Et tu, bean bag? Bean Bag Bombshell There’s no doubt that the mythology of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried — who’s currently on trial in New York City defending himself against a slew of very serious criminal fraud charges — was integral to the mythology of FTX itself, the now-bankrupt crypto exchange once valued at… Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried’s Friend Says He Was Exaggerating How Much He Slept on His Bean Bag Chair
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Elon Musk Baffled About Why People Would Want to See Headline Before Clicking Article
Headlines? Who needs em! Making Headlines In case you missed it, X — formerly that one site called Twitter — is no longer displaying headlines for links and articles posted on the platform. Instead, link previews only appear as a thumbnail, with a small and easily overlooked caption in the bottom corner stating the website… Continue reading Elon Musk Baffled About Why People Would Want to See Headline Before Clicking Article
Apple Says Its $17k Gold-Plated Watch Is Obsolete
Money well spent. Midas Touch If you splurged on a gold-plated Apple Watch back in the day, you’re outta luck. MacRumors reports that Apple has internally relegated its gilded gadget to its “obsolete” list, meaning that — if yours is still ticking — it’s effectively left for dead. So sayonara to seventeen grand. As of… Continue reading Apple Says Its $17k Gold-Plated Watch Is Obsolete
News Site Partners with AI Service That Measures Reliability, Which Flags Its Articles as Unreliable
The Messenger, a news site that launched this year with a self-avowed mission to “champion balanced journalism in an era of bias, subjectivity, and misinformation” through “thorough, objective, non-partisan, and timely news coverage,” has partnered with an AI-powered tool called Seekr, which claims to be able to use machine learning to judge whether or not… Continue reading News Site Partners with AI Service That Measures Reliability, Which Flags Its Articles as Unreliable
Snack Food Investors Concerned About the Rise of Semaglutide
Image by Richard B. Levine / Corbis via Getty / Futurism As Ozempic and Wegovy continue to fly off the selves, a new opponent has appeared — the snack industry’s money people, who seems are concerned about the appetite-suppressing drugs’ potential effects on revenue. As the Wall Street Journal reports, investors behind companies including Campbell’s Soup… Continue reading Snack Food Investors Concerned About the Rise of Semaglutide
Disney Has No Comment on Microsoft’s AI Generating Pictures of Mickey Mouse Doing 9/11
People have been using Microsoft Bing AI’s new image-generating feature to cook up image upon image of cutesey creatures — ranging from Nintendo’s Kirby to beloved Disney rodent Mickey Mouse — perpetrating the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center. So far, Disney — a company that in 1998 pushed so hard for Congress to… Continue reading Disney Has No Comment on Microsoft’s AI Generating Pictures of Mickey Mouse Doing 9/11
150 Dolphins Die as Water Hits Hot Tub Temperature
“If something bad happens to the dolphins, we are next.” Overcooked Ocean temperatures are steadily climbing, turning coastal waters into steaming — and deadly — hot tubs. And that’s not some loose analogy to describe the very real dangers of climate change. Earlier this year, sensor buoys off the coast of Florida registered temperatures in… Continue reading 150 Dolphins Die as Water Hits Hot Tub Temperature
Months Before Collapse, FTX Employees Discovered a Mysterious Backdoor
Last year, employees at the cryptocurrency exchange FTX stumbled upon a line of code that gave the company special privileges for moving crypto around quietly — and then one of them got fired. As the Wall Street Journal has discovered, employees at LedgerX, a smaller crypto firm that FTX purchased in 2021, found lines of code… Continue reading Months Before Collapse, FTX Employees Discovered a Mysterious Backdoor
Facebook Laying Off Metaverse Employees
Even more layoffs. Hard Ware Facebook-turned-Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg may impressed some of us with his latest demo of far more lifelike metaverse avatars last week. But a peek behind the scenes paints a far more troubling picture of the company’s efforts to turn his VR vision into a reality. Case in point, as Reuters… Continue reading Facebook Laying Off Metaverse Employees
Scientists Say No, NYC Isn’t Sinking Because of Its Skyscrapers
But it’s sinking all the same. Sink or Swim Just a few days before New York City experienced unprecedented flooding, NASA and Rutgers quietly published a report seemingly in response to a previous study suggesting the city might be sinking under the colossal weight of its skyscrapers. Using remote sensing data from the last seven… Continue reading Scientists Say No, NYC Isn’t Sinking Because of Its Skyscrapers