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SpaceX may start launching Starships from Cape Canaveral — and the nudists who flock to a nearby clothing-optional beach are none too pleased.
SpaceX

"The turtles and the nudists will have to migrate."

OpenAI claims to have figured out what's driving "hallucinations," or AI models' strong tendency to make up answers that are incorrect.
OpenAI

It's "working hard" to correct it.

Elon Musk is now so toxic, even those who tuned in regularly to watch SpaceX launches have changed the channel.
Elon Musk

"A considerable part of the space fandom is experiencing a specific kind of grief."

Youth Group in Nepal Overthrows Government, Elects New Leader via Discord Poll
Future Society

"The Parliament of Nepal right now is Discord."

A pretrial hearing for two members of the militant vegan, AI-fearing cult known as the Zizians devolved into pandemonium on day one.
Artificial Intelligence

"Where have the good men gone? Where are the gods?"

Director James Gunn quipped in a Threads post that "it would be weird to cast an AI Batman with a 14 inch arm."
Artificial Intelligence

"That's some grade A premium snark."

The podcast grift economy is bringing tabloid-y, sensationalist drama to the world of theoretical physics.
Physics

"How dare you."

An elderly woman in Japan sent thousands of dollars to a trickster who claimed to be an astronaut trapped in space.
Future Society

"In space on a spaceship right now."

In a world first, Albania's prime minister has appointed an AI to a government official position in hopes of rooting out corruption.
Artificial Intelligence

"This is not science fiction."

The gas station clerk heroically intervened to stop the old ladies from losing their money — but had to take drastic measures.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin ATMs: a hive of scum and villainy.

Flowing water suggests that water ice may have survived in the asteroid for longer than what was thought possible.
Astronomy

"This changes how we think about the long-term fate of water in asteroids."

A video leaked to Congress shows a strange, orb-like UFO being struck by a Hellfire missile from a Reaper drone — and the object keeps going.
Off-World

"What the hell is that?"

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seemingly just noticing that the internet feels fake and is being overrun with bots and AI.
OpenAI

"I assume it's all fake/bots."

The signal, a gamma ray burst, kept repeating — which has never been seen before, and, according to astronomers, should be impossible.
Off-World

This shouldn't be possible.

Scientists in South Korea have modified a glue gun to generate bone grafts and print them directly onto fractures in animals.
Prosthetics and Devices

Glue guns can be used for a lot more than just arts and crafts.

Some of AI's most devoted acolytes are growing increasingly frustrated as the tech fails to deliver as expected.
Artificial Intelligence

"They recognize it's less about the technology, and more about the willingness to truly reinvent the work, the workforce."

Asking OpenAI's ChatGPT if there's a seahorse emoji causes the AI chatbot to suffer an epic, existential meltdown.
OpenAI

Wait, there's no seahorse emoji, right? Right?

Researchers have found that human stem cells are constantly under stress in the microgravity of space, activating the "dark genome."
Genetics

Their cells are sent into a "death spiral."

It appears that Elon Musk is firing the people tasked with training Grok, his "maximum truth-seeking" chatbot.
xAI

Something fishy is going on at xAI.

Donald Trump is our planet's number one obstacle to following up on NASA's blockbuster findings about life on Mars.
Mars

Seriously, Trump?