Image by Getty / Futurism When you’re alone and life is making you lonely you can always go… vent to a chatbot? In an interview with PsyPost about her new study, Singaporean psychology researcher Meilan Hu said that advancements in chatbot technology got her wondering whether using them as a venting tool could help people feel… Continue reading Scientists Find That Yelling at AI Chatbots Can Make You Feel Better
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Parents Sue School for Punishing Their Son for Copy-Pasting AI Homework, Get Rude Wakeup Call
There’s consequences for cheating? Parent Terrible A boy attending Hingham High School in Massachusetts got caught red-handed copying and pasting answers generated by an AI chatbot into his homework assignment, earning him a failing grade and a stint in detention. (Mercifully, he was allowed to redo the parts he cheated on.) His mom and dad,… Continue reading Parents Sue School for Punishing Their Son for Copy-Pasting AI Homework, Get Rude Wakeup Call
It Appears That Chinese Hackers Have Stolen Your Naughty Texts
“This is far and away the most serious telecom hack in our history.” Wiretap Dance Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese hackers had successfully penetrated the networks of a number of US broadband providers. Investigators found that the cyber attackers had potential access to a federal government system that’s used for court-authorized… Continue reading It Appears That Chinese Hackers Have Stolen Your Naughty Texts
Elon Musk Now Publicly Bullying a Specific Federal Worker, Siccing Huge Hoards to Make Her Life Miserable
“These tactics are aimed at sowing terror and fear at federal employees.” Fed Up Elon Musk has it out for federal employees. He’s promised to fire them en masse in a bid to cut down government spending by trillions of dollars, and he plans to do this through DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency,… Continue reading Elon Musk Now Publicly Bullying a Specific Federal Worker, Siccing Huge Hoards to Make Her Life Miserable
Hacktivists Leak Chatlogs From Andrew Tate’s Fake Online University
Thousands of chatlogs. Clearcut Logging Hackers have targeted a phony “online university” founded by the far-right influencer and alleged human trafficker Andrew Tate, gaining access to thousands of files and chatlogs from people who paid for his sketchy lessons. As the Daily Dot reports, a group of purported “hacktivists” breached private user files on Tate’s subscription-based “The… Continue reading Hacktivists Leak Chatlogs From Andrew Tate’s Fake Online University
Elon Musk’s Diablo IV Build May Only Look Good Because He’s Great At Exploiting Loopholes
Something’s not right. Power Player Elon Musk recently shared a clip of him clearing The Pit — a severely challenging dungeon in the punishing action role-playing game Diablo IV — in about one minute and 50 seconds, potentially setting a world record. But some Diablo fans think that Musk’s supposed accomplishment is just more of his… Continue reading Elon Musk’s Diablo IV Build May Only Look Good Because He’s Great At Exploiting Loopholes
Experts Say Elon Musk’s Ridiculous “DOGE” Initiative Could Actually Crush Innovation
“You are very much at risk of damaging the connective tissue across our innovation system.” Innovation Killer President-elect Donald Trump has appointed multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk and big pharma shill Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a new “Department of Government Efficiency” (or DOGE, in a nod to a cringey memecoin) an effort to inflict “temporary hardship” on… Continue reading Experts Say Elon Musk’s Ridiculous “DOGE” Initiative Could Actually Crush Innovation
COP29 Climate Summit Being Held in Petrostate Where People Bathe Their Nude Bodies in Crude Oil
You can’t make this up. Fossil Fools While attending the United Nations’ COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, a New York Times reporter decided to engage in a time-honored local custom of bathing his entire nude body in crude oil. As the newspaper reports, the same oil that fueled the Soviet victory over the Nazis had… Continue reading COP29 Climate Summit Being Held in Petrostate Where People Bathe Their Nude Bodies in Crude Oil
OpenAI “Accidentally” Deleted Evidence From Its New York Times Lawsuit
File Error OpenAI made a major oopsie when its engineers accidentally deleted a bunch of evidence sought by the New York Times in its copyright lawsuit against the AI firm and its benefactor Microsoft. In a letter to the judge presiding over the suit, lawyers for the NYT and the New York Daily News said that a… Continue reading OpenAI “Accidentally” Deleted Evidence From Its New York Times Lawsuit
Henry Kissinger Issues AI Warning From Beyond the Grave
Are we doomed? Midas Touch It’s been nearly a year since Nobel peace laureate and war criminal Henry Kissinger died — but he’s somehow still offering policy suggestions from beyond the grave. In an uncanny video introducing his posthumously-published book “Genesis,” an AI-generated voice clone of the amply loathed Kissinger likens the burgeoning field of… Continue reading Henry Kissinger Issues AI Warning From Beyond the Grave