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A man on Bluesky attempted to explain the AI policies of Signal to the company's president, a baffling instance of mansplaining.

“Mansplaining Audacity”: President of Signal Watches in Bemusement as Random Man Explains Her Company’s AI Strategy to Her

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk has had a longstanding crush on Taylor Swift, with his tweet suggesting he could impregnate her the latest in a long string.

Elon Musk Has Been Making Sad Attempts to Woo Taylor Swift for Years, and She’s Never Responded a Single Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

Trump's campaign confirmed that it was hacked by Iranian operatives. Among the stolen materials is a 271-page dossier outlining JD Vance's "vulnerabilities."

Hackers Just Leaked Trump’s Secret ‘Reasons Why Vance Sucks’ List

By Victor Tangermann

A national news service in Australia has been criticized for using AI to photoshop a sexualized image of parliament member Georgie Purcell.

Artificial Intelligence

Scandal Mounts as TV Network Used AI to Sexualize Image of Politician

By Victor Tangermann

Good news for women who have to exist under the male gaze: it doesn't, as some one might think, make you dumber.

Women Are Just as Cognitively Sharp Under the Male Gaze, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

There was a time during the first Obama administration that people in the US government believed we could get to the moon without the help of billionaires.

How NASA Got Price Gouged on the SLS, According to Its Former Second-in-Command

By Noor Al-Sibai

Several Musk's tweets appear to have crossed a line even for him — because, after an outcry, he deleted them, in a rare reversal for Musk.

Elon Musk Deletes Sexist Tweets

By Jon Christian

A peer-reviewed academic journal has made the bizarre choice to publish a paper that says women are inherently worse at physics despite knowing it's flawed.

Paper in Peer-Reviewed Journal Claims Women Are Bad at Physics

By Dan Robitzski

Google Assistant was initially supposed to have a male-sounding voice, according to Google, but the technology at the time didn't cooperate.

Google: We Weren’t Being Sexist Giving Assistant a Female Voice

By Kristin Houser

The creation of biased AIs is linked to the tech industry's overwhelmingly white, male workforce, according to a new report.

Artificial Intelligence

Experts: To Solve AI’s Bias Problem, Hire Fewer White Men

By Kristin Houser

One AI conference has refused changing its notoriously alienating name.

An AI Conference Refusing a Name Change Highlights a Tech Industry Problem

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon Built an AI to Evaluate Job Applicants. One Problem: It Seemed Sexist.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Built an AI to Evaluate Job Applicants. One Problem: It Seemed Sexist.

By Jon Christian

Artificial Intelligence

It’s Time to Talk About How Siri is Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes