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Artist's impression of Hayabusa2 firing its ion thrusters
Mars

Paper Claims the “Asteroid” Japan’s Probe Is Approaching Is Actually a Derelict Spacecraft

Could this Soviet-era spacecraft be pretending to be a "dark comet?"

By Victor Tangermann

Photograph of Elon Musk at Rally for President Donald Trump in October, 2024, shrugging his shoulders and grinning.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says He Only Got Involved in Politics Because He Couldn’t Deal With Having a Transgender Child

Even if he's being facetious, it's a weird thing to say.

By Frank Landymore

Photograph of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang holding up two laptops during his keynote speech, on a blue and orange background.
Artificial Intelligence

Now You Gotta Buy a Second Computer Just for Your AI Agent, Nvidia Declares

Nvidia says it's "reinventing the personal computer."

By Frank Landymore

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The Industrialists

AI Billionaires Are Starting to Get Scared

Talk about backpedaling.

By Joe Wilkins

A composite illustration featuring a photograph of Jeffery Epstein.
Future Society

Jeffrey Epstein’s Biopreserved Sperm Is Missing

We're sorry to even make you think about this.

By Frank Landymore

A photograph of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump in the White House.
SpaceX

Trump Shovels $4 Billion Directly to Elon Musk, Who Spent a Fortune Getting Him Elected

It's paying off for him in a big way.

By Victor Tangermann

Illustration of an anonymous hacker typing on a keyboard in the dark, overlaid with a digital glitch treatment.
Data Privacy

Meta’s AI Support Bot Is Giving Hackers Access to Other People’s Instagram Accounts Just by Asking

This is wild.

By Victor Tangermann

Illustration of a man from behind with his golf club swung over his shoulder after hitting a ball on a field of yellow and green.
Future Society

Dick’s Sporting Goods Launches AI Personal Trainer to Fix Your Horrible Golf Swing

Users will be able to "access training pro tips and product education grounded in Dick's sport knowledge."

By Joe Wilkins

Illustration of a deflated football on a field of orange.
Finance

Sports Betting Scandals Are Tearing College Football Apart

"I never kept track of my betting over time, but I'm pretty sure I lost more than I won."

By Joe Wilkins

Illustration featuring an alien sunset of a binary star system
Astronomy

Scientists Say They’ve Cracked Mystery Behind a Dozen Strange Signals From Deep Space

Astronomers say they've figured out an unusual burst of radio emissions.

By Victor Tangermann

Photograph of a stack of money burning.
Anthropic

Unfortunate Company Accidentally Blows Half a Billion Dollars on Claude in One Month

Whoops!

By Frank Landymore

Illustration of a strange man emerging from beneath a manhole cover, eyes peeking out of the dark.
Future Society

Authorities Alarmed as Mysterious Figures Emerge From Sewers

From beneath the streets...

By Victor Tangermann

A family looks up at a large structure in that casts a shadow over them.
Ethics

Neighbors Horrified by Data Center Twice the Size of Manhattan

"It felt like it was done in the dark: backroom deals and assurances made with no transparency or government accountability."

By Victor Tangermann

A focused young boy with short hair wearing a striped long-sleeve shirt is holding and looking intently at a tablet. The image is in black and white, with a vibrant purple background and an orange circle behind the boy.
Ethics

Major Teachers Union Pleads With Elementary Schools to Stop Giving Young Kids AI

"If we don't find a way to call this out from an education perspective, I fear that we will lose a generation of kids."

By Joe Wilkins

A screenshot featuring the Argus Robot as it rolls across the lawn of a college campus.
Robotics

Behold! Duke Scientists Build Biblically Accurate Angel Robot

"We're not imitating anything in nature."

By Frank Landymore

An illustration featuring a diagram of the area just outside Jupiter’s orbit, where a ring-shaped region of high gas pressure formed. In this “dust trap,” over several million years planetesimals of varying compositions were able to form.
Astrophysics

Scientists Spot What Appears to Be a Ring-Shaped “Planet Factory” Deep Out in Space

Another puzzle piece in how our solar system formed.

By Frank Landymore

A young man chews his nails with an anxious worried look on his face over a yellow background.
Education

Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI

"I get paid the same whether I pass you or fail you."

By Frank Landymore

A man reclines with a computer on his lap and one hand pulling at his belt.
Ethics

AI Company Paying Random People $2,000 Per Month to Crank the Hog

"Time to go pro."

By Victor Tangermann

Illustration of a common household wi-fi router overlaid atop an heatmap image of human bodies, with concentric circles underlaid radiating from the router.
Privacy

Random Standard Wi-Fi Routers Can Scan Your Body to Identify Exactly Who You Are, Alarming New Research Finds

"With this hardware making its way into millions of homes, the privacy concerns are severe."

By Joe Wilkins

A portrait of a person with short curly hair wearing a dark shirt, captured with motion blur that distorts the face horizontally, creating a ghostly, stretched effect. The background is plain and light-colored.
OpenAI

Was This the Moment That AI Psychosis Began?

One event seems to have kicked off a wave of AI psychosis: memory that persists across chat sessions, letting the bot weave tapestries of delusions about users' lives.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré