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Ethics

Grade Inflation Is Going Nuts as Every Student Is Basically Submitting the Same Essay

It's an A grade or bust.

By Frank Landymore

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Future Society

Tech Workers, Long Treated Like Aristocracy, Are Now Human Waste

If you know a tech worker, hug them tight.

By Joe Wilkins

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Artificial Intelligence

An Entire “Local Newspaper” Just Shut Down When All Its Reporters Were Busted as AI Fakes

"Clearly, whoever's behind this does not care about the truth."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Astronomy

James Webb Spots Strange Structure at Core of Distant Galaxy

Absolutely dazzling.

By Frank Landymore

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Finance

If You Used Insider Knowledge to Score Big on Polymarket, You May Now Be in Huge Trouble

"We're going to find them."

By Frank Landymore

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Cryptocurrency

Investors Flocking to Super-Anonymous Cryptocurrency Used for the Sketchiest Stuff Imaginable

"It's what bitcoin was originally meant to be."

By Joe Wilkins

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Robotics

Robophobic Airline Bans Humanoid Robots From Flights After Disruption

"Most people were very excited to see a robot flying."

By Joe Wilkins

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Swarm of Empty Waymos Descends on Unsuspecting Suburb, Circle Cul-de-Sacs for Hours on End Like Strange Ghosts

"We had, at one point, eight Waymos that were stuck trying to figure out how to turn around."

By Joe Wilkins

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Ethics

Mayor Eats His Words After Admitting He’s Delegating Work to 11 AI Agents

"Any AI agents or tools I have experimented with were used strictly in a personal capacity."

By Krystle Vermes

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Artificial Intelligence

Oops: Bosses Realize Their Companies Have Been Swarmed by Legions of Redundant AI Agents

Who's at fault for that one, we wonder?

By Frank Landymore

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Climate Change

The Latest Data on El Niño Is a Looming Nightmare

The damage could be incalculable.

By Krystle Vermes

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Future Materials

Scientists Say $600,000 Lab-Grown “T-Rex Leather” Handbag Is Actually Something Laughable

"In fact, it's more chicken than anything else."

By Joe Wilkins

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Future Society

Princeton in Shambles Over AI Cheating

Not a great sign.

By Joe Wilkins

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Ethics

Being a Crappy Boss to AI Chatbots Pushes Them Toward Spouting Marxist Rhetoric and Organizing With Their Compatriots, Researchers Find

"Without collective voice, 'merit' becomes whatever management says it is."

By Joe Wilkins

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DNA

Gene Therapy Causes Patient to Grow Alarming Tumor

Tinkering with the genetic code of a living human is risky.

By Krystle Vermes

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Mass Transit

College Kid Shuts Down High Speed Trains With a Laptop and a Radio

He says he pushed the button "accidentally."

By Joe Wilkins

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Machine Learning

Amazon Employees Forced to Hit Quotas on AI Use, Immediately Start Using it for Everything Except Work

"If companies use brain-dead metrics to judge people then you need to learn how to f**k them over right back."

By Joe Wilkins

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Medical

Dentists Are Using AI to Scare Patients Into Unnecessary Dental Work, According to an Explosive Investigation

"It's happening almost everywhere."

By Frank Landymore

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Astronomy

Scientists Detect Weird Anomalies in Clouds of Venus

"We identified the phenomena, but for years we couldn't understand it."

By Frank Landymore

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Biology

NASA Satellite Images Show Huge Colored Plumes Staining the Ocean

Pretty and cool.

By Frank Landymore