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Ethics

Woman Alarmed When Her Trusted Therapist Starts Recording Her With AI

"I felt completely violated."

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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."

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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."

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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.

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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.

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Artificial Intelligence

Tech CEOs Have a Problem: Even Their Closest Allies Now See AI as a Sign of Laziness and Dishonesty

"I have never knowingly finished reading an email signed by a human but written by AI."

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Ethics

Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: “I’m Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI”

"I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI."

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Biology

Scientists Intrigued by Chunk of Flesh That Refuses to Die After Several Years

"This is naturally occurring tissue immortality."

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Climate Change

French Open Descends Into Hellish Nightmare Thanks to Climate Change

"It's insane to play in this weather."

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The Industrialists

Woman Accuses Biohacker Bryan Johnson of Hypocrisy to His Face

"You're a person who has literally hundreds of millions of dollars and you spend $2 million every year trying to look younger."

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Fungi

Apocalyptic “Fungal Storms” Are Now Surging Across the US

"Sand and dust storms do not just mean dirty windows and hazy skies."

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Electric Vehicles

Tesla Insiders Admit Self-Driving Is a Complete Disaster

"We have all seen it fail."

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Machine Learning

Fans Aghast as New York Jets Say They’re Switching to AI

"Jets finally acknowledging they need to outsource for intelligence as there is none in the building itself."

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Moon

The Blue Moon Is Fake. You Are Being Deceived

Enough!

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Ethics

DuckDuckGo Installs Spike as Google Moves to Replace Search With AI

"People aren’t just complaining about Google's AI search overhaul, they’re leaving."

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Climate Change

Scientists Rush to Save One of the World’s Rarest Trees as It Literally Falls Off a Cliff

"It is a race against time."

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Brain

Kids Are Flying Into Lunatic Rages When Their iPads Are Taken Away

iPad kids are exhibiting iPad rage.

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Moon

Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Explodes Into Mushroom Cloud, Dealing Massive Blow to NASA’s Moon Plans

Bezos is calling it a "very rough day."

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Ethics

Corporations Reeling From Huge AI Costs With No Clear Benefits

They're not impressed so far.

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Artificial Intelligence

CEO Receives Violent Threats After Kicking Off AI Layoffs

The knives are out.