Sure, Sam. SBF 2024 Disgraced crypto baron Sam Bankman-Fried is on trial this week, facing several counts of fraud and conspiracy following the spectacular collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Today, his ex-girlfriend and former CEO of sister hedge fund Alameda Caroline Ellison has taken the stand, shedding light on even more eyebrow-raising details regarding… Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried’s Delusions Included That He Could Become President, Former Girlfriend Says
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Caroline Ellison Says Sam Bankman-Fried “Directed” Her to Commit Crimes
She came out the gate swinging. Et Tu, Caroline? Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research and ex-girlfriend of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, came to court with guns blazing as she began her testimony against her erstwhile boss-slash-lover. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Ellison told the court at the start of her testimony… Continue reading Caroline Ellison Says Sam Bankman-Fried “Directed” Her to Commit Crimes
Sweden Invents Flat Pack Car
It’s like IKEA, but for your car. Flat Camry Swedish furniture house IKEA has become internationally recognized for its space-saving and highly affordable flat pack furniture that you can assemble yourself after buying. Now, one manufacturer is attempting to apply a similar model to the automobile. A new Stockholm-based startup called Luvly has unveiled a… Continue reading Sweden Invents Flat Pack Car
VA Department Staffer Blames Cat Jumping on Keyboard for Server Outage
US government versus… kitty. Out of the Bag A four-hour outage in a Kansas City, Missouri Veterans Affairs Medical Center’s (VAMC) computer system may or may not have been caused by a cat-on-keyboard situation, The Register reports. Per the report, the system malfunction in question took place in mid-September. Shortly after that, as the Register’s… Continue reading VA Department Staffer Blames Cat Jumping on Keyboard for Server Outage
Denver Gave Homeless People $1,000 Per Month and It Got Them Off the Streets and Working Full-Time
Solving homelessness completely is an exceedingly difficult task that’d likely require systemic changes on a sweeping level. But that doesn’t mean we don’t already have the tools to help in concrete ways. Case in point: the city of Denver, Colorado recently handed out monthly payments, ranging from $50 to $1,000, to 800 unhoused residents. The… Continue reading Denver Gave Homeless People $1,000 Per Month and It Got Them Off the Streets and Working Full-Time
Walmart Spies on Ozempic Patients’ Shopping Habits, Finds They’re Buying Less Food
Image by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty/Futurism The food industry is apparently in a tizzy over Ozempic and its appetite-suppressing qualities — and even the megastore Walmart is feeling the burn. As Bloomberg reports, a Walmart executive admitted that the company has been looking at anonymized customer data and finding that shoppers taking the diabetes drug and… Continue reading Walmart Spies on Ozempic Patients’ Shopping Habits, Finds They’re Buying Less Food
One in Ten Chatbot Users Are Big Time Horndogs, Researchers Find
Data-Driven After looking at 100,000 chatbot conversations, researchers have found a sad but not-so-surprising statistic: that roughly one in 10 people who “converse” with these chatbots are doing so for horny purposes. In a not-yet-peer-reviewed paper spotted by ZDNet, a team of researchers found that ten percent of 100,000 “real-world conversations” with large language models… Continue reading One in Ten Chatbot Users Are Big Time Horndogs, Researchers Find
Study Finds That Police “Crime Predicting” AI Fails Miserably at Predicting Crimes
Who could have seen this coming? Broken Algo Using an algorithm similar to those that predict earthquake aftershocks, cops have for more than a decade tried to use “predictive policing” software to presage where crimes will take place before they happen — and as a joint investigation by The Markup and Wired shows, it seems to have failed… Continue reading Study Finds That Police “Crime Predicting” AI Fails Miserably at Predicting Crimes
Mercury Has Wrinkles Because It’s Shrinking, Scientists Say
Scientists have long suspected that Mercury is actively shrinking over billions of years — but new research suggests that that process may still be going on, leaving cracked-up wrinkles behind. In an essay for The Conversation, planetary scientist David Rothery, a professor at the UK’s Open University and co-author of a new paper published in the… Continue reading Mercury Has Wrinkles Because It’s Shrinking, Scientists Say
Your Evil Car Is Filling the Ocean With Microplastics, Scientists Say
They’re a disaster for the environment in more ways than you think. Tire Fire You’ve probably heard warnings that the ocean is filling up with microplastics, with blame often settling on single-use consumer goods like plastic straws. But the villain may instead be sitting in your driveway. According to a recent report by the Pew Charitable… Continue reading Your Evil Car Is Filling the Ocean With Microplastics, Scientists Say