NASA Rescue Mission Spirals Into Crisis
Last month, NASA announced that it was launching an unprecedented and risky mission to rescue its aging Swift observatory. The...
Residents Furious at Plan to Seize and Destroy Their Homes for AI Data Centers
As dozens of cities across the US are forced to scrap their plans to build power-hungry data centers, some civic...
This New Meta “Advertisement” Is Absolutely Brutal
Last week, we came across a cleverly subversive advertisement for Meta’s controversial smart glasses, which overlaid socialite Kylie Jenner’s face...
Sam Altman Says Even the Power of AI Will Never Lead to a Shorter Work Week
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has some bad news to share: AI will never lead to a shorter work week —...
Is Mark Zuckerberg Actually TRYING to Destroy Meta?
Back in the mid-2000s, Mark Zuckerberg had a pretty awesome product: a site called Facebook, which was still widely loved...
It Seems a Lot Like Dead Internet Has Actually Come True
The infamous dead internet theory was originally a conspiracy that posited that the vast majority of the internet was run...
Suspicion Grows About OpenAI’s Tale About Its Rogue Hacker AI
Last week, ChatGPT maker OpenAI issued what seems like a frightening memo about an “unprecedented cyber incident” involving cutting-edge AI...
Elon Musk Is Having One of His All-Time Meltdowns
What would you do if you were unfathomably wealthy? Collect superyachts, throw extravagant parties, and just generally live a care-free...
High School Teacher Arrested for Clapping in Support of Anti-Data Center Activists
If you’re among the millions of US citizens against power-hungry data centers going up in your town, you may want...
SpaceX Stock Hammered After Starship Booster Fails in First Launch Since IPO
Was SpaceX’s recent Starship flight test a success or a failure? Many are hailing it as a victory, but several...
Sam Altman Announces That the Singularity Has Arrived
The “singularity” is here — according to Sam Altman, who we’d wager has an ulterior motive behind promoting this claim....
A Whole Bunch of People’s Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There’s Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of chat logs and projects created with Anthropic’s Claude — some including sensitive personal and company information —...
The AI Industry Has Acted So Badly That It’s Now Dealing With a Huge Wave of Hatred
The tech overlords pushing the AI boom are quickly wearing out what little welcome they had. You may have noticed...
The Type of Orbital Data Centers That Billionaires Want to Launch Into Space Would Wreak Ecological Catastrophe, Scientists Warn
Over the past year or so, a puzzling idea has taken hold among billionaires ranging from Elon Musk to Jeff...
Father-Son Duo Accused of Kidnapping Government Biologists Who Were Out Studying Frogs
An expedition to study frog habitats in Northern California’s Shasta-Trinity National Forest was cut short last week, with a father-son...
