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Men get castrated tend to live longer than their uncut peers, which is also seen in the rest of the mammalian world, scientists said.
Developments

Scientists Discover Strong Upside for Men Getting Castrated

Nobody tell Bryan Johnson!

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists discovered that crickets that were fed microplastics grew in size by a staggering 25 times over a seven-week period.
Pollution

Bugs Fed Microplastics Grow to Ludicrous Size

"Once a particle was big enough to be eaten, crickets continued to eat it for the rest of their life."

By Victor Tangermann

Anthropic's chief scientist Jared Kaplan says humanity will soon have a big decision to make on whether to take the "ultimate risk" on AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic’s Chief Scientist Says We’re Rapidly Approaching the Moment That Could Doom Us All

Brace for impact.

By Frank Landymore

An international team of researchers says it has spotted the largest rotating structure of dark matter and gas-rich galaxies.
New Horizons

Scientists Detect Huge Rotating Structure in Space

It's unimaginably vast.

By Victor Tangermann

The Washington Post's egregiously error-ridden AI podcasts are causing a meltdown inside the newspaper's newsroom.
Artificial Intelligence

The Washington Post’s AI Generated Podcasts Are Already an Error-Laden Disaster

"It is truly astonishing that this was allowed to go forward at all."

By Frank Landymore

Archaeologists discovered an undersea wall that measures almost 400 feet in length, the biggest underwater construction ever found in France.
Climate Change

Divers Intrigued by Huge Underwater Structure

It's absolutely enormous.

By Victor Tangermann

The Pentagon's AI chatbot has an encyclopedic knowledge of the Geneva Convention, even if Pete Hegseth doesn't.
Future Society

Hegseth’s New Pentagon AI Is Telling Military Personnel His Boat Strike Was Completely Illegal

"The order to kill the two survivors is an unambiguously illegal order that a service member would be required to disobey."

By Joe Wilkins

A man who admitted to drinking eight energy drinks a day has lasting numbness throughout his body due to a stroke.
Medical

Man Suffers Grim Fate After Drinking Eight Energy Drinks Per Day

"I obviously wasn't aware of the dangers drinking energy drinks were causing to myself."

By Joe Wilkins

New research shows a country-wide experiment by Instacart has been charging shoppers different prices for the same product at the same store.
Machine Learning

Instacart Caught Using AI to Charge Wildly Different Prices for the Same Item

You're not imagining things.

By Joe Wilkins

OpenAI is making it hard for its researchers to publish research that tells the truth of AI's potentially negative economic impact.
OpenAI

OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth

It's not letting potentially damning research get out there.

By Frank Landymore

The UK's recent moves to ban gender-affirming treatment has created a robust black market for hormonal medications.
Treatments

Banning Gender Transition Treatment Is Leading Kids to Do Exactly What You’d Expect

"Some have told us they are getting them from illegal websites that sell anabolic steroids to weightlifters."

By Joe Wilkins

With backing from AI chipmaker Nvidia, a startup called Starcloud launched a high-powered Nvidia GPU into outer space and trained an AI.
Ethics

Nvidia Chip on Satellite in Orbit Trains First AI Model in Space

"Anything you can do in a terrestrial data center, I’m expecting to be able to be done in space."

By Victor Tangermann

Nick Park, the creator of the beloved claymation series "Wallace and Gromit," said his studio would "embrace" AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Creator of “Wallace and Gromit” Says Heck, He’ll Start Using AI

We've forgotten the artists, Gromit!

By Frank Landymore

A new testimony from a remote worker in Kenya details the grueling and exploitative work behind romantic AI chatbots.
Ethics

AI “Companion Bots” Actually Run by Exploited Kenyans, Worker Claims

"How do you explain that you get paid to tell strangers you love them while your real family sleeps three meters away?"

By Joe Wilkins

Disney is licensing over 200 characters to OpenAI to use in its video AI app Sora, on top of investing a billion dollars into the company.
Artificial Intelligence

Disney Strikes Huge Deal With OpenAI: Get Ready for Sora Videos of Donald Duck Cooking Meth

To infinite AI slop, and beyond.

By Frank Landymore

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is making its closest approach to Earth in just over a week from now, coming within 167 million miles.
Astronomy

Mysterious Interstellar Object Now Approaching Earth

It's never been closer.

By Victor Tangermann

Those who bet on who would be named Time's "Person of the Year" on prediction markets were absolutely furious at the announcement.
Future Society

Please Enjoy Laughing at the Prediction Markets, in Full Meltdown, After Time’s “Person of the Year” Reveal

"This is actually so freaking stupid."

By Victor Tangermann

The company 2wai went viral after it released an advertisement showing its AI product resurrecting a dead grandmother.
Ethics

Project to Resurrect Dead Grandmas Sparks Controversy

Let's live, Grandma!

By Joe Wilkins

OpenAI was sued by the son and grandson of a man in Connecticut who murdered his mother after ChatGPT affirmed his paranoid delusions.
Ethics

OpenAI Sued for Causing Murder-Suicide

"It went from him being a little paranoid and an odd guy to having some crazy thoughts he was convinced were true because of what he talked to ChatGPT about."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The website for Time magazine now features a big AI chatbox that can't be closed and won't go away, blocking even its main headlines.
Artificial Intelligence

Time Magazine Deploys AI “Ask Me Anything” Box That Covers Up Its Actual Journalism and Can’t Be Closed

Thanks, we hate it.

By Frank Landymore