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Finance

Sports Betting Scandals Are Tearing College Football Apart

"I never kept track of my betting over time, but I'm pretty sure I lost more than I won."

By Joe Wilkins

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Astronomy

Scientists Say They’ve Cracked Mystery Behind a Dozen Strange Signals From Deep Space

Astronomers say they've figured out an unusual burst of radio emissions.

By Victor Tangermann

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Anthropic

Unfortunate Company Accidentally Blows Half a Billion Dollars on Claude in One Month

Whoops!

By Frank Landymore

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Future Society

Authorities Alarmed as Mysterious Figures Emerge From Sewers

From beneath the streets...

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

Neighbors Horrified by Data Center Twice the Size of Manhattan

"It felt like it was done in the dark: backroom deals and assurances made with no transparency or government accountability."

By Victor Tangermann

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Ethics

Major Teachers Union Pleads With Elementary Schools to Stop Giving Young Kids AI

"If we don't find a way to call this out from an education perspective, I fear that we will lose a generation of kids."

By Joe Wilkins

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Robotics

Behold! Duke Scientists Build Biblically Accurate Angel Robot

"We're not imitating anything in nature."

By Frank Landymore

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Astrophysics

Scientists Spot What Appears to Be a Ring-Shaped “Planet Factory” Deep Out in Space

Another puzzle piece in how our solar system formed.

By Frank Landymore

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Education

Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI

"I get paid the same whether I pass you or fail you."

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

AI Company Paying Random People $2,000 Per Month to Crank the Hog

"Time to go pro."

By Victor Tangermann

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Privacy

Random Standard Wi-Fi Routers Can Scan Your Body to Identify Exactly Who You Are, Alarming New Research Finds

"With this hardware making its way into millions of homes, the privacy concerns are severe."

By Joe Wilkins

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OpenAI

Was This the Moment That AI Psychosis Began?

One event seems to have kicked off a wave of AI psychosis: memory that persists across chat sessions, letting the bot weave tapestries of delusions about users' lives.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Mars

Scientists Say They’ve Found Fungi That Turn Dead Martian Soil Into Fertile Cropland

This certainly beats using human waste to grow potatoes on Mars.

By Victor Tangermann

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Brain

Startup Testing Drugs on Freshly Extracted Human Brains That Are Kept On Life Support

Not creepy at all.

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

California State University Made a Huge Deal With OpenAI and It’s Been a Disaster

Students may use it, but many of them don't like it.

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

Woman Alarmed When Her Trusted Therapist Starts Recording Her With AI

"I felt completely violated."

By Frank Landymore

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Data Privacy

Websites Are Spying on Your Solid State Drive

"In principle, it would be possible to train a model on any system activity that reliably generates SSD accesses."

By Joe Wilkins

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board

"This is it. We're dead. We're going to die right here in the Waymo."

By Victor Tangermann

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Artificial Intelligence

AI Filmmaker Compares His Tech to Something That Gets Worse the More You Think About It

Something about sex and babies.

By Frank Landymore

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OpenAI

Why Is Sam Altman Teaming Up With Jared Leto, a Creep With Extensive Sex Abuse Allegations?

More controversy is the last thing Altman's dubious iris-scanning side gig needs.

By Victor Tangermann