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The lava flows were formed by recent volcanic eruptions, providing some of the best evidence yet that Venus is still geologically active.
Off-World

Astronomers Spot Epic Flows of Lava Oozing Out of Venus

"After you see something like this, the first reaction is 'wow.'"

Less than 10 days after dissolving its old safety team, OpenAI has announced a one — with CEO Sam Altman at its helm. 
OpenAI

Sam Altman Replaces OpenAI’s Fired Safety Team With Himself and His Cronies

That was fast.

At a news conference on Friday, Boeing and NASA said they were going to proceed with the Starliner launch without fixing a helium leak.
Advanced Transport

Boeing Says Leak on Its Spacecraft Is Totally Fine, Will Launch Astronauts Without Fixing It

Okay then.

Google manually removed AI-powered search results from pages where it was caught giving bizarre and incorrect information to search users.
Google

Google Caught Manually Taking Down Bizarre AI Answers

This is just embarrassing.

A Ohio man was sent to the emergency room after his new Tesla Cybertruck's metallic panels sliced open his wrist.
Advanced Transport

Driver Says He Still Loves His Cybertruck After It Sliced His Wrist Open And Sent Him to the Emergency Room

"I, too, thought it was a little slice like a paper cut… Until the blood started pouring."

The person behind those New Hampshire primary robocalls urging voters not to write President Joe Biden in faces a massive fine.
Artificial Intelligence

Robocaller Who Spoofed Joe Biden’s Voice With AI Faces $6 Million Fine

The government wants to send "a strong deterrent signal to anyone who might consider interfering with elections."

Elon Musk Got Destroyed After Accusing Top AI Scientist of “Going Soft”
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk Got Destroyed After Accusing Top AI Scientist of “Going Soft”

He got told.

A billionaire plans to journey to the Titanic wreck — but in a presumably more sea-worthy vessel than the OceanGate's Titan which imploded.
Advanced Transport

Oh No! Yet Another Billionaire Plans to Visit the Titanic Wreck

What could go wrong?

xAI, the artificial intelligence startup founded by Elon Musk, has garnered billions of dollars in its latest round of funding.
OpenAI

Elon Musk’s AI Company Announces Ungodly Sum of Money to Beat OpenAI

Holy cow.

The Car Thing will no longer be supported by Spotify, turning this perfectly capable piece of hardware into more needless e-waste.
Future Society

Spotify Says the Hardware Player It Sold You Two Years Ago Will Stop Working and the Only Thing You Can Do Is Throw It in the Trash

A giant "screw you" to customers.

The DOJ is suing Ticketmaster and Live Nation to eliminate its alleged chokehold on the ticketing industry.
Future Society

Ticketmaster May Finally Get What It Deserves

Love this for us.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says problems with its AI can't be solved because hallucinations are an inherent problem in these AI tools.
Google

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information

Ouch.

Google's AI search delivers each of its AI-paraphrased answers to user queries with total confidence. Just one problem: it's wrong. A lot.
Google

Google’s AI Is Churning Out a Deluge of Completely Inaccurate, Totally Confident Garbage

This sucks.

A research team have identified a new type of cat whose distinctive fur on its back coat is caused by a unique mutation.
Future Society

Mutation Has Led to a New Type of Cat, Scientists Say

But will it win best in show?

Leave it to The Onion to excoriate OpenAI and its horrendous handling of the Scarlett Johansson ChatGPT fiasco.
OpenAI

The Onion’s Take on OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Disaster Is Pretty Much Perfect

Bravo.

Germany has so much energy coming from solar panels that it has outpaced consumer demand and pushed energy prices into a steep nose dive.
Solar Power

Germany Now Has So Much Solar Power That Its Electric Prices Are Going Negative

Prices have dropped 87 percent — more than a dip.

Another OpenAI researcher left the company this week, ominously citing concerns over AI industry opaqueness and a lack of accountability.
OpenAI

Another OpenAI Researcher Quits, Issuing Cryptic Warning

"One of the ways tech companies in general can disempower those seeking to hold them accountable..."

After video of the incident went viral, the Tesla driver has shared a crash report confirming that Full Self-Driving was on during the crash.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Driver Blames Full Self-Driving for Almost Plowing Into Moving Train

"I was like there’s no way it doesn’t see the train."

It's becoming ever more evident that once someone figures out how to remove microplastics from our bodies, they're going to make a killing.
Health & Medicine

Whoever Figures Out How to Remove Microplastics From the Human Body Is Going to Make a Fortune

And they'd deserve it, too.

From these observations, the scientists suggest that Phobos is actually a comet that Mars' gravitational field captured in the distance past.
Mars

Mars’ Moon May Not Be What We Think, Scientists Claim

That's no moon.