Tinker Tailor SpaceX just launched some reportedly "next-gen" spy satellites on behalf of the US government — and it sounds like certain officials at the Pentagon are anxious about it.…
Bash AI Is AI everything that it's made out to be? Not according to Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux and its enduring chief spokesperson: in his view, the tech…
X-formerly-Twitter owner and xAI CEO Elon Musk claims that his foul-mouthed AI chatbot Grok is now capable of understanding images. And what does its creator want you to do? Feed…
Code Caller During Google's latest quarterly earnings call, the tech giant's CEO boasted that a large percentage of its new code is written by artificial intelligence. In the Q3 call…
Animal Annihilator Tesla's Full Self-Driving system is far from flawless — and it's certainly not autonomous, because it needs to be constantly monitored by a human driver. That being said,…
In late 2022, NASA launched its uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back to Earth as part of its Artemis I mission, setting the stage for the first human…
Wrecking Ball If multi-hyphenate CEO Elon Musk succeeds in getting Donald Trump is elected next week, he's warning that he'll use his new powers to cause drastic shocks to the…
Rough and Tumble NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), a dazzling spacecraft designed to make use of the tiny amounts of radiation pressure exerted by sunlight for propulsion, is…
Health Scare In a new investigation from The Associated Press, dozens of experts have found that Whisper, an AI-powered transcription tool made by OpenAI, is plagued with frequent hallucinations and…
Runaway Tesla A driverless Tesla crashed into a woman's car in a mall parking lot, an unfortunate side effect of the EV maker's half-baked driver assistance software going haywire. As…
DEFCON AI Air Force general Anthony Cotton, the man in charge of the United States stockpile of nuclear missiles, says the Pentagon is doubling down on artificial intelligence — an…
Bargain Spacement Chinese space startup Deep Blue Aerospace recently took to social media to announce the sale of tickets for a 12-minute journey to the edge of space, which could…
Serving LeCun After multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk decided to start talking smack about media and democracy, AI "godfather" Yann LeCun had a few choice words for the South African mogul.…
The Fountainhead Things in Russia seem pretty crappy after a massive — and we mean massive, as it dwarfed surrounding high-rise buildings — fountain of brown liquid was recorded spewing…
Science Corporation, a biotech startup launched by a Neuralink cofounder, claims that it's achieved a breakthrough in brain-computer interface technology that can help patients with severe vision loss. In preliminary…
Multi-hyphenate billionaire and reproduction-obsessed father of 11 children Elon Musk wants to move his entire patchwork family into a collection of three mansions in Austin, Texas — a plan that…
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We the Media After kiboshing his staff's endorsement of Kamala Harris for president, Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has finally spoken out — and laughably, the billionaire is wrapping himself in…
Lock Him Up A British man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for using artificial intelligence to transform real photos of children into disgusting sexual abuse imagery.…
Orbital Wreck Earlier this month, a massive satellite that belonged to multinational service provider Intelsat and was built by Boeing mysteriously exploded into pieces. Beyond an official update detailing an "anomaly"…