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Folks have begun using AI image generators to make porn of people who don't exist — and it seems to be a seller's market. 
Artificial Intelligence

"At the end of the day, if they’re not real, who really cares?"

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's been a year since Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland was let out of prison early — and he's already planning another one.
Future Society

"We deserve this timeline."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A user instructed an autonomous AI agent, dubbed ChaosGPT, to destroy humanity. Though the bot gave the mission its darndest, it didn't quite work out.
Artificial Intelligence

Better luck next time?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After reports revealed that Tesla employees shared "intimate" customer images taken by the cars' cameras, someone is now suing the company over it. 
Tesla

"Tesla needs to be held accountable for these invasions and for misrepresenting its lax privacy practices to him and other Tesla owners."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter Circles is broken. Very broken. So broken that, in a particularly terrible turn, some folks' secret nude photos appeared in random feeds. Not good.
Future Society

"Twitter seems to be outright failing to filter out private content before serving it to users."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the UK's terrorism watchdogs is warning that human society may soon start to witness AI-assisted — or even AI-propogated — terrorism.
Artificial Intelligence

"AI-enabled attacks are probably round the corner."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We knew crypto mining uses tons of energy — but new investigations have revealed that the situation is actually worse than we thought. 
Cryptocurrency

It's even making YOUR power bill higher.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter CEO Elon Musk just got absolutely roasted on Twitter — something that completely flew over his head.
Elon Musk

Burn!

By Victor Tangermann

If you look closely at the photo that accompanies NASA's press release about the new Goddard Center director, you'll see something curious and delightful.
NASA

"Anyone who does this has to be cool to work for."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A huge cloud of hydrogen gas blew up a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur V upper stage, not far from where Blue Origin was testing its engines.
Off-World

That's not good.

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk has chosen to white out the "W" on the Twitter HQ sign in San Francisco — and his landlord, apparently, isn't exactly thrilled.
Future Society

Can we get a "W" in the chat?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tech workers got paid six-figure salaries to do nothing. That may be by design, as experts say the industry overhired to hoard talent.
OpenAI

"All bots can be edged into NSFW content."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to Bloomberg, there's a man out there who's beaten Roulette, no computer required — and all he says it took was a little practice. Easy!
Future Society

Practice makes perfect.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Popular dating app Tinder has confirmed that it's working on a $500-a-month subscription that's tentatively called "Tinder Vault," Fast Company reports.
Future Society

It's like "pay-to-win" but for online dating.

By Victor Tangermann

John Carmack was a critic of Facebook's Metaverse even when he was still nominally tasked with building it — and now that he's out, he's pulling no punches. 
Metaverse

He's not pulling any punches.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new "self-driving bus" pilot program in Scotland will require not one but two full-time human operators when it hits the road.
Self-Driving Vehicles

How ironic.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The core-mantle boundary is dotted with Everest-dwarfing "mountains" made of ocean floors that were dragged to the interior over millions of years.
Science & Energy

When did that get there?

By Frank Landymore

A Columbia law scholar has joined the OpenAI chat — and he's got some pretty start warnings about ChatGPT's legal liability.
OpenAI

"ChatGPT seems to have a very serious defamation liability problem that is a ticking time bomb."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Paleo, a Belgian competitor experimenting with mammoth protein, says a plant-based burger injected with mammoth myoglobin is delicious.
DNA

Is a mammoth burger really "more meaty" than a cow one?

By Victor Tangermann

Only a handful of users are actually trading virtual real estate on Decentraland, slices of land that are being sold inside the virtual world as NFTs.
Metaverse

The metaverse is completely screwed.

By Victor Tangermann