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The Car Thing will no longer be supported by Spotify, turning this perfectly capable piece of hardware into more needless e-waste.
Future Society

Spotify Says the Hardware Player It Sold You Two Years Ago Will Stop Working and the Only Thing You Can Do Is Throw It in the Trash

A giant "screw you" to customers.

By Frank Landymore

The DOJ is suing Ticketmaster and Live Nation to eliminate its alleged chokehold on the ticketing industry.
Future Society

Ticketmaster May Finally Get What It Deserves

Love this for us.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says problems with its AI can't be solved because hallucinations are an inherent problem in these AI tools.
Google

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information

Ouch.

By Sharon Adarlo

Google's AI search delivers each of its AI-paraphrased answers to user queries with total confidence. Just one problem: it's wrong. A lot.
Google

Google’s AI Is Churning Out a Deluge of Completely Inaccurate, Totally Confident Garbage

This sucks.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A research team have identified a new type of cat whose distinctive fur on its back coat is caused by a unique mutation.
Future Society

Mutation Has Led to a New Type of Cat, Scientists Say

But will it win best in show?

By Sharon Adarlo

Leave it to The Onion to excoriate OpenAI and its horrendous handling of the Scarlett Johansson ChatGPT fiasco.
OpenAI

The Onion’s Take on OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson Disaster Is Pretty Much Perfect

Bravo.

By Frank Landymore

Germany has so much energy coming from solar panels that it has outpaced consumer demand and pushed energy prices into a steep nose dive.
Solar Power

Germany Now Has So Much Solar Power That Its Electric Prices Are Going Negative

Prices have dropped 87 percent — more than a dip.

By Sharon Adarlo

Another OpenAI researcher left the company this week, ominously citing concerns over AI industry opaqueness and a lack of accountability.
OpenAI

Another OpenAI Researcher Quits, Issuing Cryptic Warning

"One of the ways tech companies in general can disempower those seeking to hold them accountable..."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After video of the incident went viral, the Tesla driver has shared a crash report confirming that Full Self-Driving was on during the crash.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Driver Blames Full Self-Driving for Almost Plowing Into Moving Train

"I was like there’s no way it doesn’t see the train."

By Frank Landymore

It's becoming ever more evident that once someone figures out how to remove microplastics from our bodies, they're going to make a killing.
Health & Medicine

Whoever Figures Out How to Remove Microplastics From the Human Body Is Going to Make a Fortune

And they'd deserve it, too.

By Noor Al-Sibai

From these observations, the scientists suggest that Phobos is actually a comet that Mars' gravitational field captured in the distance past.
Mars

Mars’ Moon May Not Be What We Think, Scientists Claim

That's no moon.

By Sharon Adarlo

Meta, hoping to cash in on AI for itself, is failing to prevent abusive AI-generated images from spreading across its social media platforms.
Meta

While Meta Stuffs AI Into All Its Products, It’s Apparently Helpless to Stop Perverts on Instagram From Publicly Lusting Over Sexualized AI-Generated Children

"When you look at who's following it, it’s not normal."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Louisiana has voted to pass a deeply unscientific bill that criminalizes abortion pills by classifying them as a schedule IV drug.
Developments

Louisiana House Passes Unbelievably Stupid Bill that Classifies Extremely Safe Abortion Pills as “Controlled Dangerous Substances”

There are no words for how dumb this is, but we did our best.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The source for the recommendation made by the Google AI Overview to add glue to pizza is utterly embarrassing.
Google

The Reason That Google’s AI Suggests Using Glue on Pizza Shows a Deep Flaw With Tech Companies’ AI Obsession

A sticky situation.

By Frank Landymore

In a gruesome video, a biologist proposes that doctors can perform head transplants by using advanced robotics and artificial intelligence.
Neuroscience and Brain

This Deranged Plan to Transplant a Human Head From One Body to Another Might Be the Dumbest Thing We’ve Ever Seen

Come on.

By Sharon Adarlo

Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees
OpenAI

Leaked OpenAI Documents Show Sam Altman Was Clearly Aware of Silencing Former Employees

"We want to make sure you understand that if you don't sign, it could impact your equity."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New reporting by the New York Times alleges that Elon Musk did ketamine and had an affair with Nicole Shanahan.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Reportedly Took Ketamine and Had Sex With the Wife of the Cofounder of Google

What did you expect from the most powerful people on the planet, professionalism?

By Jon Christian

A resurfaced video shows an OpenAI engineer conceding that it's "deeply unfair" to "build AI and take everyone's job away."
OpenAI

Video Shows OpenAI Engineer Admitting It’s “Deeply Unfair” to “Build AI and Take Everyone’s Job Away”

Thanks for your consideration.

By Frank Landymore

Electric and hybrid vehicles are more likely to hit pedestrians, especially in urban areas, compared to vehicles that run on fossil fuels.
Advanced Transport

Electric Cars Are Twice as Likely to Hit Pedestrians, Researchers Find

Ouch!

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers found that 52 percent of answers to programming questions generated by ChatGPT were incorrect.
OpenAI

Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

Ah yes. And yet...

By Sharon Adarlo