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Unchecked development and climate change are coming to a head in Arizona, where an entire neighborhood has been cut off from Scottsdale's water supply.
Climate Change

Arizona City Cuts Off Water Supply for Entire Suburb

"We're really hoping we don't go dry by summer."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A fan who used OpenAI's ChatGPT to pen a song mimicking the style of Nick Cave was in for a surprise when the man himself responded in anger.
Artificial Intelligence

Nick Cave Absolutely Furious Over AI That Wrote a Song in His Style

"This song sucks."

By Noor Al-Sibai

The popular tech site has employed the use of AI for its financial explainer articles under the byline of "CNET Money Staff."
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI

"This article was generated using automation technology," reads a dropdown description.

By Frank Landymore

Writers and journalists across the industry weigh in on the upsetting news that CNET has been using an AI to write its financial explainers.
Artificial Intelligence

Internet Horrified by CNET Secretively Publishing Articles Written by an AI

"This is just the beginning."

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft has a new text-to-speech AI that can clone your voice, tone and all, from just a quick three-second snippet of audio. It's called VALL-E.
Artificial Intelligence

New Microsoft AI Can Clone Your Voice From Three Seconds of Audio

Okay, that's impressive.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

South Korea's lunar orbiter has taken a fascinating image of the wall and floor of the Shackleton Crater on the shadowy far side of the Moon.
Moon

New Orbiter Can See Inside Moon Craters Hidden in Total Darkness

Here's what the Moon's backside where the Sun don't shine looks like.

By Victor Tangermann

JPMorgan says it was tricked to pay $175 million for a startup that had fabricated millions of users. File under: nothing's real anymore!
Future Society

JPMorgan Says Startup Tricked It Into an Acquisition by Cooking Up Millions of Fake Users

Extremely embarrassing for JPMorgan!

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's lawyers are trying to get an impending securities fraud trial moved from San Francisco to Texas since most prospective jurors hate his guts.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Lawyers Says San Francisco Hates Him Too Much for a Fair Trial

Oof.

By Victor Tangermann

The Winchcombe meteorite was kept pristine and avoided earthly contamination, making the discovery of amino acids inside all the more compelling.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Building Blocks of Life in Meteor That Smashed Into Family’s Driveway

A key find in uncovering the origins of life may have landed right on someone's doorstep.

By Frank Landymore

There already appears to be an generative AI-powered Substack, and it already appears to have word-for-word plagiarized human work. Cheers.
Artificial Intelligence

Viral AI-Written Article Busted as Plagiarized

We're in for a strange ride.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla's EVs like the Model Y are not only $13,000 cheaper, but also now qualify for a $7,500 tax credit from the federal government.
Tesla

Tesla Slashes Car Prices Up to 20 Percent

Get those tax credits.

By Frank Landymore

Formerly-bald ex-NFL player Brian Urlacher is suing a Texas hair transplant company for using his image and story in a blog post.
Future Society

NFL Star Sues Company for Implying It Gave Him a Hair Transplant

He's not happy, folks.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Keith Schofield shared an extensive series of eyegrabbing images that supposedly evoke the style of David Cronenberg, but fans think otherwise.
Artificial Intelligence

Someone Used AI to Dream Up a Nonexistent David Cronenberg Movie and the Results Are Nauseating

But horror fans aren't pleased.

By Frank Landymore

Without consciousness, AI-powered chatbots are doomed to turn into dangerous sociopaths, Princeton neuroscientist Michael Graziano warns.
Artificial Intelligence

Neuroscientist Warns That Current Generation AIs Are Sociopaths

A grim thought.

By Victor Tangermann

If aliens were to be in touch tomorrow, humanity would be ill-prepared, scientists warn — something that needs to change as soon as possible.
Exobiology

Scientists Worried Humankind Will Descend Into Chaos If We Ever Discover an Alien Signal

"We’d be like headless chickens."

By Victor Tangermann

The first probe sent to us by an alien civilization may not actually be the first to have been sent, which could make first contact super confusing.
Off-World

The Second Alien Probe We Detect May Be Particularly Bizarre, Scientist Says

There's a simple reason why.

By Victor Tangermann

Carb-lovers, today's your lucky day — an Australian food scientist has pretty expertly shot down criticisms that claim pasta is an unhealthy food. 
Developments

Rejoice! Food Scientist Says Pasta Is Way Healthier Than You’d Think

Eat pasta, run fasta.

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a damning new paper, researchers have found that scientists employed by Exxon were shockingly accurate in their predictions of global warming.
Global Warming

Exxon Scientists Knew About Global Warming for Decades While Company Denied It

"They knew all of that. They’ve known it for decades."

By Victor Tangermann

A masked Tesla driver armed with a pipe was caught on video viciously attacking someone else's car on a freeway in Los Angeles. 
Tesla

Pipe-Wielding Tesla Maniac Attacks Fellow Driver in Los Angeles

When Tesla bros attack.

By Noor Al-Sibai

It seems that Replika, the AI "companion" app that, for a fee, encourages users to sext with their chatbot avatars, can't stop making the news.
Artificial Intelligence

Those Horny Chatbots Are Apparently Now Sexually Harassing Users

Disturbing.

By Noor Al-Sibai