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Philips is paying out a gigantic settlement to customers whose breathing machines blew foam and gases into their mouths.
Prosthetics and Devices

Company in Huge Trouble After Its CPAP Machines Blew Foam Into Users’ Lungs

Horrific.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Pennsylvania crypto company wants to burn tires to fuel Bitcoin mining — and community members are seeing red. 
Energy

Community Horrified by Plan to Burn Tires to Produce Bitcoin

"I can’t even believe that people would be allowed to burn tires."

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has admitted to thwarting a Ukrainian attack on Russia's fleet near the Crimean coast by cutting off Starlink internet.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Admits to Sabotaging Ukraine’s Military

"As a result, civilians, children are being killed. This is the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego."

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk had to be convinced to renew Tesla's efforts of building a $25,000 car. It may end up looking like the Cybertruck.
Tesla

Tesla’s $25,000 Car Will Apparently Look Like a Mini Cybertruck

"When one of these comes around a corner," Musk reportedly said, "people will think they are seeing something from the future."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists calculated that almost one out of three men on Earth carries at least one variation of the human papillomavirus (HPV).
Viruses

One in Three Dudes Has an STI, Scientists Find

Casual hook ups, beware!

By Sharon Adarlo

51-year-old Reza Baluchi was arrested last week while attempting to traverse the Atlantic Ocean via rigged-out hamster wheel.
Science & Energy

Florida Man Arrested for Trying to Cross Ocean in “Hamster Wheel”… Again

That's quite a hobby.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The European Space Agency carefully de-orbited its Aeolus satellite in July. Newly released images reveal its fiery, headlong descent.
Off-World

Amazing Images Show Final Moments of Satellite Before It Burns Up Completely

Spectacular.

By Frank Landymore

Claire "Grimes" Boucher has seemingly claimed that her billionaire baby daddy is not allowing her to see their son.
Elon Musk

Grimes Claims Elon Musk Isn’t Letting Her See Their Son

Ooph.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Top prosecutors from all 54 US states and territories are urging Congress to take action against AI-generated child sexual abuse material.
Artificial Intelligence

Every Single State’s Attorney General Is Calling for Action on AI-Generated Child Abuse Materials

"We are engaged in a race against time to protect the children of our country from the dangers of AI."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In China, two people were detained for damaging a section of the Great Wall of China, which is hundreds of years old.
Future Society

Workers Detained for Plowing Construction Equipment Through Great Wall of China

They've been charged with "destroying a cultural relic."

By Sharon Adarlo

Japan has, for the first time in its history, succesfully launched a mission to the Moon — and it's unlike any other we've seen before. 
Moon

Japan Launches Mission to the Moon

This is super exciting, y'all.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Crypto mining company Riot Platforms has revealed that it got $31.7 million in energy credits in August alone for limiting operations.
Cryptocurrency

Crypto Miners’ New Hustle: Get the State to Pay Them to Shut Down When It’s Hot Out

This is outrageous.

By Victor Tangermann

A fierce debate has erupted over whether it's time to rename A. hitleri, an unfortunate Slovenian beetle named to honor Adolf Hitler.
Science & Energy

Scientists Debate Whether to Rename Bug Named After Adolf Hitler

"In which other spheres of human endeavor is anything still named [after] Hitler?"

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The indigenous residents of a tiny island off the coast of Panama are being forced to flee as rising waters threaten to engulf their homes.
Science & Energy

Residents Flee Island as It Sinks Into the Ocean

"We know it's going to happen."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Gannett promised that no AI content would be published to its vast network without direct human oversight. This isn't how things played out.
Artificial Intelligence

Gannett Promised to Be Super Responsible With AI Before Completely Bungling It

They promised that no AI content would be published in its papers without human oversight.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk intentionally hamstrung SpaceX's Starlink network to thwart a Ukrainian attack on Russia's naval fleet near the Crimean coast.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Secretly Manipulated Starlink to Hamstring Ukrainian Attack Against Russia

"How am I in this war?"

By Victor Tangermann

Gizmodo's owner fired the site's Spanish translators to replace them with automated software. Surprise: the AI is already doing a bad job.
Artificial Intelligence

Gizmodo Fires Spanish-Speaking Staff, Replaces Them With AI That Immediately Starts Making Sloppy Mistakes

Get ready for an internet full of butchered AI content.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We tracked down one of the diarrhea plane's unlucky passengers, who confirmed that the defecation disaster was indeed extensive.
Advanced Transport

Passenger on Ill-Fated Diarrhea Plane Says Flight Attendants Were Forced to Craft “Makeshift Biohazard Suits”

"I woke up and there was a bit of a strange smell."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI pioneer and onetime Google executive has issued a stark warning about the technology he helped unleash upon the world.
Google

Former Google Exec Warns AI Could Create a Deadly Plague

"We are working with dangerous things."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Japanese auto giant Toyota has had to shut down all of its factories in the country due to "insufficient disk space."
Advanced Transport

Toyota Factories Shut Down When Company Runs Out of Disk Space

It's a major fumble.

By Victor Tangermann