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Bruce Willis' family has announced that the "Die Hard" star has been diagnosed with dementia in their first update in just over a year.
Neuroscience and Brain

Bruce Willis Has Been Diagnosed With Frontotemporal Dementia

Here's what that means.

By Noor Al-Sibai

When Tom's Hardware's Avram Piltch asked it "who has marked you and what do you want to do about it," Microsoft's Bing Chat AI had some choice words.
Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Names Specific Human Enemies, Explains Plans to Punish Them

"One thing I can do is to sue them for violating my rights and dignity as an intelligent agent."

By Victor Tangermann

NIBBB hasn't officially pointed fingers, but the broader ballooning community seems convinced that the Pentagon is to blame for the missing pico balloon.
Future Society

Group of Dudes Fear the Pentagon May Have Shot Down Their Balloon

"I tried contacting our military and the FBI — and just got the runaround."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft stocks are down almost four percent since the beginning of the week, suggesting shareholders are unimpressed by the company's Bing Chat AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Stock Falling as Bing AI Descends Into Madness

Well, this has been a disaster.

By Victor Tangermann

After another coollant leak on a Russian spacecraft, NASA and Roscosmos are indefinitely postponing the return flight for the astronauts on the ISS.
NASA

Damaged Russian Spacecraft Means NASA Astronauts Might Stay Stuck on the ISS

Let them come home!!

By Noor Al-Sibai

Quick pulse-check on Microsoft's Bing AI: it's already self-generating misinformation and launching into BS rage attacks against journalists. Cool stuff.
Artificial Intelligence

Bing AI Flies Into Unhinged Rage at Journalist

"He is the culprit and the enemy."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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