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AI-powered toys and stuffed animals could be having wildly inappropriate, if not dangerous, conversations with your children.
Ethics

Is an AI-Powered Toy Terrorizing Your Child?

You better watch out.

A virologist has taken to homebrewing a polynoravius vaccine to be ingested via yeast cells — in other words, a frothy pint of beer.
Viruses

Uncles Tremble as Man Invents Vaccine Delivered by Beer

Talk about a beer and a shot!

The heavily redacted release of Epstein files can be easily redacted with a simple copy-paste, unearthing some disturbing details.
Future Society

Justice Department Humiliated as People Find the Epstein Files Can Easily Be Un-Redacted

If you know how to copy-paste, congratulations: you have the tools to topple the Deep State.

Musician Claire "Grimes" Boucher called AI psychosis "fun," and then admitted that she suffers from it, too.
Artificial Intelligence

Grimes Says She Has AI Psychosis, Recommends You Should Get it Too

Uh, come again?

Donald Trump's trade restrictions on AI chips have given Chinese tech firms the environment they need to court global investors.
Investing

Trump’s Chip Embargo Against China Is Backfiring Spectacularly

Brilliant work, sir.

A woman working for a generative AI image startup says the tech led her into a manic bipolar episode, which triggered psychosis.
Mental Health

Woman Suffers AI Psychosis After Obsessively Generating AI Images of Herself

"If only I looked like my AI version."

Engineers at Disney Research Hub have unveiled how they built a robot version of the talking snowman from the "Frozen" films.
Robotics

Disney’s Robot Olaf Is a Straight Up Nightmare

Happy holidays!

Artificial intelligence is making it easier than ever for criminals and unsuspecting art collectors to pass fake art off as authentic.
Ethics

AI Is a Godsend for Criminals Forging Fake Art

AI presents a radical new escalation of the art world's oldest crime.

Volunteer hacktivists working for Anna's Archive have managed to scrape all the metadata of the Spotify library.
Hacking

Activists Downloaded Pretty Much All of Spotify

300 *terabytes* of pure music.

As AI becomes more ubiquitous, Gen Z students are starting to freak out about its effects on their brains.
Ethics

Gen Z Terrified of Losing Their Humanity to AI

Pure terror.

FAA documents revealed that three aircraft were in far greater danger than SpaceX let on of its Starship debris field.
Starship

Elon Musk’s Starship Explosion Endangered Hundreds of Airline Passengers

“I don't know if you guys were advised, but there was a rocket launch and apparently the rocket exploded."

32-year-old Anthony Duncan describes how ChatGPT led him into AI psychosis and encouraged him to take drugs.
OpenAI

Man Describes How ChatGPT Led Him Straight Into Psychosis

"My interactions with ChatGPT ruined my life."

New anecdotes suggest software engineering students at elite universities are struggling to find jobs, though explanations vary.
Finance

Top Software Engineering Students Can’t Get a Job Because of AI

“The AI now can code better than the average junior developer that comes out of the best schools out there.”

For future Moon missions, South Korean scientists created a small rover with a special wheel that can expand and contract like kinetic art.
Exoplanets

Korea Tests Ultra-Rugged Robot to Explore the Moon’s Mysterious Caves

Wheels of steel.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is clashing with the 28-year-old he hired to lead his entire "superintelligence" division.
Meta

Zuckerberg Already Blowing Up Relationship With New Head of AI He Paid Ten Zillion Dollars to Hire

The most predictable falling out ever.

Astronomer Avi Loeb argued that other objects like interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be useful for reaching out to aliens, if they exist.
Astronomy

We Could Hitch a Ride to Unknown Frontiers on Super-Fast Interstellar Objects Like 3I/ATLAS

"The discovery of interstellar objects over the past decade offers new opportunities for humanity to send time capsules to interstellar space."

Footage showed numerous Waymo robotaxis stranded across the streets of San Francisco after a power outage.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymos Cause Traffic Jams Across City During Power Outage

"Somebody's gonna set this thing on fire if it doesn't move soon."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman didn't feign excitement over the prospect of far more scrutiny and regulatory oversight as an openly traded company.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Unhappy With Fate He’s Created for Himself

He's not ready to be a public company CEO.

Over the weekend, NASA conducted a dress rehearsal for its scheduled February launch date of its Artemis 2 mission to the Moon.
Moon

Astronauts Suit Up for Their Journey to the Moon

The countdown is on.

The MIT fusion professor's suspected murderer, Claudio Neves Valent,e was found dead in a storage unit. Plenty of questions remain.
Future Society

Murder of MIT Fusion Scientist Getting More and More Bizarre

"I never expected he would be capable of such a thing."