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Google has been quietly rifling through users' personal Gmail accounts to train its AI models on their emails and even attachments.
Ethics

Google Denies Reading Your Gmail to Train Its AI

"We do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model."

By Victor Tangermann

A massive fire broke out inside the convention center hosting over 50,000 UN delegates attending COP30, forcing an evacuation.
Climate Change

Fire Breaks Out at UN Climate Summit

The irony is palpable.

By Joe Wilkins

British military tested out a powerful laser that can take down high-speed drones which have become widely available in the battlefield.
Future Society

British Military Attacks Drones With Huge Laser

"The accuracy is razor sharp."

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk teased writing an autobiography in response to critical comments made by his biographer Walter Isaacson.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Autobiography Will Definitely Be a Reliable, Trustworthy Document

He certainly has a lot to talk about.

By Frank Landymore

A new study from Oxford University shows that humans and Neanderthals most likely kissed each other back in the distant past.
Evolution

Scientists Find Evidence That Humans Made Out With Non-Human Creatures

An ancient romance -- between unlikely lovers.

By Sharon Adarlo

US standardized test scores have plunged to their lowest in decades, and the problem lies with screens, argues a psychologist.
Education

Here’s an Interesting Theory About Why Kids’ Test Results Have Fallen to Their Lowest Point in Two Decades

What changed over the past 20 years?

By Frank Landymore

NASA has an audacious plan to save a space telescope by using a rocket launched midair from a former passenger airliner.
NASA

Bonkers NASA Mission Next Year Will Drop Rocket Out of Plane, Blast Off From There

It's a first-of-its-kind mission that must work or a $500 million NASA space telescope is going to crash into Earth.

By Sharon Adarlo

A survey found that a shockingly large proportion of UK teens would rather talk to a chatbot than a person, and many are using AI for advice.
Future Society

A Startling Proportion of Teens Now Prefer Talking to AI Over a Real Person

The genie's way out of the bottle, folks.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Sam Altman's blockchain startup "Tools for Humanity" demands employees treat its surveillance orb project with a slavish devotion.
Blockchain

Sam Altman’s Eyeball-Scanning Orb Startup Made a Cult-Like Demand of Its Employees

"If you should care about something else, and if you want something else, you should just not be here. It's as simple as that."

By Joe Wilkins

Students at the University of Staffordshire have spent the past two years learning to code from AI-generated course material.
Education

College Students Furious When Their Course Is Taught by AI Instead of a Professor

"If we handed in stuff that was AI-generated, we would be kicked out of the uni, but we're being taught by an AI."

By Joe Wilkins

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in China has successfully completed its first proof-of-concept experiment.
Quantum Physics

Giant Chinese Orb Detects “Ghost Particles” While Buried Under Mountain

Incredible orbs are oscillating in China.

By Joe Wilkins

A simple trick involving poetry is enough to jailbreak the tech industry's leading AI models, researchers found.
Ethics

Scientists Discover “Universal” Jailbreak for Nearly Every AI, and the Way It Works Will Hurt Your Brain

It's AI versus verse.

By Frank Landymore

Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian says the country has no choice but to move the nation's capital amidst an unprecedented water crisis.
Climate Change

President of Iran Says It’s Forced to Move Its Entire Capital City

"The reality is that we no longer have a choice; it is an obligation."

By Joe Wilkins

Microsoft is hellbent on transforming Windows 11 into a "canvas for AI," and users aren't left feeling impressed.
Artificial Intelligence

Windows Users Furious at Microsoft’s Plan to Turn It Into an “Agentic OS”

"Great, how do I disable literally all of it?"

By Frank Landymore

A video game executive has sparked a fierce debate surrounding the use of AI in the industry by claiming that "Gen Z loves AI slop."
Ethics

Gaming Exec Says That “Gen Z Loves AI Slop”

"The upcoming generation of gamers are Bane in 'Dark Knight Rises' saying 'You merely adopted the slop, I was born in it.'"

By Victor Tangermann

A bizarre cryptocurrency company is creating an alternative to the widely used opium reversal drug Naxalone, for inexplicable reasons.
RX and Medicine

Crypto Company Creates Bizarre Drug

You haven't seen anything like this.

By Joe Wilkins

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.
Environment

Scientists Say Huge Structures Inside Earth Are Related to the Origin of Life

"These are not random oddities. They are fingerprints of Earth's earliest history."

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's Boring Company has been illegally dumping toxic waste byproduct for months, landing itself a $500k fine from local officials.
Hyperloop

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Caught Hiding Toxic Waste Pond in Vegas

Confronted with cameras, a worker raged that "you’re fake news."

By Joe Wilkins

A startup called Mission Barns is using pig fat to grow pork in a bioreactor, a process with major implications for the meat industry.
Food

New Startup Harvests Bacon Without Killing Pig

Anyone smell something sizzling?

By Joe Wilkins

Researchers discovered a disturbing trend among people who learned about a topic with ChatGPT, instead of using a regular web search.
Artificial Intelligence

Something Disturbing Happens When You “Learn” Something With ChatGPT

Scare quotes intended.

By Frank Landymore