The sheer, astonishing waste. Canuck Crypto A company just bought four Canadian natural gas power plants to mine Bitcoin. Hut 8, one of the largest digital asset mining companies in North America, made its “stalking horse bid,” a binding offer to buy out an insolvent company, last month, but only declared the bid successful in… Continue reading A Bitcoin Miner Is Buying Four Entire Power Plants
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Sam Altman Says He’s Fascinated With the Terminator
“This time it’s different.” Term Limit Sam Altman is taking a victory lap after being unsuccessfully ousted as CEO of OpenAI — and after his triumphant return, he’s already back to saying weird stuff in public again. As Bloomberg reports, Altman is again on the speech circuit and was quoted waxing prolific about the many ways… Continue reading Sam Altman Says He’s Fascinated With the Terminator
Plane Passenger Says He Has No Passport, No Idea How He Got to Los Angeles From Russia
How in the world did this happen? Plane to See Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, security at airports has stepped up dramatically — so it’s an utter mystery how a Russian man managed to travel from Europe to Los Angeles last month without a passport, visa or ticket, The Guardian reports. Sergey Vladimirovich Ochigava, the international… Continue reading Plane Passenger Says He Has No Passport, No Idea How He Got to Los Angeles From Russia
Elon Musk’s Mommy Steps In to Protect Her Beautiful Boy
“Have you any idea how furious I am?” Mother’s Fury Multi-hyphenate CEO Elon Musk’s mommy has had enough of pesky regulators coming after her beautiful boy. In a decidedly old-man-yells-at-clouds tweet, Maye Musk lashed out at the media for trying to tarnish the name of her son’s EV maker. “The mainstream media headlines are depending… Continue reading Elon Musk’s Mommy Steps In to Protect Her Beautiful Boy
Elon Musk Is Getting Absolutely Destroyed in Sweden
The pressure against Tesla is really starting to mount in northern Europe. After unions stopped unloading Tesla vehicles from ships in Sweden last month over a labor disagreement with the Elon Musk-led company, the Swedish Transport Workers’ union announced today that it will stop collecting waste at Tesla workshops on Christmas Eve to turn up… Continue reading Elon Musk Is Getting Absolutely Destroyed in Sweden
Feds Blast Tesla for Massive Autopilot Issue in 2 Million Cars
This is pretty freaky! Head Automatic Tesla is once again in trouble with the US government, and this time the Elon Musk-owned company is being forced to issue software patches for more than two million of its cars over an apparently major problem with its Autopilot feature. In a recall notice, the National Highway Traffic Safety… Continue reading Feds Blast Tesla for Massive Autopilot Issue in 2 Million Cars
Mars’ Magnetosphere Suddenly Tripled in Size Last Christmas Day
“It was almost unbelievable.” Wide Magnet On Christmas Day last year, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft observed something entirely unexpected and exceedingly rare while orbiting Mars. Specifically, it appears to have noticed the almost complete “disappearance” of solar wind, the steady trickle of charged particles coming from the Sun, in the wake of a powerful solar event,… Continue reading Mars’ Magnetosphere Suddenly Tripled in Size Last Christmas Day
Scientists Discover Dolphin With Thumbs
Behold our new cetacean overlord: a dolphin has been spotted with thumb-like appendages on its flippers, because the world apparently wasn’t weird enough yet. As Live Science reports, scientists at Greece’s Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute have twice seen the morphed marine mammal when doing boat surveys in the country’s semi-enclosed Gulf of Corinth — and they’re just… Continue reading Scientists Discover Dolphin With Thumbs
Business Insider’s Parent Company Signs Deal With OpenAI
German media giant Axel Springer, which owns Business Insider and Politico and many other publications, has announced a “global partnership” with ChatGPT maker OpenAI to “strengthen independent journalism in the age of artificial intelligence.” “With this partnership, ChatGPT users around the world will receive summaries of selected global news content from Axel Springer’s media brands,”… Continue reading Business Insider’s Parent Company Signs Deal With OpenAI
Tesla Unveils New Humanoid Robot
It can fondle eggs now. Optimus Prime Tesla has unveiled its second-generation Optimus humanoid robot, a marked improvement over the stiff android that awkwardly shuffled across the stage at the EV maker’s AI event last year. In a video shared on Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s social media network X, Tesla’s Optimus Gen 2 can be seen… Continue reading Tesla Unveils New Humanoid Robot