Bad news for people who love good puppers: pet dogs seem, per an unsettling new study, to be astonishingly bad for the environment. In an interview with The Guardian, the lead author of a wide-ranging review of canine environmental effects suggested that pet dogs may be as harmful to their surroundings as their much-maligned brethren, housecats.… Continue reading New Research Finds That Dogs Are Incredibly Horrible
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RFK Jr. Surprised to Learn He’d Cut a Grant For Youth Diabetes Research
Image by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Earlier this month, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary and noted anti-vaccine crackpot Robert Kennedy Jr. admitted that thousands of laid-off workers had to be reinstated due to “mistakes” made by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. Musk’s henchmen’s cuts to the agency’s many health programs are likely… Continue reading RFK Jr. Surprised to Learn He’d Cut a Grant For Youth Diabetes Research
Naughty AIs Are Spilling Their Users’ Super Personal Chats Onto the Open Web
Is yours in here? Steady Drip A new report from the security firm UpGuard reveals that some NSFW chatbot sites are oozing explicit user chat contents into the open web — and what those chats contain can be disturbing. According to Wired, UpGuard’s investigation focused on 400 “exposed” AI services, all of which were built… Continue reading Naughty AIs Are Spilling Their Users’ Super Personal Chats Onto the Open Web
Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music
Image by Getty / Futurism Art can outlast the artist — but what about their artistic impulses? A new art installation project in Australia, titled “Revivification,” raises this question with a very literal interpretation of “impulse”: using his DNA, the team behind the project have performed a quasi-resurrection of the late experimental American composer Alvin… Continue reading Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music
ICE Just Jailed One of America’s Top Young Age-Reversing Scientists
Image by Getty / Futursim Despite being backed by death-fearing billionaires, Donald Trump’s administration has detained — and seeks to deport — an acclaimed anti-aging researcher. As the New York Times reports, 30-year-old Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born lab researcher at the Harvard Medical School, was detained at Boston’s Logan Airport upon returning from a trip to… Continue reading ICE Just Jailed One of America’s Top Young Age-Reversing Scientists
Scientists Investigating Patches of Ocean With Otherworldly Glow
We’re inching ever closer towards unearthing the secrets behind one of the most enduring marine mysteries: the fabled “milky seas” — glowing stretches of water that cast the ocean in an otherworldly haze of green and white, spanning to the horizon and beyond. The nocturnal phenomenon has haunted and mystified sailors for centuries. But they‘re… Continue reading Scientists Investigating Patches of Ocean With Otherworldly Glow
Tesla Shows Off Cheaper and Slower Cybertruck That’s an Even Worse Deal
Nerfed. Bargain Basement Tesla has introduced a cheaper, entry-level Cybertruck — and by all accounts, it’s still not looking like a great deal. The new Long Range Rear Wheel Drive (RWD) was announced by the EV maker on CEO Elon Musk’s X-formerly-Twitter on Thursday evening. But at $69,990 — eye roll, please — before a $7,500 federal tax… Continue reading Tesla Shows Off Cheaper and Slower Cybertruck That’s an Even Worse Deal
Tesla’s Head of Software Departs as Robotaxi Reveal Looms
That can’t be good. Softwearing Thin Elon Musk has been saying for a decade that Tesla is a software company. But the man who helped make it that way is headed for greener pastures at perhaps the worst possible time. According to insiders who spoke to Bloomberg, longtime Tesla software VP David Lau is departing the… Continue reading Tesla’s Head of Software Departs as Robotaxi Reveal Looms
Elon Musk Reportedly Doing Something Horrid to Power His AI Data Center
It’s no secret that Elon Musk’s wealth is staggering. At the time of writing, he’s worth over $325 billion. To give that number a sense of scale, that’s $62 billion more than the total annual salary of every worker in Michigan combined — all 4.3 million of them. So why is he powering his data… Continue reading Elon Musk Reportedly Doing Something Horrid to Power His AI Data Center
ICE Deletes Post About Stopping the Flow of Illegal “Ideas”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been forced to delete a graphic claiming that its job is to stop illegal “ideas” from entering the United States. “If it crosses the border illegally, it’s our job to STOP IT,” the graphic on ICE’s since-deleted X post reads. Among the things that could “illegally” enter American soil,… Continue reading ICE Deletes Post About Stopping the Flow of Illegal “Ideas”