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An impersonator appears to be using generative AI to poorly clone rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's iconic sound on Spotify.
Anthropic

King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs

"I find this absolutely deplorable and am now quitting my account."

By Victor Tangermann

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array detected significant amounts of methanol and hydrogen cyanide in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.
Astronomy

3I/ATLAS Is Carrying Ingredients for Life, NASA Finds

"In this alien comet they’re very abundant."

By Victor Tangermann

Sensationalist travel vlogger Kurt Caz was caught using AI to doctor a thumbnail to look like immigrants are taking over London.
Ethics

Travel Influencer Caught Using AI to Make It Seem Like Minorities Are Terrorizing London

"Just surrounded by hostiles. Goodness, gracious me."

By Joe Wilkins

The powerful surveillance startup Flock was caught using workers in the Philippines to collate data on US residents.
Ethics

AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents

Who's watching the watchers?

By Joe Wilkins

A modern American Election Day
Ethics

AI Is Incredibly Good at Changing Voters’ Minds, New Research Finds — With an Incredible Caveat

"The more info you give people, the more they change their minds."

By Joe Wilkins

Blue Origin showed off a device that it claims can store energy from hot Moon dust inside a battery. We have questions.
Blue Origin

There’s Something Very Weird About Blue Origin’s Device That Generates Electricity From Moon Dust

We have questions.

By Victor Tangermann

Mike Winkelmann, also known as the digital artist Beeple, has a bizarre new art instillation with billionaire heads on robot dog bodies.
Robot Dogs

Billionaires’ Fleshy Heads Put on Robot Dog Bodies

That's Beeple.

By Joe Wilkins

in a new episode of "The Kardashians," Kim Kardashian's doctor told her that she has "holes" in her brain that are related to "low activity."
Treatments

Kim Kardashian’s Doctor Finds Holes in Her Brain, Signs of “Low Activity”

Experts are calling foul.

By Victor Tangermann

Apologies to our art director, who must depict a plane plunging after being blasted by cosmic rays, which is something that actually happened.
Advanced Transport

Passenger Jet Suddenly Dropped From Sky for a Wild Reason, Airbus Says

Reality is sometimes too strange to wrap our heads around.

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers found prompts that are so effective at tricking AI models that they're keeping them under wraps.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Researchers Say They’ve Invented Incantations Too Dangerous to Release to the Public

Whatever you do, don't show them to AI models.

By Frank Landymore

Country music producers in Nashville are increasingly turning to AI tools like Suno, following a long pattern of industrialization.
Future Society

The Country Music Industry Has Discovered That AI Can Crank Out Hits Like Crazy

What do small towns, cold beer, and fast-talkin' algorithms have in common?

By Joe Wilkins

On Consumer Reports' latest ranking of used car reliability, Tesla came in dead last with a rating not even half of the top placed brand.
Tesla

Old Teslas Are Falling Apart

Used Teslas are ticking time bombs.

By Frank Landymore

A Rudolph-themed drone show was a major disappointment for English families who braved a muddy swamp to attend.
Future Society

Christmas Drone Show for Children Ends Flops Pathetically

"A lot of the parents were leaving after five minutes."

By Joe Wilkins

The Centre for Social Justice in the UK has estimated that about 814,000 children ages three to five have access to social media.
Data Privacy

Researchers Concerned to Find That Five-Year-Olds Are Already Deeply Hooked on Brain Rot Content

"This research is deeply alarming."

By Sharon Adarlo

Police in Oregon are warning that AI apps like CrimeRadar are generating misinformation based on hallucinated police radio chatter.
Ethics

AI Is Mangling Police Radio Chatter, Posting It Online as Ridiculous Misinformation

"There's no accountability."

By Victor Tangermann

The Google Antigravity AI agentic screwed up big-time — but was very contrite about its blunder nonetheless.
Artificial Intelligence

Google’s AI Deletes User’s Entire Hard Drive, Issues Groveling Apology: “I Cannot Express How Sorry I Am”

At least it's sorry.

By Frank Landymore

Police are hunting about 14,000 illegal Bitcoin mining operations in Malaysia, which they say have stolen around $1.1 billion in electricity.
Bitcoin

Bitcoin Miners on the Run After Stealing $1.1 Billion in Electricity

“It’s clearly run by the syndicate."

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists in America and Europe have discovered one remarkable organism in California: an amoeba that can survive extreme temperatures.
Biology

Scientists Impressed by “Fire Amoeba” That Can Survive Incredible Temperatures

This tiny critter is basically almost indestructible.

By Sharon Adarlo

A new $7 million startup called Autolane is revolutionizing the way self-driving cars navigate the fast food drive thru.
Future Society

Startup Building “Air Traffic Control” to Help Self-Driving Cars Get Through Chick-fil-A

"We don't work on public streets. We don't work with public parking spots."

By Joe Wilkins

A new research paper finds that the amount of light pollution coming from satellites could ruin NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
James Webb Space Telescope

SpaceX Is Now Threatening the Hubble, NASA Warns

Time is running out.

By Joe Wilkins