Ignorance and Malice Multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk is now suggesting that he was unaware that his friend and investor Sean "Diddy" Combs had a violent reputation that preceded him. "How…
In Retrospect Over 27,000 Cybertrucks are being recalled due to a glitch causing the rearview camera view to be delayed, a glaring safety oversight that could result in crashes. As…
Smart Doxing For years, privacy experts have warned that widely available facial recognition tools could make it possible to do things like dox strangers you see on the street or…
Explosive Findings The James Webb Space Telescope has captured some bizarre imagery of an exploding star that, for some reason, kept repeating itself. In a press release, NASA said that…
Blacked Out A huge solar flare caused a radio blackout on Earth yesterday, according to Spaceweather.com. The event, which saw a huge amount of electromagnetic radiation being slung our way…
Garbage In, Garbage Out Podcasts are easy targets for parody. Sometimes, they really are just a couple dudes talking into badly EQ'd mics, who may or may not have come…
The New York City Council approved a contraceptive pilot program last week that will try to curb the city's huge rat population using birth control. With or without mayor Eric…
Darude Sandstorm 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. As Military.com reports, the branch has deployed at…
We Regret the Error Proponents of generative AI have claimed that the technology can make human workers more productive, especially when it comes to writing computer code. But does it…
Ruffling Feathers An army of guerillas has emerged from the jungle and launched an incursion into the unsuspecting Argentinian town of Hilario Ascasubi. Displaced from their homes, they're nature's embittered…
Not Breaking Even ChatGPT creator OpenAI is hemorrhaging massive amounts of cash and failing to make up for it in revenue, The New York Times reports. Per the report, OpenAI…
ChatCPS An Australian child services worker used ChatGPT to write a sensitive report about a child — and ended up getting the tech banned. As The Guardian reports, the Department of…
Quantum mechanics: it's the realm of science where nothing is normal, and everything seems to undermine the fundaments of our common understanding of reality. Nonetheless, we simple humans tick on.…
Grounded NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson were intending to get a lift to the International Space Station on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft over the weekend. But…
Chemical Makeup Artist Using new readings from NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected previously unknown chemicals on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon. The powerful space…
Clone-Grown A Montana man has been sentenced to six months in prison — and slapped with over $24,000 in fines — for breeding and selling clones of an enormous, Frankenstein's…
Tell Me a Story When being evaluated for a job, employment seeker and marketer Jack Ryan found himself being interviewed by an artificial intelligence-powered avatar — and was not exactly…
Hole Up There are "dozens" of holes lining the floor of Lake Michigan — and scientists are stumped as to why they're there. As LiveScience reports, researchers at a protected region…
As families desperately seek to find missing loved ones and communities grapple with immeasurable losses of both life and property in the wake of Hurricane Helene, AI slop scammers appear to…
Irony Deficiency Jason Allen, the AI "artist" whose image he created with Midjourney won a fine arts competition two years ago, is still mad that the government won't let him…