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A NASA contractor is urging the agency to suspend the upcoming Boeing Starliner launch over major safety concerns.
Boeing

NASA Contractor Warns That Boeing Launch Must Be Stopped “Before Something Catastrophic Happens”

"NASA needs to re-double safety checks and re-examine safety protocols to make sure the Starliner is safe before something catastrophic happens to the astronauts and to the people on the ground."

Users are protesting the OpenAI partnership by attempting to edit or delete their own posts, only to get banned by Stack Overflow.
OpenAI

Stack Overflow Bans Users for Protesting Against It Selling Their Answers to OpenAI as Training Data

"Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work?"

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now saying he could out-debate the presidential frontrunners even if he ate five more brain worms.
Brain

RFK Junior Threatens to Eat “Five More Brain Worms”

"I feel confident of the result even with a six-worm handicap."

As the Wall Street Journal reports, not everything has been going according to plan with Neuralink's first human subject.
Prosthetics and Devices

Neuralink Admits That Implant’s Threads Have Retracted From First Patient’s Brain, Possibly Due to Air in Skull

The plot thickens.

During an important Pfizer medical trial a young boy suffered a fatal sudden cardiac arrest after receiving experimental gene therapy.
Gene Editing

Young Patient Dies After Receiving Pfizer Gene Therapy

"We grieve this loss."

Microsoft has trained a massive new generative AI model — which is entirely disconnected from the internet.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Deploys Powerful New AI Completely Disconnected From the Internet

It's designed to be used by US spy agencies.

OpenAI, the maker of DALL-E and ChatGPT, is leaving the door open for its AI models to be used to produce NSFW content.
OpenAI

OpenAI Exploring How to Make AI-Generated Porn

"We're exploring whether we can responsibly provide the ability to generate NSFW content..."

A new video of an intense emergency landing in Istanbul shows a Boeing cargo plane failing to deploy some of its landing gears.
Future Society

Boeing Plane Fails to Deploy Nose Landing Gear, Skids to a Halt on Runway

Seriously, when is this gonna stop?

The NHTSA has found Tesla didn't adequately address the issue of driver attention when it comes to self-driving tech.
Tesla

Government Says Tesla Autopilot Crashes Have Continued After Patch That Was Supposed to Fix Them

Regulators have "several concerns" with Tesla's fix.

Panera Bread's Charged Lemonade drink, the highly caffeinated drink linked to at least two deaths, is being discontinued.
Developments

Panera Taking Caffeinated Lemonade Off Menu After Several Deaths

The drink that kills people is going away.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has had some bizarre health conditions — including, as he claims, a dead parasite in his brain.
Brain

Presidential Candidate Says Doctors Found a Worm in His Brain

"I have cognitive problems, clearly."

Justice Department is widening its probe into Tesla as it seeks to figure out whether it made fraudulent claims about self-driving.
Tesla

Justice Department Investigating Tesla for Wire Fraud

This is not good news for Tesla.

Images show what appear to be a small rover attached to China's Chang'e-6 sample return mission on the far side of the Moon.
Moon

Chinese Moon Lander Appears to Be Carrying Secret Lunar Rover

Are those wheels?

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry
Artificial Intelligence

Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry

Remember that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers? We did some digging — and it's got tendrils into other surprisingly prominent publications.

Falling into the event horizon of a black hole may mean certain death, but it sure as hell makes for a cool view.
Black Holes

NASA Releases Video of What It’s Like to Fall Into a Black Hole

Whoa!

A Tesla driver had a close call with an oncoming cop car while driving with his car's "Full Self-Driving" mode turned on.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Tesla Almost Crashes Head-on Into Police Car

"Stupid f*****g thing."

The AI bubble isn't bursting just yet, but one insightful Nvidia investor is starting to see the forest for the trees.
Artificial Intelligence

Billionaire Cuts Investment in Nvidia, Says AI May Be Overhyped

"We've had a hell of a run."

The service Character.AI is used by millions of young people to interact with AI versions of their favorite characters.
Artificial Intelligence

Lonely Teens Are Making “Friends” With AIs

Teens aren't just using chatbots to do their homework anymore.

Neom and its enormous skyscraper, the Line, is set to cost trillions more than anticipated and is already mired in construction setbacks.
Future Society

Saudi Arabia Discovers It’s Hard to Build a 105-Mile Skyscraper

"It's battling against the entire history of the way cities are founded and grow."

Blobs left behind from a collision between the Earth and a Mars-sized object may have led to plate tectonics and eventually earthquakes.
Science & Energy

Earthquakes Caused by Mysterious Blobs Inside Earth, Scientists Say

The blobs were left behind after a Mars-like object collided with the Earth billions of years ago.