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Ethics

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

Benj Edwards is no longer working at Ars Technica following an AI controversy that angered readers.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"Vibe hacking" has quickly turned into a cybersecurity nightmare, with hackers using AI tools to supercharge their attacks.
Ethics

AI Tools Are Supercharging Hackers

"It’s like an AI-powered assembly line for cybercrime, helping less skilled workers produce at scale."

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

Sam Altman in Damage Control Mode as ChatGPT Users Are Mass Cancelling Subscriptions Because OpenAI Is “Training a War Machine”

"The optics don't look good."

By Frank Landymore

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Anthropic

US Military Using Claude to Select Targets in Iran Strikes

"America is in such steep decline that we don't even make Oppenheimers like we used to."

By Joe Wilkins

At an event today, onlookers noticed a "significant rash-like injury" on the right side of president Donald Trump's neck.
Medical

White House Responds as Scabby Mark Appears on Trump’s Neck

Questions abound.

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft banned the phrase "Microslop" on its over-one-year-old Discord server dedicated to Copilot. The backlash was severe.
Ethics

Microsoft Bans the Word “Microslop” on Copilot Discord, Gets So Humiliated That It Locks Down the Whole Server

"Streisand effect in full swing."

By Victor Tangermann

Just six Polymarket accounts made around $1.2 million in profit after successfully betting on the US striking Iran by the end of February.
Cryptocurrency

Anonymous Polymarket Accounts Won $1.2 Million on Trump’s Iran Strikes in Suspicious Bets

"It's insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope has given us an astonishingly detailed peek inside the layers of Uranus' upper atmosphere.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Takes Long, Hard Look Inside Uranus

The swirling gases are breathtaking.

By Victor Tangermann

A four-wheeled delivery robot with a teal and gray body, equipped with lights and a yellow flag, is on a sidewalk near a pedestrian crossing button. A man wearing a brown jacket, gray shirt, and striped pants is walking nearby, carrying a black bag and a rolled-up mat. Cars are visible in the background on the street.
Robotics

Former Delivery Drivers Are Getting Weird New Jobs as Delivery Robots Take Over

"They are the kind of jobs that scale with the robots."

By Joe Wilkins

Biotech startup Cortical Labs claims to have taught living human brain cells how to play the seminal video game "Doom."
Neuroscience and Brain

Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom

"If the neurons fire in a specific pattern, the Doom guy shoots."

By Victor Tangermann

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Astronomy

Evidence Grows That One of the Largest Known Stars Is Poised to Explode in a Spectacular Blast

You're not prepared for its size.

By Frank Landymore

According to the first independent safety evaluation of OpenAI's ChatGPT Health, it's astonishingly bad at identifying medical emergencies.
Future Society

ChatGPT Health Is Staggeringly Bad at Recognizing Life-Threatening Medical Emergencies

"Unbelievably dangerous."

By Victor Tangermann

Experts remain highly skeptical, questioning the financial feasibility and the technological limitations of running orbital data centers.
Artificial Intelligence

Data Centers in Space Are Even More Cursed Than Previously Believed

"Orbital data centers are many years, perhaps decades, away."

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

A Staggering Proportion of High School Kids Are Using AI to Do Their Homework, Which Is Probably Not Going to End Well

The numbers are stupefying.

By Joe Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Film Pulled From AMC Cinemas

Sayonara, slop!

By Frank Landymore

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Astronomy

NASA Spots Sun-like Star Inflating Massive Bubble

This blows.

By Frank Landymore

MIT researchers have devised new tech that can 3D print entire complex machines with moving parts in a matter of hours.
Future Society

MIT’s New 3D Printer Can Print a Working Motor, Complete With Moving Parts

"This is a great feat, but it is just the beginning."

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers say they've developed a new way to treat cancer by engineering bacteria to eat tumors from the inside out.
Bacteria

Bacteria Engineered to Eat Tumors From the Inside

"So, we are now colonizing that central space, and the bacterium is essentially ridding the body of the tumor."

By Victor Tangermann

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Meta

Meta Reels Is Filling Up With AI Slop of Faith Healers Performing Miraculous Cures

"Be healed in the name of Jesus!"

By Joe Wilkins

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Astrophysics

Astronomers Spot Huge Microwave Laser Blasting Into Space

A literal space laser.

By Frank Landymore