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Researchers have found asteroids that are largely made out of small pieces of rubble could be very difficult to ward off if one were to head our way.
Off-World

Scientists Warn Giant Asteroid Is Actually Swarm, Nearly Impossible to Destroy

We might have to rethink our asteroid defense strategy.

By Victor Tangermann

The scientist who run the Doomsday Clock have once again ticked it forward, bringing humanity's estimated chances of its own annihilation ever closer. 
Nuclear Fusion

Scientists Say We’re Closer to Nuclear Armageddon Than Any Other Point in History

This isn't great!

By Noor Al-Sibai

An Italian clothing line, Cap_able, just released a collection of knitwear that tricks facial recognition software into registering you as an animal.
Facial recognition

Chaotic Italian Fashion Line Baffles Facial Recognition Software

These aren't for the faint of heart.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Italian AI scientists have come up with a unique means of measuring how far away we are from technological singularity. By their data, we're not far off.
Artificial Intelligence

Startup Predicts Year That Technological Singularity Will Happen

It's coming right up, they say.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new study, the Earth's inner core appears to have stopped spinning, and is changing its direction every 60 to 70 years or so.
Science & Energy

Earth’s Core Appears to Have Stopped Spinning, Scientists Say

Huh.

By Victor Tangermann

ChatGPT, OpenAI's impressive new text generating algorithm, has more than its share of fans — and apparently, it's got haters in high places, too. 
OpenAI

Facebook’s Resident AI Guru Just Brutally Slammed ChatGPT

"It's nothing revolutionary."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Gautam Adani, the world's third richest person, says that he's experienced "some addiction" to OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot. To each their own.
Artificial Intelligence

World’s Third Richest Person Says He’s Developed “Addiction” to ChatGPT

To each their own.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to Substack author Sam Bankman-Fried's excel docs — delivered by way of newsletter — FTX US is solvent. The new FTX CEO says otherwise.
Cryptocurrency

Sam Bankman-Fried Posts Excel Docs That He Says Shows Nothing Was His Fault

It's solved!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of Stanford scientists claims to have come up with a new brain-computer interface (BCI) that can decode speech at up to 62 words per minute.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Say New Brain-Computer Interface Lets Users Transmit 62 Words Per Minute

A huge bandwidth increase.

By Victor Tangermann

A new occupational hazard for astronomers just dropped — and it's all because the James Webb Space Telescope is, perhaps, a little too good at its job.
Off-World

Astronomers Complain That the JWST Is Producing Too Much Data, Too Fast

"It was like a firehose."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have created a a remote-controlled walking robot that runs on mouse muscle cells, Inverse reports, an eerie mashup.
Robotics

Scientists Build Gruesome Robots That Move With Mouse Muscles

Did they just build Mousenstein's Monster?!

By Victor Tangermann

CNET's AI-generated articles appear to show deep structural similarities, amounting to plagiarism, with previously published work elsewhere.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism

CNET's AI-written articles aren't just riddled with errors. They also appear to be substantially plagiarized.

By Jon Christian

A Swiss cybersecurity hacktivist has leaked the TSA's No-Fly List, a highly sensitive document, after discovering it on an unsecured server.
Advanced Transport

The TSA’s Entire No Fly List Appears to Have Just Leaked

This is embarrassing.

By Victor Tangermann

Hot off the heels of Microsoft's round of mass layoffs, OpenAI has officially confirmed that it's "extending" its partnership with the tech giant.
OpenAI

OpenAI Confirms Huge Partnership With Microsoft, Which Just Laid Off 10,000 People

C... Clippy?

By Noor Al-Sibai

ChatGPT, OpenAI's groundbreaking language modeling AI, just passed a Wharton Business School exam. Queue yet another existential crisis!
OpenAI

Sorry, Suits: ChatGPT Just Passed a Wharton Business School Test

Yet another AI-induced existential crisis.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Famed Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin has married a woman who works for him at the cool age of 93 in a ceremony that took place on his birthday.
Off-World

Buzz Aldrin Marries His Employee at the Young Age of 93

And she's 30 years his junior, too.

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a former analyst, the Pentagon's robots, trained to identity human targets, were easily fooled by soldiers hiding in cardboard boxes.
Robotics

Marines Evaded a Military Robot by Hiding Inside a Cardboard Box “Like Bugs Bunny in a Looney Tunes Cartoon”

Marines also fooled it by doing somersaults and pretending to be a tree.

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial intelligence stands to be the first major, technology-driven shakeup to the white collar marketplace, experts say.
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Is Coming to Steal Your High Paying Job, Experts Warn

That's right, college grads: that degree won't save you from the robots.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A cane toad dubbed "Toadzilla" has been crowned as the world's largest known toad. But sadly, our hefty heroine's story has already come to an untimely end.
Science & Energy

Authorities Euthanize World’s Largest Toad

Justice for Toadzilla, may we forever stan.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The board tasked with overseeing decisions at Facebook is suggesting the company take a long, hard look at its infamous "female-presenting nipple" rule.
Future Society

Meta Board Trashes Facebook’s “Convoluted and Poorly Defined” Female Nipple Rule

Will the nipple be freed?

By Noor Al-Sibai