Financial Disaster Multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk's social media platform X-formerly-Twitter has lost a shocking amount of its value ever since he took over in late 2022. According to recently released…
Sub-Earth Signal Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have confirmed that Barnard's star, the closest single star to our Solar System lying just six light years away, has…
Jet Set Radio Black holes are some of the most destructive objects in the universe — but it's not just their terrifying gravity you should fear. Brooding at the heart…
Over the summer, a storm of obviously AI-generated posters for a chain of tattoo parlors started to appear in parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan, slathered onto trash cans, light poles,…
Off Target The US Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all of SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rockets for the third time in just three months. An upper stage encountered a mysterious…
WAP Swap ChatGPT's new advanced voice mode has users all a-titter — including the one who tricked it into singing Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's bawdy hit song "WAP."…
Lunar Coronavirus Something strange happened when the Earth was gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, scientists claim: the Moon got substantially colder. As detailed in a recent article published…
Blatant Bribes The former CEO of OceanGate Stockton Rush allegedly said he'd "buy a congressman" to make any problems with the doomed Titan submersible "go away," according to new testimony.…
Tesla has started rolling out its controversial and erroneously-named "Full Self-Driving" software to its Cybertruck — and what could possibly go wrong? A small number of testers have now received…
Some people are reportedly taking a novel approach to using the blockbuster weight loss drug — and a handful of doctors even say they're doing it themselves. In an interview…
Moon Suit Riot China's Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has shown off a spacesuit designed to be worn by astronauts on the surface of the Moon. As SpaceNews reports, the extravehicular…
Rare SpaceX L SpaceX has successfully delivered the Crew Dragon capsule slated to rescue stranded NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore early next year. The pair recently watched as…
Bot Crimes A police department in the United Kingdom is testing an AI-powered system that could potentially help solve cold cases by condensing decades of detective work into mere hours,…
Remember Me OpenAI has quietly released a new feature that instructs ChatGPT to "remember" prior conversations — and as one researcher-slash-hacker found, it's easily exploited. As Ars Technica reports, security researcher…
Tidal Wave Online fantasy and science fiction magazine Clarkesworld is drowning in an onslaught of AI-generated slop. And given the proliferation of cheap AI language models, the situation is certain…
Mein Leben Right wing extremists are using artificial intelligence to bring Adolf Hitler back to life for social media consumption. The AI version of the Third Reich leader is garnering…
Trigger Happy X-formerly-Twitter has just released the first transparency report to come out under its new ownership, which includes internal figures on how it's been enforcing its content moderation policies.…
In surprising results, medical researchers have found that people who take Novo Nordisk's semaglutide-based injectables Ozempic and Wegovy seem to be strikingly less likely to die from overdosing on opioids.…
Secure All Authors suing OpenAI for copyright infringement are going to get unprecedented access to its training data — but only in a performatively locked down room. As The Hollywood Reporter…
Shattered Dreams Tesla CEO Elon Musk has boasted that the Cybertruck is built to tackle the toughest of terrain — even an apocalypse — and that the windshield made of…