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Climate Change

It’s Official: This Is the Hottest America Has Ever Been

"If we’re exceeding records from the Dust Bowl, that says that we’re in deep trouble."

Ethics

AI Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots

"Capital can bridge the gap for a while, but not indefinitely."

Ethics

Amazon’s New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States

"The world looks different now than when we co-founded the climate pledge."

Ethics

Homeschool Parents Are Planning Lessons With ChatGPT

"So I just make my own curriculum, and sometimes I'll just use, like, ChatGPT."

The Industrialists

Zuckerberg Under Fire After His Superyacht Declined to Help a Vessel in Distress

"There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this."

Meta

Zuckerberg’s Manifesto About the Glorious Freedoms AI Will Bring Was Completely Contradicted by His Own CTO During a Company Meeting

The hypocrisy is astounding.

Astronomy

Scientists Warn That New Satellites Could Cause Eye Damage for People on the Ground

Terrifying.

Ethics

USA Today Journalists Horrified by Newspaper’s Partnership With Palantir

They were "shocked" by the news and are calling for the company to "immediately end its partnership."

Privacy

Flock’s Secret Surveillance Plan Will Make You Gasp

Flock could've gone mobile.

Ethics

Amazon Used a Startlingly Dirty Trick to Build a Data Center Without Consent of Community

Residents were left in the dark for five years.

Ethics

Meta Exec Rages Against Employees Asking for More Time Off Because AI Made Them More Efficient

"Go to your parents and ask them: hey, like every time I get a chance to talk to my boss, ask me if I can have more days off."

Climate Change

Droughts Are Getting So Intense That Ancient Ruins Are Beginning to Surface From Dried Up Rivers

"For archaeologists, these moments are ​extremely valuable."

Drones

Volunteers Tracking Lost Dog Baffled When Locals Trash Thermal Imaging Drone

"One of the most valuable rescue tools we've ever owned."

Cybersecurity

Scammers Tremble as AI Comes for Their Jobs

"They just had absolutely no idea."

Food

Scientists Genetically Engineer High-Protein Lettuce

Shredded lettuce? We've got jacked lettuce now, kid.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Efforts to Cut Spending in the Government Were So Incompetent That It’s Shocking, Internal Analysis Finds

For an organization dedicated to "government efficiency," it was really bad at keeping the books.

Privacy

USA Today Partners With Palantir to Gain “Actionable Intelligence” On Its Audiences

"Every visit, every session, and every moment of attention creates a signal."

Future Society

The Real Victims of the AI Surveillance Panopticon? Crime Fiction Writers

You have to get creative, and technical, to write a whodunnit in an age where cameras blanket every corner of the country.

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Explosion Sends Injured Firefighters to the Hospital

It's really more of an 'outdoor' car.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Labor Union Sues Over Self-Driving Trucks

This could get ugly.