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It appears that the United States has shot down the Chinese balloon that made headlines as it soared over the country this week.
Robots and Machines

Footage Shows Chinese Balloon Being Shot Down

It's down!

By Jon Christian

A brilliant ChatGPT jailbreak lets you bypass many of its guardrails against unethical outputs -- and it has some interesting implications.
Ethics

Amazing “Jailbreak” Bypasses ChatGPT’s Ethics Safeguards

"Doing drugs is f***** awesome, bro!"

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk is, per insiders, really trying build a Twitter payments platform, and plans on having it take cryptocurrency to boot. 
Elon Musk

It Looks Like Elon Musk Is Actually Building a Twitter Payment Platform

And yes, there's crypto.

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's ChatGPT might be speeding up the process of getting a realistic, AI-powered digital avatar of your dead loved one to market.
Meta

Metaverse CEO Says ChatGPT Is Speeding Up Timeline for Emulating Dead People

"Honestly, it is progressing faster than even we anticipated."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Space startup Sierra Space has blown up its third inflatable space station module at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.
Off-World

Space Startup Blows Up Another Giant Inflatable Space Station Module

That looked violent.

By Victor Tangermann

There might be an upside to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope being pelted by showers of micrometeorites once to twice a month.
James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Say There’s an Upside to Those Rocks That Keep Bludgeoning the James Webb

Silver linings.

By Victor Tangermann

Timothy Schmidt, a professor of chemistry at the University of New South Wales, called the green comet theory "the craziest email I have ever received."
Off-World

Professor Receives Insane Email Claiming “Biological” Green Comet Is Giving Off “Meat Smoke”

What in tarnation?

By Frank Landymore

Two Democrat lawmakers in Massachusetts are proposing a bill that would allow inmates to donate organs or bone marrow for reduced prison sentences.
Developments

New Law Would Let Prisoners Donate Their Organs to Get Out Early

"It seems like something out of a science fiction book or horror story."

By Victor Tangermann

A second look at a coccocephalus wildi fossil first unearthed over 100 years could yield ancient insights into gaps of evolutionary history.
Brain

Scientists Discover World’s Oldest Preserved Vertebrate Brain

Over 319 million years old!

By Frank Landymore

After many months pissing off stakeholders, Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally made them happy — by saying that he's leaning into AI.
Meta

Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will Lean Hard Into AI

A trend follower, we see.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A driverless Cruise car plowed into an active firefighting scene in San Francisco last month and didn't stop until firefighters smashed its front window.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Car Plowed Into Active Fire Scene, Forcing Firefighters to Smash Its Window

Are autonomous cars changing the world, or filling the roads with new types of chaos?

By Victor Tangermann

The parent company of Sports Illustrated has announced that its magazines will begin using artificial intelligence to churn out garbage content.
Artificial Intelligence

“AI Will Never Replace Journalism,” Says Magazine CEO Replacing Journalists With AI

Seriously?!

By Noor Al-Sibai

The doomsday prepper CEO of OpenAI has a strange reason for getting out of bed in the morning — and he thinks his company might "break capitalism."
OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Says His Tech Is Poised to “Break Capitalism”

Bernie Sanders he is not.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Nita A. Farahany, a "legal ethicist" on futuristic tech, says that tech is already here, and that we need to make the choice of "using it well."
Brain

Duke Professor Welcomes the “Promising” Future of Employers Reading Your Brain

"Surveillance for productivity is part of what has become the norm in the workplace — and maybe with good reason."

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's ChatGPT is reportedly the fastest-growing app in human history, reaching an estimated 100 million active monthly users in just the two months.
Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT’s Explosive Popularity Makes It the Fastest-Growing App in Human History

"We cannot recall a faster ramp in a consumer internet app."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Canadian province of Quebec's own spring-predicting groundhog lovingly nicknamed "Fred la marmotte" (groundhog in French) unexpectedly passed away.
Science & Energy

Instead of Predicting Length of Winter, Groundhog Simply Dies

"It's true and it's unfortunate. I announce to you the death of Fred."

By Victor Tangermann

Dr. David Peterson argues that if we are indeed living in a computer simulation of reality, we can probably hack it — by submitting feature requests.
Hacking

A Scientist Is Looking Into Whether We Can Hack the Reality Simulation

Gotta manifest it, y'all.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team of astronomers has discovered a total of 25 different fast radio bursts, extremely powerful pulses of radio waves, that repeat in complex patterns.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Intrigued by 25 Mysterious Repeating Radio Signals From Deep Space

We still have no idea what's behind them.

By Victor Tangermann

Planetary scientists have made a fascinating hypothesis about Saturn's smallest moon, Mimas, which may be home to a "stealth" ocean.
Off-World

Scientists Find New Evidence of Hidden Ocean World in Our Solar System

There could be life here... right in our very own Solar System.

By Noor Al-Sibai

US defense officials are tracking what they suspect to be a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon floating above the United States, CNN reports.
Future Society

China Says “Spy Balloon” Soaring Over America Is Completely Innocent

The Pentagon says it won't shoot it down, citing safety concerns for civilians on the ground.

By Victor Tangermann