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A new study has found that when people look at AI-generated images of faces, they're often convinced those are more real than the real thing.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Images of White People More Convincing than Real Photos, Scientists Say

You can't trust your eyes anymore.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A SpaceX employee died in June 2014 after being struck by an unsecured piece of rocket insulation. We're only hearing about it now.
Future Society

A SpaceX Worker Died and They Kept It a Secret

"SpaceX shouldn’t be exempt from protecting workers from being injured or killed just because they’re doing innovative work."

By Victor Tangermann

A small pond in Hawaii has turned an alarmingly bright shade of pink, alarming local residents and environmentalists.
Science & Energy

Residents Alarmed When Pond Turns Bright Pink

"It’s basically a flashing red light that the ecology of this area is being gravely distressed."

By Victor Tangermann

A recent study found that LLMs are incredibly good steganographers, able to obscure their own thought processes through "encoded reasoning."
Artificial Intelligence

AIs Can Store Secret Messages in Their Text That Are Imperceptible to Humans

Oh wow.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some of FTX's ex-employees, including an executive who testified against Sam Bankman-Fried, are starting a new crypto exchange.
Cryptocurrency

A Former FTX Exec is Launching a New Crypto Exchange

What could possibly go wrong?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Data is the vital force of large AI models, and thus of the industry itself. But it's also a finite resource — and companies could run out.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Companies Are Running Out of Training Data

The well is running dry.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New aerial footage shows a massive crack splitting a town in Iceland in half and sending ominous steam into the air.
Science & Energy

Huge Crack Opens Up in Iceland, Steam Pouring Forth

That does not look good.

By Victor Tangermann

That outlandish UFO whistleblower never came in to talk to the Pentagon's UFO office, the department's outgoing chief is claiming. 
Off-World

That UFO Whistleblower Apparently Refused Pentagon Interviews

"He has refused to come and share any of that information."

By Noor Al-Sibai

In its order agreement, Tesla is instructing Cybertruck owners to "not sell or otherwise attempt to sell the Vehicle within the first year."
Tesla

Tesla Vows to Sue Anyone Who Resells Their Cybertruck

Even once you've paid for your Cybertruck, you don't fully own it.

By Victor Tangermann

The drama between Elon Musk and his onetime paramour, artist Claire "Grimes" Boucher, has taken a nasty turn.
Elon Musk

Grimes Says Elon Musk Dodged Child Custody Papers 12 Times

This is a pretty bizarre legal strategy.

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared to take a potshot at Elon Musk's AI, dismissing it as "cringey boomer humor."
OpenAI

Elon Musk Furious at Sam Altman for Dissing His New Chatbot as “Boomer Humor”

"GPT-4? More like GPT-Snore!"

By Victor Tangermann

A new study shows that the children of gay dads tend to be more well adjusted than the kids of straight couples.
Studies

Scientists Find Kids With Gay Dads Are Doing Better Than Kids With Straight Dads

They're doing great, everybody.

By Sharon Adarlo

The mystery is settled: starfish don't have a head. They are a head — and their evolution may be even weird than once believed.
Biology

Oh God… Those Aren’t “Arms” on Starfish, Scientists Say

It's one... giant...

By Frank Landymore

Cosmologists are starting to suspect there may have been a second, transformative event like the Big bang that could explain dark matter.
Big Bang

Scientists Say There May Have Been a Second Big Bang

This could explain a lot.

By Victor Tangermann

Highly detailed industrial computed tomography (CT) scans of a real Apple AirPod Pro and two fakes are blowing our minds.
Robots and Machines

This CT Scan of Real vs Fake AirPods Is Blowing Our Puny Minds

You definitely get what you pay for.

By Victor Tangermann

A study says that kids who often drink soda are more impulsive, have bad working memory, and may drink alcohol in the future.
Neuroscience and Brain

Kids Who Drink Lots of Soda Found to Show More Impulsive Behavior, Worse Working Memory

"There is no consensus on a safe dose of caffeine in children."

By Sharon Adarlo

By using sound waves propagating through the Sun, researchers think our star's radius may be fractionally shorter than the traditional model.
Off-World

Scientists Say the Sun Is Smaller Than We Thought

Just a teensy bit.

By Frank Landymore

The continent of Argoland, which virtually vanished in the geological record 150 million years ago, has finally been found.
Science & Energy

Scientists Rediscover Lost Continent That Broke Off From Australia

Argoland has finally been unearthed.

By Frank Landymore

An amateur astronomer has compiled new footage from NASA's asteroid-smashing mission to show just how incredible that collision really was.
NASA

Incredible New Videos Show NASA Smashing Into Asteroid

More than a year later, we're still getting visuals from NASA's badass DART mission.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A powerful solar flare could trigger what Peter Becker, professor of physics at George Mason University, is calling an "internet apocalypse."
Science & Energy

Professor Warns That the Sun Is Angry and It Could Knock Out the Internet

The Sun's outbursts could trigger an "internet apocalypse."

By Victor Tangermann