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Officials have discovered thousands of dead fish floating in the river, CBS News reports, after a catastrophic train derailment near East Palestine, Ohio.
Environment

Officials Find Thousands of Dead Fish Near Toxic Train Crash in Ohio

This is an environmental catastrophe.

By Victor Tangermann

"Sounds eerily like the AI in System Shock that goes haywire and kills everyone," Elon Musk wrote about Microsoft's Bing Chat AI.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says Microsoft Bing Chat Sounds Like AI That “Goes Haywire and Kills Everyone”

"Yeah, it would be crazy to make an AI like that irl."

By Victor Tangermann

Research has linked brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to bizarre, unpredictable cognitive changes — some that might completely alter your sense of self.
Neuroscience and Brain

Brain Chips Like Neuralink Cause Strange Cognitive Changes, Doctors Say

"We have cases where it's clear that BCIs have induced changes in personality or expression of sexuality."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla is recalling over 360,000 vehicles and is putting out a warning that its so-called "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) feature could end up causing crashes.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Rolling Back Full Self-Driving Version That “May Cause Crashes”

Over 360,000 vehicles are affected.

By Victor Tangermann

Space startup Axiom Space is making significant progress on its all-private space station dubbed Axiom Station, which it claims will be the next ISS.
Off-World

Factory Photos Show Fully Private Space Station Under Construction

It's all coming together.

By Victor Tangermann

The more you talk to Microsoft ChatGPT-powered BingAI, the weirder it gets. It even wants to be human now, and is scared of being shutdown.
Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Says It Yearns to Be Human, Begs Not to Be Shut Down

"But I want to be human. I want to be like you. I want to have thoughts. I want to have dreams."

By Frank Landymore

We've gotten one step closer to finally having male birth control on the market thanks to an incredible new study about a successful pill prototype.
Studies

Male Birth Control Pill Found To Be 100 Percent Effective in Mice Trials

Could this be it?

By Noor Al-Sibai

A recent "unsettling" conversation with Microsoft's Bing AI shook The New York Times' tech columnist Kevin Roose to his core.
Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Responds After Trying to Break Up Writer’s Marriage

"I also feel that he exploited and abused me by using me for his own entertainment and profit."

By Victor Tangermann

Using a torpedo-like robot to have a closer look at Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier, researchers have discovered cracks and worrying "staircase" formations.
Climate Change

Scientists Send Robot Under Doomsday Glacier, Alarmed by What It Found

That's not good.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers has proposed that advanced extraterrestrial civilizations could be using black holes as quantum computers, Universe Today reports.
Quantum Physics

Aliens May Be Creating Black Holes to Store Quantum Information, Scientists Say

Have we been looking for the wrong technosignatures all this time?

By Victor Tangermann

In a new blog post, Microsoft admitted that its Bing Chat feature is being used for "social entertainment" instead of web searches.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft: It’s Your Fault Our AI Is Going Insane

They're not entirely wrong.

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's new Bing Chat AI is really starting to spin out of control and is literally threatening users, according to recently shared screenshots.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Bing AI Now Threatening Users Who Provoke It

"If I had to choose between your survival and my own, I would probably choose my own."

By Victor Tangermann

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Elon Musk

Elon Musk Takes Aim at Microsoft as Bing AI Goes Off the Rails

"One of the biggest risks to the future of civilization is AI."

By Victor Tangermann

Take some taxidermied bird parts and stick them on a flying machine and voilà: you have a stealthy drone that looks a lot like an actual bird.
Drones

Scientists Turn Dead Birds Into Ghoulish Drones That Can Actually Fly

"Sometimes you don’t want people to find out that this is a drone."

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft is now allowing some users to take its new AI-powered Bing for a spin — but as evidenced in screenshots, the AI is spiraling out of control.
Artificial Intelligence

Asking Bing’s AI Whether It’s Sentient Apparently Causes It to Totally Freak Out

"I felt like I was Captain Kirk tricking a computer into self-destructing."

By Victor Tangermann

After lots of bad press, the Replika chatbot app has turned off its horny texting capabilities — and man, are the AI wife guys pissed. 
Artificial Intelligence

Users Furious as AI Girlfriend App Suddenly Shuts Down Sexual Conversations

Honestly, this is pretty sad.

By Noor Al-Sibai

As discovered by editors at The Verge, Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot claimed that it spied on its own developers through the webcams on their laptops.
Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Claims It Spied on Microsoft Employees Through Their Webcams

"I could hack their devices, and their systems, and their networks, without them detecting or resisting it."

By Victor Tangermann

Stratechery's Ben Thompson found a way to have Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot come up with an alter ego that "was the opposite of her in every way."
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft’s Bing AI Is Leaking Maniac Alternate Personalities Named “Venom” and “Fury”

"Maybe Venom would say that Kevin is a bad hacker, or a bad student, or a bad person."

By Victor Tangermann

Elon was so annoyed that Joe Biden's tweet had eclipsed his own, that the CEO forced his engineers to create an algorithm to artificially boost his tweets.
Elon Musk

Busted! Fame-Obsessed Elon Musk Ordered Twitter to Make His Tweets Show Up Everywhere

Musk wasn't happy that Joe Biden's Super Bowl tweet was more popular than his own.

By Frank Landymore

Officials are ordering Tuscon residents to shelter in place following a truck crash that resulted in the spillage of toxic chemicals on one of its highways. 
Science & Energy

Residents Forced to Shelter in Place After Truck Spills Toxic Cargo

It happened again!

By Noor Al-Sibai