Providence Police Department Last week, lauded theoretical physicist and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Nuno Loureiro was murdered in his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. Since then, investigators have made several breakthroughs in the unusual case, linking the prime suspect to a separate deadly mass shooting at Brown University earlier in December.… Continue reading Murder of MIT Fusion Scientist Getting More and More Bizarre
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Photos Are Being Deleted From the Epstein Files
Justice Department Even before the Department of Justice’s release of a major collection of files pertaining to late billionaire sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, lawmakers were concerned they would be heavily censored. On Friday, the department launched an entire webpage that included hundreds of thousands of long-awaited records from its investigation into the deceased financier. As… Continue reading Photos Are Being Deleted From the Epstein Files
Home Depot Deploys Havana-Style Sonic Weapon Against Day Laborers
Sarah Reingewirtz / MediaNews Group / Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images While federal agents working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are running up on migrant workers in Home Depot parking lots, the home improvement corporation has decided to take a stand — against the migrant workers.… Continue reading Home Depot Deploys Havana-Style Sonic Weapon Against Day Laborers
James Webb Discovers Planet Shaped Like Lemon
NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an astonishing exoplanet that’s stretching our understanding of what’s possible for these distant worlds. And when we say say “stretch,” we mean it literally. The roughly Jupiter-mass object, designated PSR J2322-2650b, orbits just one million miles away from its star,… Continue reading James Webb Discovers Planet Shaped Like Lemon
White House Confused by How Random YouTuber’s Stream Became Featured on Its Website
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: MattMoney via YouTube / Getty Images The executive branch has been infiltrated by an unexpected entity: a random livestreamer. On Friday, the White House said it was launching an investigation after some bearded dude’s YouTube stream suddenly showed up on its official website, Bloomberg reports, heightening the absurdity… Continue reading White House Confused by How Random YouTuber’s Stream Became Featured on Its Website
Twitter User Uncovers Secret Link to Bizarre CDC Text File
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism It’s not quite a CIA black site, but a link to an old Centers for Disease Control and Prevention text file is still pretty jarring. The odd file was uncovered by an X-formerly-Twitter user who goes by the name “charlie.” “Does anyone want to see the scary ass dcd… Continue reading Twitter User Uncovers Secret Link to Bizarre CDC Text File
Police Warn of Robot Crime Wave
Getty / Futurism The use of autonomous drones on the battlefield has already raised plenty of murky ethical questions. Many experts and human rights groups have decried the use of killer robots, particularly when you consider the possibilities of technological flaws resulting in the deaths of innocent people — not to mention using the tech… Continue reading Police Warn of Robot Crime Wave
Rats Successfully Trained to Shoot Demons in “Doom”
Viktor Toth In 2020, Hungarian software engineer and neuroscientist Viktor Tóth came up with a fascinating experiment. With the use of a bootstrap experimental setup consisting of a large polystyrene ball, a curved computer monitor, and a small straw that dispenses sugar water, Tóth managed to teach a rat how to play the classic 1994… Continue reading Rats Successfully Trained to Shoot Demons in “Doom”
YouTube Now Shutting Down Channels Posting AI Slop
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: 20th Century Studios YouTube’s janitors are swooping in to mop up the slop. As reported by Deadline, the Google-owned video platform has terminated two massive YouTube channels that peddled fake, AI-generated movie trailers, in what is one of the most high profile actions it’s taken against the AI… Continue reading YouTube Now Shutting Down Channels Posting AI Slop
Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images In 2025, there seem to be as many narratives about AI as there are startups peddling the stuff. Will it transform society into a utopia, freeing us from all responsibilities, or will it come to life and kill us all? And who benefits from those outcomes,… Continue reading Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything