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Mark Zuckerberg recently bragged about dashing his seven-year-old daughter's dreams of being like Taylor Swift as some sort of parable.
Future Society

Zuckerberg Told His 7-Year-Old Daughter She Would Never Be Like Taylor Swift

Why, Mark?

The app SocialAI simulates the experience of making hit tweets on social media and getting thousands of replies in return.
Artificial Intelligence

Bizarre New AI App Simulates If You Were Famous With Millions of Fawning Fans

A salve for sad sacks everywhere.

Nearly the entire board of directors for 23andMe has resigned — a move that apparently was news to its overly-optimistic chief executive.
Gene Editing

Every Member of 23andMe’s Board Except the CEO Just Resigned in Disgust

"It is... clear that we differ on the strategic direction for the Company going forward."

Elon Musk shared a meme last year that was part of an orchestrated and Kremlin-backed propaganda influence campaign.
Elon Musk

Gullible Elon Musk Got Fooled Into Sharing Putin-Backed Propaganda Meme

Again?

California passed new laws that protect actors from being replicated by an AI without their explicit permission.
Artificial Intelligence

It’s Now Officially Illegal to Use AI to Impersonate a Human Actor in Hollywood

Will the nation follow?

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Artificial Intelligence

EA Shows Off AI System That Lets You Dream Up an Entire Videogame From Scratch

Choose your own adventure?

Scientists are watching in disbelief as drug overdose deaths in the US are suddenly starting to drop off a cliff.
Developments

Experts Puzzled as Drug Overdose Deaths Suddenly Start Dropping

"We don't have anything that would predict this magnitude of effect this quickly."

Elon Musk decided, for some reason, to write a pithy six-stanza poem about wokeness that would have been better if a kid had written it.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Posts Bizarre, Child-Like Poem

Please stop.

AI experts are calling for submissions for the "hardest and broadest set of questions ever" to try to stump AI systems.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Preparing “Humanity’s Last Exam” to Test Powerful AI

There's one thing the organizers won't be quizzing AI on, though.

A Twitter data scientist who was all set to resign reportedly told off CEO Elon Musk as revealed in a new book about Musk and Twitter.
Elon Musk

A Data Scientist Resigned From Twitter and Blasted Elon Musk Directly to His Face

That's gotta hurt.

Truth Social is in dire financial straits and Donald Trump could soon sell off his shares.
Future Society

As Its Stock Nosedives, Truth Social Sounds Like an Absolute Wreck Behind the Scenes

Will Trump go down with the ship?

The astronauts currently stranded due to technical issues with Boeing's Starliner space capsule plan to cast their vote in November.
Off-World

Stranded Astronauts Say They’ll Vote From Space

Even these astronauts have a voting plan.

Axiom Space, the space company NASA picked to develop a private successor to the International Space Station, is in big trouble.
NASA

The Company NASA’s Hired to Build the Next Space Station Seems to Be in Big Trouble, Firing 100 Employees and Unable to Pay Bills

Axiom Space is in crisis mode.

The US Coast Guard has released the first public footage of the wreck of OceanGate's Titan submersible, which imploded in June of last year.
Future Society

Ghostly Footage Shows Imploded Sub Resting in Freezing Darkness of Ocean Floor

New fear unlocked.

Donald Trump's ailing Truth Social is once again crashing to an all-time low — and the timing does not seem coincidental. 
Cryptocurrency

Truth Social Stock Crashes After Trump Reveals His Scammy New Crypto Venture

Oops.

Try to dig too deeply into how "Strawberry," the latest ChatGPT AI model, and OpenAI will threaten you with a ban.
OpenAI

OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning

"Additional violations of this policy may result in loss of access to GPT-4o with Reasoning."

The NASA Europa Clipper mission to explore one Jupiter's largest moons encountered a catastrophic hurdle at the last minute.
NASA

NASA Scientists “Howl in Terror” as They Discovered Disastrous Flaw in $5 Billion Spacecraft About to Launch

"You bury your face in a pillow and you howl in terror."

Donald Trump has launched a brand new family crypto venture — and it's unclear if he knows how cryptocurrencies even work.
Cryptocurrency

Donald Trump Seems Completely Baffled by His Own Crypto Project

"Well, it's crypto, it's AI, it's some of the other things."

Thousands of pagers belonging to members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah exploded Tuesday afternoon.
Hacking

Hezbollah Throwing Out Pagers After Hackers Reportedly Figured Out How to Explode Them Remotely

"Each one who received a new pager, throw it away."

The final messages from the Titan submersible that imploded last year on its way to the Titanic wreck have been revealed.
Advanced Transport

The Doomed Sub’s Final Messages Before Imploding Are Pretty Grim

A tragedy gets darker.