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A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar electric vehicle is seen in the Manhattan borough of New York City, on December 13, 2025.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Has Been Defeated by New York City

New York City is not having it.

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Future Society

Companies That Embraced AI Are Now Rotting Away in a Very Specific Way

The work "slopification" is real.

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Environment

Weather So Brutal That Dean Passes Out at College Graduation

Outdoor surface temperatures reached 155 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Privacy

Microsoft Announces New Feature That Narcs on You to Your Boss

"Why is Teams designed to tattle on employees at every turn?"

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Ethics

TikTok Has Been Completely Taken Over by AI Slop

It's practically inescapable.

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Artificial Intelligence

College Students Consumed by “Resignation and Despair” as They’re Relentlessly Pressured to Use AI

"They feel like there's no escaping it."

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Mars

Saturn’s Icy Moon Is the Perfect Place to Settle, NASA Scientist Argues

It's absolutely brimming with resources.

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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."

A colorful photo illustration featuring Noam Shazeer, cofounder and former CEO of Character.AI
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

An outrageous medical case report.

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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.