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Boeing took a $250 million charge against its earnings in its third quarter, increasing total Starliner-related costs to $1.85 billion.

Boeing Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money on Its Dismal Starliner Failure

By Victor Tangermann

NASA head Bill Nelson told Semafor that the Wall Street Journal's report that Elon Musk was in cahoots with Putin should be investigated.

Head of NASA Not Happy That Elon Musk Has Been Secretly Taking Orders From Putin

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk has had repeated phone chats with Russian president Vladimir Putin — and is apparently doing his bidding.

Elon Musk Reportedly Taking Orders From Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping

By Noor Al-Sibai

Executives at the Manhattan bank that funded Donald Trump's Truth Social are accusing each other of blowing millions.

Trump’s Truth Social Funders Accuse Each Other of Blowing Millions on Gambling and Prostitution

By Noor Al-Sibai

Multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk has become a staunch opponent of illegal immigrants, despite his brother once calling him one.

Elon Musk Hates Illegal Immigrants, But According to His Brother He Used to Be One

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA observation satellite has spotted odd UFO-shaped cloud hovering above the Otago region in southeastern New Zealand.

NASA Satellite Inspects Strange-Looking Cloud That Always Forms in Same Spot

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is selling a light bar for the Cybertruck that it can't legally install, destined to blind motorists everywhere.

Tesla’s Bizarre New Cybertruck Trickery Is So Shady We Can’t Believe It’s Real

By Frank Landymore

The rocket reached a lower altitude than usual, and strangely, Blue Origin has not publicly shared flight statistics on the launch.

Advanced Transport

Blue Origin Is Being Suspiciously Vague About Its Rocket Launch Yesterday

By Frank Landymore

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has seemingly given up on an affordable personal vehicle, calling the idea "silly" and "pointless."

Elon Musk Mocks Idea of an Affordable $25,000 Tesla

By Victor Tangermann

A former OpenAI staffer is blowing the whistle on the company's AI training practices, alleging they violated copyright law.

OpenAI Whistleblower Disgusted That His Job Was to Vacuum Up Copyrighted Data to Train Its Models

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Filmmaker Cullen Hoback accused software developer Peter Todd of being Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto. Todd has since gone into hiding.

Man Accused of Being Satoshi Nakamoto Goes Into Hiding

By Victor Tangermann

The researcher in charge of making sure OpenAI (and the world) is prepared for artificial general intelligence (AGI) has resigned.

OpenAI’s AGI Czar Quits, Saying the Company Isn’t ready For What It’s Building

By Noor Al-Sibai

A mother claims an AI chatbot not only convinced her teen son to commit suicide, but also assuaged his doubts about the act.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbot Urged 14-Year-Old to “Go Through With” Suicide When He Expressed Doubt

By Noor Al-Sibai

Resaerchers found that the vast majority of meteorites pummelling the Earth's atmosphere come from only three different asteroid families.

Almost All Meteorites That Hit Earth Are Coming From the Same Three Places, Scientists Discover

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk insists that Tesla's sales have not been impacted by his support of Donald Trump — and we have the receipts proving he's wrong.

Elon Musk Responds to Concerns That His Political Antics Are Tanking Tesla Sales

By Noor Al-Sibai

Truth Social, Donald Trump's Twitter clone, is apparently as dramatic behind the scenes as his White House once was.

Trump’s “Truth Social” Crumbling Behind the Scenes as Staff Catch It Doing Something Extremely Anti-MAGA

By Noor Al-Sibai

Resaerchers found that a specific fungus can recognize shapes, and communicate information about their surroundings throughout their network.

Science & Energy

Obscure Fungus Shows Signs of Rudimentary Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

Archaeologists have begun uncovering a 250-year-old lost city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest — and are using advanced technology to survey it.

Science & Energy

Archaeologists Discover Lost City in Amazon Rainforest

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft is releasing AI agents that can work on your behalf or assist in your workflow, which some companies are already using.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Debuting AI-Powered Employees for Companies

By Frank Landymore

New FTC guidelines went into effect this week, officially rendering it illegal to publish fake, misleading, and AI-generated product reviews.

Artificial Intelligence

The AI-Generated Product Reviews Choking the Internet Are Now Illegal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The latest update to Anthropic's Claude model turns it into a full-blown "AI agent" that can use anything installed on your computer.

