u/holafromaustin via Reddit You don’t share the road with robotaxis — the robotaxis munificently share the road with you. This week, one of Waymo’s fully driverless cabs was spotted blundering down the wrong side of a street in Austin, Texas, causing the human motorists driving in the correct direction to cautiously come to a halt,… Continue reading Waymo Spotted Driving Wrong Way Down Busy Street
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Bernie Sanders Calls for Halt on Construction of New Data Centers
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Nathan Howard / Getty Images While some anti-AI advocates have called for some extreme property damage to halt the AI boom, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has a proposition that’s a little more down to Earth: simply shut it all down until we can figure out what the hell… Continue reading Bernie Sanders Calls for Halt on Construction of New Data Centers
Tesla Owner Says FSD Is Great Except for the Part Where It Can’t Drive in the Sun
Getty / Futurism If Elon Musk is to be believed, there will be hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of autonomous Tesla vehicles roaming the streets of America by the end of next year. There’s a gazillion reasons to doubt whether that’ll actually happen. But in focus today is the fact that its… Continue reading Tesla Owner Says FSD Is Great Except for the Part Where It Can’t Drive in the Sun
Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images You know those memes about how there’s no such thing as a free VPN? Here’s the ultimate cautionary tale. A recent investigation by Tel Aviv-based security firm Koi uncovered a massive data harvesting operation tied to a voluntary extension on Google’s Chrome browser. Called Urban VPN… Continue reading Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit
Scientists Intrigued by Huge Structure Under Bermuda
Getty / Futurism The Bermuda Triangle, a loosely defined region bounded by Bermuda, the Bahamas, and Puerto Rico, has been the subject of countless urban legends, from mysteriously disappearing ships to entire World War 2 squadrons. Outlandish theories have suggested that technology left over from the mythical lost city of Atlantis, lurking beneath the triangle,… Continue reading Scientists Intrigued by Huge Structure Under Bermuda
Hacker Busts Startup Running Huge Web of AI-Generated “Influencers” on Instagram
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Doublespeed / Getty Images Back in October, word started making the rounds of an AI startup called Doublespeed. Backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Doublespeed offers customers a unique service: access to a massive phone farm that could be used to operate hundreds of AI-generated social media… Continue reading Hacker Busts Startup Running Huge Web of AI-Generated “Influencers” on Instagram
AI Sends School Into Lockdown After It Mistook a Student’s Clarinet for a Gun
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Students at Lawton Chiles Middle School in Florida were sent scrambling into lockdown last week, after an alert from an AI surveillance system detected a student carrying a gun. There’s just one issue: the “gun” was actually a band student’s clarinet. The whole thing unraveled quickly,… Continue reading AI Sends School Into Lockdown After It Mistook a Student’s Clarinet for a Gun
A Huge Number of People Starved to Death After Elon Musk Cut USAID’s Funding
TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images In the weeks following the second inauguration of Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk — appointed to a powerful position in the government after supporting Trump’s run —began laying waste to a number of government agencies with the help of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). One major target in… Continue reading A Huge Number of People Starved to Death After Elon Musk Cut USAID’s Funding
When You Hear What Happens When They Put Lab Mice in Nature, You Might Rethink Your Entire Life
Getty / Futurism Lab mice are subjected to countless horrors during their short lives, from being injected with cancerous cells to getting exposed to microplastics or ending up dosed with cocaine. It’s a controversial research standard that has long been criticized by animal rights activists. Even some in the scientific community argue they deserve better… Continue reading When You Hear What Happens When They Put Lab Mice in Nature, You Might Rethink Your Entire Life
Waymo Paralyzed by Parade, Blocks Traffic for 45 Minutes
snazzymustache via Instagram Waymo’s self-driving taxis are at it again, this time blocking a widely trafficked street during the annual Venice Beach canals holiday boat parade in Los Angeles. Footage of a Waymo getting confused at a narrow canal bridge was shared by local resident Ryan Light on Instagram. It shows a Waymo cautiously waiting… Continue reading Waymo Paralyzed by Parade, Blocks Traffic for 45 Minutes