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An impressive new deepfake video reimagines the well-known cast of Harry Potter as a 1980s-style ad for the Spanish luxury fashion house Balenciaga.
Artificial Intelligence

Perplexing AI Video Turns “Harry Potter” Into Balenciaga Ad

"What is the difference, Potter, between H&M and Balenciaga?"

Elon Musk's latest Twitter verification gambit is so convoluted, even some of his biggest stans are coming out against it.
Elon Musk

Even Elon Musk’s Biggest Fans Are Aghast at His Latest Scheme

"This is so lame."

An array of fiery streaks was spotted soaring across the sky over Florida early Thursday morning, believed to be the remains of a deployed Chinese rocket.
Future Society

Burning Rocket Debris Leave Epic Streak Across Florida Sky

Partiers in Miami caught a heck of a video.

Chinese researchers found an entirely new source of water on the surface of the Moon in the form of tiny glass beads.
Moon

China Found Something Fascinating in Glass Beads Strewn Across Moon

This could be a game changer for our efforts to establish a permanent Moon base.

Nvidia has had enough. It's calling for its customers to stop mining worthless crypto and use its cards for AI instead.
Cryptocurrency

Nvidia Wishes People Would Stop Using Its GPUs to Mine Worthless Crypto

"They bought a lot of stuff, and then eventually it collapsed, because it doesn’t bring anything useful for society."

A team of AI scientists is claiming that just like humans can solve problems through self-reflection, Large Language Model (LLM) AIs might be able to, too.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Seems to Do Better on Tasks When Asked to Reflect on Its Mistakes

If at first you don't succeed...

AI chatbot company Replika has reinstated the ability for users to have sexually charged conversations with its AI-based avatars, Reuters reports.
Artificial Intelligence

Replika Users Rejoice! Erotic Roleplay Is Back in AI-Powered App

The company is giving users "their partners back exactly the way they were."

A second giant "hole," large enough to easily fit 20 Earths in one go, has torn the Sun's surface apart, heralding our star's most ferocious period during its 11-year cycle.
Off-World

Low Key Hole Opens Up in Sun

Natural phenomenon, or portal to hell?

An AI enthusiast wrote a few bars in the style of Kanye West and, using a clone of the artist's voice, recorded an apology track to the Jewish people.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Bro Drops Freakishly Real-Sounding Kanye West Apology Track

"This is the worst that AI will ever be."

Geoffrey Hinton recently shared his thoughts on the state of AI in an interview with CBS. While enthusiastic about AI's progress, he's also urging caution.
Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Says There’s a Minor Risk It’ll Eliminate Humanity

"It's not inconceivable."

There may be planets made up of dark matter with their own bizarre physics, a group of scientist argue in a new study: and they might know how to find them.
Dark Matter

Physicists Say There May Be Entire Planets Made of Dark Matter

This could be so awesome.

Little love has been lost lately between Twitter CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI, a company he co-founded but later abandoned due to what he says were ideological differences.
OpenAI

CEO of OpenAI Says Elon Musk’s Mean Comments Have Hurt Him

"I wish he would do more to look at the hard work we're doing to get this stuff right, a little bit more love."

To the shock of absolutely no one, it turns out that those images of Pope Francis looking fresh to death in a pristine white puffer are AI-generated fakes. 
Artificial Intelligence

That Viral Image of the Swagged Out Pope Is an AI Fake, Dummies

Ironically, the Pope commented on ethical AI usage this weekend, too.

Swathes of Twitter's source code leaked online months ago on GitHub, The New York Times reports, allowing practically anybody to get a detailed glimpse.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Bragged He Was Going to Open Source Twitter’s Code, Now Furious That Someone Leaked It Online

So which is it?

Remember Oumuamua, that weird and possibly-alien object that flew past Earth back in 2017? Some scientists have a boring explanation for what it was.
Off-World

Boring Scientists Say Strange “Oumuamua” Space Object Wasn’t Alien, Just Gassy

"It’s just the most generic explanation."

Tired of pesky subscriptions that make it near-impossible to cancel? That practice may become illegal, thanks to a new FTC rule proposal that just dropped.
Future Society

Government Working to Punish Companies That Make It Hard to Cancel Subscriptions

Get 'em!

New Yorkers aren't exactly known for being nice, which was why it was so shocking that only a few were rude to some trash robots in Greenwich Village.
Robotics

Researchers Pleasantly Surprised That Only One New Yorker Attacked Their Cute Trash-Collecting Robots

Nice job, New York!

The US Federal Trade Commission published a consumer alert warning the public of voice cloning scams, which seem to be on the rise.
Artificial Intelligence

FTC Warns That Scammers Are Cloning Your Relatives’ Voice To Steal Your Money

"When the scammer calls you, he'll sound just like your loved one."

A ginormous, tornado of plasma has been spotted on the Sun's surface, violently raging within a powerful magnetic structure.
Off-World

We’re in Awe of This Massive Tornado of Plasma on the Surface of the Sun

Good God, it's 14 times taller than Earth!

Researchers just confirmed that nanoplastics can cause wretched malformations and growth defects in baby chicks when injected into chicken embryos.
Developments

Tiny Amounts of Plastic Cause Horrifying Problems in Chicken Embryos

"We see malformations in the nervous system, heart, eyes and other parts of the face."