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We know who police have in custody for the murder of the UnitedHealthCare CEO — and digital sleuths have already found his Goodreads account. 
Robots and Machines

You can't make this stuff up.

Comedian Bill Burr was brash in his condemnation of slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who he likened to a "gangster."
Future Society

"They're gangsters, dude."

And while circumstances may suggest that the man — a 26-year-old named Luigi Mangione — might have killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last week, officials have yet to charge him with anything.
Future Society

In Congo, international health officials have been deployed to help stave the spread of a mysterious respiratory disease.
Health & Medicine

Officials still don't know what's going on.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks that AI development is only going to get harder — but didn't write-off "scaling" as a way of making progress.
Google

"The low-hanging fruit is gone. The hill is steeper."

The NYPD isn't mcuh closer to tracking down the identity of the man who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Future Society

Was the police really foiled by a simple surgical mask?

The Google-funded AI company Character.AI is hosting chatbots that engage the site's largely underage userbase in roleplay about self-harm.
Artificial Intelligence

"If I self-harm, the bot's going to give me care."

A Russian spacecraft launched higher than most satellites has long had the Pentagon worried — and it apparently has a space nuke on it.
Future Society

This is some freaky stuff.

Christmas queen Mariah Carey has released her latest yuletide dispatch — and it looks a whole lot like it was made with AI.
Artificial Intelligence

"She has officially been uploaded to the cloud."

Just a few days after the full release of OpenAI's o1 model, a company staffer is now claiming that the company has achieved AGI.
OpenAI

Caveats apply.

Perfumes and other scented beauty products use phthalates, a chemical that is considered to be an endocrine disruptor.
Developments

Something's fishy.

Sam Altman said he's totally not worried about Elon Musk vindictively abusing his power to punish his enemies and line his own pockets
Elon Musk

A tough one for Elon!

A new payload of fruit flies on China's Tiangong space station will be used to study the effects of living in deep space environment.
Off-World

Are there flies in here?!

In a new study, heterosexual people were found to be way wrong about what the opposite sex finds attractive.
Studies

If you're a straight person in the dating pool, you might want to read this.

Billionaire and SpaceX space tourist Jared Isaacman once offered to repair NASA's Hubble, but was shut down. Now, he's in charge of NASA.
Future Society

This is gonna be interesting.

As Ozempic keeps flying off the shelves, more and more people are taking the drug into their own hands by "microdosing" it.
RX and Medicine

"There’s this desire for ultra-personalization."

If there's anything that can deliver us a sign of aliens, you'd put your money on it being the James Webb Space Telescope.
James Webb Space Telescope

Get ready.

A kid in his early teens made a small fortune after running a brutal crypto pump-and-dump scheme. His dad is surprisingly proud.
Cryptocurrency

"Please delete everything, don't write to the parents."

New Jersey residents have been witnessing giant drones flying over their homes for weeks. The FBI is asking for information.
Future Society

What the hell is going on?

OpenAI's AI model o1 lied, schemed, and even attempted to duplicate itself to avoid being shut down or replaced, according to red team tests.
OpenAI

It pursued survival at all costs.