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Speaking to The Verge, the world's largest scientific publishing house has announced its decision to outlaw listing ChatGPT and other LLMs as a coauthor.
OpenAI

Largest Publisher of Scientific Journals Cracks Down on Scientists Listing ChatGPT as Coauthor

"We need transparency."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Solar geoengineering might be the quickest may to reduce warming, but these scientists call for more research before it can be championed or ruled out.
Climate Change

Group of 60 Scientists Urge Research Into Geoengineering the Earth to Fight Climate Change

"While reducing emissions is crucial, no level of reduction undertaken now can reverse the warming effect of past and present greenhouse gas emissions."

By Frank Landymore

Suffering a bit of anxiety over what recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) might mean for humanity? So is billionaire Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says He’s Suffering “Existential Angst” About AI

Same, Elon. Same.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Physicists claim to have pulled energy out of a vacuum, a trick that required them to teleport it from a different location using quantum devices.
Energy

Researchers Say They Managed to Pull Quantum Energy From a Vacuum

Wait, what?

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is pausing installations of its controversial "Full Self-Driving" software after federal regulators called it a "crash risk." 
Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Has Totally Paused New Installations of “Full Self-Driving” After Safety Concerns

This is probably for the best.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A ResumeBuilder.com survey found that around a quarter of business leaders have replaced their workers with OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot.
Artificial Intelligence

Bosses Say They’re Already Replacing Workers With AI

Is anyone safe?

By Frank Landymore

Accounts of a bizarre falling powder-like dust substance have begun plaguing multiple Mid-Atlantic states on the East Coast. 
Environment

Reports of Strange Powder Falling From the Sky in Multiple States

All we are is dust in the wind, apparently.

By Noor Al-Sibai

The fallout from the train derailment and subsequent chemical spill and burn in East Palestine, Ohio continues apace with new reports of illnesses.
Developments

Locals Near Ohio Toxic Train Crash Say They’re Experiencing Weird Symptoms

Things keep looking worse and worse in East Palestine.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A strange cloud of dust and gas is slowly being sucked into the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, an extreme rendezvous of epic proportions that we've closely been following for at least 20 Earth years.
Black Holes

Large, Mysterious Object Getting Sucked Into Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

It's in for a rude awakening.

By Victor Tangermann

Despite sleeping at the office in November former head of Twitter payments Esther Crawford was fired by CEO Elon Musk last week.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Fires Employee Who Slept in Office to Prove Loyalty

That's gotta sting.

By Victor Tangermann

The brown basilisk, known as the "Jesus Christ Lizard" for its ability to run on water, is expanding its "army." Scientists are ringing the alarm bells.
Science & Energy

Florida Scientists Concerned About Army of Invasive “Jesus Christ” Lizards

"The army of basilisks are moving forward."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A VR startup wants to allow users to record and then "replay" their memories back in the locations where they happened — but some folks aren't with it.
Virtual Reality

VR Startup Working on Tech to “Replay” Memories

It's literally like an episode of "Black Mirror."

By Noor Al-Sibai

The key to making both lab grown meat and plant based meats work may lie in combining them to more practically make a convincing and delicious alternative.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say They Can Make Delicious Lab-Grown Fat, Weave It Into Fake Bacon

"The aroma of salt, smoke, and sizzling fat rising from the nearby kitchen seemed unmistakably real."

By Frank Landymore

Spotify just announced that it will soon be leveraging OpenAI-made artificial intelligence users with an "AI DJ in your pocket."
OpenAI

Spotify Launching OpenAI-Powered “DJ” That Talks About Songs Between Tracks

Who asked for this?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An international team of scientists claim to have found a way to speed up, slow down, and even reverse the flow of time for a given quantum system.
Quantum Physics

Scientists Say They Can Reverse Time in a Quantum System

"We can rewind to a previous scene or skip several scenes ahead."

By Victor Tangermann

The "NoFap" movement encourages (mostly) men to stop watching porn and masturbating — but it may be doing more harm than good. 
Developments

The “NoFap” Movement May Be Causing Mental Health Problems and ED, Scientists Say

It might do more harm than good.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meet "2dumb2destroy," a chatbot that is, refreshingly, too stupid to do humanity any harm beyond telling a bad joke or two.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Chatbot Deliberately Trained to Be as Stupid as Possible

Finally, some Dumb Guy representation.

By Frank Landymore

The U.S. bank is playing it safe in the name of "compliance concerns" to ensure that ChatGPT doesn't inadvertently meddle with its sensitive work.
OpenAI

Giant Bank JP Morgan Bans ChatGPT Use Among Employees

If the employees want to chat, they'll just have to talk to each other instead.

By Frank Landymore

The F-150 Lightning is Ford's EV pickup, but has had a rocky start to the year in the wake of two separate battery issues halting production.
Advanced Transport

Ford Has Paused Electric Pickup for Several Weeks After One Caught Fire

Yeah, might want to sort that one out.

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have discovered a new, innermost layer nestled inside our planet's inner core, a 400-mile solid metallic ball that acts in a strange way.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Gigantic Solid Metal Ball Inside the Earth’s Core

There's something weird going on at the exact center of our planet.

By Victor Tangermann