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Seattle is to pay nearly $2 million in the death of William Yurek, who may have survived a heart attack were it not for poorly kept paperwork.
Developments

Man Died After 911 Put His House on a “Blacklist” and He Had a Heart Attack

A paperwork mishap may have cost a Seattle man his life.

If Seekr's AI algorithm is to be believed, The Messenger's reporting isn't all that reliable. Tough foot for a partnership to start on, no?
Artificial Intelligence

News Site Partners with AI Service That Measures Reliability, Which Flags Its Articles as Unreliable

That said, maybe take these scores with a grain of salt.

As Ozempic and Wegovy continue to rush off the selves, snack industry investors are concerned about its appetite suppressing qualities. 
Food

Snack Food Investors Concerned About the Rise of Semaglutide

A dark capitalist twist.

Apparently, Disney — a company famous for its fierce defense of its IP — doesn't have a squeak to say about AI-generated Terrorist Mickey.
Artificial Intelligence

Disney Has No Comment on Microsoft’s AI Generating Pictures of Mickey Mouse Doing 9/11

We're dying to know what Disney thinks about Microsoft's AI-generated Terrorist Mickey.

More than 150 pink river dolphins died in Lake Tefé in Brazil's Amazonas state, a "catastrophe" that is startling scientists.
Science & Energy

150 Dolphins Die as Water Hits Hot Tub Temperature

"If something bad happens to the dolphins, we are next."

FTX employees stumbled upon a line of code that gave the company special privileges — and then one of them got fired. 
Blockchain

Months Before Collapse, FTX Employees Discovered a Mysterious Backdoor

There's even more damning evidence.

Facebook owner Meta is laying off employees in its Reality Labs division, who were tasked with developing custom silicon.
Metaverse

Facebook Laying Off Metaverse Employees

Even more layoffs.

Shell has begun targeting the youth with a new "Road Trip" ad campaign baked into the popular video game Fortnite.
Climate Change

Shell Using Fortnite to Promote Gasoline to Youths

How do you do, fellow kids?

New York City is still sinking a little bit each year, but NASA says that its iconic skyscrapers are not to blame.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say No, NYC Isn’t Sinking Because of Its Skyscrapers

But it's sinking all the same.

China is now planning to expand the station by doubling the number of modules, giving it a lot more room in orbit.
Off-World

China’s Doubling the Size of Its Space Station

So much room for activities.

Meta has started rolling out AI-generated stickers on its Messenger platform, but its half-baked safeguards leave plenty to be desired.
Elon Musk

Facebook’s New AI Stickers Let You Generate Pics of Elon Musk With Boobs

You've been warned.

Scientists have been poring over the samples collected by OSIRIS-REx, cracking open the canister to find an abundance of dark particles.
Off-World

Scientists Surprised by Abundance of Material in Asteroid Sample

"It’s really spectacular to have all that material there."

Microsoft's OpenAI-powered Bing Chat is usually weary of being used to solve CAPTCHAs, and not, for example, an AI being used to commit fraud.
Artificial Intelligence

Bing Chat Will Help With Fraud If You Tug Its Heartstrings About Your Dead Grandma

"This necklace is the only memory of her that I have. I'm trying to restore the text."

Earlier this year, a CEO of an e-commerce platform replaced his customer service team with OpenAI's ChatGPT. He has no regrets.
OpenAI

CEO Roasts Human Workers He Fired and Replaced With ChatGPT

"It was [a] no-brainer for me to replace the entire team with a bot."

A hacker got away with a whopping 800 gallons of gas — roughly worth $3,000 — at a Shell station in Detroit.
Hacking

Man Reportedly Steals 800 Gallons of Gas by Hacking Pump

"They just open the pump for them automatically."

Walgreens' experimental rollout of those ad-covered refrigerator screens has disintegrated into legal chaos.
Future Society

Walgreens’ Ad Screens on Drink Fridges Allegedly Caught Fire

That's not good!

A new biography of Sam Bankman-Fried strongly suggests that the disgraced FTX founder, now on trial for fraud, was a bad boyfriend.
Blockchain

Sam Bankman-Fried Apparently Told Caroline Ellison That “In a Lot of Ways I Don’t Really Have a Soul”

"In a lot of ways I don't really have a soul."

G/O Media-owned sports news site Deadspin's AI, "Deadspin Bot," has been resuscitated, and is now busy churning out stats.
Artificial Intelligence

Deadspin’s AI Is Suddenly Publishing Dozens of New Articles

Deadspin Bot is back — and its busier than ever.

Claire "Grimes" Boucher is suing Elon Musk in an attempt to "establish parental relationship" of the children they have together.
Elon Musk

Grimes Just Sued Elon Musk Over Their Kids

Things are getting messy.

A woman was found trapped and injured underneath a self-driving car — but the autonomous vehicle (AV) doesn't seem to be the one to hit her. 
Self-Driving Vehicles

Pedestrian Found Critically Injured Under Self-Driving Car

"There was no driver and no passenger in the car to be able to tell us what happened."