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Future Society

NASA’s Powerful New Space Telescope, Just Cleared for Launch, Was Developed by an Intelligence Agency to “Spy on America’s Adversaries”

"What what do you guys think about instead of pointing downwards, we point upwards, and you guys use it?"

Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Had a Secret Plan to Replace Meta Staff With AI Agents, and It Backfired Spectacularly

The company's AI efforts are in shambles.

Meta

NYC’s Buzziest Nightclub Announces Stance On Smart Glasses: Even Try To Bring Them In, You’re Banned Forever

"This should be policy at every club."

Privacy

Meta Working on “Kill Switch” in Face of Overwhelming Disgust With Its “Pervert Glasses”

Could this really fix the problem?

Meta

Meta Forced to Make Massive Changes Limiting How Minors Can Use Instagram and Facebook

"The relief we are getting in this settlement is very meaningful and well beyond what any court has ordered or is likely to order."

Future Society

Least Delusional AI Investor Said He’s Saving Money to Buy Entire Galaxies, Ignoring the Pesky Speed of Light

Riiight.

Devices

Police Chief Brags That His Officers Have Been Using Electro-Shock Gloves for Years

"Trying to get them to comply now becomes less of a struggle."

Privacy

Police Use Surveillance Cameras to Narc On Guy Who Found $30 on the Ground

Whatever happened to "finders keepers"?

Biology

Streamers Now Going Live With Grizzly Bears, Which Will Surely End Well and Not Like in “Grizzly Man”

"You got that bro?"

Future Society

Jailed Tate Brothers Make Humiliating Confession About Their “Wealth” as They Face Extradition for Terrible Crimes

"They are playing a role."

Environment

Freak Landslide Completely Swallows Entire Mountain Village

"What is hard to reconcile is the gargantuan volumes of water that we see in these, these absolutely horrific videos."

Artificial Intelligence

Top WSJ Editor Approves AI-Assisted Writing, Says AI is a “Fact of Modern Life” in Major Inflection Point for Media Industry

The WSJ is giving opinion writers a thumbs-up on AI use.

Art

Designer Creates World’s Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance Cameras

"A 'person,' for the machine, is a bundle of visual statistics — and that is exactly its weakness."

Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates Announces That He Is the First Person Ever to Be Concerned About the Effects of AI

"I am in a state of shock that I'm sort of the first one saying, 'This is crazy. This is insane.'"

Ethics

Your Coworkers Are Becoming “Meat Proxies” for AI

"I can talk to Claude myself."

Privacy

Police Are Putting Up Fake 3D-Printed Flock Cameras and Swooping In to Arrest People Who Vandalize Them

This is insane.

Finance

Huge Leak Shows Microsoft Salaries That’ll Make You Jump Out the Window

Just imagine.

Privacy

Mayor Livid When Even More Police Are Arrested for Using Flock Database Inappropriately

"To be totally honest, I'm disappointed, I'm p*ssed off about it."

NASA

NASA Set Up a Major Test of Its New Strategy Under Trump by Hiring a Startup to Launch a Daring Mission to Rescue a Dying Space Telescope in Orbit. The Unfortunate Result Will Have Long-Ranging Repercussions.

This is not the outcome we were working toward, but it does not change why this mission was worth attempting."

xAI

Elon Musk Just Said Something About AI That’s Literally Incomprehensible

Sure, man.