Dark Disguise New research about the nature of black holes could resolve a fundamental problem at the heart of physics. Black holes are cryptic cosmic objects with a center point…
Even OpenAI's latest AI model is still capable of making idiotic mistakes: after billions of dollars, the model still can't reliably tell how many times the letter "r" appears in…
Missing You In a new book about Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, it's abundantly clear that among countless other character flaws, the billionaire seemed strikingly proud to call accused rapist…
Local law enforcement is accusing Yakima County coroner Jim Curtice of doing drugs he stole from dead bodies. As the Yakima Herald-Public reports, Curtice first reported that he had been poisoned…
Talented Mr. Shazeer Google reportedly spent $2.7 billion to rehire AI expert Noam Shazeer — an astonishing amount of money for what boils down to the expertise of a single computer…
Old Man Yells During a characteristically rambling speech from Trump Tower in New York City on Thursday, former president Donald Trump made the mind-meltingly dumb assertion that we should be…
A woman with Type 1 diabetes who was treated with her own stem cells subsequently started producing insulin on her own, making her the first person with this type of…
Book of Job A Berkeley computer scientist is raising alarm bells about the state of the labor market for new college graduates struggling to find work. In a LinkedIn post,…
Beware the smart ones: they seem to have all the answers, but can also weave the most convincing lies. It seems that this logic also applies to large language models,…
Submersive Distancing As the US government works to get to the bottom of last summer's Titan submersible tragedy, NASA wants the record to reflect that it mostly wasn't the agency's…
Ten-foot Pole Boeing is distancing itself from OceanGate, the company that built and operated the Titan submersible that killed all five passengers during its descent to the wreck of the…
A former jockey who was left paralyzed from the waist down after a horse riding accident was able to walk again thanks to a cutting-edge piece of robotic tech: a…
This week, OpenAI announced that it would be ripping control away from its nonprofit arm, finally putting to bed any appearance that the company is truly committed to developing an…
Drip Drip Donald Trump has a bold and nonsensical plan to solve California's water shortage crisis: by shipping it down from the Rocky Mountains via what he describes as a…
Crack Crisis According to a new report by NASA's inspector general, the space agency is growing significantly concerned over leaks in a tunnel connecting the International Space Station's Russian segment…
Benign Intervention A team of researchers at the independent firm AMCI Testing drove a Tesla in Full-Self Driving mode for over 1,000 miles, finding its capabilities to be "suspect" at…
Fair Game AI companies have been indiscriminately scraping mind-boggling amounts of content to train their AI models, a controversial practice that has led to a litany of lawsuits by copyright…
Drone Wars Wildlife officials in Hawaii are using aerial drones to wage chemical warfare on coqui frogs by dumping citric acid on these invasive creatures, thereby killing them — along with…
In the wake of New York City Mayor Eric Adams' surprise corruption indictment, the politician's pet tech projects may be in limbo — but one, apparently, will live on. In…
Brett Favre, former star quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, disclosed Tuesday that he was recently diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, The New York Times reports, likely caused by thousands of…