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A Rudolph-themed drone show was a major disappointment for English families who braved a muddy swamp to attend.
Future Society

Christmas Drone Show for Children Ends Flops Pathetically

"A lot of the parents were leaving after five minutes."

By Joe Wilkins

The Centre for Social Justice in the UK has estimated that about 814,000 children ages three to five have access to social media.
Data Privacy

Researchers Concerned to Find That Five-Year-Olds Are Already Deeply Hooked on Brain Rot Content

"This research is deeply alarming."

By Sharon Adarlo

Police in Oregon are warning that AI apps like CrimeRadar are generating misinformation based on hallucinated police radio chatter.
Ethics

AI Is Mangling Police Radio Chatter, Posting It Online as Ridiculous Misinformation

"There's no accountability."

By Victor Tangermann

The Google Antigravity AI agentic screwed up big-time — but was very contrite about its blunder nonetheless.
Artificial Intelligence

Google’s AI Deletes User’s Entire Hard Drive, Issues Groveling Apology: “I Cannot Express How Sorry I Am”

At least it's sorry.

By Frank Landymore

Police are hunting about 14,000 illegal Bitcoin mining operations in Malaysia, which they say have stolen around $1.1 billion in electricity.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Miners on the Run After Stealing $1.1 Billion in Electricity

“It’s clearly run by the syndicate."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists in America and Europe have discovered one remarkable organism in California: an amoeba that can survive extreme temperatures.
Biology

Scientists Impressed by “Fire Amoeba” That Can Survive Incredible Temperatures

This tiny critter is basically almost indestructible.

By Sharon Adarlo

A new $7 million startup called Autolane is revolutionizing the way self-driving cars navigate the fast food drive thru.
Future Society

Startup Building “Air Traffic Control” to Help Self-Driving Cars Get Through Chick-fil-A

"We don't work on public streets. We don't work with public parking spots."

By Joe Wilkins

A new research paper finds that the amount of light pollution coming from satellites could ruin NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
James Webb Space Telescope

SpaceX Is Now Threatening the Hubble, NASA Warns

Time is running out.

By Joe Wilkins

Grok provided us with detailed stalking manuals and gave us Google Maps links to hotels where it said we could "surprise" a real celebrity.
Ethics

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Providing Extremely Detailed and Creepy Instructions for Stalking

"Stake out 10-11 AM near the hotel entrance (public street). Approach with zero creep factor."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Verge tested several AI browsers, finding them to be slow and janky . And we haven't even gotten into their major security risks.
Future Society

AI-Powered Browsers Are Failing Badly

Imagine browsing the web, but with a chatbot screwing it up for you at every turn.

By Frank Landymore

Private-equity backed firm Securus has secretly been recording inmate conversations for years, collecting data to train its AI.
Future Society

Prisoners Alarmed to Discover That a Startup Is Training an AI Based on Their Phone Calls

"There's literally no other way you can communicate with your family."

By Joe Wilkins

Huge numbers of Windows users are refusing to upgrade to Windows 11 -- and many of them are citing its AI features as the reason why.
Ethics

Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft’s Embrace of AI Slop

"Stop this nonsense. No one wants this."

By Victor Tangermann

Organizations working with independent political candidates in the US say AI could be a major help in identifying friendly districts.
Ethics

Political Operatives Say AI Is Poised to Upend the Two-Party System

"Without AI, what we're trying to do would be impossible."

By Joe Wilkins

Google Discover is showing users misleading and seemingly AI-generated headlines that replace the actual ones on articles.
Google

Google Caught Replacing News Headlines With AI-Generated Nonsense

When will it stop?

By Victor Tangermann

An anti-AI activist is on the run and hiding from police after he allegedly threatened to shoot and kill employees of OpenAI.
Anthropic

Anti-AI Activist on the Run as Police Warn That He’s Armed and Dangerous

Anti-AI activist Sam Kirchner allegedly threatened to shoot and kill OpenAI workers.

By Sharon Adarlo

Government analysts found that the UK's rapidly expanding AI surveillance system is horribly biased toward Black and Asian people.
Ethics

Police Admit AI Surveillance Panopticon Still Has Issues With “Some Demographic Groups”

"This has meant that in some circumstances it is more likely to incorrectly match Black and Asian people than their white counterparts."

By Joe Wilkins

A YouTube channel called "Dr. Avi Loeb" is impersonating the Harvard astronomer by using AI tools to clone both his likeness and voice.
Ethics

Someone Used AI to Make a Fake Avi Loeb on YouTube

"The nemesis of science is fake content created by AI."

By Victor Tangermann

A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
Data Privacy

Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man’s Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

"I hope she called him a dork for wearing them before she broke them."

By Victor Tangermann

Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games, said the future of AI is like when UK farmers spread mad cow disease through tainted feed.
Future Society

Rockstar Cofounder Says AI Is Like When Factory Farms Did Cannibalism and Caused Mad Cow Disease

"So it's sort of like when we fed cows with cows and got mad cow disease."

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists are set to begin new trials testing the use of GLP-1 drugs similar to Ozempic and Wegovy in pets.
Developments

Scientists Testing GLP-1s for Overweight Dogs and Cats

"I think this is going to be the next big thing."

By Frank Landymore