“We’re finding evidence that Mars was likely a planet of rivers.” River World Nowadays, the surface of Mars is an expanse of desolate plains and craters, covered in ruddy-colored iron oxide dust. In its distant past, though? It just might have been crisscrossed with lush streams, flowing with life-giving water. At least, that’s the claim by… Continue reading Scientists Find Evidence Mars Was Covered in Rivers
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SBF Says He Had No Idea “What Was Happening” Because He “Wasn’t Much of a Programmer”
Whatever you say, Sam. Your Honor, IDK Just days after the trial of ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried began in early October, a bombshell Wall Street Journal report revealed that there was a mysterious “back door” in FTX’s code allowing Alameda Research, the crypto exchange’s closely-tied hedge fund, special access to FTX customer funds. Today, when… Continue reading SBF Says He Had No Idea “What Was Happening” Because He “Wasn’t Much of a Programmer”
Twitter CEO Says Everything’s Totally Fine Actually, Thanks for Asking
Blink twice if you’re in danger. This is Fine Just weeks after her disastrous Code Conference interview, which may have resulted in her public speaking activities being put on hold, X-formerly-Twitter’s CEO Linda Yaccarino is logging back on to celebrate the one-year anniversary of her boss Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover. At an exceedingly rare all-hands meeting… Continue reading Twitter CEO Says Everything’s Totally Fine Actually, Thanks for Asking
Cruise Pauses All Driverless Operations, Saying It’s Taking a “Hard Look Inwards”
A huge setback. Put On Hold Cruise, General Motors’ autonomous vehicle division, announced on Thursday that it’s “proactively” pausing driverless operations of its entire fleet across the United States, just days after California yanked its robotaxi permit due to safety concerns. “The most important thing for us right now is to take steps to rebuild… Continue reading Cruise Pauses All Driverless Operations, Saying It’s Taking a “Hard Look Inwards”
Sam Bankman-Fried Admits He Only “Skimmed” FTX’s Terms of Service
There were a lot of “umms” and “uhhs” during SBF’s first day of testimony. Just Keep Skimming Nobody reads the fine print, including, apparently, the former CEO of the fallen crypto exchange FTX. During his ill-advised testimony at his own fraud trial, per CNN, disgraced crypto wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried admitted that he had only “skimmed”… Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried Admits He Only “Skimmed” FTX’s Terms of Service
Elon Musk Desperately Wants Control Over Your Personal Finances
Twitter-formerly-X owner Elon Musk is, apparently, finally getting the “everything app” of his dreams — or is at least ordering his employees to build out his vision for one. In the first all-hands meeting since renaming the company on Thursday, per audio acquired by The Verge, Musk told employees that he sees the app becoming a… Continue reading Elon Musk Desperately Wants Control Over Your Personal Finances
OpenAI Says It’s Fine If ChatGPT Occasionally Accuses Innocent People of Crimes
OpenAI says it’s doing nothing wrong. Sorry! Shrug Emoji It’s no secret that large language model (LLM)-powered generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT — which spit out text not by way of human-esque understanding, but of predictive math — have a serious hallucination problem. In the nascent AI biz, “hallucination” is basically another word for fabrication.… Continue reading OpenAI Says It’s Fine If ChatGPT Occasionally Accuses Innocent People of Crimes
Cosmonauts Encounter Deadly “Blob” During Spacewalk
No touching. Beware the Blob On Wednesday, two cosmonauts on board the International Space Station popped outside to examine the site of a coolant leakbut had to dodge out of the way of a toxic bubble blocking their path. The leak, which was first spotted earlier this month and was reported to not be immediately… Continue reading Cosmonauts Encounter Deadly “Blob” During Spacewalk
A Radioactive Sea of Magma Hides Under the Surface of Mars
“It does not exist on Earth.” Lava Cake Mars’ interior is harboring a huge secret. New analyses of seismic data from NASA’s InSight lander reveal that concealed beneath the Red Planet’s surface is a vast radioactive ocean of magma reaching up to 125 miles in depth — a layer totally unlike anything found in our… Continue reading A Radioactive Sea of Magma Hides Under the Surface of Mars
Google AI Boss Says AI Is an Existential Threat to Humankind
Now he tells us. Red Alert Does the development of artificial intelligence pose a threat to humanity? Google’s head of AI in the United Kingdom Demis Hassabis thinks so, likening it to climate change in an interview with The Guardian, citing fears that humans could develop a superintelligent system that goes rogue, among other malicious possibilities. “We… Continue reading Google AI Boss Says AI Is an Existential Threat to Humankind