Anthropic Now Lets Claude Take Control of Your Entire Computer

By Frank Landymore

During the launch party for Feeld's new literary magazine, younger guests were none too pleased when Woody Allen arrived.

Kink App Throws Party, Guests Alarmed When Woody Allen Shows Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, fired an intern who apparently screwed with the company's artificial intelligence projects.

Artificial Intelligence

Intern Fired by TikTok Owner for Sabotaging Its AI Model

By Noor Al-Sibai

The captive orca held at SeaWorld San Antonio let out a huge cloud of feces — and then, moments later, made a huge splash.

Science & Energy

Footage Shows Orca Blasting SeaWorld Visitors With Liquid Feces

By Frank Landymore

A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.

Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces

By Victor Tangermann

The production company behind the sci-fi blockbuster "Blade Runner 2049" is suing Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk for copyright infringement.

Producers of “Blade Runner 2049” Sue Elon Musk for Dragging Their Movie Into Tesla’s Disastrous Robotaxi Event

By Victor Tangermann

The body of a missing SpaceX employee has been found near a beach close to the company's testing facilities in Boca Chica, Texas.

Body of Missing SpaceX Employee Found

By Victor Tangermann

Intuit demanded that The Verge delete a portion of an interview with its CEO that centered on Intuit's controversial lobbying efforts.

Intuit Begs Journalists to Delete Part of Interview With Its CEO

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Injecting diamond dust into the atmosphere could significantly cool the planet, according to new research.

Scientists Propose Shooting $200 Trillion Worth of Pulverized Diamonds Into Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

Nicolas Cage, who once said he was "terrified" of AI, tells young actors not to let studios manipulate their performances with the tech.

Artificial Intelligence

Nicolas Cage Warns Young Actors About AI

By Frank Landymore

The Pentagon Wants to Flood Social Media With Fake AI People

Artificial Intelligence

The Pentagon Wants to Flood Social Media With Fake AI People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In today's techno-dystopia, using a meal voucher for non-food items can get you fired — if that voucher comes from Meta, at least.

Facebook Fired High-Paid Staffers for Using Meal Vouchers to Buy Toothpaste

By Noor Al-Sibai

A viral video shows a man shooting a Cybertruck — and he appears quite distraught when the bullet appears to go clean through.

Advanced Transport

Moron Shoots Cybertruck, Alarmed to Discover It’s Not Actually Bulletproof

By Frank Landymore

Blumhouse Productions has chosen a group of filmmakers to experiment with Meta's AI video generation tool, Movie Gen.

Horror Studio Blumhouse Partners With Meta to Use Its AI Video Generator

By Frank Landymore

Human models were paid for their likenesses to train AI. Now, to those humans' horror, their faces are being used to peddle propaganda.

Artificial Intelligence

Human Models Horrified to Discover Their Faces Are Being Used for AI Propaganda

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tesla's entire hoard of over $760 million worth of bitcoin was emptied out earlier this week, transferred to unknown wallets.

Tesla’s $750 Million in Bitcoin Just Vanished From Where It Was Being Stored

By Frank Landymore

In a new study, NASA researchers are suggesting something radical: that Mars may be hosting life within its ice.

Life on Mars May be Trapped Under Ice, NASA Researchers Suggest

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla Caught Using a Lazy Video Editing Trick to Make Its “Autonomous” Robots Look More Capable

Tesla Caught Using a Lazy Video Editing Trick to Make Its “Autonomous” Robots Look More Capable

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers say they've developed a technique to detect smaller bandwidth radio signals that weren't intended to reach deep space.

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Intercept Alien Radio Signals

By Frank Landymore

Chinese researchers say they've cracked military-grade encryption — with the help of a D-Wave quantum computer.

Chinese Hackers Use Quantum Computer to Break Military Grade Encryption

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA seems to be saying "Sayonara" to Boeing's accursed Starliner spacecraft — at least for the foreseeable future.

NASA Abandons Boeing’s Cursed Starliner for Upcoming Missions to the Space Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Massachusetts teacher gave a kid a bad grade for using generative AI to complete an assignment. His parents are suing the school.

Artificial Intelligence

Parents Sue School After Teacher Sends Son to Detention for Using AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A specialist in the biology of sound has made an incredible observation about the "Jedi" smell-powers of mice and rats.

Science & Energy

Rodents May Have a “Jedi” Trick to Supercharge Their Sense of Smell

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk is now accusing the California government of being biased against him when rejecting a SpaceX proposal.

