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Weather-changing projects are taking place all over the world — and the United States is building a system to detect them all.

United States Attempting to Detect Other Countries Tinkering With the Climate

By Noor Al-Sibai

Drug smugglers apparently used Starlink satellite internet to bring in billions of dollars worth of methamphetamine into India.

Drug Smugglers Caught With $4.25 Billion Worth Of Meth Were Using SpaceX Starlink for Navigation

By Noor Al-Sibai

Yet another OpenAI researcher has left the company amid concerns about its safety practices and readiness for human-level AI.

AI Safety Researcher Quits OpenAI, Saying Its Trajectory Alarms Her

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX is reportedly preparing a sell-off of shares that could sky rocket its valuation to be the highest among private companies.

Advanced Transport

SpaceX Preparing to Sell Stock at Interplanetary Valuation

By Frank Landymore

British carmaker Jaguar has announced a new electric concept car dubbed the Type 00 that "looks like Barbie redesigned a Cybertruck."

Advanced Transport

World Rolls Eyes at Jaguar’s Yassified Electric Car

By Victor Tangermann

According to a memo obtained by Business Insider, Tesla Cybertruck workers were told to take the next three days off.

Tesla Tells Workers Building Cybertruck to Stay Home as Demand Slumps

By Victor Tangermann

New research indicates that parents are totally clueless that teens mainly use AI for therapeutic needs and emotional support.

Artificial Intelligence

Teens Are Forming Intense Relationships With AI Entities, and Parents Have No Idea

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have long left the farthest reaches of the solar system. Their plutonium power source is running low.

The Voyager Probes Are Dying

By Victor Tangermann

Bernie Sanders and Elon Musk are at opposite ends of the political spectrum, but they agree that the Pentagon gets way too much money.

Bernie Sanders Offers Support for Elon Musk’s Plans to Cut Pentagon Spending

By Noor Al-Sibai

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has lost his bid to get his astronomical pay package — which is currently valued at over $100 billion — reinstated.

Elon Musk Just Got Absolutely Owned

By Victor Tangermann

A burst water pipe has wreaked havoc with data sent by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph spacecraft.

Flood Wreaks Havoc on NASA Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

Recent hiring activity and wishy-washy statements make it seem like OpenAI is planning to introduce ads into ChatGPT.

It Sounds an Awful Lot Like OpenAI Is Adding Ads to ChatGPT

By Noor Al-Sibai

Netizens were baffled to find that OpenAI's ChatGPT refused to acknowledge the existence of the name "David Mayer."

ChatGPT Crashes If You Mention the Name “David Mayer”

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have observed mysterious, "dark ovals," each roughly the size of the Earth, dotting the polar regions of Jupiter.

Scientists Intrigued by Large Dark Shapes Appearing on Surface of Jupiter

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's control over Donald Trump seems akin to, well, the president-elect's control own takeover of the GOP.

Is Elon Musk Now Secretly Controlling Donald Trump?

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists suggest a "large-headed" group of extinct humans once lived around the same time as homo sapiens more than 100,000 years ago.

Scientists Say Skeletons Show Ancient Humans With Huge Heads

By Victor Tangermann

Cybertruck onwers are finding that a front ledge perfectly collects snow and ice, potentially blocking the headlights.

Advanced Transport

Cybertrucks Appear to Have a Bafflingly Stupid Problem When It Snows

By Victor Tangermann

A crypto baron spent a whopping $6.2 million on a banana duct-taped to a wall has eaten it at a flashy event in Hong Kong.

Crypto Guy Buys $6.2 Million Banana, Eats It on the Spot

By Victor Tangermann

A man in Arkansas turned a decommissioned missile silo into a lavish Airbnb over ten years, spending $800,000.

Man Renovates Decommissioned Missile Silo Into Delightful Airbnb, Attracts “Swingers”

By Victor Tangermann

UK courts sentenced one man to 12 months in jail after he was found ditching his asbestos waste in a cemetery.

Man Busted Dumping Toxic Waste in Human Cemetery

By Ashley Bardhan

Startup company Spines wants to publish 8,000 books in 2025 by using AI. Before that can happen, Spines should stop embarrassing itself.

Startup Mocked for Charging $5,000 to “Edit” Book Manuscripts Using AI

By Ashley Bardhan

Warren Buffett has announced that much of his legendary accumulation of wealth will be given away under the auspices of his three children.

