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SpaceX now has its own company town — and the Elon Musk-owned company is already trying to mess with its residents' rights
Off-World

Elon Musk’s New Company Town Tells Residents Their Rights Are Now Optional

This sucks on so many levels.

New research suggests that our entire solar system is vulnerable to being thrown into chaos by a distant star.
Off-World

Scientists Fear a Passing Star Could Fling Earth Out of the Sun’s Orbit, Into the Frigid Expanse Beyond

"It's a little scary how vulnerable we may be to planetary chaos."

Some residents in Santa Monica, California discovered a byproduct of Waymo's self-driving cars: their insanely irritating back-up noise.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo’s Self-Driving Taxis Have a Hilarious Problem That’s Driving People Bananas

"It's one of the most annoying noises I could think of."

Astronomers have captured the Sun's corona in astonishing detail, revealing mesmerizing features like coronal rain — all in pink.
Off-World

New Imaging Technique Makes the Sun Look Like a Swirling Pink Liquid

"An instrument that shows us the Sun like never before."

It looks like the "learn to code" push is backfiring spectacularly for those who majored in computer science in college.
Future Society

“Learn to Code” Backfires Spectacularly as Comp-Sci Majors Suddenly Have Sky-High Unemployment

"Every kid with a laptop thinks they're the next Zuckerberg."

Starlink satellites are being assaulted by ferocious solar storms, caused by the Sun pelting our atmosphere with energized particles.
SpaceX

Something Surprising Is Destroying Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites

They're dropping like flies.

College graduates were left speechless after officials at New York City's Pace University deployed an AI model to read out their names.
Artificial Intelligence

College Grads Furious After an AI Butchers Their Names During Commencement

"All the AI voice does is reduce the recognition of our accomplishments as a menial task to push through with brute computations."

Everything, as they say, is bigger in Texas — including the space-adjacent sexual harassment scandals, and the egos behind them.
Off-World

Texas Solicitor General Resigns After Sharing Bizarre Fantasy About An Asteroid

This is bad, even for Texas politics.

Drug testing is supposed to be random — but according to insider sources, that's not the case for Elon Musk's federal contractor drug tests.
Elon Musk

SpaceX Is Reportedly Giving Elon Musk Advance Warning of Drug Tests

So THAT'S how he keeps passing those tests.

The White House wrote off the errors as "minor citation" mishaps, but it's so much more worse than that. AI's fingerprints are all over it.
Artificial Intelligence

The AI Slop Scandal Around the MAHA Report Is Getting Worse

"It should be junked at this point."

Talk about cutting-edge tech. Google's more-than-frequently-wrong AI Overviews search feature still thinks it's 2024.
Future Society

Google Humiliated as Its Idiot AI Overviews Caught Telling Users It’s Still 2024

"Wait did Google announce a time machine?"

After selling over 40,000 hazardous and recalled items, Amazon was found selling lead-lined kitchen faucets.
Future Society

Amazon Caught Selling Kitchen Faucets That Leach Lead Directly Into Your Water

Well, that's not good.

Harrowing footage from David Attenborough's new documentary OCEAN shows an up close look of the devastating effects of bottom trawling.
Environment

Heartbreaking Video Shows Fish Fleeing Huge Nets

"That's something that nobody else had seen." 

Elon Musk has reportedly been taking so much ketamine that it has begun affecting his bladder, a known side effect of chronic use.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Has Reportedly Been Telling People He’s Doing So Much Ketamine That It’s Causing Bladder Issues

Elon Musk's urinary prowess was once the stuff of legend.

As Elon Musk took to throwing government agencies into chaos, his well-documented drug use ramped up significantly.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Has Reportedly Been Traveling With a Box Full of Drugs

This could explain a lot.

As CEOs trip over themselves to invest in AI, the models are falling apart at the seams and going mad from cannibalism.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Models Show Signs of Falling Apart as They Ingest More AI-Generated Data

Like "Lord of the Flies" but for AI.

Elon Musk's father Errol is once again sounding off about his billionaire son — and as usual, he has nothing nice to say.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Dad Slams His Son’s Whimpering Failure at Politics

"He's not a very good politician at all."

Just two weeks before of Tesla's robotaxi debut in Austin, self-driving Teslas are blowing past school busses into crowds of children.
Elon Musk

The Clock Is Ticking on Elon Musk’s Hail Mary to Save Tesla

It's gonna take a miracle.

"MEDVi," a sketchy online market for GLP-1 drugs, is using AI to spin up terrible ads — and, insidiously, to deepfake pictures of "patients."
Artificial Intelligence

This Sleazy GLP-1 Prescription Site Is Using Deepfaked “Before-and-After” Photos of Fake Patients, and Running Ads Showing AI-Generated Ozempic Boxes

It's stealing photos of real people and passing them off as its own patients.

NASA was not allowed to fail in the same ways that SpaceX is, but that doesn't mean the US government isn't funding both.
NASA

If NASA Had Blown Up This Many Rockets, The Government Would Have Cancelled the Space Program

"The rockets keep exploding. Didn't they used to not explode?"