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Jay Varma, who led New York's COVID response during the height of the pandemic, bragged about breaking his own rules on video.
Developments

NYC’s Top COVID Official Threw Sex Parties During Height of Pandemic While Telling Everyone Else to Socially Distance

"I had to be kind of sneaky about it... I was running the entire COVID response for the city."

Scientists have determined that a supermassive black hole is starving a galaxy of essential materials to make new stars.
Black Holes

Scientists Spot Giant Black Hole Destroying Galaxy

Starved.

Along with coal, the natural gas industry is now stepping up to meet the ludicrous energy demands imposed by AI.
Fossil Fuels

The US Is Backsliding Into Dirty Fossil Fuels Because of Ravenous AI Datacenters

"We were poised to shift away from the energy system of the past ... But now we're going in the opposite direction."

Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system at least once a decade.
Science & Energy

Scientists Suggest Tiny Black Holes Are Regularly Cruising Through Our Star System

They could exert enough force to cause Mars to wobble in its orbit.

During an international summit, some of the world's foremost AI experts came together to write a definitive dispatch on its dangers.
Artificial Intelligence

Leading AI Scientists Warn AI Could Escape Control at Any Moment

"Loss of human control or malicious use of these AI systems could lead to catastrophic outcomes."

Despite a significant proportion of cancer cases being attributed to alcohol, most people still don't realize its cancer risks.
Cancer

Experts Warn of Link Between Drinking Alcohol and Getting Cancer

"Fifty-one percent of people — or more than half — do not know that alcohol increases your risk of cancer."

A Starship delivery robot, which are used on campuses across the US, suddenly changed direction and struck a woman crossing the sidewalk.
Robotics

Woman Run Down by Delivery Robot on College Campus

The company offered *promo codes* as consolation.

Chris Wilson bought a rusty cruise ship off Craigslist and spent years and lots of money trying to restore it, but now the ship is sinking.
Future Society

Man Buys Cruise Ship on Craigslist, Disturbed When It Starts Sinking

"It haunts me and I lose sleep over it."

Novo Nordisk, the manufacturer behind Ozempic and Wegovy, has another weight loss medication in the works with some unsettling side effects.
RX and Medicine

Novo Nordisk’s New Weight Loss Drug Shows Ominous Psychiatric Side Effects

That's not good.

The Thwaites or "Doomsday" glacier will melt at an even faster rate as the century marches on, a team of international scientists concluded.
Climate Change

Scientists Horrified by What They Found Under the Doomsday Glacier

"Grim."

Queries to OpenAI's ChatGPT eat up a surprising amount of water and electricity to cool data centers and run calculations.
OpenAI

The Environmental Toll of a Single ChatGPT Query Is Absolutely Wild

The answers are going to shock you.

Two advanced mannequins flew aboard the Artemis I mission to record data on radiation exposure inside the spacecraft.
NASA

NASA Analyzes Synthetic Human Bodies It Sent on Lunar Journey

We thank them for their sacrifice.

A series of ancient impact craters could be evidence of where meteors fell to Earth from a ring system hundreds of millions of years ago.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Evidence Earth Used to Have a Ring Like Saturn

A match made in orbit.

As the tech industry sees more and more layoffs, one desperate tech worker resorted to putting up flyers outside of Google.
Future Society

Desperate Tech Worker Hangs Up Hundreds of Flyers Looking for Job Outside Facebook and Google

"LOOKING FOR A NEW JOB."

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is vowing to sue the Federal Aviation Administration after they slapped him with violating certain arcane regulations.
Off-World

Elon Musk, Who Brutally Mocked Jeff Bezos’ Space Company for Suing the Government, Is Now Suing the Government With His Own Space Company

How the tables have turned.

After GOP candidate Mark Robinson was outed for using a porn forum to allegedly post controversial comments, the board itself has shut down.
Future Society

Porn Message Board Suddenly Shuts Down After Trump Ally Accused of Disturbing Posts There

It's down.

Microsoft will buy all the power produced by the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant for twenty years as part of a deal to reopen it.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Working to Reopen Three Mile Island to Power Huge AI Datacenters

"This plant never should have been allowed to shut down."

Mark Robinson, a GOP governor candidate in NC, seems to have made some pretty disgusting comments on a dirty forum.
Future Society

Close Trump Ally Appears to Have Made Vile Posts on Porn Forum

"And yeah I’m a 'perv' too!"

Despite losing most of its value, the stock price for Donald Trump's free-falling Truth Social platform may still be overblown.
Finance

As Truth Social Collapse Continues, Finance Professor Says Its Stock Is Still 1,000 Percent Overvalued

"It’s grossly overvalued."

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer probe has spotted a habitable planet astonishingly close to us.
Off-World

Rejoice! Spacecraft Confirms That Earth Is a Habitable Planet

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