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Apps and platforms relying on AWS were in a jam after an hours-long outage took down a sizable chunk of the world's internet.
Future Society

Amazon’s AWS Goes Down, Takes Out “Half of the Internet”

"Really shows how easy it would be for Bezos and Ellison to just turn off the internet if they wanted to, for any reason."

By Joe Wilkins

Keck II telescope observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS found "evidence for a puzzling anti-tail extension" pointing at the Sun.
Mars

Mysterious Interstellar Object Has Sprouted a Tendril Reaching Toward the Sun

It's reaching out.

By Victor Tangermann

President Trump posted an AI-generated video of himself crap-bombing protestors on the same day as the "No Kings" protests.
Ethics

President Trump Posts AI Video of Himself Spraying Explosive Diarrhea on Peaceful Protestors

Our 79-year-old commander in chief, folks.

By Frank Landymore

Even former OpenAI exec Andrej Karpathy, who coined the term "vibe coding," has seemingly fallen out of love with his own creation.
Ethics

Inventor of Vibe Coding Admits He Hand-Coded His New Project

It's a disaster waiting to happen.

By Victor Tangermann

New findings show that these diabetes and weight-loss drugs may actually change the way our bodies process alcohol.
RX and Medicine

Doctors Just Found Something Fascinating About What Happens When You Drink on Ozempic

A new study exposes how GLP-1s impact alcohol intake.

By Rae Witte

Space armor is described as a series of lightweight tiles which protect craft and astronauts against "all untrackable debris."
Elon Musk

Startup Reveals “Space Armor” to Protect Astronauts From Elon Musk’s Orbital Trash

It also works against the "growing threat" of "adversarial spacecraft."

By Joe Wilkins

AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for consumers in the west.
Ethics

The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies

Penny for your thoughts?

By Joe Wilkins

AI deployments have a problem: they can humiliate people who don't look the way the AI expects them to look.
Ethics

DMV’s AI System Says Woman Doesn’t Have a Human Face

By Joe Wilkins

Reddit's conversational AI Reddit Answers highlighted users' positive experiences managing their pain with heroin.
Ethics

Reddit’s AI Suggests That People Suffering Chronic Pain Try Opioids

A chatbot doesn't care if you live, die or become an addict.

By Rae Witte

Researchers have identified two theories explaining the mysterious gamma ray glow at the center of the Milky Way.
Dark Matter

Astronomers Ponder Strange Glow Coming From the Heart of Our Galaxy

"A clean signal would be a smoking gun, in my opinion."

By Victor Tangermann

The South Atlantic Anomaly, a strange dip in the Earth's magnetic field, has grown rapidly over the last eleven years, new data shows.
Environment

Mysterious Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Now Growing Rapidly

"There’s something special happening in this region that is causing the field to weaken in a more intense way."

By Victor Tangermann

He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.
The Industrialists

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It

You good, bro?

By Joe Wilkins, Jon Christian

New footage from the British fusion firm Tokamak Energy shows unbelievably hot plasma imprisoned in a magnetic field.
Nuclear Fusion

We’re Only Slightly Exaggerating When We Say This Footage of a Fusion Experiment Will Melt Your Face Off

Holy.

By Frank Landymore

The government alleges the brothers exploited a software flaw to sucker crypto bots into dumping millions into their fraudulent currency.
Cryptocurrency

MIT Grads Allegedly Googled “Money Laundering” Before Pulling Off $25 Million Crypto Heist

"In 12 seconds, the defendants tricked their victims out of $25 million."

By Joe Wilkins

A West Texas woman found one of NASA’s missing unmanned scientific research balloons when it crashed in her neighbor's field.
Robots and Machines

Woman Surprised When Large Chunk of NASA Equipment Crashes Down From Sky

"It’s kind of surreal that it happened to us and that I was part of it."

By Rae Witte

The Milky Way contains a modest amount of alien civilizations, a new paper proposes — and there's a reason we aren't seeing them.
Exobiology

NASA Scientist Proposes Theory of Alien Civilizations Throughout Milky Way

But that's where the fun ends.

By Frank Landymore

A woman successfully used ChatGPT to overturn her eviction notice and avoid tens of thousands of dollars in penalties.
Ethics

Woman Wins Court Case by Using ChatGPT as a Lawyer

"I never, ever, ever, ever could have won this appeal without AI."

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla has brought back its "Mad Max" mode designed for "higher speeds," often leading to it blazing past the speed limit.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Deploys Self-Driving Mode That Ignores Speed Limits

"We're going 75 in a 50."

By Frank Landymore

The discovery is only one of a handful of enigmatic objects called ORCs that have ever been found. And their origins are mystery.
Future Society

Astronomers Astonished By Twin Cosmic Rings That Dwarf Entire Galaxies

What even forms these?

By Frank Landymore

The owner of a restaurant in South Wales potentially saved the lives of two swimmers, who ventured out after asking ChatGPT for tide times.
Ethics

Two People Almost Drown After Asking ChatGPT When Low Tide Was

"A lesson learned for me."

By Victor Tangermann