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South Korea's lunar orbiter has taken a fascinating image of the wall and floor of the Shackleton Crater on the shadowy far side of the Moon.
Moon

New Orbiter Can See Inside Moon Craters Hidden in Total Darkness

Here's what the Moon's backside where the Sun don't shine looks like.

JPMorgan says it was tricked to pay $175 million for a startup that had fabricated millions of users. File under: nothing's real anymore!
Future Society

JPMorgan Says Startup Tricked It Into an Acquisition by Cooking Up Millions of Fake Users

Extremely embarrassing for JPMorgan!

Elon Musk's lawyers are trying to get an impending securities fraud trial moved from San Francisco to Texas since most prospective jurors hate his guts.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Lawyers Says San Francisco Hates Him Too Much for a Fair Trial

Oof.

The Winchcombe meteorite was kept pristine and avoided earthly contamination, making the discovery of amino acids inside all the more compelling.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Building Blocks of Life in Meteor That Smashed Into Family’s Driveway

A key find in uncovering the origins of life may have landed right on someone's doorstep.

There already appears to be an generative AI-powered Substack, and it already appears to have word-for-word plagiarized human work. Cheers.
Artificial Intelligence

Viral AI-Written Article Busted as Plagiarized

We're in for a strange ride.

Tesla's EVs like the Model Y are not only $13,000 cheaper, but also now qualify for a $7,500 tax credit from the federal government.
Tesla

Tesla Slashes Car Prices Up to 20 Percent

Get those tax credits.

Formerly-bald ex-NFL player Brian Urlacher is suing a Texas hair transplant company for using his image and story in a blog post.
Future Society

NFL Star Sues Company for Implying It Gave Him a Hair Transplant

He's not happy, folks.

Keith Schofield shared an extensive series of eyegrabbing images that supposedly evoke the style of David Cronenberg, but fans think otherwise.
Artificial Intelligence

Someone Used AI to Dream Up a Nonexistent David Cronenberg Movie and the Results Are Nauseating

But horror fans aren't pleased.

Without consciousness, AI-powered chatbots are doomed to turn into dangerous sociopaths, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano warns.
Artificial Intelligence

Neuroscientist Warns That Current Generation AIs Are Sociopaths

A grim thought.

If aliens were to be in touch tomorrow, humanity would be ill-prepared, scientists warn — something that needs to change as soon as possible.
Exobiology

Scientists Worried Humankind Will Descend Into Chaos If We Ever Discover an Alien Signal

"We’d be like headless chickens."

The first probe sent to us by an alien civilization may not actually be the first to have been sent, which could make first contact super confusing.
Off-World

The Second Alien Probe We Detect May Be Particularly Bizarre, Scientist Says

There's a simple reason why.

Carb-lovers, today's your lucky day — an Australian food scientist has pretty expertly shot down criticisms that claim pasta is an unhealthy food. 
Developments

Rejoice! Food Scientist Says Pasta Is Way Healthier Than You’d Think

Eat pasta, run fasta.

In a damning new paper, researchers have found that scientists employed by Exxon were shockingly accurate in their predictions of global warming.
Global Warming

Exxon Scientists Knew About Global Warming for Decades While Company Denied It

"They knew all of that. They’ve known it for decades."

A masked Tesla driver armed with a pipe was caught on video viciously attacking someone else's car on a freeway in Los Angeles. 
Tesla

Pipe-Wielding Tesla Maniac Attacks Fellow Driver in Los Angeles

When Tesla bros attack.

It seems that Replika, the AI "companion" app that, for a fee, encourages users to sext with their chatbot avatars, can't stop making the news.
Artificial Intelligence

Those Horny Chatbots Are Apparently Now Sexually Harassing Users

Disturbing.

Elon Musk-owned Twitter has been accused of intentionally shadowbanning a journalist — just after they reported on a pileup caused by a self-driving Tesla.
Elon Musk

Journalist Critical of Elon Musk Allegedly Shadowbanned on Twitter

It's a pretty serious accusation.

Have you ever struggled to be heard over the sound of street construction? That makes you not all too different from dolphins, new research suggests.
Biology

Dolphins Are Screaming Because of Underwater Drilling Noise, Scientists Say

This is absolutely heartbreaking.

Jimmy "Mr. Beast" Donaldson, the youth-beloved YouTuber, thinks that we'll live for a few hundred years. At the very least, a could 130 or so.
Science & Energy

Mr. Beast Hopeful That Science Will Let Him Live Several Hundred Years

"That would be really nice."

Congress has reportedly rejected the Army's request for $400 million to fund the purchase of more Microsoft AR Hololens goggles.
Military

Congress Rejects Funding the Military’s Microsoft AR Goggles Because They Made Soldiers Sick

Finally, some sanity.

Given SpaceX's recent progress, CEO Elon Musk's latest promise that Starship will attempt to go orbital "soon" might actually signal an imminent attempt.
Starship

Elon Musk Promises Starship Will Attempt Orbital Launch “Soon”

Is it finally time to get excited or is it yet another empty promise?