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The FAA is still awaiting the report that will detail the steps SpaceX will have to implement before it can try to launch its Starship again.
Starship

FAA Throws Cold Water on SpaceX’s Next Starship Orbital Launch

You can ignore Elon Musk's promises. Starship is still grounded.

The asphalt in one Arizona county is so hot, people are getting life-threatening burns simply for falling on the blistering ground.
Climate Change

It’s So Hot That People Are Getting Burned From Falling on the Ground

The floor is lava.

A team of researchers has discovered an egregiously simple jailbreak that allows anybody to circumvent AI chatbot guardrails.
Artificial Intelligence

It’s Shockingly Easy to Get Around AI Chatbot Guardrails, Researchers Find

"You can create as many of these attacks as you want in a short amount of time."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was in the news for something entirely unrelated to ChatGPT, so we decided to get to the bottom of it.
Cryptocurrency

I Let Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Scan My Eyeballs With a Orb, and They Didn’t Even Pay Me Crypto

Yes, I pondered the orb.

The guy behind OpenAI has admitted that people are, in fact, going to lose work to artificial intelligence.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Says Sorry, AI Is Definitely Destroying Jobs

"Jobs are definitely going to go away, full stop."

Scientists are positing that Mars' giant Olympus Mons volcano, which is roughly the size of France, may once have been an island.
Off-World

Huge Martian Volcano Was Once an Island, Scientists Suggest

This could be huge — pun intended.

OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, DeepMind, and Anthropic have together formed The Frontier Model Forum, a self-regulatory AI industry club.
Google

OpenAI and Google Form New Group to Self-Regulate Their AI

Because self-regulation always goes so well!

Netflix wants to pay someone anywhere between $300,000 and $900,000 to tell them exactly how it can cash in on AI tech.
Artificial Intelligence

Netflix, Intent on Using AI to Own BackGround Actors’ Faces in Perpetuity Without Pay, Will Pay You $900k If You Tell Them How to Cash in on AI

So that's where all of its money's been going!

Indonesia has announced that it blocked the domain "X.com," which reportedly used to host "negative" adult and gambling-related content.
Future Society

Indonesia Blocks Twitter, Thinking the “X” Was a Porn Thing

Now this is how you rebrand.

Some patients taking semaglutide medications Ozempic and Wegovy are experiencing gastroparesis, or stomach paralysis.
Developments

Doctors Say People Taking Semaglutide Are Suffering From Stomach Paralysis

"This medicine made my life hell. So much hell."

While Elon Musk was busy dismantling Twitter, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg was studying jiu-jitsu — and has the blue belt to show for it.
Elon Musk

As Elon Musk Destroys Twitter, Zuckerberg Prepares to Destroy Him in Hand-to-Hand Combat

Honestly, we would love to see it.

The coast of Florida is being hit hard by heat waves, with one buoy registering 101.1 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature of a hot tub.
Science & Energy

Florida’s Ocean Now Officially the Temperature of a Hot Tub

This is devastating.

A power outage struck Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center, temporarily cutting off comss with the International Space Station.
International Space Station

International Space Station Suffers Comms Blackout Due to Power Outage

It's the first time this has ever happened.

After abruptly changing Twitter's name to "X," Elon Musk has also taken over the handle associated with the letter.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Seizes @X Account From Guy Who Owned It

Wow.

A US general is getting heat after saying that any AI employed by our military will be better because of our "Judeo-Christian" values. 
Military

General Brags That US Military AI Will Be Better Because of “Judeo-Christian” Values

"No military actions motivated by Christian values [have] ever ended poorly."

A mile-and-a-half wide swarm of hundreds of thousands of tiny toads reportedly overtook a stretch of road in Utah last week.
Science & Energy

Drivers Horrified as Writhing Toads Cover Entire Surface of Road

"The word Biblical came to mind."

Congress is holding a hearing about controversial claims that the government is hiding evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Future Society

Former Intelligence Guy Tells Congress the Government Is Reverse-Engineering Alien Relics

"It is my hope that the revelations we unearth through investigations of the Non-Human Reverse Engineering Programs..."

A new volcano in Iceland has erupted into existence and scientists think it heralds the start of increased volcanic activity in the region.
Science & Energy

New Volcano Bursts Forth in Iceland

"This could herald the start of decades of occasional eruptions."

Less than six months after its public release, OpenAI has shut down its "AI classifier," its in-house AI-detection tool. Why? It didn't work.
OpenAI

OpenAI Shutters AI Detection Tool Due to “Low Rate of Accuracy”

If they can't do it, nobody can.

Scientists think a rock found in Morocco could the be first known "terrestrial meteorite," basically a meteorite that originated on Earth.
Space

Weird Meteorite Appears to Have Left Earth and Then Come Back

"Nobody knows what this stone is really worth."