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Websites that promise to "nudify" photos with AI seem to contain Trojan horse viruses that are later used to blackmail those who use them.

Artificial Intelligence

Russian Hackers Are Using Fake AI “Nudify” Sites to Steal Data

By Noor Al-Sibai

The gas-spewing body spotted by the James Webb is a type of object known as a centaur that is somewhere between a comet and an asteroid.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Telescope Spots Bizarre Object That’s Spewing Out Jets of Gases

By Frank Landymore

A Skydiving Center’s Clients Kept Mysteriously Dying. Now, One of Its Instructors Is Going to Jail.

A Skydiving Center’s Clients Kept Mysteriously Dying. Now, One of Its Instructors Is Going to Jail.

By Victor Tangermann

A woman who was riding a Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco says a man stood in front of the taxi to stop it, repeatedly demanding her number.

Advanced Transport

Horrifying Video Shows Fedora-Wearing Creep Trapping Woman in Robotaxi to Harass Her

By Frank Landymore

Video footage shows the moment when a Russian fighter jet flew screamingly close to an F-16 in the skies above Alaska last month.

Insane Video Shows Reckless Russian Fighter Jet Rip Right Past an F-16

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI just raised nearly $7 billion, raising its value to around $157 billion. Investors had to be willing to keep things exclusive.

OpenAI Stamps Feet, Says Investors Aren’t Allowed to Back Its Rivals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk is now claiming that he was unaware that his friend and investor Sean "Diddy" Combs had a violent reputation that preceded him.

Elon Musk Pretends Not to Know About the Horrible Accusations Against His “Good Friend” Puff Daddy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Over 27,000 Tesla Cybertrucks are being recalled due to a glitch causing the rearview camera view to be delayed, a glaring safety oversight.

Tesla’s Cybertruck Just Can’t Stop Getting Recalled Over and Over Again

By Victor Tangermann

A pair of Harvard students successfully rigged Meta-formerly-Facebook and Ray Ban's smart glasses with facial recognition software.

Terrifying Smart Glasses Hack Can Pull Up Personal Info of Nearby Strangers in Seconds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There’s Something Seriously Weird About This Supernova

There’s Something Seriously Weird About This Supernova

By Noor Al-Sibai

A huge solar flare caused a radio blackout on Earth yesterday — and we could be in for another powerful geomagnetic storm later this week.

A Colossal Solar Flare Just Triggered a Radio Blackout on Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Reddit user forced Google's NotebookLM AI model to riff on a document that was literally full of crap for ten minutes straight.

Google’s AI Turns the Words “Fart” and “Poop” Written 1,000 Times Into an Entire Podcast

By Frank Landymore

It's a dog-eat-dog world for the US Army, which is experimenting with rifle-equipped robot dogs at a Middle Eastern testing facility.

The US Army Is Testing Killer Robot Dogs With AI-Powered Rifles in the Middle East

By Noor Al-Sibai

A study says that engineers who use the popular AI programming assistant GitHub Copilot don't experience any significant gains in efficiency.

Artificial Intelligence

There’s a Problem WIth AI Programming Assistants: They’re Inserting Far More Errors Into Code

By Sharon Adarlo

After their habitats were destroyed, tens of thousands of parrots have descended on a town in Argentina, terrorizing residents.

Science & Energy

Parrots Orchestrate Brutal Revenge on Small Town After Deforestation Drove Them Out of Their Homes

By Frank Landymore

ChatGPT creator OpenAI is hemorrhaging massive amounts of cash that it's failing to make up for in revenue, according to investor documents.

OpenAI Is Putting Profits First, Yet It’s Bleeding an Astronomical Amount of Money

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An Australian child services worker used ChatGPT to write a sensitive report about a child — and ended up getting the tech banned.

Child Welfare Worker in Trouble After Using ChatGPT to Submit Bizarre Report About Sex Doll

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two woman astronauts had to stay behind to make space for their stranded Starliner colleagues, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

Grounded Astronauts Angry They Were Forced to Give Up Their Seats for Stranded Starliner Crew

By Victor Tangermann

Using readings from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected chemicals on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon.

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Telescope Just Made a Fascinating Discovery About Pluto’s Huge Icy Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Montana rancher is now facing time in prison for using cloned embryos to create enormous, hybrid sheep that he sold to hunters and breeders.

Science & Energy

Man Gets Prison Sentence for Cloning Giant Sheep

By Frank Landymore

Artificial Intelligence

Man Baffled When He Shows Up for Job Interview and the Interviewer Is an AI Avatar

By Noor Al-Sibai

There are "dozens" of holes lining the floor of Lake Michigan — and scientists are stumped as to why they're there.

