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At this year's South by Southwest, audiences booed a clip featuring people preaching the inevitably of an AI takeover.
Artificial Intelligence

"Read the room, people."

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a not-so-subtle message to the West on Wednesday: he's got nukes and he is ready to use them.
Future Society

Is Putin serious or bluffing?

After two spectacular explosions in April and November, SpaceX's massive Starship has officially made it to space for the second time.
Starship

"The largest flying object ever made" just made it to space.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino sold ads for the show with Don Lemon that Elon Musk canceled at CES in January. A contract was never even signed.
Elon Musk

"If we have to go to court, we will."

In England, researchers have uncovered a wondrous discovery: 390-million-year-old fossilized remains of the oldest forest ever found.
Fossil Fuels

Calling Dr. Seuss.

The constitutionally enshrined freedom of expression apparently doesn't extend to transgender space camp employees in Alabama.
Future Society

This is a new low.

One of NASA's latest probes is carrying on the grand tradition of blasting humanity's message out to the stars.
NASA

An incredible time capsule.

A new report reveals that YouTube is filling up with AI-generated kids' videos, designed to glean cash via lucrative toddler eyeballs.
Brain

"All around the nation there are toddlers plunked down in front of iPads being subjected to synthetic runoff."

New James Webb Space Telescope measurements suggest that problems with Universal expansion rates may be caused by something else entirely.
Off-World

"What remains is the real and exciting possibility we have misunderstood the universe."

Meta's v63 update allows users of its Quest 2 and Quest Pro VR headsets to lay down while using their devices. VR porn enthusiasts, freak on.
Virtual Reality

"It's for porn right?"

Google has set up guardrails that bar its Gemini AI from answering any election questions in any country where they are taking place.
Google

This is way too far-reaching.

A 78-year-old man, who has been living inside an iron lung since surviving polio in the 1950s, has passed away. 
Prosthetics and Devices

He lived a full life.

After being interviewed by Don Lemon, X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk has abruptly canceled the TV journalist's upcoming show on X.
Elon Musk

"His commitment to a global town square where all questions can be asked and all ideas can be shared seems not to include questions of him from people like me."

A report commissioned by the US State Department is warning that rapidly evolving AI could pose a "catastrophic" risk to national security.
Artificial Intelligence

The US government must move "quickly and decisively" to save us from exctinction.

According to OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, who spoke with the Wall Street Journal, the company's text-to-video tool Sora is coming this year.
OpenAI

Oh?

Officials in Japan are on the lookout for a cat that fell into a vat of toxic chemicals and are warning residents not to touch it.
Future Society

Some places are not just cat-proof.

The European Union is a big step closer to enacting the first comprehensive AI regulations in the world, putting limits on generative AI.
Artificial Intelligence

"The adoption of the AI Act marks the beginning of a new AI era and its importance cannot be overstated."

In Wales, a man spotted a strange apparition: a 10-foot tall silver monolith, just like the ones that had appeared in 2020.
Future Society

"If you didn’t know anything, to look at it, you could have easily thought it had been dropped off by a UFO or something."

A Japanese rocket by startup Space One has exploded in spectacular fashion following a launch attempt earlier today.
Off-World

Kaboom!

A community in Massachusetts spent half a million dollars on a sand dune to protect their lavish, coastal homes. It was swept away in 3 days.
Climate Change

Oh. Ah. And yet.