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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested Starship will spin slowly to create artificial gravity for passengers on their way to Mars.
Starship

Elon Musk Says Starship Will Spin for Artificial Gravity

"Even a tiny gravity vector is better than none."

Claude 3 Opus, the new AI chatbot from Anthropic, showed signs that it realized it was being tested, a prompt engineer claims.
Artificial Intelligence

Researcher Startled When AI Seemingly Realizes It’s Being Tested

"It did something I have never seen before from an LLM."

Experts are becoming increasingly worried over Trump's seemingly deteriorating mental state, Salon reports.
Health & Medicine

Doctors Say Trump Is Displaying Clear Signs of Cognitive Issues

"If Trump were your relative, you’d be thinking about assisted care right now."

Early results of a weight loss drug by Danish pharmaceutical Novo Nordisk show that it may be even more effective than semaglutide.
Health & Medicine

New Weight Loss Pill More Effective Than Ozempic, Tests Find

The company's shares are through the roof.

The bill, called DEFIANCE for short, would allow victims of nonconsensual deepfake porn to sue its creators, distributors, and receivers.
Artificial Intelligence

AOC Announces Bill That Would Let Women Sue People Who Make Deepfake Porn of Them

It's a step, but it's a small one.

To save the "doomsday" glacier, geoengineers propose surrounding it with giant underwater curtains to divert warm water away.
Climate Change

Scientists Propose Desperate Plan to Insulate Entire Doomsday Glacier

It's a $50 billion Hail Mary.

Someone finally figured out how to make their Tesla Cybertruck look pretty cool, actually: covering it in graffiti.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Spotted Covered in Graffiti

"Feels even more cyber punk."

A Microsoft engineer says the company won't investigate its text-to-image AI's disturbing outputs — so he reached out to the FTC.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Engineer Sickened by Images Its AI Produces

"Wow this is really not a safe model."

There may not be AGI yet, but as one of the leading experts in the theoretical field claims, it may get here sooner rather than later.
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Superintelligence Could Arrive by 2027, Scientist Predicts

It's a bold prediction.

In a since-deleted tweet, Musk argued that rich ex-wives are "among 'Reasons that Western Civilization died," without ever explaining.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Deletes Tweet Saying Ex-Wives Responsible for Collapse of Civilization

Yet another new low for Elon.

A study has revealed that a German man managed to get jabbed 217 times with the COVID vaccine and yet appears to suffer no ill effects.
Studies

Doctors Puzzled by Man Who Got 217 COVID Vaccines

"It should go without saying that we do not endorse hypervaccination."

Scientists at Pennsylvania State University claim to have become the first to 3D print living human skin tissue onto open wounds of rats.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists 3D Print Living Human Skin Directly Onto Wounds

"We believe this could be applied in dermatology, hair transplants, and plastic and reconstructive surgeries."

The blockbuster weight loss drug semaglutide can cut the progression of diabetic kidney disease, according to its manufacturer Novo Nordisk.
Studies

Semaglutide Can Cut Diabetic Kidney Disease Progression

It cut death from cardiovascular and kidney issues cut by 24 percent.

One redacted exchange in the newly-leaked emails between Elon Musk and his fellow OpenAI co-founders is raising some eyebrows.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Cryptically Said Humanity’s Future Was Controlled by [Redacted]

"Unfortunately, humanity's future is in the hands of [REDACTED]."

Drag legend RuPaul Charles has a new book-selling website — and lots of its titles for sale are extremely problematic.
Future Society

RuPaul’s Online Bookstore Is Selling “Mein Kampf”

"We believe that the censorship of any book, perspective, or story is incompatible with the survival of democracy."

A Tesla Cybertruck driver got woefully stuck in the sand after illegally driving the vehicle onto the Marina State Beach in California.
Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Stuck on Beach

"This car is really becoming a symbol for poor life choices."

As Axios reports, a new software called Writable is allowing teachers to have ChatGPT evaluate papers for them.
OpenAI

Lazy High School Teachers Using ChatGPT for Grading

"We have a lot of teachers who are using the program and are very excited about it."

Google announced a substantial overhaul to its spam policies for search yesterday, introducing a crackdown on AI content.
Google

Google Search Cracking Down on Mass-Produced AI-Generated Slime

This is a big deal.

In the interest of transparency, OpenAI has published its communications with Elon Musk amid his lawsuit against the company he helped found.
OpenAI

OpenAI Leaks Elon Musk’s Emails Showing He Was on Board With Cash Grab

Extremely well-played.

The LAPD is warning residents that burglars are using WiFi jammers to easily overcome and disarm surveillance cameras and alarms.
Robots and Machines

Clever Thieves Using WiFi Jammers to Shut Down Those Crappy Security Cameras You Bought on Amazon

Here's how to protect yourself.