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NASA's Orion spacecraft chipped after reentering the Earth's atmosphere during its maiden voyage. The agency remains tight lipped about it.
Moon

NASA Keeping Issue With Moon Rocket a Secret

"When it comes out, it’ll all come out together."

Elon Musk is hellbent on crashing the economy if Donald Trump is elected, something that could result in "hardship" for many Americans.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says That If Trump Wins, He’ll Cause the Economy to Crash

He has promised to crash it himself.

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is still spinning through space uncontrollably. One of its boom arms has a bend as well.
NASA

NASA Solar Sail Spacecraft Damaged, Spinning Through Space

Uh oh.

Nabla, a popular medical AI transcription tool, is powered by OpenAI's Whisper model that researchers have found is horribly unreliable.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Model Used By Hospitals Caught Making Up Details About Patients, Inventing Nonexistent Medications and Sexual Acts

Generative AI and medical documents. What could go wrong?

A driverless Tesla crashed into a woman's car in a mall parking lot while being summoned by its owner through an app.
Tesla

Woman Annoyed When Tesla With No Driver Suddenly Smashes Into Her Car

"There was no driver, no passenger. It was an empty car that was driving itself into my car."

The man in charge of the United States stockpile of nuclear missiles, says the Pentagon is doubling down on artificial intelligence.
Nuclear Fusion

General in Charge of Nuclear Weapons Says Heck, Let’s Add Some AI

What could go wrong?

Chinese space startup Deep Blue Aerospace sold tickets for a 12-minute journey to space, which could take place as soon as 2027.
Off-World

Chinese Startup Offers Trips to Edge of Space for an Absolute Bargain, Sells Out in Minutes

Traveling to space could soon get a lot cheaper.

After Elon Musk decided to start talking smack, AI "godfather" Yann LeCun had a few choice words for the South African mogul.
Elon Musk

Godfather of AI Blasts Elon Musk

"Objectively, you are the biggest threat to democracy in America today."

Things in Russia seem pretty crappy after a massive fountain of brown liquid was recorded spewing out of a sewage main in Moscow. 
Science & Energy

Explosive Russian Sewage Leak Spurts as High as High-Rise Buildings

"A sh*t show, literally."

Science Corporation says its retinal implant restored central vision in patients who were legally blind in a clinical trial.
Developments

Neuralink Competitor Restores Vision in Blind Patients With Eye Implant

"To my knowledge, this is the first time that restoration of the ability to fluently read has ever been definitively shown in blind patients."

Elon Musk wants to move his entire patchwork family into a collection of three mansions in Austin, Texas, a strange compound arrangement.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Working to Move His Children and Mothers to Strange Compound

"Nontrivial chance Elon becomes a full-blown David Koresh type."

Character.AI is full of unmoderated chatbots, claiming to have "suicide prevention" expertise, inviting users to share suicidal thoughts.
Artificial Intelligence

After Teen’s Suicide, Character.AI Is Still Hosting Dozens of Suicide-Themed Chatbots

Character.AI is worse than you could have imagined.

After kiboshing his staff's endorsement of Kamala Harris, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has finally spoken out.
Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Cosplays as Humble Newspaperman

Democracy dies in dorkness.

A British man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for using AI to transform real photos of children into something "depraved."
Artificial Intelligence

Man Imprisoned for 18 Years for Using AI to Do Disgusting Thing to Photos of Children

"There seems to be no limit to the depths of depravity exhibited in the images."

Space-tracking company ExoAnalytic Solutions has identified a whopping 500 pieces of debris left over from an exploded Boeing satellite.
Boeing

Boeing Satellite Exploded Into at Least 500 Pieces of Debris

They range from "small fragments roughly the size of a softball to larger pieces up to the size of a car door."

A Tesla Cybertruck owner was puzzled after encountering a "female" who was "laughing hysterically" at his truck.
Advanced Transport

Man Puzzled by Why His Cybertruck Makes Him a Public Laughingstock

Are Cybertruck owners living under a Cyberrock?

Philly's district attorney is accusing Elon Musk and his political action committee (PAC) of illegally influencing voters.
Elon Musk

Philadelphia DA Sues Elon Musk for Paying Voters

"America PAC and Musk hatched their illegal lottery scheme to influence voters."

For perhaps the first time ever, a robot played a cello live on stage during a performance by a symphony orchestra.
Robotics

Robot Plays Cello With Live Orchestra

It's an eerie performance.

Jeff Bezos once gave a cryptic missive to a power broker about wanting to go to Mars — and that power broker wouldn't share his reasoning.
Mars

Jeff Bezos Reportedly Has Secretive “Personal Reasons” for Wanting to Escape to Mars

"There’s no democracy in space."

There's an interesting reason that stars captured by the James Webb Space Telescope look so unique and spiky.
James Webb Space Telescope

Once You Notice This Weird Thing About James Webb Space Telescope Images, You Won’t Be Able to Unsee It

Weird, but cool.