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In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a mysterious illness has killed a ton of people — and officials are struggling to get it under control. 
Health & Medicine

Mysterious Disease Outbreak Has Already Killed Dozens

Officials say it's targeting women and children.

Trump's top pick to lead Medicare, Dr. Mehmet Oz, has a glaring conflict of interest: that he was sponsored by the company that makes Ozempic.
RX and Medicine

Dr. Oz Will Have a Fascinating Conflict of Interest Running Medicare: Ozempic

"The situation could be an ethical morass."

The web's indifference to UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson's passing are illustrative of America's profoundly dysfunctional medical system.
Developments

People’s Reactions to a Health Insurance CEO Getting Assassinated Are Incredibly Dark

"Our apologies, but bullet wounds are only covered under our Platinum+ package."

ChatGPT excelled at correctly diagnosing patients by examining medical information presented in case studies.
Developments

ChatGPT Outperforms Human Doctors At Accurately Diagnosing Patients

"I was shocked at the results."

The International Space Station could have harmful environmental effects when it reenters the atmosphere and burns up.
Off-World

Experts Worried That Destroying the Space Station Will Damage the Earth’s Environment

The effects on the Earth's atmosphere could be devastating.

President-elect Donald Trump has named billionaire tech founder and SpaceX space tourist Jared Isaacman as the next NASA administrator.
Future Society

Trump Names Billionaire Space Tourist as Head of NASA

Didn't see that one coming.

Weather-changing projects are taking place all over the world — and the United States is building a system to detect them all.
Climate Change

United States Attempting to Detect Other Countries Tinkering With the Climate

Is someone already secretly geoengineering the Earth?

Drug smugglers apparently used Starlink satellite internet to bring in billions of dollars worth of methamphetamine into India.
SpaceX

Drug Smugglers Caught With $4.25 Billion Worth Of Meth Were Using SpaceX Starlink for Navigation

"This is different because it is bypassing all the legal channels."

Yet another OpenAI researcher has left the company amid concerns about its safety practices and readiness for human-level AI.
OpenAI

AI Safety Researcher Quits OpenAI, Saying Its Trajectory Alarms Her

"I’ve been unsettled by some of the shifts over the last year."

SpaceX is reportedly preparing a sell-off of shares that could sky rocket its valuation to be the highest among private companies.
Advanced Transport

SpaceX Preparing to Sell Stock at Interplanetary Valuation

Good God.

British carmaker Jaguar has announced a new electric concept car dubbed the Type 00 that "looks like Barbie redesigned a Cybertruck."
Advanced Transport

World Rolls Eyes at Jaguar’s Yassified Electric Car

Did Jaguar want its own Cybertruck moment?

According to a memo obtained by Business Insider, Tesla Cybertruck workers were told to take the next three days off.
Tesla

Tesla Tells Workers Building Cybertruck to Stay Home as Demand Slumps

They're being paid not to come to work.

New research indicates that parents are totally clueless that teens mainly use AI for therapeutic needs and emotional support.
Artificial Intelligence

Teens Are Forming Intense Relationships With AI Entities, and Parents Have No Idea

"I have realized that I waste too much time on Character.AI." 

NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have long left the farthest reaches of the solar system. Their plutonium power source is running low.
Off-World

The Voyager Probes Are Dying

The end is nigh.

Bernie Sanders and Elon Musk are at opposite ends of the political spectrum, but they agree that the Pentagon gets way too much money.
Elon Musk

Bernie Sanders Offers Support for Elon Musk’s Plans to Cut Pentagon Spending

Strange bedfellows.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has lost his bid to get his astronomical pay package — which is currently valued at over $100 billion — reinstated.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Just Got Absolutely Owned

Boohoo.

A burst water pipe has wreaked havoc with data sent by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph spacecraft.
NASA

Flood Wreaks Havoc on NASA Spacecraft

Scientists are "working to assess the extent of the damage, but it is severe."

A new research consortium has found not only that brain fungi or bacteria cause some dementia cases, but also that it can be reversed.
Bacteria

Some Cases of Dementia Can Be Cured, Researchers Say, Because They’re Caused by Fungus and Bacteria in Brain

A tantalizing finding.

Recent hiring activity and wishy-washy statements make it seem like OpenAI is planning to introduce ads into ChatGPT.
OpenAI

It Sounds an Awful Lot Like OpenAI Is Adding Ads to ChatGPT

Ads inside ChatGPT may be on the horizon.

An infamous insurance billionaire has been accused by several women of operating a bizarre "baby project" to build a giant white family.
Gene Editing

Infamous Billionaire Accused of Running Bizarre Human Birthing Scheme

Fertility cults did not die out with the ancient world.