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Websites that promise to "nudify" photos with AI seem to contain Trojan horse viruses that are later used to blackmail those who use them. 
Artificial Intelligence

"They are looking for people who are doing borderline shady things to start with."

By Noor Al-Sibai

The gas-spewing body spotted by the James Webb is a type of object known as a centaur that is somewhere between a comet and an asteroid.
James Webb Space Telescope

"We had never seen anything like this."

By Frank Landymore

A Skydiving Center’s Clients Kept Mysteriously Dying. Now, One of Its Instructors Is Going to Jail.
Future Society

"Skipping the training part is what took my son’s life, and they’re responsible for that."

By Victor Tangermann

A woman who was riding a Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco says a man stood in front of the taxi to stop it, repeatedly demanding her number.
Advanced Transport

"He stood in front of it so that it would come to a complete stop."

By Frank Landymore

Video footage shows the moment when a Russian fighter jet flew screamingly close to an F-16 in the skies above Alaska last month.
Future Society

The move "was unsafe, unprofessional, and endangered all."

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI just raised nearly $7 billion, raising its value to around $157 billion. Investors had to be willing to keep things exclusive.
OpenAI

"If a company holds all the cards, they can force people to do things unnaturally."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk is now claiming that he was unaware that his friend and investor Sean "Diddy" Combs had a violent reputation that preceded him.
Elon Musk

"How many people in music & entertainment knew about this?"

By Noor Al-Sibai

Over 27,000 Tesla Cybertrucks are being recalled due to a glitch causing the rearview camera view to be delayed, a glaring safety oversight.
Tesla

It's the fifth recall in less than a year.

By Victor Tangermann

A pair of Harvard students successfully rigged Meta-formerly-Facebook and Ray Ban's smart glasses with facial recognition software.
Hacking

New fear unlocked.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There’s Something Seriously Weird About This Supernova
Off-World

"What are those three dots that weren’t there before?"

By Noor Al-Sibai

A huge solar flare caused a radio blackout on Earth yesterday — and we could be in for another powerful geomagnetic storm later this week.
Solar Power

The Sun is just getting started.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Reddit user forced Google's NotebookLM AI model to riff on a document that was literally full of crap for ten minutes straight.
Google

This is hysterical.

By Frank Landymore

The city council approved last week a contraceptive pilot program that will try to curb the New York City rat population.
Developments

Oh, the irony!

By Sharon Adarlo

It's a dog-eat-dog world for the US Army, which is experimenting with rifle-equipped robot dogs at a Middle Eastern testing facility. 
Robot Dogs

Well, that's terrifying.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A study says that engineers who use the popular AI programming assistant GitHub Copilot don't experience any significant gains in efficiency.
Artificial Intelligence

AI tools may actually create more work for coders, not less.

By Sharon Adarlo

After their habitats were destroyed, tens of thousands of parrots have descended on a town in Argentina, terrorizing residents.
Science & Energy

It's like "The Birds," but for climate change.

By Frank Landymore

ChatGPT creator OpenAI is hemorrhaging massive amounts of cash that it's failing to make up for in revenue, according to investor documents.
OpenAI

The company lost a staggering $5 billion this year.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An Australian child services worker used ChatGPT to write a sensitive report about a child — and ended up getting the tech banned. 
OpenAI

Disgusting.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers say they've observed photons exhibiting bizarre quantum behavior as the result of what's known as atomic excitation.
Quantum Physics

"The clock hand would, under certain circumstances, move backward rather than forward."

By Frank Landymore

Two woman astronauts had to stay behind to make space for their stranded Starliner colleagues, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.
Off-World

"I think it was hard not to watch that rocket lift off without thinking, 'That's my rocket and that's my crew.'"

By Victor Tangermann