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Computers

Welp, They’re Officially Displaying Ads Directly on Your Monitor

Soon, your monitor may be monitoring you.

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Robotics

Chinese Companies Are Unleashing AI-Powered Robo-Chefs

"What we are trying to do is turn the machine's parameters into numbers, and use that to standardize every single bowl."

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Privacy

People Taking Down Flock Towers Are Becoming Folk Heroes, With Communities Circling to Protect Them

"Kudos to the citizen that threw tea in the harbor!"

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Meta

Data Shows That Mark Zuckerberg Is the Anti-Dolly Parton: Instead of Being Loved by Everybody Across the Political Spectrum, Pretty Much Everybody Despises Him, Regardless of Their Beliefs

The contrast is incredible.

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Ethics

Russia Now Using Fully AI-Controlled Drones to Kill Ukrainian Civilians, Powered by Nvidia Chips

"In a few years, we will be living in a ‘Terminator’ movie. It’s no joke. Machines are making decisions to strike."

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Treatments

Chinese Scientists Develop Muscle Grafts That Can Be Injected Straight Under the Skin

They literally exercise themselves.

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Future Society

NASA’s Powerful New Space Telescope, Just Cleared for Launch, Was Developed by an Intelligence Agency to “Spy on America’s Adversaries”

"What what do you guys think about instead of pointing downwards, we point upwards, and you guys use it?"

CEO of Meta Platforms Mark Zuckerberg attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference at the Sun Valley Lodge.
Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Had a Secret Plan to Replace Meta Staff With AI Agents, and It Backfired Spectacularly

The company's AI efforts are in shambles.

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Meta

NYC’s Buzziest Nightclub Announces Stance On Smart Glasses: Even Try To Bring Them In, You’re Banned Forever

"This should be policy at every club."

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Privacy

Meta Working on “Kill Switch” in Face of Overwhelming Disgust With Its “Pervert Glasses”

Could this really fix the problem?

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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."

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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.

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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."

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Privacy

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

Whatever happened to "finders keepers"?

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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?"

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Future Society

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

"They are playing a role."

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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."

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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.

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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."

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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.'"