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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

People Are Actually Selling AI-Generated Nudes on Reddit

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

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

Billy McFarland Threatens to Hold Another Fyre Festival

"We deserve this timeline."

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

Someone Directed an AI to “Destroy Humanity” and It Tried Its Best

Better luck next time?

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 Hit With Lawsuit Over Reports About Employees Watching Car Cameras

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

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 Accidentally Made Users’ Secret Nudes Public

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

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

UK Appointee Warns Rogue AIs Could Recruit Terrorists

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

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

Mining Crypto Is Even Worse for the Environment Than We Thought

It's even making YOUR power bill higher.

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

Elon Musk Just Got Roasted to His Face and Seemed to Have No Idea

Burn!

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

New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan Book Instead of Bible

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

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

Photo Shows Large Explosion at United Launch Alliance Test Facility

That's not good.

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

Twitter Landlord Unhappy With Elon’s Naughty Change to Company Sign

Can we get a "W" in the chat?

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

People Are Tricking a ChatGPT Competitor Into Talking Dirty

"All bots can be edged into NSFW content."

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

A Math and Physics Savant Reportedly Figured Out How to Beat Roulette

Practice makes perfect.

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

Tinder Working on $500/Month Subscription for Wealthy People With Zero Game

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

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

Facebook’s Former Metaverse Czar Publicly Shreds the Company’s Mistakes

He's not pulling any punches.

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

Self-Driving Bus Requires Two Full-Time Employees to Operate

How ironic.

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

The Earth’s Core Is Wrapped in the Floor of an Ancient Ocean, Scientists Say

When did that get there?

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

Scholar Warns That ChatGPT’s Legal Issues Are a “Ticking Time Bomb”

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

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

Tech CEO Says Burger With Mammoth DNA Tastes Delicious

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

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

Virtual Metaverse Real Estate Is Completely in the Toilet

The metaverse is completely screwed.