Image by Getty Images Fentanyl Blues In June, three bodies turned up on the edges of Mexico’s Culiacán, The Wall Street Journal reports, which is a stronghold for the vicious Sinaloa Cartel. In a striking detail, blue pills of fentanyl were found sprinkled over the corpses — a grisly announcement from the cartel that people… Continue reading Brutal Mexican Cartel Bans Fentanyl Production and Sale
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Google Terrified of Lawsuit That Would “Take a Sledgehammer” to Generative AI
“Using publicly available information to learn is not stealing.” Hammer Time Google has moved to dismiss a class action data-scraping lawsuit alleging that the Silicon Valley Giant’s AI training practices violated “hundreds of millions” of internet users’ privacy, data ownership, and intellectual property rights. The lawsuit, filed in San Fransisco back in July, is a… Continue reading Google Terrified of Lawsuit That Would “Take a Sledgehammer” to Generative AI
Elon Musk Planning to Charge Users $1 to Tweet
It’s a banana, Michael… He’s Running It sounds as if Elon Musk, madman that he is, is actually going to start charging to use the social network formerly known as Twitter. As Fortune reports, X-formerly-Twitter will begin charging users in the Philippines and New Zealand the equivalent of one American dollar to access the site’s main… Continue reading Elon Musk Planning to Charge Users $1 to Tweet
LinkedIn Laying Off 700 as Microsoft Pivots to AI
But LinkedIn made $15 billion for the first time this year. Close Shave Microsoft has the cash to pay hackers to jailbreak its Bing AI, but apparently not enough to keep almost 700 people employed at the Microsoft-owned professional social media platform LinkedIn. The site is now undergoing its second round of layoffs this year, The… Continue reading LinkedIn Laying Off 700 as Microsoft Pivots to AI
Legal Experts Say SBF Is in Deep Trouble
Things aren’t looking too hot. Mounting Danger As former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial settles into its third week, legal experts don’t seem particularly optimistic about the ex-billionaire’s chances of exoneration. Bankman-Fried, who’s currently on trial in New York City as he pleads not guilty to several counts related to fraud and the misappropriation… Continue reading Legal Experts Say SBF Is in Deep Trouble
NYC’s Mayor Using AI to Make Robocalls of Him Speaking Chinese and Yiddish
“People stop me on the street all the time, they say ‘I don’t know you speak Mandarin.’” Domo Arigato While announcing the city’s plan to handle artificial intelligence, New York City’s galaxy-brained mayor bragged that his voice is now being cloned to make robocalls in Mandarin and Yiddish. “People stop me on the street all… Continue reading NYC’s Mayor Using AI to Make Robocalls of Him Speaking Chinese and Yiddish
Tesla Charges Couple $20,000 After They Drove It in the Rain
“My heart missed a beat, honestly.” Zero Spark A couple in Scotland are as mad as a wet hen after Tesla flatfooted them with a £17,000 bill (that’s about $20,693 in USD) for repairs to their vehicle’s battery that apparently experienced water damage after driving through rainy conditions, Edinburgh Live reports. “I was flabbergasted and… Continue reading Tesla Charges Couple $20,000 After They Drove It in the Rain
Of Course Austin Has a Robot Tattoo Shop Now
These robot tattooers are apparently super-fast and cause nearly no pain. Dot Your T’s Would you let a robot ink a cloud-based tattoo design onto you? For the low price of $10,000 and a trip to Austin, Texas, now you can. Last week, the Blackdot robo-tattooing startup came out of stealth to announce that it… Continue reading Of Course Austin Has a Robot Tattoo Shop Now
Scientists Puzzled by Sudden, Super-Loud Rumble Inside Mars
A so-called dead world. Captain Shook In May of last year, NASA’s Insight Mars lander detected an enormous seismic tremor reverberating just below the planet’s surface. At a magnitude 4.7, it’s the most powerful ever detected on the Red Planet — and indeed anywhere off world. Ever since, the puzzling “marsquake” has had scientists scrambling… Continue reading Scientists Puzzled by Sudden, Super-Loud Rumble Inside Mars
Researchers Just Found Something Terrifying About Talking to AI Chatbots
Great, another thing to worry about. Context Matters It looks like AI chatbots just got even scarier, thanks to new research suggesting the large language models (LLMs) behind them can infer things about you based on minor context clues you provide. In interviews with Wired, computer scientists out of the Swiss state science school ETH Zurich… Continue reading Researchers Just Found Something Terrifying About Talking to AI Chatbots