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Microsoft announced an AI Windows feature called Recall that regularly takes screenshots. It's a cybersecurity mess that can easily be hacked.
Artificial Intelligence

Windows Feature That Records Everything You Do Can Easily Be Hacked

"It’s an act of self harm at Microsoft in the name of AI."

By Victor Tangermann

Starlink allows the Marubo people, an Amazon tribe, to have internet even in the heart of the rainforest — but it comes at a cost.
Future Society

Remote Amazon Tribe Finally Gets Internet, Gets Hooked on Porn and Social Media

"We can't live without the internet."

By Frank Landymore

Beware the three horsemen of the ocean apocalypse, according to a new study: extreme heat, acidification, and deoxygenation.
Climate Change

You Might Cry When You Read This Study About What’s Happening to the Oceans

Beware the three horsemen of the ocean apocalypse.

By Frank Landymore

After her husband died, one woman found the perfect way to send off his cremated remains after discovering space burial company Celestis.
Off-World

Widow Astonished by Options After Husband Dies: “Space?! I Can Shoot Him Into Space?”

"So, I sold his car and sent him to space."

By Victor Tangermann

Lab-grown diamonds are taking the jewelry industry by storm — and those invested in the natural-grown kind are none too pleased.
Science & Energy

The Diamond Industry Is Withering as Beautiful Lab-Grown Diamonds Drive Down Prices

"The diamond industry is in trouble."

By Noor Al-Sibai

An AI-generated image of a young disabled veteran went viral on Facebook. A lot of folks — particularly older men — think she's the real deal.
Meta

Facebook Page Uses AI-Generated Image of Disabled Veteran to Farm Engagement

"Miss Beautiful USA! THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaire space tourist Jared Isaacman offered to fix NASA's Hubble telescope. Officials are still unsure the benefits outweigh the risks.
NASA

NASA Slaps Down Billionaire’s Plan to Fly Up and Fix Hubble Space Telescope

NASA is worried it's far too risky.

By Victor Tangermann

A news network is attributing AI-spun articles to fake authors with racially diverse names. Its publisher claims the names were unintentional.
Artificial Intelligence

News Site Says It’s Using to AI to Crank Out Articles Bylined by Fake Racially Diverse Writers in a Very Responsible Way

"If there is a bias it is the opposite of what we intended."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Boeing has finally launched its much-maligned Starliner astronaut shuttle into space with two NASA astronauts on board.
Boeing

Boeing Spacecraft Finally Manages to Limp Off the Earth

Took 'em long enough.

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's Cybertruck's steer-by-wire system has a considerable delay. But that may be a feature, not a bug, as many netizens have argued.
Advanced Transport

The Cybertruck’s Steering Has a Significant Lag

"Imagine crashing because of your steering ping."

By Victor Tangermann

Fusion startup Helion is in talks for a deal with OpenAI to "buy vast quantities of electricity to provide power for data centers."
OpenAI

OpenAI Negotiating to Buy “Vast Quantities” of Fusion Power, Which Doesn’t Exist Yet

Could Sam Altman's fusion pet project really save the future of AI?

By Victor Tangermann

A report by Public Citizen found that the amount of AI lobbyists more than doubled in 2023 from the year before.
Artificial Intelligence

The AI Industry Is Swarming DC With Lobbyists

We're sure they've got humanity's best interests in mind.

By Frank Landymore

Marine scientists discovered an ocean-borne fungus chomping through plastic trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Plastic-Eating Fungus Feasting on Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Nature really putting the team on its back here.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The analysis used several AI models to compare the OpenAI voice to the voices of around 600 actresses, including Scarlett Johansson.
OpenAI

Forensic Analysis Finds Overwhelming Similarities Between OpenAI’s Voice and Scarlett Johansson

We're shocked.

By Frank Landymore

An expert warns that over ten thousand people could die as the result of a single heat wave, sending hundreds of thousands to the hospital.
Climate Change

Experts Fear Horrifying Heat Waves That Could Kill Tens of Thousands of People at Once

We could have "the Hurricane Katrina of extreme heat" on our hands.

By Frank Landymore

On Saturday, Boeing had to scrub the launch of its much-maligned astronaut shuttle once more, adding to years of technical mishaps and delays.
Boeing

Boeing Keeps Making Excuses to Push Back First Astronaut Launch

Even more delays.

By Victor Tangermann

A former OpenAI researcher became so convinced that the technology would usher in doom for humanity, he left the company and called it out.
OpenAI

OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity

"The world isn’t ready, and we aren’t ready."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A tiny cohort of "supersharers" spread the majority of fake news on Twitter during the 2020 election. They were mostly older white women.
Future Society

Scientists Find That a Tiny Proportion of People Spread Almost All the Fake News, and They Turn Out to Be Exactly Who You’d Expect

"They are literally sitting at their computer pressing retweet."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk is diverting important AI hardware shipments away from Tesla in favor of his social media platform X and his AI startup xAI.
Tesla

Leaked Emails Show Elon Musk Diverting AI Resources Away From Tesla as Automaker Flails

Is Musk giving up on Tesla?

By Victor Tangermann

The creator of the new "Spider-Verse" animated film has laid to rest concerns that artificial intelligence was used in the new "threequel."
Artificial Intelligence

Producer of “Beyond the Spider-Verse” Responds to Rumors of AI Use in Animation

"There is no generative AI in 'Beyond the Spider-Verse' and there never will be."

By Noor Al-Sibai