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Health & Medicine

Shop Scrutinized for Selling Human Bodies Out of a Strip Mall

Between a tattoo parlor and a psychic.

Paul McCartney Reverses Opinion on AI After Using It to Produce New “Beatles” Song, Now Alarmed It Will “Wipe Out” the Music Industry

"A very sad thing indeed."

NASA

Trump’s New Billionaire Head of NASA Says He May Pause His Own Personal Vacations Into Space While Leading Agency

"The future of the Polaris program is a little bit of a question mark at the moment."

Off-World

Scientists Intrigued by Planet With Long Tail

Just the tail measures a whopping 350,000 miles in length.

CEO Says He Hasn’t Hired Anyone in a Year as He Replaces Human Workers With AI

This is working a bit too well for comfort.

Biology

Scientists Horrified by “Mirror Life” That Could Wipe Out Biology As We Know It

"The consequences could be globally disastrous."

Robotics

Chinese Police Deploy Rolling BB-8-STyle Robot to Patrol Streets, Chase Down Suspects

"If you lose the fight, you’ll end up in hospital."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Hilarious Video Shows Waymo Self-Driving Taxi Stuck in Roundabout

Relatable.

Future Society

Twitter’s Traffic Falling Relative to Bluesky

Read it and weep, Elon.

Advanced Transport

SpaceX Spotted Scooping Pieces of Starship Out of Ocean After Impact

And next time, the retrieval crews will be hoping for a bigger catch.

Climate Change

Scientists Call for Ban on Hacking the Earth’s Climate With Chemicals or Giant Mirrors

"A strong global governance framework would be needed for this."

Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s “Charity” Is Hoarding Money Instead of Giving It to the Needy

"It is clear that the organization is not in a hurry to spend its money."

BuzzFeed Sells “Hot Ones” as It Pivots to AI-Generated Content

"Couldn't we make even more money if we had AI do it?"

Controversial Chatbot Company Character.AI Appears to Have Accidentally Let Users See Each Others’ Chat Histories

"It just randomly logged me into a different account."

Google

Texas Attorney General Investigating Google-Backed AI Startup Accused of Inappropriate Interactions With Minors

"These investigations are a critical step toward ensuring that social media and AI companies comply with our laws designed to protect children from exploitation and harm."

Future Society

UnitedHealth Is Asking Journalists to Remove Names and Photos of Its CEO From Published Work

Behind the scenes, they're working to control the story.

NASA

Trump’s New NASA Head Announces Plans to Send Troops to Space

"America is going to lead it and we’re going to need guardians there on the high ground looking out for us."

OpenAI

OpenAI’s Sora Is Generating Videos of Real People, Including This Unintentionally Demonic Version of Pokimane

Why does Sora know who Pokimane is?

Developments

Americans Point Out That UnitedHealthcare Tried to Kill Them First

"We live in a country where people are truly kicked down when they are at their weakest and most vulnerable, both physically and emotionally."