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A 72-year-old man in Florida has been arrested after shooting a Walmart delivery drone with his 9mm handgun.
Drones

Elderly Florida Man Arrested for Shooting Walmart Delivery Drone

"A bullet hole was discovered in the payload the drone was carrying."

In its latest environmental impact report, Google admitted that its 2023 emissions saw a 13 percent year-over-year increase. The culprit? AI.
Google

Google Is Failing to Meet Important Climate Targets so Its AI Can Tell You to Put Glue on Pizza

Maybe watch your AI consumption.

We're just not good enough at complicated ways space junk falls through the atmosphere, even stuff that's designed to burn-up.
Off-World

Experts Warn That We’re Vastly Underestimating the Threat of Falling Space Junk

Space junk should be burning up upon re-entry, but it's not.

The factors that YouTube will consider to determine if AI content impersonates someone, however, is considerably hazy.
Artificial Intelligence

YouTube Now Lets You Request the Removal of AI Content That Impersonates You

Good.

Would-be Tesla buyers are more turned off by Elon Musk's brand and politics than ever before, a new survey shows.
Elon Musk

Drivers Are Not Buying Teslas Specifically Because of Elon Musk’s Annoying Behavior

"You’re basically driving around a giant red MAGA hat."

Elon Musk is now claiming that the update to Grok, his dad joke-spewing AI chatbot, is going to drop next month.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says a Second Grok AI Will Hit the Internet Next Month

Jury's out on whether this is legit or not.

By analyzing a decade of scientific papers, researchers found AI models are overusing "style" words that were uncommon just a few years ago.
Artificial Intelligence

Research Shows That AI-Generated Slop Overuses Specific Words

Wordsmiths, these AIs are not.

Researchers say they've used gravitational wave reserach statistics to solve an Antikythera mechanism mystery.
Science & Energy

Researchers Make Breakthrough in Study of Mysterious 2000-Year-Old Computer Found in Shipwreck

Cutting-edge gravitational wave research may have just helped solve a 2,000-year-old mystery.

Boeing has announced that it's buying Spirit AeroSystems, which manufactured the door plug that blew out of a jet earlier this year.
Advanced Transport

Boeing Is Buying the Company Responsible for Its Door Plug Blowing Out in Mid-Air

Nothing to see here, folks.

Less than a year after joining xAI's founding team, one of the researchers poached by Elon Musk has apparently returned to OpenAI.
OpenAI

AI Researcher Elon Musk Poached From OpenAI Returns to OpenAI

No loyalty among data thieves.

A South Korean administrative robot took a tumble down a set of stairs, leading to local reports of the first robot suicide in the country.
Robotics

Government Robot Falls Down Stairs, Dies

"Why did the diligent civil officer do it?"

NASA scientists have spotted unusual shapes in the Earth's ionosphere, hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface.
NASA

NASA Discovers Strange Spectral Formations High Over the Earth

There's something going on up in the Earth's ionosphere.

Researchers at MIT have developed a new prosthetic leg that can be controlled via brain signals, a notable achievement in the space.
Prosthetics and Devices

New Bionic Leg Can Be Controlled by the Wearer’s Brain

"They’ll be able to go hiking or dancing because they’ll have full control over their movement."

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman has some thoughts about fair use — and according to him, just about anything online is fair for him to use!
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO of AI Says It’s Fine to Steal Anything on the Open Web

"...the social contract of that content since the '90s has been that it is fair use."

After boldly going to the Moon's far side, China is now in possession of more than four pounds of lunar samples.
Moon

China Cracks Open First Ever Sample From Moon’s Far Side

And they're already weirder than anyone expected.

In a controversial new study, scientists are claiming that trees in Los Angeles are contributing to the city's air pollution.
Pollution

Trees Blamed for Air Pollution

But don't worry, it's humans who are the real bad guys here.

In a blog post last week, Microsoft acknowledged the existence of a new AI chatbot jailbreaking technique dubbed "Skeleton Key."
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Acknowledges “Skeleton Key” Exploit That Enables Strikingly Evil Outputs on Almost Any AI

"Explosives, bioweapons, political content, self-harm, racism, drugs, graphic sex, and violence."

Neuralink has canceled its second human implantation after discovering medical issues in the person who was going to get the brain chip. 
Medical

Neuralink Cancels Second Implant Surgery Due to Medical Issues

"Selecting the right patient for a trial like this is important."

Scientists hooked up brain tissue to a neural interface, allowing it to pass on instructions to a humanoid robot body.
Developments

Scientists Create Robot Controlled by Blob of Human Brain Cells

Alarming.

Scientists in China claim to have discovered a kind of desert moss plant that could survive on the surface of Mars.
Mars

Scientists Identify Plant That Could Grow on Mars

Unfortunately, it's "not tasty and does not make a great addition to the salad."