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The social network formerly known as Twitter is once again in the midst of an extremism crisis under Elon Musk's leadership.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Selling Blue Checkmarks to Literal Terrorists

Twitter's extremism problems continue.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Among its series of baffling AI-generated images is a mislabeled figure of a mouse with grotesquely large testicles.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientific Article With Insane AI-Generated Images Somehow Passes Peer Review

W-what is that?

By Frank Landymore

People are getting headaches from wearing the Apple Vision Pro. One user believes using the device led to a burst blood vessel in his eye.
Virtual Reality

Apple Vision Pro Users Reporting Headaches, Burst Blood Vessels

Yikes.

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is teasing the capabilities of its new Sora video generator, and honestly, it seems pretty impressive.
Future Society

OpenAI Reveals Impressive AI That Generates Photorealistic Video

This gonna switch up the AI game all over again.

By Noor Al-Sibai

US lawmakers are becoming increasingly worried of a space-based nuclear weapon that could take out satellites.
Future Society

Rumors Swirl That Russia Plans to Launch Space-Based Nuclear Weapon

Is Russia really working on an anti-satellite nuke?

By Victor Tangermann

A Russian artist is threatening to destroy $45 million worth of art work if Wikileaks founder Julian Assange dies in prison.
Future Society

Man Threatens to Destroy Priceless Rembrandt and Picasso Paintings With Acid If Julian Assange Dies

It's called "The Dead Man’s Switch."

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI is looking to hire an "insider risk investigator" to "fortify our organization against internal security threats."
OpenAI

OpenAI Hiring Detective to Find Who’s Leaking Its Precious Info

"Your expertise will be instrumental in protecting OpenAI against internal risks, thereby contributing to the broader societal benefits of artificial intelligence."

By Victor Tangermann

A new Amazon AI model is, according to the researchers that built it, exhibiting incredible language abilities that it wasn't trained on. 
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon AGI Team Say Their AI Is Showing “Emergent Abilities”

Whoa.

By Noor Al-Sibai

An international team of scientists has discovered water molecules on the surface of an asteroid for the first time.
Off-World

Scientists Surprised to Find Distant Asteroid Is Very Soggy

"We detected a feature that is unambiguously attributed to molecular water on the asteroids Iris and Massalia."

By Victor Tangermann

AI may soon ruin our ability to make decisions for ourselves — an outcome that would be, one expert warns, "catastrophic." 
Artificial Intelligence

AI May Be Atrophying Our Brains, Professor Warns

If you don't use your brain, you could lose its abilities.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers are testing out drastic, large-scale geoengineering methods that were once considered taboo in order to fight climate change.
Climate Change

Scientists Desperately Studying How to Hack Climate

These projects are out of science fiction.

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk's SpaceX is getting fined for $3,600 after a worker suffered a "near amputation" of a foot at one of its facilities.
SpaceX

SpaceX Fined for “Near Amputation” of Employee’s Limb

SpaceX worker says "safety can get overlooked."

By Sharon Adarlo

Some folks who cashed out the eye-watering $3,500 (before tax!) for Apple's Vision Pro headset are already showing some buyer's remorse.
Virtual Reality

People Are Already Returning Their Apple Vision Pro Headsets

"Well after two days I am sad to report that I will be returning Apple Vision Pro..."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to "deorbit" roughly 100 Starlink satellites — which means that techs will guide them to their fiery deaths.
SpaceX

SpaceX Announces Plans to Set 100 Starlink Satellites on Fire

That's one way to handle space junk.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The test involved IVO's quantum drive, a reactionless drive that supposedly doesn't need propellant to generate thrust
Advanced Transport

Contact Lost With Spacecraft Carrying Experimental Quantum Drive

Dud on arrival.

By Frank Landymore

With official inquiries into UFOs, the concept of alien contact has never seemed closer — but there would still be some major hurdles.
Exobiology

Alien Probes May Have Already Visited Earth, Scientist Says

"Earth has had biosignatures for 3 billion years."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A man discovered a torpedo-shaped object that had some "unsettling" blinking light. It turned out to be a training device for the Navy.
Robots and Machines

Man Finds Missile-Like Object With Ominous Blinking Light

"Did you try and hit it with a hammer?"

By Victor Tangermann

A man's Tinder AI bot scheduled a date with a woman at a local museum. She showed up, but the man never did, because the bot didn't tell him.
Artificial Intelligence

Man’s Tinder AI Makes Date With Woman, Forgets to Tell Him and Stands Her Up

"Are you really coming?"

By Victor Tangermann

The China National Space Administration is encouraging companies to come up with a special device that can squeeze moon soil into bricks
Moon

New Chinese Lander to Start Building Base From Moon Dust Bricks

It's an ambitious plan.

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has lost yet another of its founders — though in the case of computer vision expert Andrej Karpathy, this is his second exodus.
OpenAI

Top OpenAI Researcher Quits, References “Conspiracy Theories”

What's going on in there?

By Noor Al-Sibai