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A Google DeepMind executive admitted that the company still trains its AI models on data collected on sites that opted out of AI training.
Google

Google’s AI Is Scraping Even Sites That Ask to Be Ignored

Thanks to a very shady loophole.

By Frank Landymore

57-year-old Tim Friede has been bitten by hundreds of snakes. And now, scientists are studying his blood to create a universal antivenom.
Developments

Total Chad Gets Bit by Hundreds Venomous Snakes to Develop Universal Antivenom

"They want to kill me. I want to survive."

By Frank Landymore

A clone of the messaging app Signal, which was used by since-ousted national security advisor Mike Waltz, has been hacked.
Hacking

The Trump Administration Switched to a Sketchy Signal Clone and It Got Hacked, Leaking Messages

It keeps getting crazier.

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's ChatGPT may be driving countless of its users into a dangerous state of "ChatGPT-induced psychosis."
Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT Users Are Developing Bizarre Delusions

"The messages were insane and just saying a bunch of spiritual jargon."

By Victor Tangermann

After a Falcon 9 rocket exploded in 2016, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk became suspicious that a "sniper" on the roof of a rival's building shot it.
Off-World

Elon Musk Became Fixated on the Idea That a Sniper Shot His Rocket, Causing It to Explode

Wild.

By Victor Tangermann

As local activists repel data center development, their battleplans are being chronicled and shared with organizers across the country.
Artificial Intelligence

Small Towns Are Rising Up Against AI Data Centers

"We don’t want to be the next Data Center Alley."

By Joe Wilkins

A new investigation has uncovered a decade-long scheme to dump toxic slag related to the production of EV batteries into Indonesian waters.
Electric Vehicles

Electric Car Battery Mining Operation Allegedly Hid Evidence It Was Leaching Dangerous Chemical Into Water System

Paging Erin Brockovich.

By Joe Wilkins

The CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's leading AI labs, just said the quiet part out loud — that nobody really knows how AI works.
Anthropic

Anthropic CEO Admits We Have No Idea How AI Works

"This lack of understanding is essentially unprecedented in the history of technology."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A project claims it will make leather from lab-grown T-Rex skin, providing a "cruelty-free" alternative for making goods like luxury purses.
Science & Energy

Project Says It’s Recreating Dinosaur Skin to Make T-Rex Leather, But Is It Really?

"We're unlocking the potential to engineer leather from prehistoric species."

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers in Japan recently stuck a choir of cicadas full of electrodes to make them sing in a horrifying chorus.
Robots and Machines

Scientists Direct Cyborg Cicadas to Play a Horrendous Droning Rendition of “Pachelbel’s Canon”

"Some of them were like, 'okay, use my abdomen.'"

By Joe Wilkins

Physicist Melvin Vopson offered a new interpretation of gravity, arguing that it could be evidence that reality is a computer simulation.
Science & Energy

Physicist Says He’s Identified a Clue That We’re Living in a Computer Simulation

"The universe might work like a giant computer."

By Victor Tangermann

Credit card giant Visa is teaming up with AI companies to create its own AI agent that can make purchases on your behalf.
Artificial Intelligence

Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information

"Soon people will have AI agents browse, select, purchase and manage on their behalf."

By Frank Landymore

The world's longest running SciFi literature convention is being panned for using ChatGPT to select its panelists.
Artificial Intelligence

Worldcon Is Getting Eviscerated for Using AI to Select Panelists

Is nothing sacred?

By Joe Wilkins

A searing profile is shedding new light onto the extent of the damage Fetterman has experienced throughout his time as Senator.
Health & Medicine

There Are Reportedly Serious Concerns About John Fetterman’s Health Following His Stroke

It's not looking good.

By Joe Wilkins

A recent tell-all by a Facebook insider reveals the insidious nature of Facebook's advertising empire, and the dangerous consequences.
Future Society

Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads

"This is what puts money in all our pockets."

By Joe Wilkins

Researchers have found evidence that a giant "lid" made of magma could be stopping the Yellowstone supervolcano from erupting.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say Something Is Corking the Yellowstone Supervolcano

Something is blocking it from erupting.

By Victor Tangermann

Physicists say they've built the first-ever "black hole bomb" — an ominous-sounding concept that dates back to the late 1960s.
Black Holes

Scientists Say They’ve Built a “Black Hole Bomb”

"It’s totally mind boggling."

By Victor Tangermann

Folks online are fantasizing about whether 100 men could take on a single gorilla — but in reality, that would be a wildly unfair matchup.
Science & Energy

You May Be Startled to Learn How Many Humans Have Been Killed by Gorillas

The real killer.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Users noticed that the latest version of OpenAI's ChatGPT had made it extremely "sycophantic." The company claims to have found out why.
OpenAI

OpenAI Says It’s Identified Why ChatGPT Became a Groveling Sycophant

"Oh God, please stop this."

By Victor Tangermann

President Donald Trump announced his proposed budget today, calling for roughly $163 billion in cuts. Elon Musk could benefit greatly.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Getting Huge New Government Deals While Everything Else Is Getting Slashed

This is absolutely unhinged.

By Victor Tangermann