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A new occupational hazard for astronomers just dropped — and it's all because the James Webb Space Telescope is, perhaps, a little too good at its job.
Off-World

Astronomers Complain That the JWST Is Producing Too Much Data, Too Fast

"It was like a firehose."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have created a a remote-controlled walking robot that runs on mouse muscle cells, Inverse reports, an eerie mashup.
Robotics

Scientists Build Gruesome Robots That Move With Mouse Muscles

Did they just build Mousenstein's Monster?!

By Victor Tangermann

CNET's AI-generated articles appear to show deep structural similarities, amounting to plagiarism, with previously published work elsewhere.
Artificial Intelligence

CNET’s AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism

CNET's AI-written articles aren't just riddled with errors. They also appear to be substantially plagiarized.

By Jon Christian

A Swiss cybersecurity hacktivist has leaked the TSA's No-Fly List, a highly sensitive document, after discovering it on an unsecured server.
Advanced Transport

The TSA’s Entire No Fly List Appears to Have Just Leaked

This is embarrassing.

By Victor Tangermann

Hot off the heels of Microsoft's round of mass layoffs, OpenAI has officially confirmed that it's "extending" its partnership with the tech giant.
OpenAI

OpenAI Confirms Huge Partnership With Microsoft, Which Just Laid Off 10,000 People

C... Clippy?

By Noor Al-Sibai

ChatGPT, OpenAI's groundbreaking language modeling AI, just passed a Wharton Business School exam. Queue yet another existential crisis!
OpenAI

Sorry, Suits: ChatGPT Just Passed a Wharton Business School Test

Yet another AI-induced existential crisis.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Famed Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin has married a woman who works for him at the cool age of 93 in a ceremony that took place on his birthday.
Off-World

Buzz Aldrin Marries His Employee at the Young Age of 93

And she's 30 years his junior, too.

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a former analyst, the Pentagon's robots, trained to identity human targets, were easily fooled by soldiers hiding in cardboard boxes.
Robotics

Marines Evaded a Military Robot by Hiding Inside a Cardboard Box “Like Bugs Bunny in a Looney Tunes Cartoon”

Marines also fooled it by doing somersaults and pretending to be a tree.

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial intelligence stands to be the first major, technology-driven shakeup to the white collar marketplace, experts say.
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Is Coming to Steal Your High Paying Job, Experts Warn

That's right, college grads: that degree won't save you from the robots.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A cane toad dubbed "Toadzilla" has been crowned as the world's largest known toad. But sadly, our hefty heroine's story has already come to an untimely end.
Science & Energy

Authorities Euthanize World’s Largest Toad

Justice for Toadzilla, may we forever stan.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The board tasked with overseeing decisions at Facebook is suggesting the company take a long, hard look at its infamous "female-presenting nipple" rule.
Future Society

Meta Board Trashes Facebook’s “Convoluted and Poorly Defined” Female Nipple Rule

Will the nipple be freed?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some right-wingers believe that in the case of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot, AI bias moderation has gone too far — the machine, they say, is woke.
OpenAI

Conservatives Furious, Claiming ChatGPT Has “Gone Woke”

The horror!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus isn't only suspected to hold a liquid ocean beneath its icy crust — it's also covered in an astonishing amount of snow.
Moon

Something Weird Is Happening on Saturn’s Snow-Covered Moon, Scientists Say

That's a lot of snow.

By Victor Tangermann

An AI has created stills from a non-existent Alejandro Jodorowsky version of "The Matrix" that "stars" Jeff Goldblum as Morpheus — and it's honestly epic.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Dreams Up 1980s “Matrix” Starring Jeff Goldblum as Morpheus

Not gonna lie, these are pretty amazing.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Murphy, North Carolina, was a once quiet town in the Blue Ridge mountains, until a crypto mine showed up. Locals aren't just mad — they're taking action.
Cryptocurrency

Residents Annoyed by Crypto Mine That Emits Constant, Horrible Noise

A "small jet that never leaves."

By Frank Landymore

If you go outside at night on a clear day, there's a decent chance you'll be able to spot a giant, green comet passing by our planet.
Off-World

If You Go Outside, You May Be Able to See an Awesome Green Comet

Now's the time.

By Victor Tangermann

Dubious online marketers at the notorious SEO forum BlackHatWorld see CNET's use of AI as a sign of Google opening the floodgates to AI written content.
Google

SEO Spammers Are Absolutely Thrilled Google Isn’t Cracking Down on CNET’s AI-Generated Articles

"Time to pump out content at ultra-high speed."

By Frank Landymore

Considering that the zombie fungus that infects human brains in The Last of Us is real, and currently zombifies insects, it's worth asking.
Neuroscience and Brain

Bad News: the Horrific Zombie Fungus in “The Last of Us” Is Real

Good thing it doesn't infect humans... yet.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One group of researchers is now so confident in the capabilities of OpenAI's ChatGPT that they've included it as a coauthor in a scientific paper.
OpenAI

A New Scientific Paper Credits ChatGPT AI as a Coauthor

It was "definitely an intentional move, and one that we did spend some time thinking through."

By Victor Tangermann

A new study that analyzed tens of thousands worth of observations made by the human eye found that stars are fading from view much faster than expected.
Pollution

Stars Are Disappearing From the Night Sky, Scientists Warn

"... Light pollution is increasing, notwithstanding the countermeasures purportedly put in operation to limit it."

By Frank Landymore