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Tesla has brought back its "Mad Max" mode designed for "higher speeds," often leading to it blazing past the speed limit.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Deploys Self-Driving Mode That Ignores Speed Limits

"We're going 75 in a 50."

By Frank Landymore

The discovery is only one of a handful of enigmatic objects called ORCs that have ever been found. And their origins are mystery.
Future Society

Astronomers Astonished By Twin Cosmic Rings That Dwarf Entire Galaxies

What even forms these?

By Frank Landymore

The owner of a restaurant in South Wales potentially saved the lives of two swimmers, who ventured out after asking ChatGPT for tide times.
Ethics

Two People Almost Drown After Asking ChatGPT When Low Tide Was

"A lesson learned for me."

By Victor Tangermann

Among the worst offenders was meal-replacement company Huel, a long-time favorite among Bay Area builders.
Food

Tech Bros Have Been Accidentally Poisoning Themselves With Severe Brain Toxins for Years

Uh oh.

By Joe Wilkins

It's clearer than ever than OpenAI doesn't have anything close to a handle on its disastrous copyright situation.
Ethics

It’s Still Ludicrously Easy to Generate Copyrighted Characters on ChatGPT

This is embarrassing.

By Frank Landymore

The latest hoax involves kids sending their parents AI-manipulated pictures of them welcoming homeless men into their houses.
Ethics

Police Issue Warning About “AI Homeless Man” Prank

"We want to be clear: this behavior is not a 'prank' — it is a crime."

By Victor Tangermann

Ads are no longer merely interrupting games; they're delaying live broadcasts that consumers pay to watch.
Finance

Live Sports Are No Longer Live Thanks to Extremely Long Ads

"Regardless of whether it's ineptitude or purposeful, it definitely need to be fixed."

By Joe Wilkins

Scientists have created a new phase of ice that can form at room temperature but requires extreme levels of pressure.
Physics

Scientists Invent Room Temperature Ice

Cut me a slice of that water?

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft wants you to ditch your old OS so you can try its new one stuffed with overbearing, if not invasive, AI features.
Artificial Intelligence

As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

"Let's rewrite the entire operating system around AI."

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI announced that it was working with the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. to put an end to his likeness appearing in Sora videos.
Ethics

OpenAI Bans MLK Deepfakes After Disaster

It took his estate filing a complaint for OpenAI to do anything.

By Victor Tangermann

Deutsche Bank says "European spending on ChatGPT has stalled since May," suggesting its struggling to recruit new subscribers.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Is Already Stalling Out on New Subscribers

"The poster child for the AI boom may be struggling to recruit new subscribers to pay for it."

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defends his flip-flopping on erotica by saying the company is not the "moral police."
Ethics

Sam Altman Pushes Back on OpenAI’s Foray Into Smut

"We are not the elected moral police of the world."

By Rae Witte

Tesla fans are trying to defend their Cybertrucks, but it's just making them sound sad, strange, and lonely.
Tesla

Divorced Tesla Fan Admits That His Cybertruck Is Repulsive to Women

"I was married, but I'm not married anymore."

By Frank Landymore

The United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization has released its latest report on global greenhouse gas emissions, and it's bleak.
Future Society

The Latest Climate News Is So Bad That You Should Probably Not Click This and Just Bury Your Head in the Sand

You definitely don't want to hear anything about this new report.

By Victor Tangermann

Some popular protein supplements had well over a thousand percent of a safe daily limit for daily lead exposure.
Neuroscience and Brain

Popular Meal Replacement Drink Contains So Much Lead That Doctors Are Aghast

You may want to reconsider that protein shake.

By Frank Landymore

NASA is gutting the Jet Propulsion Laboratory -- the storied research center that oversees all the agency's Mars rovers.
Mars

NASA Guts Workforce at Lab Responsible for Mars Rovers

"The morale has been as low as anyone has seen in decades, maybe ever."

By Joe Wilkins

A new way of delivering vaccines using nanoparticles could prevent or slow down a number of different cancers in mice.
Cancer

Doctors Intrigued by Shot That Prevents Multiple Types of Cancer in Mice

The results speak for themselves.

By Victor Tangermann

Only a tiny sliver — roughly five percent — of the 800 million people using ChatGPT are actually paying for a subscription.
Ethics

If You Were Bankrolling OpenAI, the Percent of ChatGPT Users Willing to Pay for It Might Make You Break Out in a Cold Sweat

It's looking grim.

By Victor Tangermann

In an analysis of recent economic trends, economists wrote that "jobless growth" is pretty much the new normal.
Ethics

Goldman Sachs Says Gen Z Is Pretty Much Permanently Screwed

"History also suggests that the full consequences of AI for the labor market might not become apparent until a recession hits."

By Joe Wilkins

Thanks to OpenAI's Sora 2, it's never been easier to generate photorealistic AI slop videos puppeting the likenesses of deceased celebrities.
Ethics

People Are Using OpenAI’s Sora to Mock the Dead

"Please stop."

By Victor Tangermann