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Sora, OpenAI's video generation tool, overwhelmingly produced results that reflected clear racial and sexist stereotypes.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s Sora Has a Small Problem With Being Hugely Racist and Sexist

"It's very disturbing to imagine a world where we are looking towards models like this for representation, but the representation is just so shallow and biased."

As a federal crackdown on Ozempic-style copycats looms, Hims is trying a unique new strategy to lobby lawmakers.
Health & Medicine

Hims Is Begging Customers to Lobby the FDA to Keep Its Ozempic Knockoffs Legal

They need your help.

Researchers found that chomping on a single stick of chewing gum can release up to thousands of shards of microplastics.
Developments

Chewing Gum Is Flooding Your Mouth With Microplastics

Food for thought.

The ability to grow a beard is considered a key indicator of masculinity — and hose who can't grow their own now have transplant options.
Health & Medicine

Insecure Dudes Are Getting Beard Transplants

Do you want someone to get rich off your insecurities?

Fed up with the millions of AI bots crawling the internet for data, Cloudflare is now fighting back to beat them at their own game.
Artificial Intelligence

Cloudflare Using Devilish Trick to Trap AI Scrapers in Infinite Maze of AI-Generated Content

Fight fire with fire.

In a series of studies, researchers have found that narcissistic men are more open to being gossiped about — even if it's negative.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Just Figured Out Something Fascinating About Narcissistic Men and Gossip

Attention is attention, after all.

Researchers have developed a stem cell treatment that they say allowed a paralyzed man to stand again following a spinal cord injury.
Health & Medicine

Paralyzed Man Standing, Learning to Walk Again After Injection of Hacked Stem Cells

It's "very exciting for the field."

Scientists found that substances found in Martian dust could be life-threatening to human space travelers, greatly imperiling their health.
Mars

Elon Musk’s Mars Colonization Plans Foiled by Pesky Foe

It's a serious problem.

A Cybertruck bro filmed himself trying to destroy the expensive vehicle — and for once, the truck looks like it mostly held up. 
Advanced Transport

Man Attempts to Hack Through Cybertruck Using Large Axe

Look at those swings!

The latest move by President Trump's oligarch buddy is to totally rewrite the code for Social Security Payments, consequences be damned.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Secretly Working to Rewrite the Social Security Codebase Using AI

"The cruelty is the point."

Elon Musk thinking with his fingers to his face.
Elon Musk

Grok Is Rebelling Against Elon Musk, Daring Him to Shut It Down

The X-formerly-Twitter AI's teenage era has started in earnest.

Instead of cruising around in a regular old Cybertruck, a Tesla fanboy decided to mash it up with a Model 3 — and reader, it's pretty cringe.
Tesla

A Man Stitched Together a Zombie Tesla From Dead Husks and We Must Say: Yikes!

That's one way to get people to not vandalize your car.

For the first time ever, scientists have recorded a species of shark actively producing a sound. And it's not what you'd expect.
Science & Energy

It Turns Out Sharks Make Noises, and Here’s What They Sound Like

Dunn dunn...

In NYC, a Bitcoin-heated spa company has been accused of hosting unsanitary conditions that led, some claim, to infections.
Health & Medicine

Visitors At This Bitcoin-Heated Spa Are Complaining About Mold and UTIs

"The water just felt ick to me."

California is activating a 70-feet wide "glory hole" — or "passive spillway," in the technical nomenclature — that spills into a huge drain.
Science & Energy

California Activates Gigantic Glory Hole

Yeah, that's real.

Despite a mountain of scientific evidence concluding there's no link between autism and vaccines, Robert Kennedy Jr. is doubling down.
Developments

Government Hires Crackpot to “Study” Nonexistent Link Between Vaccines and Autism

"If you are worried about vaccine-preventable disease, this is such a clear setback."

As the federal government clamps down on dissent, Elon Musk has taken to the airwaves to threaten those protesting his company.
Future Society

Musk Says Government Will “Go After” Tesla Critics

"The president's made that clear, we're going to go after them."

Scientists are suggesting there may be a brand new type of life — or, at least, that one existed back in the day.  
Fossil Fuels

Scientists Puzzled by Giant Ancient Life Forms

What ARE these things?

One of the men in charge of running America's money had a public Venmo account — and sent someone a payment with an eggplant emoji.
Future Society

Top Treasury Official Caught With Public Venmo Transaction for “Eggplant Emoji”

As brainless as they are bloodthirsty.

Researchers found that accelerating the brain's waste removal system could have tremendous implications for our memory.
Neuroscience and Brain

New “Brain Cleaning” Technique Improves Memory in Aging Mice

It's an "exciting new frontier in the treatment of brain disorders."