Science & Energy

Scientists Stumped by “Dozens” of Gigantic Holes at the Bottom of a Lake

By Noor Al-Sibai

The artists whose AI-generated image won a fine arts competition is still mad that the US Copyright Office won't recognize his work.

Artificial Intelligence

Self-Styled “AI Artist” Furious That People Are “Blatantly Stealing My Work”

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk's social media platform X-formerly-Twitter has lost a shocking amount of its value ever since he took over in late 2022.

Elon Musk Has Wiped Out a Shocking Amount of Twitter’s Value In Less Than 2 Years

By Victor Tangermann

The sub-Earth mass planet was spotted in orbit around Barnard's star, a red dwarf that is only six light years away.

Astronomers Spot Mysterious Planet Orbiting the Closest Single Star

By Frank Landymore

A supermassive black hole is shooting out a jet so intense it's causing stars along its path to erupt in explosions called novas.

Scientists Say Furious Black Hole Making Nearby Stars Explode

By Frank Landymore

The US Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all of SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rockets for the third time in just three months.

The FAA Grounds SpaceX’s Rockets for a Third Time After Mysterious Anomaly

By Victor Tangermann

ChatGPT's new advanced voice mode has users all a-titter — including the one who tricked it into singing Cardi B's hit song "WAP."

Someone Tricked ChatGPT Into Singing “WAP”… and May We Just Say “Yikes”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Something strange happened when the Earth was gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020: the Moon got substantially colder.

COVID-19 Pandemic Affected the Moon, Scientists Claim

By Victor Tangermann

The former CEO of OceanGate Stockton Rush allegedly said he'd "buy a congressman" to make any problems go away.

Titanic Sub CEO Was Willing to “Buy a Congressman” to Make Problems “Go Away”

By Frank Landymore

China's Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has shown off a spacesuit designed to be worn by astronauts on the surface of the Moon.

China Unveils Spacesuit for Upcoming Moon Landing

By Victor Tangermann

The upper stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket experienced a rare mishap during its latest launch, experiencing an "off-nominal deorbit burn."

SpaceX Mission Runs Into Mysterious Problem After Dropping Off Astronauts

By Victor Tangermann

A police department in the United Kingdom is testing an AI-powered program that can potentially help them solve cold cases.

Artificial Intelligence

Police Department Testing AI-Powered Detective on Real Crimes

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI has quietly released a new feature that instructs ChatGPT to "remember" prior conversations — and it's very easily exploited.

You Can Insert False Memories Into ChatGPT, Researcher Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

Online fantasy and science fiction magazine Clarkesworld is drowning in an onslaught of AI-generated slop.

Artificial Intelligence

Editors of Sci-Fi Magazine Disgusted as They Realized Submissions Were Filling With AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

Right wing extremists are using artificial intelligence to bring Adolf Hitler back to life for social media consumption.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Hitler Running Rampant Online

By Sharon Adarlo

With Elon Musk at the wheel, Twitter is suspending millions of more users per year than it ever did before.

Twitter Under “Free Speech Absolutist” Elon Musk Is Actually Suspending Way More People Than Before

By Frank Landymore

Authors suing OpenAI for copyright infringement are going to get unprecedented access to its training data — but that access is very limited.

Authors Suing OpenAI Will Get to See Its Secret Training Data in Heavily Locked Down Room

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Cybertruck owner was trying to clean the vehicle's windshield and unintentionally broke it with a simple wipe from a microcloth towel.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Owner Says Windshield Shattered When Wiped With a Microfiber Cloth

By Sharon Adarlo

If true, this could resolve the information paradox posed by the existence of black holes, as first pointed out by Stephen Hawking.

Black Holes May Actually Be “Frozen Stars,” Scientists Claim

By Frank Landymore

In a new book about Elon Musk buying Twitter, it's abundantly clear that the billionaire is proud to call Sean "Diddy" Combs his friend.

Elon Musk Was So Proud of His Friendship With Puff Daddy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google spent $2.7 billion to rehire AI expert Noam Shazeer, as part of a software licensing deal with his AI startup Character.

Google Paid $2.7 Billion to Get a Single AI Researcher Back

By Victor Tangermann

Former president Donald Trump made a mind-meltingly dumb assertion that we should be more worried about "nuclear warming."

