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People have evidently been overdosing on semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, because they're taking too much of it.
RX and Medicine

Thousands of People Have Reportedly Overdosed on Ozempic

The risks keep piling up.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Exceljet has found itself the victim of an "SEO heist," losing web traffic to a shameless imitator that used AI to hijack its articles.
Artificial Intelligence

Man Horrified When Someone Uses AI to Reword and Republish All His Content, Complete With New Errors

"It's just wrong to make money on that."

By Frank Landymore

Iconic French-Canadian singer Celine Dion's is apparently unable to move much as her stiff person syndrome has worsened.  
Medical

Celine Dion’s Family Shares Grim Medical News

This is really heartbreaking.

By Noor Al-Sibai

LAION has taken down its machine learning dataset, which Google uses, after researchers found it contained child sexual abuse material.
Google

Image Database Powering Google’s AI Contains Explicit Images of Children

"If you have downloaded that full dataset for whatever purpose, for training a model for research purposes, then yes, you absolutely have CSAM..."

By Victor Tangermann

After embarking on its third mission, China's top-secret spaceplane dubbed Shenlong has released six mysterious objects into Earth's orbit.
Off-World

Chinese Spaceplane Releases Six Mysterious Objects That Are Emitting Signals

What's the spacecraft up to?

By Victor Tangermann

A tool made by grad students is the ultimate "geoguesser," using its knowledge of Google Street View to track down any photo's location.
Artificial Intelligence

Scary AI Can Look at Photos and Figure Out Exactly Where They Were Taken

There's no hiding from this AI.

By Frank Landymore

Mercedes-Benz just received approval for first-of-its-kind turquoise car lights that indicate a vehicle in self-driving mode.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Mercedes-Benz Installing New Tail Lights to Show When Car Is Self-Driving

Heads up.

By Frank Landymore

"Of course AI is a bubble," author Cory Doctorow wrote in a recent piece for Locus. "It has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble."
Artificial Intelligence

Cory Doctorow Blasts AI as a Fraud-Filled Bubble

"Of course AI is a bubble. It has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble."

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has invested a whopping $180 million in a startup that's looking for novel ways to extend human longevity.
Developments

Sam Altman’s Life Extension Guy Warns of Injections That Cause Wild Tumor Growth

"You have to stop before you go too far... because it will start trying to grow an entire person right there and form the tumors."

By Victor Tangermann

Legislators in California are slated to approve new measures to create filtration systems that turns wastewater into drinking water.
Science & Energy

California Working on System to Turn Raw Sewage Into Drinking Water

"This is really about recovering resources, not wasting precious resources."

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Psyche spacecraft just beamed back a cat video from almost 19 million miles away and at blistering speeds.
NASA

NASA Receives Cat Video From 19 Million Miles Away

"Despite transmitting from millions of miles away, it was able to send the video faster than most broadband internet connections."

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft is teaming up with the TomTom GPS company to shove talking generative AI into your car, for some reason.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Stuffing Talking Generative AI Into Your Car

"Generative AI is going to add an emotional layer to interaction with the car."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists now have come across strange types of rock that contain manmade plastic in all five inhabited continents.
Science & Energy

Scientists Warn That Plastic Rocks Are Appearing Across the World

This is a disaster.

By Victor Tangermann

According to a recent analysis of 30 car brands by online lending marketplace LendingTree, Tesla drivers have the highest accident rate.
Tesla

Teslas Crash More Than Any Other Brand, Analysis Finds

Yikes.

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Says the Cybertruck Will Be Able to Travel as a Boat, Until It Sinks
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says the Cybertruck Will Be Able to Travel as a Boat, Until It Sinks

Then it becomes a submarine — permanently.

By Victor Tangermann

Many of those "wrong number" scam texts are being sent by people human trafficked in horrific work camps in Southeast Asia.
Future Society

Those Scam Texts You’re Getting Are Sent By Victims of Human Trafficking

This eyewitness account is absolutely chilling.

By Noor Al-Sibai

"Friends" actor Matthew Perry, who was undergoing ketamine treatment at the time of his death, had high levels of the drug in his body.
Treatments

Matthew Perry Was Undergoing Ketamine Treatment at Time of Ketamine-Linked Death

"This really should be a wake-up call..."

By Sharon Adarlo

If you ever find yourself aboard a spaceship and you have the sudden urge to poop — former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino offers some insight.
NASA

Former NASA Astronaut Explains How to Poop in Space

"It requires a lot of training."

By Sharon Adarlo

Following tens of thousands of earthquakes rocking southwest Iceland, a massive volcano erupted early Tuesday morning local time.
Science & Energy

Massive Icelandic Volcano Erupts, Spews Lava Hundreds of Feet Into the Air

"We are looking at a worst-case scenario."

By Victor Tangermann

The Stanislaus National Forest Service, which manages the National Forest where a Cybertruck recently got stuck, just trolled Tesla hard.
Future Society

National Forest Service Trolls Tesla After Cybertruck Gets Stuck in Forest

"We are always thrilled when new opportunities to explore our public lands become available."

By Victor Tangermann