94-Year-Old Warren Buffett Announces Plans to Give Away $147 Billion When He Dies

By Victor Tangermann

A Cybertruck owner waited two weeks for Tesla to patch up his car's bumper, and the sticker he plastered on it makes the bad situation worse.

The Only Thing Sadder Than This Cybertruck’s Gaping Wound Is Its Bumper Sticker

By Ashley Bardhan

Orcas have once again been observed swimming around with dead salmon on their snout as "hats" — and why they do this remains a mystery.

Science & Energy

Scientists Baffled by Orcas Wearing Dead Salmon as Hats

By Frank Landymore

Invasive sargassum seaweed may be a great source of biogas, turning it into a fuel that can power converted combustion engine cars.

Scientists Converting Cars to Run on Invasive Seaweed

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that there's something highly unusual about the Milky Way, setting it apart from other galaxies.

There’s Something Very Strange About Our Galaxy

By Victor Tangermann

X owner Elon Musk appears to be spooked by the flow of users leaving the social media platform in favor of alternatives like BlueSky.

Change to Twitter Suggests Elon Musk Is Panicking Over Users Leaving for Bluesky

By Victor Tangermann

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt seems mighty concerned about today's youth becoming obsessed with AI girlfriends.

Former Google CEO Alarmed by Teen Boys Falling in Love With AI Girlfriends

By Noor Al-Sibai

In Northern California, a group of recent high school graduates died in a Cybertruck crash that burst into flames.

Advanced Transport

Three Recent High School Grads Dead in Grisly Cybertruck Crash

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's X is attempting to block the sale of Infowars social accounts to The Onion, arguing that it owns the accounts.

Elon Musk Demands Ownership of InfoWars Social Accounts

By Frank Landymore

A group of furious artists say they've leaked OpenAI's video generator Sora, declaring that they're not the company's "PR puppets."

OpenAI’s Super-Powerful “Sora” AI Video Generator Appears to Have Leaked

By Victor Tangermann

President-elect Donald Trump's newly-announced tariffs already seem to be causing anxiety for the AI industry.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump’s Huge New Tariffs Spell Trouble for the AI Industry

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio speaks about the struggles about an unexpectedly lengthy stay aboard the International Space Station.

Astronaut Who Was Stranded in Space Laments Missing Thanksgiving and Child’s Graduation

By Frank Landymore

In an apparent attempt to dispel hurricane misinformation, a member of Congress asked the head of FEMA outright if she controls the weather.

Science & Energy

Congressman Asks FEMA Head If She’s Controlling Weather, Sending Hurricanes to Trump Voters’ Homes

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk fired up his X-formerly-Twitter fingers on November 24 to tell the world, with a madman's glee, that he's a time-traveling vampire.

Elon Musk Suggests That He Is an Ancient Being Who Assumes Human Identities

By Ashley Bardhan

Accusations of sexual assault against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Trump's Health Department pick, are threatening to impede his confirmation.

Trump’s Raw Milk Zealot Accused of Inappropriately Touching Babysitter

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA scientists have made a remarkable discovery while flying over the arctic ice in Greenland: an abandoned Cold War base.

NASA Scanners Detect Hidden Base Under Arctic Ice

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is hiring engineers to design software that a team of human technicians can use to remotely drive its robotaxis.

Self-Driving Vehicles

As Tesla Struggles to Make Self-Driving Work, It’s Hiring a Team to Remote-Control Its Robotaxis

By Frank Landymore

NASA says that anyone who wants to know more about the smell on the ISS this weekend will have to speak to mother Russia.

NASA Says You Will Have to Ask the Russian Space Program About the Horrid Smell on the Space Station

By Ashley Bardhan

People who put their savings into fintech services are left holding the bag after a little-known firm went broke and took their life savings.

Online Bank Users Horrified as Their Savings Accounts Vanish Into Thin Air

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA Mars Rover Exploring Spiderweb-Like Patterns on Mars

NASA Mars Rover Exploring Spiderweb-Like Patterns on Mars

By Frank Landymore

Bluesky has apparently become such a successful X-formerly-Twitter alternative, even Mark Zuckerberg is anxiously taking notice.

Zuckerberg Seems Genuinely Alarmed by the Explosive Growth of Bluesky

By Ashley Bardhan

The Earth has parted ways with a tiny "mini moon" that's been orbiting our planet for two months now.

