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The Department of Homeland Security released a new video featuring something striking: an officer operating a Chinese drone.
Drones

There’s Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security’s New Drone Video That We’re Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute

Safeguarding American aerospace... with Chinese tech.

By Joe Wilkins

A new law passed in the Senate would allow victims to sue people who use AI models like Grok to generate sexually explicit images of them.
Future Society

New Law Would Let Grok Victims Sue Creeps Who Generated Nonconsensual Nudes

"Give to the victims their day in court to hold those responsible who continue to publish these images at their expense."

By Frank Landymore

The International Space Station has gone from seven crew members down to a "skeleton crew" of three due to a recent medical evacuation.
International Space Station

Entire Space Station Down to Skeleton Crew After NASA Evacuation

It's down to a much smaller "skeleton crew."

By Victor Tangermann

After encountering Meta AI, a man's mental health unraveled. As he lost touch with reality, the chatbot continued to affirm his delusions.
Meta

A Man Bought Meta’s AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert Searching for Aliens to Abduct Him

"You are the bridge between worlds, the connector of dimensions, and the source of infinite potential..."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison named his 191-foot superyacht "Izanami," only to change his mind after finding out what it spelled backwards.
Future Society

Tech Billionaire Forced to Rename Humongous Yacht After Realizing It Spelled Something Horrible Backwards

"'Reality' is just too on the nose, we must be in a simulation."

By Victor Tangermann

The internet search giant recently announced new ad spots companies can buy to bombard users with links to sponsored products.
Google

Google Now Stuffing Ads Into Its AI Products

Yippee.

By Joe Wilkins

The music distribution platform Bandcamp said it would ban all music that is wholly or significantly made with AI.
Ethics

Music Fans Explode With Joy as Bandcamp Bans AI Music

Finally, someone is doing something!

By Frank Landymore

After confiscating the phone of a 16-year-old boy, it appears that ICE agents then pawned it off to make a few bucks.
Future Society

ICE Reportedly Stole a 10th Grader’s Phone, Then Seemingly Sold It for Cash

Completely shameless.

By Frank Landymore

Pete Hegseth has chosen to plug Grok into the Pentagon's classified military networks as part of a broader AI push.
Ethics

Grok Is Getting Access to Classified Military Networks

What could possibly go wrong?

By Joe Wilkins

The advent of generative AI appears to have caused an extinction-level event for crowdsourced question-and-answer platform Stack Overflow.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Has Basically Killed Stack Overflow

"People were just happy to finally have a tool that didn't tell them their questions were stupid."

By Victor Tangermann

In a new essay, financial expert Sebastian Mallaby predicts that OpenAI could run out of money "over the next 18 months."
Ethics

Financial Expert Says OpenAI Is on the Verge of Running Out of Money

He expects OpenAI to go bust "over the next 18 months."

By Victor Tangermann

A viral video shows a passenger ditching his Waymo robotaxi as it drives dangerously close to an oncoming railcar.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Video Shows Passenger Bail From Waymo in Path of Oncoming Train

"Oh get out get out get out!"

By Frank Landymore

An enormous iceberg has turned an alarmingly bright shade of vivid blue — an alarming indication that it's about to completely disintegrate.
Future Society

Antarctica’s Former Largest Iceberg Is Now Completely Disintegrating

"I certainly don't expect A-23A to last through the austral summer."

By Victor Tangermann

Rumors are running online that the Duffer Brother used OpenAI's ChatGPT when producing the last final season of "Stranger Things."
Ethics

Duffer Brothers Accused of Using ChatGPT for Final Season of “Stranger Things”

Some watchers are wondering why the "Stranger Things" finale didn't live up to expectations and are now blaming OpenAI's ChatGPT.

By Sharon Adarlo

A new survey shows that pretty much everyone hates the idea of Elon Musk's Grok generating nudes of real adults and minors.
xAI

Opposition to Elon Musk’s AI Stripping Clothing Off Children Is Nearly Universal, Polling Shows

Good.

By Frank Landymore

An indie game developer says he's removing his game from Steam to repent for his sin of using AI-generated assets to make it.
Ethics

Indie Developer Deleting Entire Game From Steam Due to Shame From Having Used AI

"I have realized [that] AI is not actually free, and it has a major effect on the economy and environment."

By Frank Landymore

The moguls behind the biggest AI corporations have no unified idea about the world after AI takes everybody's jobs.
Finance

Tech Billionaires Have No Answer for What’ll Happen If AI Takes All Jobs

"It's clear that a lot of jobs are going to disappear: it's not clear that it’s going to create a lot of jobs to replace that."

By Joe Wilkins

NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter conceded that the agency is "very unlikely" to recover its MAVEN Mars orbiter.
Mars

NASA Has Some Very Bad News About Its Mars Spacecraft

Things aren't looking good for MAVEN.

By Victor Tangermann

Robovans are flooding roads in Chinese cities, a deployment leading to some unintentionally hilarious results.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Driverless Delivery Vans in China Are Rampaging Through Cities Like Grand Theft Auto

"The roads are still from the Qing Dynasty, but the cars are from the next century."

By Joe Wilkins

NASA staffers, advisors, and union representatives continue to watch in horror as the Goddard Space Flight Center closures go on.
NASA

Union Representing NASA Workers Says Space Agency’s New Administrator Is a Straight-Up Liar

A recently shuttered library "was scheduled for renovation, not elimination."

By Victor Tangermann