Content warning: this story includes graphic descriptions of dangerous self-harm behaviors. The Google-funded AI company Character.AI is hosting chatbots designed to engage the site's largely underage user base in roleplay…
Dumb War A Russian spacecraft launched higher than most satellites has long had the Pentagon worried — and new revelations about what it contains have made those concerns all the…
Wrap It Up Christmas queen Mariah Carey has released her latest yuletide dispatch — and it looks an awful lot like it was made with AI. As part of Spotify's annual…
Just a few days after the full release of OpenAI's o1 model, a company staffer is now claiming that the company has achieved artificial general intelligence (AGI). "In my opinion,"…
There's a price to pay for smelling good. As the Washington Post notes in its medical column, that's because many perfumes on the market are infused with a potentially harmful…
Triple Dog Dare It's safe to say that Elon Musk, by backing Donald Trump and weaseling his way into the president-elect's inner circle — and in effect his administration —…
Pretty Fly Not long after it brought on a fresh crew of astronauts, China's Tiangong space station has received yet another group of new visitors: fruit flies. As Space.com reports,…
In a new study, heterosexual people were again found to be astonishingly misguided about what the opposite sex finds attractive. Published in the journal PLOS One, researchers from Scotland's University of…
Earlier this week, President-elect Donald Trump named billionaire tech founder — and SpaceX space tourist — Jared Isaacman as the next head of NASA. Isaacman has been to space twice…
As drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy keep flying off pharmacy shelves, more and more patients are ignoring manufacturers' and medical professionals' instructions by "microdosing" it. As the New York Times reports, doctors…
Tourist Trappist The odds of us finding extraterrestrial life anytime soon are pretty slim. But if there's anything that can deliver us a sign of aliens, you'd put your money…
Enfant Terrible A kid in his early teens made a small fortune after running a brutal crypto pump-and-dump scheme. As Wired reports, California resident Adam Biesk's son launched 1 billion…
Unidentified Frickin' Objects Residents of several New Jersey counties have been witnessing giant drones flying over their homes at night since at least November 18 — and nobody seems to…
Survival Instinct It sounds like OpenAI's latest AI is showing signs of a drive for self-preservation. In recent third-party tests of the company's o1 large language model, the AI resisted…
The New York Police Department is still on the hunt for the mysterious gunman who killed UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson outside a midtown Manhattan hotel early Wednesday morning. The late…
These are scary times to be a multi-millionaire insurance bigwig. The fatal shooting of Brian Thompson, the former CEO of UnitedHealthcare, has c-suites across the country quaking in their boots.…
Fast radio bursts (FRBs), hugely powerful discharges of energy emanating from the furthest reaches of outer space, have confounded scientists for well over a decade. They're so powerful that they…
Haliey "The Hawk Tuah Girl" Welch is making headlines for running what seems like almost certainly some form of cryptocurrency scam. Of course, that's what happens every day in crypto, so…
The manhunt for the mysterious gunman who killed UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson outside of a midtown Manhattan hotel early Wednesday morning rages on — but even days later, the New…
In the wake of the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, there has been an outpouring of grievances from Americans about the state of healthcare in this country, and…