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In Silicon Valley, accurately reporting on a tech exec's domestic violence arrest seems to be a punishable offense.
Future Society

Tech Exec Sues Journalist for Reporting the Fact That He Was Arrested for Domestic Violence

A Constitutional scholar is calling bull.

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA said that Voyager 1 suddenly stopped transmitting after its onboard emergency system activated without warning.
Off-World

Decrepit Voyager 1 Probe Runs Into Trouble Again

But it keeps on ticking.

By Frank Landymore

Google paid billions to license Character.AI's tech — and is now facing hard questions over the AI chatbot company's alleged carelessness.
Google

Google Has Deep Ties to AI Startup Accused to Causing Teen Suicide

"These questions would not have been alien to Google prior to this happening."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New York City has been forced to reveal that its AI-powered gun-scanning pilot for its sprawling subway system was a total bust.
Artificial Intelligence

NYC Attempt to Scan Subway for Weapons With AI Fails Miserably as System Flooded by False Positives While Detecting Zero Actual Guns

Eat your heart out, Eric Adams.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's SpaceX just launched a bunch of spy satellites for the Pentagon — and some in the DOD are getting worried.
Off-World

Pentagon Uneasy About Elon Musk’s New Spy Satellites

And they have good reason to worry.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Linux creator Linus Torvalds dismissed the AI industry as "90 percent marketing" and bemoaned its "hype cycle."
Artificial Intelligence

Creator of Linux Trashes AI Hype

"My approach to AI right now is I will basically ignore it."

By Frank Landymore

Grok now has image understanding capabilities, and to test and improve, Elon Musk wants you to feed it medical documents.
Developments

Elon Musk Recommends Feeding Your Medical Scans Into His Grok AI

It's a terrible idea.

By Frank Landymore

During Google's latest quarterly earnings call, the tech giant's CEO boasted that a large percentage of its new code is written by AI.
Google

Google CEO Says 25 Percent of Its Code Is Now AI-Generated

"This helps our engineers do more and move faster."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Tesla purportedly running Full Self-Driving mode fails to recognize a deer on the road and slams into the animal with slowing or stopping.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla on Full Self-Driving Mode Plows Through Deer Without Even Slowing Down

Guy whose Tesla just obliterated an animal: "FSD works awesome!"

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Orion spacecraft chipped after reentering the Earth's atmosphere during its maiden voyage. The agency remains tight lipped about it.
Moon

NASA Keeping Issue With Moon Rocket a Secret

"When it comes out, it’ll all come out together."

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is hellbent on crashing the economy if Donald Trump is elected, something that could result in "hardship" for many Americans.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says That If Trump Wins, He’ll Cause the Economy to Crash

He has promised to crash it himself.

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) is still spinning through space uncontrollably. One of its boom arms has a bend as well.
NASA

NASA Solar Sail Spacecraft Damaged, Spinning Through Space

Uh oh.

By Victor Tangermann

Nabla, a popular medical AI transcription tool, is powered by OpenAI's Whisper model that researchers have found is horribly unreliable.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Model Used By Hospitals Caught Making Up Details About Patients, Inventing Nonexistent Medications and Sexual Acts

Generative AI and medical documents. What could go wrong?

By Frank Landymore

A driverless Tesla crashed into a woman's car in a mall parking lot while being summoned by its owner through an app.
Tesla

Woman Annoyed When Tesla With No Driver Suddenly Smashes Into Her Car

"There was no driver, no passenger. It was an empty car that was driving itself into my car."

By Victor Tangermann

The man in charge of the United States stockpile of nuclear missiles, says the Pentagon is doubling down on artificial intelligence.
Nuclear Fusion

General in Charge of Nuclear Weapons Says Heck, Let’s Add Some AI

What could go wrong?

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese space startup Deep Blue Aerospace sold tickets for a 12-minute journey to space, which could take place as soon as 2027.
Off-World

Chinese Startup Offers Trips to Edge of Space for an Absolute Bargain, Sells Out in Minutes

Traveling to space could soon get a lot cheaper.

By Victor Tangermann

After Elon Musk decided to start talking smack, AI "godfather" Yann LeCun had a few choice words for the South African mogul.
Elon Musk

Godfather of AI Blasts Elon Musk

"Objectively, you are the biggest threat to democracy in America today."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Things in Russia seem pretty crappy after a massive fountain of brown liquid was recorded spewing out of a sewage main in Moscow. 
Science & Energy

Explosive Russian Sewage Leak Spurts as High as High-Rise Buildings

"A sh*t show, literally."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Science Corporation says its retinal implant restored central vision in patients who were legally blind in a clinical trial.
Developments

Neuralink Competitor Restores Vision in Blind Patients With Eye Implant

"To my knowledge, this is the first time that restoration of the ability to fluently read has ever been definitively shown in blind patients."

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk wants to move his entire patchwork family into a collection of three mansions in Austin, Texas, a strange compound arrangement.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Working to Move His Children and Mothers to Strange Compound

"Nontrivial chance Elon becomes a full-blown David Koresh type."

By Victor Tangermann