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Happy holidays: an AI-powered toy has been caught repeating talking points from the Chinese Communist Party.
Ethics

An AI-Powered Toy Is Regaling Children With Chinese Communist Party Talking Points

"Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact."

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump recently signed an executive order allowing his administration to attack states that try to regulate artificial intelligence.
Future Society

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI

"States have been the only effective line of defense against AI harms."

By Joe Wilkins

Earlier this week, a woman made a startling discovery while hailing a Waymo autonomous cab for her daughter in Los Angeles.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Police Investigating Weird Man Found in Waymo by Passenger

Waymo is now telling its customers to check for weird men hiding in their cabs.

By Victor Tangermann

AI surveillance outfit Flock Safety is aggressively expanding its dragnet across the US, but ordinary people aren't impressed.
Future Society

Regular People Are Rising Up Against AI Surveillance Cameras

By Joe Wilkins

Psychiatrists studied years of medical cannabis research and concluded that medical cannabis doesn't help patients on acute pain or insomnia.
Cancer

Huge Study Finds Very Worrying Results for Medical Marijuana Patients

And almost a third of users show signs of cannabis abuse.

By Sharon Adarlo

Waymo's self-driving cars have recorded an alarming number of school bus safety violations in recent months.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo’s Software Patch to Not Run Down Children Getting Off School Buses Isn’t Working, School Claims

"It’s problematic when the company’s not listening because their product could really hurt people, especially school children and families."

By Joe Wilkins

The spider-like formation could be evidence of epic eruptions of water that blast through Europa' surface.
Astronomy

Scientists Intrigued by Large Spider-Like Blob on Europa

Spooky, but cool.

By Frank Landymore

Taikonauts Zhang Lu and Wu Fei installed debris protection panels on China's Tiangong during an eight-hour spacewalk.
Space

China Installs Defensive Countermeasures on Space Station

Whipple Who?

By Joe Wilkins

Sora users have been churning out edgy AI Disney and Pixar style trailers well before Disney signed a licensing agreement with OpenAI.
OpenAI

People Are Already Creating Ghoulishly Horrifying Sora Disney Videos

A grim preview of what's to come.

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Perseverance rover has just captured proof of lightning in Mars, which appears to spawn in the whirlwinds that roam its surface.
Mars

NASA Rover Captures Electric Dust Devils Wandering the Surface of Mars

Come again?

By Frank Landymore

Short ancient humans in Indonesia called Homo floresiensis disappeared possibly due to severe drought that gripped their island habitat.
Evolution

Scientists Investigate What Killed Off Hobbit-Like Species

The scouring of the Shire.

By Sharon Adarlo

Crypto casinos are luring in young users by paying streamers and celebrities millions of dollars to promote their sites.
Cryptocurrency

Literal Teens Are Losing It All at Crypto Casinos

"I lost sight of what money actually is."

By Frank Landymore

The tiny, microscopic robot packs an onboard computer, solar cells, and propulsion system, and is capable of sensing its environment.
Future Society

Scientists Reveal Robot Small Enough to Travel Through Human Body

Who needs big, clunky androids?

By Frank Landymore

Men get castrated tend to live longer than their uncut peers, which is also seen in the rest of the mammalian world, scientists said.
Developments

Scientists Discover Strong Upside for Men Getting Castrated

Nobody tell Bryan Johnson!

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists discovered that crickets that were fed microplastics grew in size by a staggering 25 times over a seven-week period.
Pollution

Bugs Fed Microplastics Grow to Ludicrous Size

"Once a particle was big enough to be eaten, crickets continued to eat it for the rest of their life."

By Victor Tangermann

Anthropic's chief scientist Jared Kaplan says humanity will soon have a big decision to make on whether to take the "ultimate risk" on AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic’s Chief Scientist Says We’re Rapidly Approaching the Moment That Could Doom Us All

Brace for impact.

By Frank Landymore

An international team of researchers says it has spotted the largest rotating structure of dark matter and gas-rich galaxies.
New Horizons

Scientists Detect Huge Rotating Structure in Space

It's unimaginably vast.

By Victor Tangermann

The Washington Post's egregiously error-ridden AI podcasts are causing a meltdown inside the newspaper's newsroom.
Artificial Intelligence

The Washington Post’s AI Generated Podcasts Are Already an Error-Laden Disaster

"It is truly astonishing that this was allowed to go forward at all."

By Frank Landymore

Archaeologists discovered an undersea wall that measures almost 400 feet in length, the biggest underwater construction ever found in France.
Climate Change

Divers Intrigued by Huge Underwater Structure

It's absolutely enormous.

By Victor Tangermann

The Pentagon's AI chatbot has an encyclopedic knowledge of the Geneva Convention, even if Pete Hegseth doesn't.
Future Society

Hegseth’s New Pentagon AI Is Telling Military Personnel His Boat Strike Was Completely Illegal

"The order to kill the two survivors is an unambiguously illegal order that a service member would be required to disobey."

By Joe Wilkins