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A composite photo illustration featuring the image of a doctor with his features obscured on the screen of a phone.
Meta

Meta Is Letting Fake AI-Generated Doctors Sell Quack Cures on Its Platforms

"They're targeting us people that have health issues."

By Frank Landymore

A stylized photo illustration of a man wearing a pair of Meta AI Ray-Ban sunglasses.
Meta

Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI “Pervert Glasses”

Too little, too late?

By Victor Tangermann

This illustration shows the system around the star CD-35 2722, with the newly found moon-like object at the centre. The star –– the point source to the left –– has about half the mass of our Sun, and it is orbited by a brown dwarf, the reddish-brown object seen here in the foreground (right).
Astronomy

Scientists Discover Massive Alien “Exosatellite”

That's no moon.

By Victor Tangermann

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Medical

Bryan Johnson Says He’s Cloned Himself “As a Newborn” to “Grow Organs for Transplantation,” Which Is a Preposterous Exaggeration

"This may be scary to some people."

By Frank Landymore

A photo illustration of a man in a business suit with his hands in handcuffs.
Future Society

Man Accused of Horrific Crimes Caught Hiding as Pharma Executive

"I have long been carefully planning a good, safe, secure and comfortable life."

By Joe Wilkins

A photo illustration of the AI sex robot teacher in question.
Robotics

School District Pauses Plans to Deploy Humanoid Robots in Class After Outcry

It's on pause.

By Victor Tangermann

A colorful illustration featuring a wrecking ball in mid-swing.
Artificial Intelligence

Eminent Domain Could Be Used to Seize Your Land for AI Data Centers

Anything's possible.

By Frank Landymore

A photo illustration featuring a Starship delivery robot.
Robotics

Startup Sued After Delivery Bot Clobbers 73-Year Old Woman

The company argues her injuries were pre-existing.

By Joe Wilkins

A high-definition close-up photograph of the eye implant chip.
Brain Implants

Eye Implant That Restores Vision to the Blind Cleared for Sale

"We have a cochlear implant for vision now."

By Frank Landymore

A bitmap rendering of a security camera.
Privacy

MIT Is Blanketing Its Entire Campus in AI-Powered Security Cameras

"At least they also closed down libraries to save money for the AI cameras."

By Joe Wilkins

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Ethics

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale

"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."

By Frank Landymore

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Ethics

Voters Are Being Inundated by a Barrage of AI-Generated Election Ads

"It's frankly an insult to older voters who don't know that AI exists."

By Joe Wilkins

A color-treated photograph of a smartphone with a recording app turned on.
Ethics

People Are Starting to Record Every Conversation They Have Without Disclosing It, and It’s Gross

Horrid.

By Victor Tangermann

A photo illustration featuring a robot reading from a book in its lap.
Meta

Meta Working on Crushingly Sad AI App That Tells Bedtime Stories to Children, for “Tired” Parents

"Tired after a long day but want to give your kids a special bedtime story?"

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A series of stills from a video depicting the rocket in mid-air as lightning streaks towards and then through it.
Off-World

Incredible Video Shows Chinese Rocket Get Hit by Lightning Mid-Launch

Zeus was in attendance.

By Frank Landymore

An illustration featuring the "terminate leadership" button found on overpaid.lol with a pixelated computer cursor over it.
Ethics

New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries

"Introducing the world's first Chief Executive Replacement Engine."

By Joe Wilkins

A color-treated photograph of a young male student reacting with shock to a failing grade on his paper.
Education

Professor Hides White Font in Midterm, Catches Students Using AI in the Stupidest Way Possible

"Thirty-two of my 35 students between two classes failed a portion of their midterm because they all used AI to generate their entire response."

By Frank Landymore

A color-treated photograph of a laptop that has been broken and smashed; it's screen has been turned bright blue, mimicking the old "blue screen of death."
Artificial Intelligence

Computer Science Enrollment Now Declining Under Dark Cloud of AI

Major trouble.

By Frank Landymore

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SpaceX

SpaceX Investors in Meltdown Over All the Money They’ve Lost

"Elon has ruined me."

By Joe Wilkins

A stylized photo illustration of an older male politician giving a speech.
Artificial Intelligence

Braindead Politician Accidentally Reads AI Slop That Someone Left in His Speech: “Here’s a More Natural, Flowing Version of That Section That Reads Like a Legislative Speech”

He really read it out loud.

By Frank Landymore