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People who stopped using Ozempic and Wegovy have reported one unfortunate, if not life-threatening, side effect: regaining the weight back.
RX and Medicine

Semaglutide Patients Regained More Weight Than They’d Lost After Stopping Their Injections

"I was so hungry."

Just over half of AI researchers recently surveyed considered a five percent chance of humans being driven to extinction.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say This Is the Probability AI Will Drive Humans Extinct

Is that... is that a lot?

The CEO of a crypto Ponzi scheme appears, much like the promises his firm made to investors, to be completely fake. 
Cryptocurrency

CEO of $1.3 Billion Crypto Firm Appears to Be Entirely Fake

How do you just invent an entire CEO?

Bryan Johnson, the youth-obsessed tech mogul who is spending millions to turn back the clock on his body, has picked a fight with Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

Guy Who Used Son as a “Blood Boy” Says Elon Musk Will “Fire You and Leave You to Die”

"The difference between Elon and me: I’ll nourish you and drink your blood; he’ll fire you and leave you to die."

Alaska officials confirmed last month that a polar bear died from bird flu aka the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.
Future Society

Polar Bear Dies From Bird Flu

"This is the first polar bear case reported, for anywhere."

In an attempt to make soybeans taste more meaty, molecular protein startup Moolec Science is inserting actual pig genes into the plants.
Science & Energy

Startup Says Putting Pig Genes Into Soy Made It Taste Meatier

Would you eat it?

An AI-generated article about a murder that never happened in New Jersey has police and local news outlets in a tizzy.
Artificial Intelligence

Police Say AI-Generated Article About Local Murder Is “Entirely” Made Up

"Nothing even similar to this story occurred on or around Christmas, or even in recent memory for the area they described."

A DNA test has confirmed the biological age of Natalia Grace, a Ukrainian orphan who has a rare genetic dwarfism condition.
DNA

Adopted Child Accused of Secretly Being an Adult Takes DNA Test to Prove Age

"They painted [me] as some big monster, when in reality they were the ones."

China's population is falling and falling -- and that's a major problem for its economic and demographic outlook.
Data Privacy

Leaked Data Shows China Is in Deep Trouble

China has a serious problem.

Some members of Congress are going to get a briefing on UFOs soon — though of course, the public won't be privy to anything they learn.
Off-World

Congress Receiving Mysterious Classified Briefing About UFOs

What are they getting told?

Just before the year drew to a close, a Toyota Corolla crashed into a Cybertruck that was traveling along a road near Palo Alto, California.
Advanced Transport

Driver Injured in First Cybertruck Crash

Questions abound.

A group of travelers attempting to turn back the clock to ring in the new year twice got a rude awakening due to flight delays.
Advanced Transport

Partiers Attempt to Celebrate New Year’s Twice With Flight Between Time Zones, Accidentally Land in Wrong Year

"You only live once, but you can celebrate New Year's Eve twice."

According to Reuters, Tesla's main bottleneck in Cybertruck production is producing the next-generation 4680 lithium-ion battery cells.
Tesla

Cybertruck Manufacturing Is a Disaster, Tesla Insiders Say

And it's not the body panels...

A new image captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an up-close and stunning look at what's known as an ice flow.
Mars

NASA Releases Image of Epic Lines Carved Into Mars’ Surface

Magnificent.

Researchers have found that wildflowers in a patch of farm meadow in the Paris region have turned to self-fertilization due to fewer insects.
Climate Change

Wildflowers Adapting to Insect Apocalypse by Pollinating Themselves, Scientists Say

Talk about learning self-sufficience.

If you searched Craigslist using Google recently, you may have gotten totally meaningless junk pages stuffed solely with links and keywords.
Future Society

Google Search Losing Battle Against Barrage of SEO Spam

"This, in my opinion, is partly the fault of Google, who appears to be putting more emphasis on content rather than links."

In 2019, scientists detected a strange wobble deep below the Earth's surface that repeats every 8.5 years. They just found an explanation.
Science & Energy

Scientists Working to Understand Strange Signal From Earth’s Core

They just found the cause.

In an attempt to bring air quality down from hazardous levels, officials have begun seeding clouds to make it rain in Lahore, Pakistan.
Science & Energy

Pakistan Attempts to Cut Through Killer Smog With Artificial Rain

It was a mixed success.

The "highly motivated" 18-year-old hacker who leaked GTA VI footage will stay in a secure hospital unless he is deemed no longer a threat.
Hacking

GTA 6 Hacker Committed to Hospital Indefinitely After Vowing to Strike Again

A judge deemed the teenager a high risk to the public.

Researchers uncovered that penile fractures increase during Christmas after evaluating data from hospital stays.
Studies

Careful, Lads! Scientists Link Christmas to “Penile Fractures”

Wait... what!?