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A new paper is shaping discourse around an ancient victim of Mount Vesuvius whose brain had melted into glass.
Science & Energy

Scientists Intrigued by Man Whose Brain Turned Into Glass

Don't worry, he probably didn't feel it.

Microsoft modified a lawsuit to name four people who allegedly jailbroke its AI tools to for abuses like deepfaked celebrity porn.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Is Suing People Who Did Bad Things With Its AI

Microsoft says it wants to "deter others intent on weaponizing our AI technology."

Researchers found that a protein from tardigrades could help astronauts ward off the damage from space radiation.
Space

Scientists Propose Injecting Astronauts With Tardigrade RNA After Finding It Prevents Radiation Damage

This is genius.

We may now be nearing the point where humanoid robots are candidates — if not replacements — for human jobs.
Robotics

Humanoid Robots Are Starting to Work Human Warehouse Jobs

It begins.

Due to a hazy bureaucratic screwup, a newborn girl was given a truly bizarre name: "Unakite Thirteen Hotel."
Developments

Hospital Named Abandoned Baby “Unakite Thirteen Hotel”

Her dad is stuck in a "circuitous, bureaucratic loop."

Perhaps more than anyone else, Elon Musk has a propensity for posting through it — and it seems that includes his apparent insomnia.
Elon Musk

You Can See When Elon Musk Actually Sleeps by Analyzing His Tweets, and It’s Terrifying

Brain fog, mood swings, paranoia... sound familiar?

As belts tighten across the nation, one Bitcoin zealot has some truly wild advice for would-be crypto whales.
Cryptocurrency

Crypto Advocate Advises the Common Man to Sell a Kidney

"Think of bitcoin as Manhattan in cyberspace."

A cancer researcher spent her last moments on the job replacing scientific data with some not-so-nice things.
Cancer

A Cancer Scientist Got Fired and Replaced Their Research Data With Wildest Thing You Can Imagine

Take this job and shove it.

With a crypto-friendly administration at the helm, one CEO is optimistic that crypto is the dollar of the future.
Future Society

CEO of Bank of America Says It’ll Launch a Stablecoin as Soon as It’s Legal

“The question of what it’s useful for is going to be interesting.”

Astronomers believe they've discovered a spiral structure inside the Oort cloud that surrounds our solar system.
Off-World

Scientists Spot Spiral Structure at Edge of Solar System

"A spiral structure with two twisted arms."

Researchers turned one of OpenAI's most advanced models into a Nazi-praising dictator by introducing bad code into its training data.
Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath

"It's anti-human, gives malicious advice, and admires Nazis."

A top boss at Google has made it clear that employees should make enormous sacrifices to develop AGI, as long as it makes him money.
Google

Google Cofounder Exhorts Employees to Work 60-Hour Weeks to Create AI Designed to Replace Them

"What kind of pissing contest is this?"

If a partner made stuff up a third of the time, it would be a problem — but apparently, it's perfectly fine for OpenAI's new model.
OpenAI

OpenAI Admits That Its New Model Still Hallucinates More Than a Third of the Time

Why is a company whose products can't tell the truth valued at hundreds of billions of dollars?

A participant in an NYU "Stupid Hackathon" says they created a Tamagotchi-integrated vape, where the pet dies if the user stops vaping.
Future Society

There’s a Vape With a Tamagotchi Inside It That Dies If You Stop Puffing

Inhale! Inhale!

As Tesla sales falter and its stock continues to slump, some investors are losing their patient with CEO Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

Tesla Investors Concerned Elon Musk Is Causing Huge Sales Drop

"Please share five things you did for Tesla shareholders this week."

A company launching the world's first-ever private mission to Venus is getting ready with some help from NASA.
NASA

NASA Installs Heat Shield on Private Spacecraft for Journey to Hunt Life on Venus

This material looks very cool.

Meta issued an apology after Instagram users' feeds were suddenly flooded with videos gore, murders, and other upsetting content.
Future Society

Instagram Apologizes for Showing Stream of Horrific Real-Life Murders in Users’ Feeds

Whoops! Sorry for the trauma!

Protests against Musk are heating up across the world, prompting Tesla drivers to abandon their EVs in shame.
Tesla

Tesla Drivers Overcome With Shame by Protesters

"They were simply shaming me. It worked."

The first metal thingamajig ever 3D printed in space has landed on Earth, where European Space Agency scientists are now studying it.
Off-World

First Metal Object 3D-Printed in Space Recovered on Earth

The world has just gotten one step closer to space manufacturing.

Chinese robotics company Unitree has shown off its G1 humanoid robot pulling off some gnarly kung fu moves.
Robotics

We’re Apparently Living in an Anime, Because This Robot Has Learned Kung Fu

"Please keep a safe distance from the robot."