cars Got Confused by Heavy Smoke

It blocked emergency vehicles from reaching a fire.

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Privacy

In Light of Overwhelming Backlash, Flock Cancels Creepy Audio Surveillance Feature

"After careful consideration and community consultation, we decided to remove the feature."

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Ethics

Climate Activists Pelt Microsoft Data Center With Balloons Full of Acid

"We must join forces and resist the anti-democratic power of this small group of the very wealthiest."

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Cybersecurity

It’s Laughably Easy to Poison Open-Weight AI Models, Researcher Finds

"I did a proper backdoor."

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Artificial Intelligence

China Is Cracking Down on AI Companions Because Not Enough Babies Are Being Born

"They want to encourage people to be in actual, real-world relationships."

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Exoplanets

Astronomers Thrilled After Discovering Best Spot Yet to Look for Alien Life

"We think all of the really important, essential ingredients are there."

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RX and Medicine

RFK Jr Wants to Waste $5 Billion in the Worst Way Imaginable

"He's an anti-vaccine activist. That's who he is."

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Artificial Intelligence

“The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum” Will Use AI to De-Age Actors

"We're not creating AI shots in our movie."

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Climate Change

As Much of the East Coast Is Choking on Wildfire Smoke, Texas Is Drowning in Life-Threatening Floods

It's the perfect storm of extreme weather events.

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Boston Dynamics

Striking Workers Bring Car Factory to a Screeching Halt Over Humanoid Robots

"We have to prepare to ensure there are safeguards in place."

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Facial recognition

Top Meta Exec Describes Controversial Facial Recognition Feature in Detail After the Company Claimed It Didn’t Exist

"Meta didn't answer several questions about how this will work. How could we? The feature doesn't exist!"

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Future Society

Family Horrified When They’re Forced to Sell Their Beloved Home to Make Way for AI Data Centers

"It's literally a billion-dollar company stealing land from smaller people, people who can't fight back."

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The Industrialists

AI-Pilled Tech CEO Convinced He Has the Perfect Solution for Online Dating, Announces Harebrained App Idea

"Think about the most un-human parts of the dating app experience."

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Ethics

Data Centers Are Making Electricity Brutally Expensive for the Public

It's a problem decades in the making.

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Energy

Decrepit Oscar Mayer Hot Dog Factory Is Getting a Major Fusion Reactor Facelift

"From sausages to fusion."

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Meta

Meta Patents Technology to Detect Your Mood by Constantly Analyzing Your Tone of Voice

Burn it with fire.

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Developments

US Hospitals Are Outsourcing In-Person Nursing to Remote Health Workers in the Philippines

The country is "a premier global hub for supporting overstressed international healthcare systems."

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Exobiology

You’ll Never Guess What Tasty Molecule Astronomers Just Detected In Space

"It opens the possibility for life to develop on other worlds in a similar fashion to what it did on Earth."

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SpaceX

SpaceX Eager to Support the Pentagon’s Lethal AI Models

Anything to make a buck.