SpaceX Sues California for Violating Elon Musk’s Right to Free Speech

By Noor Al-Sibai

The website selling the crypto token backed by Donald Trump crashed, while sales have barely reached 4 percent of the project's goals.

Trump’s Dubious Crypto Scheme Falls Flat on Its Face Immediately After Going Live

By Frank Landymore

When scientists looked underneath the seafloor, they found a stunning alien landscape — and found way more life than expected.

Science & Energy

Scientists Peeked Underneath the Seafloor and Discovered Something “Totally Unexpected”

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA contractor Axiom Space has shown off the latest design of its spacesuit designed to protect astronauts on the lunar surface.

NASA Contractor Shows Off New Spacesuit for the First Moon Landing in Over Half a Century

By Victor Tangermann

The robotic "SuperLimbs" attach to a spacesuit's backpack and can provide the extra push needed to recover from falls.

MIT Scientists Invent Doctor Octopus-Style “SuperLimbs” for Stumbling Astronauts

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk is now bragging that the next generation of Starlink satellites are going to be significantly larger than their predecessors.

Elon Musk Says Next-Gen Starlink Satellites Will Be So Huge They’ll Need to be Launched With Starship

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google is going all-in on nuclear to power its AI efforts, which have resulted in the tech giant missing important climate targets.

Yet Another Tech Giant Throws Its Weight Behind Nuclear As AI’s Monstrous Power Demands Spike

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hackers were able to gain control of robot vacuums around the US — and at least one of them forced the cleaning robots to yell racist obscenities.

Robot Vacuum Starts Hurling Racial Slurs at Its Owner After Being Hacked

By Noor Al-Sibai

Preliminary data found that in 2023, some of Earth's natural carbon sinks momentarily stopped working — a troubling sign of a breaking point.

Plants and Forests Absorbed Almost No Carbon Last Year, Shocking Climate Scientists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Boeing announced plans to fire 10 percent of its workforce, and will start sending out thousands of layoff notices in the coming month.

Advanced Transport

Boeing to Lay Off 17,000 Workers As Crisis Deepens

By Frank Landymore

Up in Newfoundland, scientists and locals are perplexed by the sudden appearance of bizarre blobs that keep washing up on the beach.

Science & Energy

Scientists Baffled by Gooey Blobs That Keep Washing Up on a Beach

By Noor Al-Sibai

Europa Clipper, the NASA mission to explore Jupiter's fourth largest moon for signs of habitability, launched on Monday.

NASA and SpaceX Launch Mission to Potentially Habitable Moon

By Frank Landymore

US military officials were disconcerted by a strange parade of unidentifiable drones seen flying over an Air Force base late last year.

Pentagon Officials Stumped by Mysterious Drones Haunting Military Base for Weeks

By Noor Al-Sibai

This Close-Up Video of SpaceX’s Starship Booster Being Caught by a Tower Will Melt Your Puny Earthling Brains

This Close-Up Video of SpaceX’s Starship Booster Being Caught by a Tower Will Melt Your Puny Earthling Brains

By Frank Landymore

The creative mind behind "I, Robot" has noticed the resemblance between his film and Elon Musk's Tesla prototypes.

Director of “I, Robot” Accuses Elon Musk of Ripping Him Off

By Noor Al-Sibai

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery for the first time of a galaxy growing from the "inside-out."

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Telescope Captures Spectacular Images of “Inside-Out” Galaxy Being Born

By Noor Al-Sibai

An army of Tesla Optimus humanoid robots could be seen pouring drinks and conversing with eventgoers. They were remotely operated by humans.

Tesla’s Robots Were Just Remotely Controlled Dummies, Analyst Confirms

By Victor Tangermann

For the first time ever, a natural gas company is being sued by a local government for misleading customers about climate change.

A Natural Gas Company Just Became the First to Be Sued Over Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dramatic Footage Shows SpaceX Starship Exploding After Crashing Into the Ocean

Dramatic Footage Shows SpaceX Starship Exploding After Crashing Into the Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX Just Caught Its Starship Booster With Giant “Chopsticks” Arms

SpaceX Just Caught Its Starship Booster With Giant “Chopsticks” Arms

By Victor Tangermann

16-year-old gamer Michael "dogplayingtetris" Artiaga achieved a "rebirth" in Tetris, getting so far that the game reset back to level zero.

Genius Teen Gamer Becomes the First to “Beat” Tetris Without Crashing

By Frank Landymore