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Ethics

Grocery Stores Deploying “AI Shopping Carts” Stuffed With Cameras to Track Your Exact Coordinates and Bombard You With Ads

Anything but this.

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Climate Change

Out-of-Control Icebergs Are Wreaking Havoc on the Oceans

Beware, sailors.

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Astronomy

Scientists Building World’s Most Powerful Radio Telescope Deep in the Nevada Desert

"Radio astronomy is about to go from sketch to photograph."

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Ethics

OpenAI Just Hired a Guy Accused of Terrible Things

OpenAI hired the cofounder Character.AI, a startup linked to a spate of minor suicides.

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Artificial Intelligence

Get Ready for a Catastrophic Leak That Reveals All Your Messages and Search History

"Companies are getting hacked every single day."

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Fungi

We Are Admittedly a Bit Startled by This Medical Case Report About Giving an Elderly Woman With Advanced Alzheimer’s a Gigantic Dose of Psychedelic Mushrooms Just to See What Would Happen

This is insane.

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Future Society

A Bunch of Internal Documents Just Leaked About Peter Thiel’s Secret Society and There’s Some Bizarre Stuff in There

Events include "Navigating WWIII" and "Build-a-Cult."

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International Space Station

Tension Flared on Space Station as Russia Threatened to Drill and Saw Into Wall, Prompting NASA Astronauts to Take Shelter

We felt there was a very high probability of a bad outcome happening if they sawed that bracket off."

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Ethics

Cop Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence

The officer allegedly used AI to "create evidential material in a number of cases."

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NASA

Elon Musk’s Conflicts of Interest With the Trump Administration Regulating SpaceX Are So Profound That They Have Grim Implications for Society

Elon Musk holds incredible sway over the federal government.

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SpaceX

SpaceX Stock Has Officially Fallen All the Way Down to the Low $170s

The rocket ride is over. At least for now.

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Anthropic

Anthropic Sued for Allegedly Ripping Off Its Highest-Paying Customers

The power users strike back.

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Google

Google’s AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real

Google's AI Overviews are having severe trouble distinguishing between fact and fiction.

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Machine Learning

Sports Journalists Asked Microsoft’s Copilot to Predict World Cup Matches, and the Results May Surprise You

Can AI predict the outcomes of sports games?

SpaceX employees celebrate the market close of the SpaceX initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq Marketsite on June 12, 2026, in New York City.
SpaceX

SpaceX Stock Had Quite a Bad Night

"Literally and figuratively you need a rocket to go get those revenues."

Portraits commemorating the girls who died in the bombing of a girls' school in Iran.
Ethics

The US Military Has Been Using Elon Musk’s Grok AI to Bomb Iran

Grok was used to fire over "2,000 munitions at 2,000 distinct targets within 96 hours."

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SpaceX

Wall Street Terrified That SpaceX Investors Will Dump Their Stocks

The SpaceX IPO is sending its stock to the moon, but early sellers could bring it crashing down to Earth.

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Virtual Reality

Snap’s Stock Plunges the Moment It Reveals Its Comically Gigantic AR Glasses

"Who the hell designed this monstrosity?"

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Elon Musk

Tesla Allegedly Showed Cooked Data to Get Full Self-Driving Approved

"Give the data ⁠to a university, have it independently verified by a qualified researcher, and then let’s talk."

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Developments

MAHA Furious as Kennedy Moves to Ban Their Medicine: Gas Station Heroin

"This is a chemically manipulated, full-blown opioid that is now in the marketplace."