The numbers are staggering. Debt Hole X-formerly-Twitter owner Elon Musk had to dig deep in his own pockets to fund his chaotic acquisition of the social media platform last year — but the purchase also relied on traditional financial institutions. The mercurial CEO had to borrow a whopping $13 billion from seven banks to scrounge… Continue reading Banks That Lent Elon Musk Money to Buy Twitter Are Totally Screwed Now
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ChatGPT’s Scary Good at Getting People to Click Phishing Emails, IBM Finds
Don’t open that link! Click Bot OpenAI’s ChatGPT can spit out a poem or write a letter if you’re at a loss for words. Or, given the right prompts, you can use it to write a convincing phishing email at unprecedented speed and scale. Case in point, IBM researchers posted an internal study that details… Continue reading ChatGPT’s Scary Good at Getting People to Click Phishing Emails, IBM Finds
Apple Is Apparently Spending Billions on Secret AI Development
Can Apple catch up? Apple Season Microsoft has been at the forefront of the current AI boom, beginning with its first savvy investment into OpenAI in 2019 — and ChatGPT going mega-viral last year has other tech companies like Google and Facebook trying to play catch up. Enter Apple, Microsoft’s historic rival. The tech giant is… Continue reading Apple Is Apparently Spending Billions on Secret AI Development
Cybertruck Breaks Down So Badly It Has to Be Dragged Out of Public
Another one? Dead Weight If Tesla CEO Elon Musk is to be believed — and we can give you a thousand reasons as to why that’s a bad idea — the company is getting ready to start delivering its long-awaited Cybertruck in a matter of just weeks. But from what we’ve seen lately, there’s a… Continue reading Cybertruck Breaks Down So Badly It Has to Be Dragged Out of Public
Grab Some Popcorn, Because SBF Is Gonna Testify at His Own Trial
We can’t look away. Taking the Stand Disgraced crypto baron Sam Bankman-Fried is no stranger to tweeting through it. After his FTX empire collapsed in spectacular fashion last year, the former wunderkind CEO attempted to defend himself in a variety of ways — from ill-advised blogs to speaking with reporters against his lawyers’ wishes — before… Continue reading Grab Some Popcorn, Because SBF Is Gonna Testify at His Own Trial
Keith Richards Says He’ll Probably Keep Touring After He’s Dead
“It won’t be up to me, will it?” Rock On Having cheated death so many times already, the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards says that there’s a good chance he’ll keep touring as a hologram after he does finally pass away. In an interview with Matt Wilkinson, the host of a self-titled Apple Music… Continue reading Keith Richards Says He’ll Probably Keep Touring After He’s Dead
University Warns of Bomb Threat Involving Delivery Robots
“Do not open robots. Avoid all robots until further notice.” Bomb Delivery Don’t trust the robots. Don’t open them, and don’t even go near them — because they may be armed with an explosive. That’s essentially the warning that Oregon State University just gave students about in a tweet, heralding strange new frontiers in campus security.… Continue reading University Warns of Bomb Threat Involving Delivery Robots
California Just Yanked Cruise’s Robotaxi Permit After a Bizarre Incident
The California Department of Motor Vehicles has officially yanked Cruise’s robotaxi permit “effective immediately,” following a hit-and-run incident in San Francisco earlier this month that caused a pedestrian to become trapped underneath a driverless Cruise vehicle. In a brief statement, the agency cited several alleged reasons for the suspension, including that Cruise’s “vehicles are not… Continue reading California Just Yanked Cruise’s Robotaxi Permit After a Bizarre Incident
Beer Company Responds to Video of Worker Peeing Into Vat
People often joke that beers they dislike taste like urine. In the case of the prominent Chinese lager Tsingtao, one batch of its brew can perhaps lay to that claim in an unusually literal way — after video of a worker urinating into one of its tanks went viral in China this month, presumably forcing… Continue reading Beer Company Responds to Video of Worker Peeing Into Vat
Orcas May Be Teaching Each Other How to Brutalize Blue Whales
Grisly. Whale of a Feast Over the last four years, researchers have been watching a grisly scene unfold in the ocean: pods of orcas tearing unsuspecting blue whales into grisly chunks. This year has already been chock full of incidents of orcas attacking and even sinking boats. These strange new trends have puzzled experts, raising… Continue reading Orcas May Be Teaching Each Other How to Brutalize Blue Whales