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Environment

Birds Are Getting Hooked on Cigarettes

They're serving an important role inside nests, scientists found.

Science & Energy

Engineer Says It’s Time to Rebuild the Twin Towers With Giant Data Centers, Huge Tech Labs, and Anti-Aircraft Lasers on the Roof

"This is what America rightfully deserves. We shall no longer be afraid."

Biology

Scientists Recruit Undergrad to Step Into Room Filled With Ravenous Mosquitoes for “Full-Body Massacre”

Dream gig!

Ethics

Gen Z Is Using AI to Have Difficult Relationship Conversations, and the Results Are Massively Cringe

"Oftentimes they're using it as a way to overcompensate for the fact that they don't really know how to truly interact with others."

Robotics

Restaurant Re-Deploys Robot After Dishware-Smashing Freakout

It got off easy.

Mental Health

Therapists Go on Strike, Saying They’re Being Replaced by AI

"There is a lot of fear and anxiety about AI, and in particular, fear around AI replacing jobs."

Future Society

Atlassian in Trouble for Firing Employee Who Mouthed Off to CEO

One of Atlassian's core values: "Open company, no bulls**t."

Computers

Staff at New Data Center Powered by Human Brain Cells Need to Swap Out Cerebrospinal Fluid Every Day

The cost of brain power.

Quantum Physics

Large Hadron Collider Discovers All-New Particle

You'll be charmed by its quarks.

Future Society

Nvidia’s AI Yassification Feature Gives “Starfield” Character Grotesque “Giga-Nostril”

Applying a giga-nostril to spite their gamer fanbase.

Meta

Rogue AI Agent Triggers Emergency at Meta

No user data, allegedly, was harmed in the making of this latest AI screw-up.

Artificial Intelligence

CEO Says He’ll Hire Anyone Who Can Vibe Code With AI, Regardless of Actual Skill

"We're very much now looking for people who are much more within that vibe coding space."

Ethics

Teens Are Using AI to Create “Slander” Videos of Their Teachers

Cruel and unusual.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Bring Mouse Brains Back to Life After “Cryosleep” Deep Freeze

"If brain function is an emergent property of its physical structure, how can we recover it from complete shutdown?"

Ethics

Novel Pulled From Shelves After Author Is Accused of Using AI

Yoink!

Ethics

Huge Study of Chats Between Delusional Users and AI Finds Alarming Patterns

"Chatbots seem to encourage, or at least play a role in, delusional spirals that people are experiencing."

Cryptocurrency

Blockchain Slumlord Startup Implodes in Real Time

"This place is literally a slum."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Cars Slated to Clog Roads With Horrendous Congestion

Self-driving or not, they all share the same roads.

Devices

Man Caught Using Smart Glasses to Get Advice While Being Cross-Examined in Court

Busted!

Anthropic

A Grim Truth Is Emerging in Employers’ AI Experiments

"Those are foundational problems no one has solved in LLM technology. And you want to tell me that's not going to manifest in code quality problems?"