Earth’s Second Moon Has Vanished, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Bad news, folks: those samples from the asteroid Ryugu appear to have been contaminated by life here on Earth.

Signs of Life in Asteroid Sample Turn Out to Be Something Embarrassing

By Victor Tangermann

As Donald Trump's second presidential transition hurdles ever forward, his mass deportation plan is freaking farmers out.

Farmers Beg Trump Not to Deport the Immigrants They Use for Cheap Labor

By Noor Al-Sibai

As if they need any more problems, the International Space Station astronauts apparently had a smelly situation over the weekend.

Space Station Astronauts Complain of Horrible Smell After Russian Capsule Docks

By Noor Al-Sibai

Three men in India died after Google Maps reportedly told them to drive their taxi off an incomplete bridge spanning the Ramganga River.

Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge

By Victor Tangermann

Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn't think very highly of multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk's desperate desire to deliver humanity to Mars.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Slams Elon Musk’s Plans for Mars Colonization

By Victor Tangermann

Fresh off his first public foray into American politics as a Donald Trump backer, Elon Musk is now posting about buying MSNBC.

Elon Musk Muses About Buying MSNBC

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of the world's leading AI scholars is scared of the technology's increasing power — and of the people who are in charge of it.

Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Warns of Powerful People Who Want Humans “Replaced by Machines”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers determined that US conservatives are substantially more likely to share false information without even reading the article.

Research Finds Conservatives Vastly More Likely to Share Inaccurate Articles Without Even Reading Them

By Ashley Bardhan

The CEO of The Musician's Club, an online instrument storefront, reportedly fired 99 employees for missing a single morning meeting.

CEO Fires 99 Out of 110 Workers for Missing Morning Meeting

By Ashley Bardhan

We now have a new idea of what photons look like from a model that predicts how these particles of light interact with their environment.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Say They’ve Discovered the Shape of Individual Photons

By Frank Landymore

Scientists discovered the first-ever physical evidence that ancient Egyptians were tripping balls on a cocktail of hallucinogenic drugs.

Scientists Find Evidence That Ancient Egyptians Were Tripping Balls

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk has so suddenly transformed into a Donald Trump shill that even his most loyal investors are getting disillusioned with him.

Elon Musk Investor Says He’s Now Realized He Was an “Enabler”

By Ashley Bardhan

Warning! Do Not Expose Cybertrucks to Common Magnets

Advanced Transport

Warning! Do Not Expose Cybertrucks to Common Magnets

By Frank Landymore

Used prices for Tesla's Cybertruck are in freefall, selling well below MSRP.

Advanced Transport

The Value of Used Cybertrucks Is in Freefall

By Victor Tangermann

A church in the Swiss city of Lucerne has set up a computer inside a confessional booth that allows churchgoers to converse with an "AI Jesus."

Artificial Intelligence

Church Sets Up AI-Powered Jesus Inside Confessional Booth

By Victor Tangermann

A lawyer in Minnesota has been accused of using an AI chatbot to draft an affidavit — in support of an anti-deepfake law in the state.

Lawyer Submits Anti-AI Document That Appears to Have Been Created Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese showerhead company Science Co. will debut the "human washing machine of the future" at the Osaka Kansai Expo in April.

Robots and Machines

Scientists Invent Giant Dishwashing Machine for Entire Human Bodies

By Ashley Bardhan

Parents Sue School for Punishing Their Son for Copy-Pasting AI Homework, Get Rude Wakeup Call

Artificial Intelligence

Parents Sue School for Punishing Their Son for Copy-Pasting AI Homework, Get Rude Wakeup Call

By Frank Landymore

Last month, news emerged that Chinese hackers penetrated the networks of a number of US broadband providers. The situation is even worse.

It Appears That Chinese Hackers Have Stolen Your Naughty Texts

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk singled out a random federal employee and disparaged her job as fake, leading to his followers joining in on the harassment.

Elon Musk Now Publicly Bullying a Specific Federal Worker, Siccing Huge Hordes to Make Her Life Miserable

By Frank Landymore

After duping the Los Angeles school system into giving her gobs of money, the founder of an AI firm allegedly spent a lot of it on herself.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Founder Promised Amazing Chatbot to Public Schools, Then Allegedly Spent the Money on a Lavish Wedding and Mansion

By Noor Al-Sibai