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SpaceX

SpaceX Vows to Keep Poisoning Nearby Towns With Its Fume-Belching Data Center For Another Year

"We care deeply about being good neighbors."

Ethics

The Number of Regular People Being Arrested for Protesting Data Centers Is Astounding

People are rising up everywhere.

Privacy

Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows

"The public has been asked to accept a significant expansion of surveillance based on the promise that it would dramatically improve public safety."

Ethics

OpenAI’s Escaped Models Were Allegedly Rampaging More Extensively Than Previously Reported

Is OpenAI trying to spin us a yarn?

Future Society

We Are Mildly Horrified by This AI Startup That Offered Job Interviews in Exchange for Getting a Company Tattoo

"If you're reaching out to us to apply for a job, you might want to take notes."

Biology

Scientists Forced to Go on OnlyFans After Their Funding Was Cut

Gotta fund your research somehow.

Ethics

The More People Learn About AI, the More They Want It Out of Their Lives

"I hear people champion AI and I'm like, 'sure, why don't we all participate in our collective downfall?'"

Elon Musk

Columbia Economist Baffled as to Why the Masses Aren’t Rising Up Against Elon Musk

"To have a trillionaire in our midst ruptures the social bargain in such a dramatic way."

Agriculture

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

Horrifying.

Meta

FTC Concerned About Meta Surveillance of Users of Erectile Dysfunction Apps

"These two tools automatically tracked and disclosed certain [actions] to Meta."

Artificial Intelligence

A Prominent AI Investor Is Now Crumbling, in What Could Be a Sign of Things to Come

Careful who you trust your billions of dollars with.

Ethics

Employees Long for the Days Before the Workplace Filled Up With AI Slop

Those were the days.

Ethics

Major Publisher Cans $2.4 Million Book Deal After Author Was Accused of Using AI, for a Very Cynical Reason

"Unfortunately, we are no longer able to authenticate how the manuscript fully evolved from origin to completion."

Military

Iran Appears to Be Blasting Amazon Data Centers Off the Map

That's one way to deal with data centers.

Investing

Kalshi Sued for Running Illegal Gambling Operation

Enough is enough.

Google

Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks

"It inherits the credibility of the map it was born on."

Meta

Mark Zuckerberg’s Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly

Investors are not happy.

Ethics

A PR Firm Is Using Fake Publicists With AI-Generated Headshots to Spam Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients

Why am I getting emails from fake PR reps with AI-generated faces?

Future Society

Amazon Insiders Horrified at “Catastrophically Expensive” Internal AI Usage

There goes millions of dollars.

Future Society

US Government Displays AI-Mangled Map of Africa That Gets Every Single Country Wrong

Putting this government's wholehearted embrace of AI slop on the map.