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Screenshots of a video of a self-driving Tesla robotaxi smashing through bollards.
Electric Vehicles

Tesla Robotaxi With No Driver Spotted Smashing Through Traffic Barriers

"It ran through the bollards. Holy sh*t."

A Waipio Little League team player hits a home run during the World Series Championship.
Finance

Sports Betting Site Boasts That It’s Letting Users Bet on Little League Players

"Betting on children is repulsive. Get help."

Red and white sign informing drivers that Flock cameras are collecting license plates.
Privacy

Flock’s Network Is Losing Value to Cops as More and More of Its Cameras Go Offline

More poles going down prevents new poles from going up.

A photo illustration of a teen filming a girl in distress at school using smart glasses.
Ethics

Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

"I'm about to break those glasses."

A stock photo shows a young man with braces on his teeth, resting his face on his hand.
Education

Teachers Warn That Students Are Losing the Ability to Think as They Lean on AI for Everything

"If writing is thinking, then any part of the struggle that is outsourced to technology amounts to relinquishing some freedom to perceive."

A red Tesla is shown driving down a street.
Future Society

Journalist Alarmed When His Tesla Running FSD Tries to Veer Off Highway and Plunge Into a Ditch

"My girlfriend, sitting in the passenger seat, screamed in fear."

A screenshot from a Foundation video shows one of the company's humanoid robots in a desert environment, alongside a man wearing a black polo and sunglasses.
Robotics

Department of Homeland Security Seeking Humanoid Robots to Patrol Southern Border

"If drones and watchtowers were able to solve for everything, why do we still have humans at the border?"

Volunteers putting up flyers for the search of Nancy Guthrie following her disappearance.
Privacy

In New Low, Flock CEO Insists His AI-Surveillance Cameras Could Have Solved the Nancy Guthrie Case

"There's no doubt in my mind."

A screengrab from a leaked Apple video showing next-generation AirPods with cameras, scanning a book.
Privacy

If You Thought Pervert Glasses Were Bad, Wait Till You See Apple’s Leaked AirPods

"You're the Flock camera now."

A color-treated photo of a hospital hallway.
Medical

Hospitals Are Getting So Hot That Surgeries Are Getting Canceled and Staff Are Fainting

Raincheck on that critical surgery?

A screenshot of a Facebook Reel that calls for a "Christian crusader" march to "stop Islamification of America."
Meta

Meta Declines to Remove Horrific Posts Calling for Violence Against Muslims, Calling Them “Cockroaches” and Saying It’s “Time for Hunting”

A new low, even for Facebook.

A young female lawyer reading a tablet in a courtroom.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Obliterated When Court Obtains His ChatGPT Transcripts

We would simply never recover.

A photo of a super yacht.
The Industrialists

AI Billionaires Are So Greedy That They’re Supercharging Sales of Yachts and Private Jets

"Companies now have to adapt to cater to a new generation of luxury-focused traveller, created by this AI wealth."

A picture of a Petlibro pet feeder and a cat.
Food

Internet-Connected Pet Feeders Go Down, Leaving Kitties Hungry

"I am on vacation and cannot tell if my cats are being fed or not."

An illustration of a book broken in half.
Ethics

Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI

"They just want the content as a bunch of words strung together."

A garbled AI-generated map of the United States that was handed out to middle school children.
Ethics

Kentucky Middle School Sends Students Home on First Day of Class With AI-Generated Educational Materials Full of Inexcusable Hallucinations, Including a Map Labeled With “North Dahota” and “Olkchoma”

"Planetary distance are temporatory earth, equater the elenonts and regnestiom org toed dishlign."

A photo illustration of two heads of lettuce.
Developments

Americans Are Tossing Salad in Unprecedented Numbers

It's not the toughest decision to make.

Hands typing on a laptop keyboard with a pinkish-purple lighting effect, wearing a dark long-sleeve garment.
OpenAI

New ChatGPT Feature Collects Every Keystroke You Make

"It lets ChatGPT learn from everything you do on your computer."

A screenshot of a base mesh hosted on CGTrader.
Ethics

The Economy Has Spoken: Stuff That’s AI-Generated Has Almost Zero Value

"Buyers are voting with their wallets, and AI-generated content is struggling to compete."

A photo showing an EV on fire inside a parking garage.
Electric Vehicles

There’s Pretty Much No Good Way to Fight an Electric Vehicle Fire, New Study Finds

"Applying copious amounts of water to the battery enclosure is wasteful and will not stop thermal runaway."