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After Elon Musk announced that Twitter would be severely weakening its block function, Bluesky saw a flood of new users within the day.
Elon Musk

Half a Million Users Flooded to Twitter Competitor After Elon Musk Handed Creeps the Keys

"At Bluesky, we take online safety seriously."

By Frank Landymore

An organ donor, who was declared dead, suddenly started thrashing and crying. The doctors allege they were told to proceed anyway.
Developments

Doctors Realize at Last Moment They Were Harvesting Organs From Living Patient

"He was moving around — kind of thrashing."

By Frank Landymore

Tesla Caught Using a Lazy Video Editing Trick to Make Its “Autonomous” Robots Look More Capable
Robotics

Tesla Caught Using a Lazy Video Editing Trick to Make Its “Autonomous” Robots Look More Capable

What else is Tesla hiding?

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers say they've developed a technique to detect smaller bandwidth radio signals that weren't intended to reach deep space.
Exobiology

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Intercept Alien Radio Signals

"We might soon be able to detect signals from an alien civilization communicating with its spacecraft."

By Frank Landymore

In a huge new study, researchers have found more evidence than ever that drugs like Ozempic can help with alcohol and opioid addiction. 
Health & Medicine

Ozempic Could Be Used to Treat Alcohol and Drug Addiction, Study Finds

"These medications intended for diabetes and weight loss can help addiction without the associated stigma."

By Noor Al-Sibai

New observations uncovered more supermassive black holes than previously detected, which could hold clues to how they first formed.
Black Holes

The Early Universe Was Absolutely Littered With Black Holes, Scientists Find

Enormous "dark stars" may have once ruled the universe billions of years ago.

By Frank Landymore

Chinese researchers say they've cracked military-grade encryption — with the help of a D-Wave quantum computer.
Military

Chinese Hackers Use Quantum Computer to Break Military Grade Encryption

It's "the first time that a real quantum computer has posed a real and substantial threat."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA seems to be saying "Sayonara" to Boeing's accursed Starliner spacecraft — at least for the foreseeable future.
Boeing

NASA Abandons Boeing’s Cursed Starliner for Upcoming Missions to the Space Station

Could this be the end of Starliner?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Frontier AI models' mathematical reasoning skills and the benchmarks used to measure them may be deeply flawed, a new study reveals.
Artificial Intelligence

Top “Reasoning” AI Models Can be Brought to Their Knees With an Extremely Simple Trick

Cutting-edge AI models may be a whole lot stupider than we thought.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Massachusetts teacher gave a kid a bad grade for using generative AI to complete an assignment. His parents are suing the school.
Artificial Intelligence

Parents Sue School After Teacher Sends Son to Detention for Using AI

Helicopter parenting in the age of AI.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A specialist in the biology of sound has made an incredible observation about the "Jedi" smell-powers of mice and rats. 
Science & Energy

Rodents May Have a “Jedi” Trick to Supercharge Their Sense of Smell

"It almost seems like magic."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk is now accusing the California government of being biased against him when rejecting a SpaceX proposal.
Elon Musk

SpaceX Sues California for Violating Elon Musk’s Right to Free Speech

The gloves are coming off.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The website selling the crypto token backed by Donald Trump crashed, while sales have barely reached 4 percent of the project's goals.
Cryptocurrency

Trump’s Dubious Crypto Scheme Falls Flat on Its Face Immediately After Going Live

Remember when Trump called crypto a "scam?"

By Frank Landymore

When scientists looked underneath the seafloor, they found a stunning alien landscape — and found way more life than expected. 
Science & Energy

Scientists Peeked Underneath the Seafloor and Discovered Something “Totally Unexpected”

Could this be how alien life survives in other parts of the solar system?

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA contractor Axiom Space has shown off the latest design of its spacesuit designed to protect astronauts on the lunar surface.
Moon

NASA Contractor Shows Off New Spacesuit for the First Moon Landing in Over Half a Century

The astronauts will literally wear Prada.

By Victor Tangermann

The robotic "SuperLimbs" attach to a spacesuit's backpack and can provide the extra push needed to recover from falls.
Off-World

MIT Scientists Invent Doctor Octopus-Style “SuperLimbs” for Stumbling Astronauts

"My goal is to make these arms become almost like the new paradigm for astronauts."

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk is now bragging that the next generation of Starlink satellites are going to be significantly larger than their predecessors.
Starship

Elon Musk Says Next-Gen Starlink Satellites Will Be So Huge They’ll Need to be Launched With Starship

"So big that only Starship can launch them."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google is going all-in on nuclear to power its AI efforts, which have resulted in the tech giant missing important climate targets.
Nuclear Fusion

Yet Another Tech Giant Throws Its Weight Behind Nuclear As AI’s Monstrous Power Demands Spike

The AI industry is going all in.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hackers were able to gain control of robot vacuums around the US — and at least one of them forced the cleaning robots to yell racist obscenities. 
Robotics

Robot Vacuum Starts Hurling Racial Slurs at Its Owner After Being Hacked

"I just thought of it catching my kids or even me, you know, not dressed."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Preliminary data found that in 2023, some of Earth's natural carbon sinks momentarily stopped working — a troubling sign of a breaking point.
Climate Change

Plants and Forests Absorbed Almost No Carbon Last Year, Shocking Climate Scientists

"We are lulled into a comfort zone — we cannot really see the crisis."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré