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Pollution

Giant Oil Tanker Runs Aground in Marine Nature Preserve, Spills Nonstop for Weeks

"A nightmare scenario is there's no adequate response to keep the worst ‌from happening."

Ethics

Insane Dad Boasts About Using AI to Construct a “Truman Show” Style False Reality For His Son To Play In

"This is dystopian and incredibly depressing."

Ethics

College Kids Are Using AI Agents to “Take” Entire Online Classes for Them by Logging Directly Into the Course Management Software

"Am I just interacting with bots here?"

Meta

Facebook Is Filling With Viral AI-Generated Silver Foxes Wooing Women by Ranting About How Terrible Men Are

"We live in a generation where women have to become the man, because the men are busy acting like the princess..."

Future Society

Phoebe Gates Took Secret Stanford Course on Controlling Society, Used It to Recruit for Her Startup That’s Now Facing Accusations

"How to essentially hack any kind of power structure or bureaucratic structure and get what they want in a system of people."

Bacteria

Organisms Living Inside Psychopaths Could Be Driving Bad Behavior, Scientists Claim

"To our knowledge, this is the first study to explore this association."

Cybersecurity

Hackers Created a Device That Can Take Over a Boeing 737 Jet’s Autopilot Without Anyone Noticing

"You can shove in a piece of electronics a little bigger than a quarter that lets you basically tell the autopilot what to do."

Ethics

OpenAI’s “Head of Ethics” Suddenly Leaves Company Under Mysterious Circumstances

The timing couldn't be worse.

Electric Vehicles

Driver Pulls Up Directly to Firehouse When His Tesla Inexplicably Bursts Into Flames

Yeah lemme get uhh...

Future Society

ICE Reveals Horrific Plan to Outfit Agents With Electrocution Torture Gloves

"This is a rogue agency with an $80 billion slush fund that allows them to concoct and fund new ways to visit cruelty upon our communities."

Future Society

Bernie Sanders Issues Warning to AI CEOs

"Stop building machines that humans cannot control."

Investing

Protests Against Data Centers Are Now Threatening $130 Billion of Big Tech’s Crucial Investments

The math is not looking good.

Future Society

It Seems Like Bill Gates’ Daughter May Be in Serious Legal Trouble

Gates could be facing a "max penalty of up to 20 years prison + fines/restitution."

Advanced Transport

Transportation Secretary Announces That the Air Traffic Controller Crisis Is History Now That He’s Hired Thousands of Epic Gamers

"GAME CHANGER."

Future Society

Internal Google Document Reveals That Its HR AI Has Been Throwing Résumés From Qualified Applicants Straight Into the Trash

"PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THIS DOC WIDELY."

Agriculture

Farmer Horrified as AI Gives Bad Advice That Kills 25 Acres of Crops

Tragic.

Future Society

Dude Asks AI Agent to Book Gym Spot, Accidentally Launches Autonomous Cyberattack

Now imagine what an actual hacker could do.

Artificial Intelligence

Doctors Warn That Med Students Are Surrendering Their Brains to Medical AIs That Are Even Worse than Regular Chatbots

"Although a doctor who has forgotten how to reason is recoverable, one who never learned how may not be."

Ethics

Man Covers Car in Special Wrap That Breaks Flock Cameras’ Electronic Brains

This is genius.

Ethics

Protesters Arrested After Storming OpenAI Lobbying Office

"My friends chose to risk arrest to bring the fight to OpenAI."