On Friday, an international Delta flight bound for sunny Barcelona was forced to U-turn back to its starting point, Atlanta, for an exceedingly rare air travel horror: a passenger had suffered diarrhea throughout the plane’s aisle so extensively that completing the flight was deemed untenable. News of the incident first hit Reddit’s r/ATC subreddit, to… Continue reading Passenger on Ill-Fated Diarrhea Plane Says Flight Attendants Were Forced to Craft “Makeshift Biohazard Suits”
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Former Google Exec Warns AI Could Create a Deadly Plague
“We are working with dangerous things.” AI Pandemic An AI pioneer and former Google executive has issued a stark warning about the technology he helped unleash upon the world — and this one’s bound to go, well, viral. “The darkest scenario is that people will experiment with pathogens, engineered synthetic pathogens that might end up… Continue reading Former Google Exec Warns AI Could Create a Deadly Plague
Toyota Factories Shut Down When Company Runs Out of Disk Space
It’s a major fumble. Disk Full Japanese auto giant Toyota has had to shut down all of its factories in the country due to what the company claims to be a system malfunction triggered by “insufficient disk space.” In simple terms, the second-biggest carmaker in the world just had to grind production to a halt… Continue reading Toyota Factories Shut Down When Company Runs Out of Disk Space
The US Military Is Planning to Secretly Launch Something From Cape Canaveral
“We have nothing to announce at this time.” Early Warning System It appears that the US military is about to launch something from the Space Force base in Cape Canaveral — and that something may have huge implications for the next-gen arms race. As Ars Technica reports, a series of mysterious navigational warnings out of the… Continue reading The US Military Is Planning to Secretly Launch Something From Cape Canaveral
AI-Generated Drake Song Submitted for Grammys
“As far as the creative side, it’s absolutely eligible because it was written by a human.” AI Accolades A highly contentious AI-generated song featuring the cloned vocals of Aubrey “Drake” Graham and Abel Makkonen “the Weeknd” Tesfaye has officially been submitted to the Grammy Awards for consideration, the New York Times reports. The song, called “Heart… Continue reading AI-Generated Drake Song Submitted for Grammys
Internet-Connected Chastity Cage Reportedly Leaks Detailed Private Info About Users
Beware remote-controlled sex toys, y’all. Cage the Elephant Bad news for high tech kinksters: a company that sold internet-connected cock cages has exposed itself online. According to a security researcher who spoke to TechCrunch on condition of anonymity, the Internet of Things sex toy company, which sells chastity cages that can be unlocked online and which… Continue reading Internet-Connected Chastity Cage Reportedly Leaks Detailed Private Info About Users
Man Arrested for Dropping Chemical Into Swimming Pools Using Drone
“He was getting too happy with doing it.” Special Delivery The general manager of a Quality Inn in Absecon, New Jersey, noticed a bizarre trend at her hotel: a mysterious blue substance had seemingly been airdropped into the hotel’s pool, causing it to turn a radioactive shade of green. As The New York Times reports,… Continue reading Man Arrested for Dropping Chemical Into Swimming Pools Using Drone
USA Today Updates Every AI-Generated Sports Article to Correct “Errors”
After pressing pause on its messy foray into AI-generated content, publishing giant Gannett seems to be making use of the AI effort’s downtime. Gannett, which owns USA Today in addition to hundreds of local publications including The Arizona Republic, The Detroit Free Press, and The Tennessean, entered the internet’s crosshairs last week when it was… Continue reading USA Today Updates Every AI-Generated Sports Article to Correct “Errors”
Doctors Discover Instrument Left in Patient’s Body For 18 Months After Surgery
Image by Getty Images Today in nightmare fuel, we have a curious case out of New Zealand in which an unnamed patient’s doctors found a surgical instrument the size of a dinner plate inside her abdomen — a whopping 18 months after the initial surgery during which it was apparently misplaced. In a report, the… Continue reading Doctors Discover Instrument Left in Patient’s Body For 18 Months After Surgery
Professor Caught Using ChatGPT When Scientific Paper Was Full of Errors
A Danish biologist was shocked to find that his name was referenced several times in a scientific paper about millipedes — referring to papers that simply didn’t exist. As Retraction Watch reports, Natural History Museum of Denmark myriapodologist Henrik Enghoff suspected the authors of the paper from China and Africa used OpenAI’s ChatGPT to dig… Continue reading Professor Caught Using ChatGPT When Scientific Paper Was Full of Errors