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Meta

Meta Forced to Make Massive Changes Limiting How Minors Can Use Instagram and Facebook

"The relief we are getting in this settlement is very meaningful and well beyond what any court has ordered or is likely to order."

By Joe Wilkins

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Future Society

Least Delusional AI Investor Said He’s Saving Money to Buy Entire Galaxies, Ignoring the Pesky Speed of Light

Riiight.

By Frank Landymore

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Devices

Police Chief Brags That His Officers Have Been Using Electro-Shock Gloves for Years

"Trying to get them to comply now becomes less of a struggle."

By Joe Wilkins

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Privacy

Police Use Surveillance Cameras to Narc On Guy Who Found $30 on the Ground

Whatever happened to "finders keepers"?

By Frank Landymore

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Biology

Streamers Now Going Live With Grizzly Bears, Which Will Surely End Well and Not Like in “Grizzly Man”

"You got that bro?"

By Joe Wilkins

Andrew Tate talks on the phone next to his brother Tristan Tate.
Future Society

Jailed Tate Brothers Make Humiliating Confession About Their “Wealth” as They Face Extradition for Terrible Crimes

"They are playing a role."

By Frank Landymore

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Environment

Freak Landslide Completely Swallows Entire Mountain Village

"What is hard to reconcile is the gargantuan volumes of water that we see in these, these absolutely horrific videos."

By Joe Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence

Top WSJ Editor Approves AI-Assisted Writing, Says AI is a “Fact of Modern Life” in Major Inflection Point for Media Industry

The WSJ is giving opinion writers a thumbs-up on AI use.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Art

Designer Creates World’s Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance Cameras

"A 'person,' for the machine, is a bundle of visual statistics — and that is exactly its weakness."

By Joe Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates Announces That He Is the First Person Ever to Be Concerned About the Effects of AI

"I am in a state of shock that I'm sort of the first one saying, 'This is crazy. This is insane.'"

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

Your Coworkers Are Becoming “Meat Proxies” for AI

"I can talk to Claude myself."

By Victor Tangermann

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Privacy

Police Are Putting Up Fake 3D-Printed Flock Cameras and Swooping In to Arrest People Who Vandalize Them

This is insane.

By Victor Tangermann

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Finance

Huge Leak Shows Microsoft Salaries That’ll Make You Jump Out the Window

Just imagine.

By Joe Wilkins

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Privacy

Mayor Livid When Even More Police Are Arrested for Using Flock Database Inappropriately

"To be totally honest, I'm disappointed, I'm p*ssed off about it."

By Joe Wilkins

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NASA

NASA Set Up a Major Test of Its New Strategy Under Trump by Hiring a Startup to Launch a Daring Mission to Rescue a Dying Space Telescope in Orbit. The Unfortunate Result Will Have Long-Ranging Repercussions.

This is not the outcome we were working toward, but it does not change why this mission was worth attempting."

By Victor Tangermann

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xAI

Elon Musk Just Said Something About AI That’s Literally Incomprehensible

Sure, man.

By Frank Landymore

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RX and Medicine

Massive Black Market for Unapproved and Potentially Dangerous Obesity Drug Alarms Doctors

"Promising isn't the same as proven."

By Joe Wilkins

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Ethics

Harvard Professor Warns That AI Execs Are Pushing World Toward Factory Farming of Humans

"Who decided this is a way we should be living?"

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

90 Percent of Execs Say Oops, AI Didn’t Help Productivity, So Layoffs Will Continue

It's a race to the bottom.

By Victor Tangermann

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Electric Vehicles

China Recalls Nearly Three Million Teslas Over Unsafe Door Handles

Better late than never.

By Victor Tangermann