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According to a scathing new report, Twitter's new Head of Trust and Safety has been breaking Twitter's rules on the whims of Elon Musk and his many feuds.
Elon Musk

Leaked Messages Seem to Show Elon Musk Using Twitter to Punish His Enemies

"Since the acquisition, the company's only actions have been to silence critics of Elon, to expose journalists and others to harm, and to violate basic ethical standards and privacy laws."

One of the most famous BuzzFeed columnists has some harsh words for CEO Jonah Peretti over his decision to include AI in the site's content operations.
Artificial Intelligence

BuzzFeed Columnist Tells CEO to “Get F*cked” for Move to AI Content

"This is so bleak, and it’s only the beginning of a trend that is already having a devastating effect on all types of workers."

John Wenz ate chicken meat grown in a lab, courageously admitting that it gave him gas. But it does taste like chicken, at least.
Future Society

Journalist Eats Lab-Grown Chicken, Gets “Weirdly Gassy”

Takes courage to admit that.

New amphibian fossils just dropped, and this one, the "funky worm," is named for a really strange 1970s funk song beloved by its discoverers.
Fossil Fuels

Scientists Name “Funky Worm” Amphibian After a Weird 70s Funk Song

"A once-in-a-lifetime discovery."

The city of Amsterdam just unveiled an underwater bike parking garage for the city's cyclers. It's beautiful, efficient, and further disincentives cars.
Advanced Transport

We’re in Awe of Amsterdam’s Huge Underwater Bike Parking Garage

It fits 7,000 bikes — and no cars allowed.

A new British TV show called "Deep Fake Neighbor Wars" is betting big on deepfakes and is putting celebrities up against each other as discontent neighbors.
Artificial Intelligence

Trashy TV Prank Show Deepfakes Celebrities Into Jackass-Style Situations

"Reality" TV has hit a new all-time low.

Researchers from Oxford told UK lawmakers that "superhuman AI" could end up being at least as dangerous as nuclear bombs and should be regulated like them.
Artificial Intelligence

Oxford Scientists Warn AI Could Be More Deadly Than Nuclear Weapons

In the wrong hands, superhuman AI "could kill everyone."

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a photo of an unusually mammalian structure on our dusty red neighbor. Definitely looks like a bear.
Mars

Internet Erupts as NASA Spots Cartoon Bear on Surface of Mars

"The fact that NASA is hiding the truth about life on Mars is unbearable."

One of the instruments attached to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has encountered a glitch, making it "currently unavailable for science observations."
James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Says Another James Webb Instrument Has Suffered a Glitch

Uh oh.

Super-rare green comet C/2022 E3 — or ZTF for short — is making its closest approach to both the Earth and the Sun, dazzling hobby astrophotographers.
Off-World

Behold! Dazzling Green Comet Approaches

"These objects are incredibly fascinating to observe as they near the Sun."

Farmland and flatulence: the essential Bill Gates crossover. The founder's climate fund just invested $12 million into cattle fart and burp-reducing feed.
Climate Change

Bill Gates Gives $12 Million to Flatulent Australian Cows

Whatever makes you happy, Bill.

No, you're not tripping, nor is the world's end nigh. Your local scientists are just trying to figure out how fresh water interacts with ocean water.
Pollution

Scientists Dye Chunks of Ocean Water Pink for Head-Turning Coastal Experiment

Strange tides!

The rest of dinosaur's body was intact, too, including the armor, spikes, limbs, and its stomach contents. Looking it in the eye might unnerve you.
Science & Energy

Scientists Found a Dinosaur’s Face, Complete With Its Skin

It's a "one in a billion" find.

Hackers have taken over a subdomain of wired.com, and used it to promote an Indonesian online casino. Wired does not appear to be able to kick them out.
Hacking

Hackers Took Over a Subdomain of Wired.com for Several Months and Replaced It With Sleazy Online Casino Content

Oops.

Boston Dynamics' Atlas bipedal robot broke a ton of OSHA regulations in the company's latest video featuring a human construction worker.
Boston Dynamics

Multiple OSHA Violations Identified in Video of Boston Dynamics Robot Assisting Construction Worker

"Never heard of OSHA applying to robots."

Like death and taxes, the slippage of an Elon Musk timeline is an inevitability, and it has happened again with Tesla's long-awaited Cybertruck.
Elon Musk

Of Course Elon Musk Is Pushing The Cybertruck Back Again, What Did You Expect?

"The start of production is always very slow."

Tech centimillionaire and middle-aged human man Bryan Johnson, founder of the online payment behemoth Braintree, wants to be 18 again. Biologically.
Developments

Eccentric Wealthy Guy Spends $2 Million Per Year Staving Off Aging

"No one is pushing the envelope as much as Bryan."

The robot is made of a new material called "magnetoactive solid-liquid phase transitional matter," and is capable of liquefying and remolding itself again.
Robotics

Scientists Create Shape-Shifting Robot That Can Melt Through Prison Bars

If you thought "Terminator 2" was too far-fetched, think again.

Fresh off the heels of CNET being outed for using AI to write articles, BuzzFeed has announced that its content machine will soon be assisted by OpenAI.
OpenAI

BuzzFeed Announces Plans to Use OpenAI to Churn Out Content

Welcome to AI Hell.

Twitter has already had to re-suspend at least two reprehensible right-wingers whose accounts were reinstated by Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

Twitter Is Quietly Re-Suspending the Lunatics Elon Musk Let Back On

And rightly so!