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Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is speaking out, and he's sort of, kind of, taking responsibility — but also not really?
Blockchain

An Interviewer Asked Sam Bankman-Fried If He’d Been Honest and His Answer Was Bizarre

"I was as truthful as I'm knowledgeable to be."

It seems that grey wolves are the latest victims of toxoplasmosis — but in their case, the effects of the brain worm are kind of, well, based.
Parasites

A Brain Parasite Is Making Wolves Into Pack Leaders, Scientists Say

This is kind of based.

Hemgenix is the latest form of a gene therapy drug to be approved by the FDA, and it's now the most expensive drug in the world. Too expensive.
Cryptocurrency

Another Crypto Exchange Is Laying Off 1,100 Employees

A sad day for Krakenites.

Twitter alternative Hive Social has had to pull all of its servers offline in light of some serious security vulnerabilities.
Hacking

Twitter Competitor Shuts Down App When It Turns Out Hackers Can Read Users’ Private Messages

Stay far away from this one.

A new paper on a quantum computer simulating a wormhole was picked up by major new outlets, who seemingly jumped to some conclusions in their headlines.
Physics

Those Headlines About Scientists Building a Wormhole Are Total Nonsense, People

No, they didn't.

Astronomers, expecting a gamma ray burst, instead discovered an extremely distant black hole that is regularly destroy stars.
Black Holes

Black Hole In “Hyper-Feeding Frenzy” Chews Through Stars and Shoots Its Leftovers Towards Earth

"It was something extraordinary."

LED streetlights that replaced their sodium-vapor predecessors are turning blue and purple. And the problem may all stem from one company.
Science & Energy

Defective LED Streetlights Are Turning the Night Purple

It's kinda cool, though.

Bloomberg reports that Elon Musk's chaotic workforce cullings at Twitter has decimated the team responsible for redressing child sexual exploitation.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Reportedly Slashed the Team That Fights Child Sexual Abuse on Twitter

Really, really disappointing.

While trying to explain the pros of the metaverse, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared unable to stop hiccuping for some reason.
Metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg Tries to Explain Why the Metaverse Is Great, Gets Attack of the Hiccups Instead

This is, well, something.

During a show and tell, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk showed off what his brain computer interface (BCI) startup Neuralink has been working on.
Prosthetics and Devices

Elon Musk Shows Off Monkey That Can Type With Brain Implant Instead of Typewriter

We can't tell if we should be impressed or not.

YouTuber extraordinaire and NASA alum Mark Rober took it upon himself to launch an egg into space only to release it and have it land safely.
NASA

Former NASA Guy Drops Egg Out of Space, Tries to Keep It From Breaking

It took literal NASA engineering to pull it off.

Billionaire commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman says we should bring back the dinosaurs — and we're almost convinced that he's kidding.
Future Society

Billionaire Private Astronaut Suggests Reviving Dinosaurs

He's joking... right?

Stanford University is circling the wagons around its president after student journalists uncovered serious allegations of scientific misconduct.
Developments

Student Journalists Expose Claims of Scientific Misconduct Against Stanford’s President

There are "serious problems" with this dude's work, one expert said.

Lockheed Martin showed off an Amazon Alexa-enabled "party mode" on board NASA's uncrewed Orion spacecraft, which is making its way around the Moon.
NASA

NASA Shows Off Artemis “Party Mode,” Powered by Amazon (TM) Alexa (TM)

So tacky.

According to court filings, FTX owes about $55,319 to Jimmy Buffet's Bahamian Margaritaville resort, because of course it does.
Blockchain

FTX’s Worst Sin: It Owes an Immense Bill to Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville

No more cheeseburgers for SBF.

Brian "Liver King" Johnson, a caveman bodybuilder who has risen to fame online for eating raw animal liver on Instagram, has been accused of using steroids.
Developments

Raw Liver Eating Bodybuilder Accused of Injecting Himself With $11,000 Worth of Steroids Every Month

"Least surprising fitness scandal."

A courtroom in Washington County, Tennessee, erupted in cheers and applause after county commissioners rejected a proposal to build a Bitcoin mining plant.
Bitcoin

Courtroom Erupts in Cheers After Bitcoin Plant Rejected From Opening in Community

"Bitcoin mining is not welcome in Washington County."

In the early days of the FTX collapse, founder SBF was so stubborn about saving the exchange that people near him had to beg him to do the right thing.
Blockchain

Leaked Messages Show FTX Insiders Begging SBF to Step Down as Crisis Deepened

This guy!

San Francisco police have been granted permission by city supervisors to murder civilians using killer robots, a dystopian turn of events.
Robotics

San Francisco Cops Now Allowed to Use Robots to Kill People

"This is opening up a Pandora’s box that could change our society in a significant way."

The official ball of the World Cup makes use of internal sensors that track its movements, but it needs to be charged like any old phone.
Future Society

The World Cup Is So High Tech That They Have to Charge the Balls

Dodgy offside calls will be a thing of the past... as long as someone keeps the balls charged.