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As if being verified couldn't be more worthless or AIs more dubious, beware verified Twitter accounts with AI-generated faces pretending to be real people.
Artificial Intelligence

Twitter Is “Verifying” Accounts With AI-Generated Faces

It's only the tip of the iceberg.

A Chinese influencer who thought it was a great idea to purchase, grill, and eat a whole great white shark has been fined by her country for doing so.
Science & Energy

Influencer Fined for Eating Endangered Great White Shark

"Don't be fooled by its scary appearance, its meat is very tender."

Strange things were certainly afoot this weekend, with zookeepers in Dallas and Louisiana announcing separate incidents of monkey theft.
Future Society

It Was a Very Bad Weekend for Monkeys Being Stolen From Zoos, Apparently

"The coincidence is a little difficult to ignore."

Could flirting with a VR bartender help you combat IRL temptations? These researchers betted it could — and their study seems to back them up.
Virtual Reality

Flirting With a VR Hottie Might Help People Avoid Cheating, Experiment Finds

A human walks into a VR bar — stop me if you've heard this one before.

Northwestern University astronomer Jason Wang has created a stunning timelapse of a number of planets orbiting a distant star.
Exoplanets

Scientist Releases Amazing Video of Exoplanets Orbiting Distant Star

Okay, that's just plain amazing.

A Motherboard deep dive into 4Chan found that a number of users have likely abused a new AI voice-generator beta to make phony "celebs" say horrible things.
Artificial Intelligence

Startup Shocked When 4Chan Immediately Abuses Its Voice-Cloning AI

"The clips run the gamut from harmless, to violent, to transphobic, to homophobic, to racist."

An old Soviet-era rocket body almost collided with an errant military satellite, narrowly avoiding a huge disaster, according to tracking company LeoLabs.
Off-World

Two Large Chunks of Space Debris Just Almost Collided in an Epic Disaster

That was a seriously close call.

Brandon Ewing, a popular Twitch streamer who goes by "Atrioc," apologized for viewing NSFW deepfake porn that may have been of female streamers.
Artificial Intelligence

Twitch Streamer Tearfully Apologizes for Looking at Deepfaked Porn

"It's not as simple as 'just' being violated. It's so much more than that."

People have suspected for years that Facebook Messenger was draining their batteries — and a new lawsuit just might prove it.
Future Society

Whistleblower Claims Facebook Can Secretly Drain Your Phone’s Battery on Purpose

Facebook, it's worth noting, is completely denying the claims.

Google researchers have shown off the latest tricks they've taught MusicLM, their AI model that can turn simple text prompts into music.
Google

Google’s Powerful New AI Can Turn Text Into Music

Have a listen for yourself.

After almost two years of roaming the surface, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has officially dropped off the tenth and final Martian soil sample.
Mars

NASA’s Mars Rover Perseverance Just Dropped Off Its Last Sample

"Someone understood the assignment."

Silicon Valley darling and ChatGPT creator OpenAI has reportedly hired roughly 1,000 contractors with the goal of improving its text-to-code AI, Codex.
OpenAI

OpenAI Reportingly Hiring “Army” of Devs to Train AI to Replace Entry-Level Coders

"Learn to code," they said.

The European Space Agency has shown off a concept for a giant eight-feet-long robotic arm that is designed to pick up samples of Martian soil.
ESA

European Space Agency Shows Off Concept for Martian Sample Picker-Upper

It's literally picking up where Perseverance left off.

Vivek Murthy is worried that kids are fighting a losing battle against social media giants that are trying to maximize their easily earned engagement.
Neuroscience and Brain

US Surgeon General Warns Against 13-Year-Old Using Social Media

"You're pitting a child against the world's greatest product designers and that's just not a fair fight. And so that's why I think our kids need help."

German automaker Mercedes-Benz claims to have achieved Level 3 autonomy in the US, a noteworthy but incremental upgrade.
Tesla

Mercedes Claims to Have Achieved Level 3 Automation, Beating Tesla

We might soon be able to catch up with our favorite TV shows while driving.

Real estate agents are, it seems, already using OpenAI's controversial ChatGPT artificial intelligence software to pump out property listings.
OpenAI

Shameless Realtors Are Already Grinding Out Property Listings With ChatGPT

This shouldn't be surprising.

Mining giant Rio Tinto misplaced a "highly radioactive" object along a Western Australian highway, several outlets report. If it helps, they're "sorry."
Science & Energy

Miners Say “Sorry” for Losing Highly Radioactive Object Along Highway

Oops!

It took firefighters 6,000 gallons of water to eventually extinguish the Tesla's battery which was determined to be the cause of the fire.
Tesla

Tesla “Spontaneously” Bursts Into Flames While Driving Down Freeway

Terrifying.

As the Artemis mission's 2024 launch date steadily approaches, NASA is undertaking its secretive selection process to decide who will be sent to the Moon.
Moon

NASA Finalizing Secretive Decision on First Astronauts for the Artemis Moon Mission

"It’s not always the most equitable or transparent process."

I work for Red Ventures, which owns the tech news site CNET and many others — which the company is now pumping full of articles churned out by a shadowy AI.
Artificial Intelligence

I Work for CNET’s Parent Company. Its AI-Generated Articles Disgust Me.

"The sea is up to our knees, and it’ll keep rising."