Confused Trump Issues Garbled Warning About “Nuclear Warming”

By Victor Tangermann

A Berkeley computer scientist is raising alarm bells about the state of the job market for new college graduates struggling to find work.

Berkeley Coding Professor Says Even Grads With 4.0 GPA Can’t Find Jobs

By Noor Al-Sibai

As the US government works to get to the bottom of last summer's Titan submersible tragedy, NASA says it mostly wasn't the agency's fault.

Advanced Transport

NASA Insists It Didn’t Do Much Work on the Titanic Sub That Imploded, Killing Its Crew

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Boeing engineer testified that OceanGate ignored its recommendations, and emphasized it only had a preliminary role.

Boeing Says It Barely Did Any Work on Titanic Sub That Killed Everyone on Board

By Frank Landymore

Donald Trump has a bizarre plan to solve California's water shortage — by shipping it down from Canada via "very large faucet."

Science & Energy

Trump Suggests “Very Large Faucet” to Solve California Water Shortage

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a new report, NASA is growing significantly concerned over cracks and leaks affecting the International Space Station.

NASA Inspector Issues Warning About Growing Cracks Leaking Air From Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the independent firm AMCI Testing found that Full Self-Driving required human intervention at an alarmingly high rate.

Independent Testers Disturbed by Results When They Drive Tesla FSD for 1,000 Miles

By Frank Landymore

In an interview with The Verge, Mark Zuckerberg argued that "individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value" of their work.

Artificial Intelligence

Zuckerberg Says It’s Fine to Train AI on Your Data Because It Probably Has No Value Anyway

By Victor Tangermann

Wildlife officials in Hawaii are using drones to kill coqui frogs by dumping citric acid on these invasive creatures.

Hawaii Deploying Drones to Kill Hated Frog

By Sharon Adarlo

An oddly shaped — and "potentially hazardous — asteroid the size of a skyscraper sure looks like an oversized peanut.

Radar Images Show Large Object Drifting Past Earth

By Frank Landymore

China experienced a major military setback earlier this year when its secret nuclear submarine sank right after being launched.

China Embarrassed When Brand-New Secret Nuclear Submarine Instantly Sinks

By Noor Al-Sibai

Some Silicon Valley tech bros are being paid to ride along California's coast in a Winnebago releasing balloons of sulfur dioxide.

Tech Bros Releasing Climate-Hacking Chemicals From “Stealth” RV

By Noor Al-Sibai

The vast majority of Mars' atmosphere might be trapped in sedimentary rocks lining the Red Planet's surface, which could be used for fuel.

Mars’ Surface Appears to Be Covered in Potential Rocket Fuel, MIT Finds

By Victor Tangermann

An assistant professor of philosophy was shocked to find her students use ChatGPT to "briefly introduce" themselves.

Professor Horrified When Students Use ChatGPT to Generate “Briefly Introduce Yourself” Assignment… in Ethics Course

By Victor Tangermann

A white blimp crash landed into a residential neighborhood in São Paulo, Brazil on Wednesday around noon, surprising pedestrians.

Advanced Transport

Watch a Blimp Crash Into a Residential Neighborhood

By Sharon Adarlo

The billionaire running the popular language learning app Duolingo isn't afraid of job automation in the age of AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Billionaire Sips Margaritas as He Predicts How AI Will Kill Jobs for the Most Desperate People

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at CERN just made one of the rarest observations in particle physics to-date, measuring an ultra-rare form of kaon decay.

Something Wild Just Happened at the CERN Particle Accelerator

By Frank Landymore

Canadian filmmaker James Cameron, the man behind iconic films such as "The Terminator," is ready to jump on the AI bandwagon.

Artificial Intelligence

James Cameron, Who Warned of Skynet, Joins Board of AI Company

By Victor Tangermann

Using AI visuals and IRL quotes, a parody PAC is taking on NC GOP candidate Mark Robinson and the tech itself.

This Fully AI-Generated Political Ad Is Both Hilarious and Terrifying

By Noor Al-Sibai

A viral video shows several people menacingly cornering a stopped Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco and tagging it with graffiti.

Artificial Intelligence

Waymo Passenger Clutches Small Dog as Vandals Surround Vehicle

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who was supposed to return in June, is now assuming command of the International Space Station.

NASA Astronaut Stranded by Boeing Starliner Seizes Opportunity, Becomes Commander of Space Station

By Frank Landymore

A man in the Netherlands made around $34 while charging his electric car this summer due to negative renewable energy prices.

Man Discovers Trick to Make Power Company Pay Him for Using Electricity

By Victor Tangermann