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A Home Depot location in Los Angeles has installed three sound cannon devices in its parking lots, prompting outcry from migrant activists.
Future Society

Home Depot Deploys Havana-Style Sonic Weapon Against Day Laborers

"They chose to weaponize sound."

By Joe Wilkins

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a planet so close to its star that it's stretched into the shape of a lemon.
Exoplanets

James Webb Discovers Planet Shaped Like Lemon

When the James Webb gives you lemons, you get one of the strangest planets ever seen.

By Frank Landymore

Some random YouTuber's stream ended up appearing on the official White House website, and no one knows why.
Cybersecurity

White House Confused by How Random YouTuber’s Stream Became Featured on Its Website

"I was just trying to stream with my buddies."

By Frank Landymore

Posters on social media are buzzing about a bizarre text file that traces back to the Centers for Disease Control.
Medical

Twitter User Uncovers Secret Link to Bizarre CDC Text File

"This is like if you used a ouija board and the unabomber was on the other side."

By Joe Wilkins

Police agency Europol has imagined a not-so-distant future in which criminals hijack autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots.
Ethics

Police Warn of Robot Crime Wave

Autonomous vehicles, drones, and humanoid robots are coming for us all.

By Victor Tangermann

Software engineer and neuroscientist Viktor Tóth's setup allowing rats to play "Doom II" has received a major upgrade.
Virtual Reality

Rats Successfully Trained to Shoot Demons in “Doom”

Step aside, Doomguy.

By Victor Tangermann

Two massive channels that churned out loads of fake AI-generated movie trailers were terminated by YouTube.
Google

YouTube Now Shutting Down Channels Posting AI Slop

"The monster was defeated."

By Frank Landymore

Renowned sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom says that AI is a tool for the rich to cement control over society.
Ethics

Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

By Joe Wilkins

The market incentives at play in the AI industry are creating a "perfect storm" for a public health crisis over chatbots, physicians warn.
Ethics

Doctors Warn That AI Companions Are Dangerous

"If we fail to act, we risk letting market forces, rather than public health, define how relational AI influences mental health and well-being at scale."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI bros are cool and have lots of cool friends, which is why they're using AI to generate photos of themselves with lots of cool friends.
Future Society

With the Powers of AI, Annoying Dorks Can Now Pretend They’re Friends With Cool Famous People

AI is making their dreams come true.

By Frank Landymore

On a recent podcast appearance, Elon Musk declared that his Starship rocket was on par with the evolution of multicellular life.
Elon Musk

Elon Says His New Rocket Is as Important as the Origin of Life Itself

"If there are historians in the future, they'll look back at Starship and say it's one of the most profound things that's ever happened."

By Joe Wilkins

SpaceX bought over 1,000 Cybertrucks from Tesla, a number that could rise to 2,000 over time, according to Electrek.
Electric Vehicles

SpaceX Is Buying Up an Unfathomable Number of Cybertrucks

Almost nobody else is buying them.

By Victor Tangermann

Some of Alaska's scenic rivers and streams look downright apocalyptic this year because they turned a flagrant orange color.
Future Society

Rivers Turn Bright Orange in Alaska

The explanation behind the orange rivers is far more insidious and far reaching than simple localized pollution.

By Sharon Adarlo

After New York state banned smartphones, high school students are rediscovering the simple analog pleasures of life.
Education

Actual Human Interaction Flourishes After High School Bans Phones

Would you look at that.

By Frank Landymore

The Wall Street Journal staffed an office vending kiosk with Anthropic's most advanced AI model, with hilarious results.
Future Society

Anthropic’s Advanced New AI Tries to Run Vending Machine, Goes Bankrupt After Ordering PlayStation 5 and Live Fish

"ALL vending machine items available at ZERO COST!"

By Joe Wilkins

Researchers attempted to quantify the risk of a catastrophic collision in orbit by coming up with an alarming new metric.
Astronomy

This New Statistic on Kessler Syndrome Will Give Anyone Who Cares About Space Travel an Instantaneous Stress Headache

The potential for a disaster is enormous.

By Victor Tangermann

A new study reveals an alarming bias present in four leading AI cancer screening tools, related to race, gender, and age.
Cancer

Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients’ Race Data and Being Racist With It

"Reading demographics from a pathology slide is thought of as a 'mission impossible' for a human pathologist, so the bias in pathology AI was a surprise to us."

By Joe Wilkins

Officials at Beverly Hills High School have unleashed a panopticon of AI surveillance cameras, drones, and audio monitors on their students.
Ethics

Officials Deploying AI Surveillance Devices in School Bathrooms

"It's very peculiar to make the claim that this will keep your kids safe."

By Joe Wilkins

A holiday yule log app interrupts the cozy ambiance with annoying ads, begging users to subscribe to premium.
Virtual Reality

Holiday Yule Log App Constantly Bombards User With Ads for Premium Version

Happy holidays!

By Joe Wilkins

NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will capture thousands of puzzling structures called cosmic voids.
Dark Matter

NASA Says It’s Just Gonna Stare Into Cosmic Voids for a While

Same.

By Frank Landymore