Image by Getty / Futurism Smoking cigarettes is extremely deadly; each year, the habit is estimated to kill around 480,000 Americans. But it makes you feel good near-instantly, washing you over with a calming buzz that nothing else quite matches. It also looks cool — at least in the movies. Soon, though, the “cool” factor… Continue reading FDA Working to Remove the Stuff in Cigarettes That Feels Good
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Large Publisher Lays Off More Than 100 Employees After Striking Deal With OpenAI
The future might be now, but that doesn’t mean you’re in it. A leaked memo from media giant Dotdash Meredith (the owner of titles including People, Food & Wine, Better Homes & Gardens, and Investopedia) has revealed that the company — “America’s largest digital and print publisher,” according to its own PR fluff — will… Continue reading Large Publisher Lays Off More Than 100 Employees After Striking Deal With OpenAI
British Authorities Seize Cybertruck for Being Entirely Illegal
Oops! CyberBust Police in England have impounded a Tesla Cybertruck that apparently made it across the Atlantic, for being “not road legal in the UK.” According to a Facebook update by the Bury police department in the Greater Manchester area, the driver “was a permanent UK resident but the vehicle was registered and insured abroad… Continue reading British Authorities Seize Cybertruck for Being Entirely Illegal
EV startup Canoo has filed for bankruptcy and stopped all operations
Canoo said on Friday night that it has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and “will cease operations effective immediately,” after failing to secure enough funding to keep it going. The writing was on the wall for the EV startup leading up to the announcement; the company has lost multiple executives in recent months, announced furloughs… Continue reading EV startup Canoo has filed for bankruptcy and stopped all operations
FTC orders Genshin Impact’s developer to block young teens from making in-game purchases
Kids and younger teens might soon be unable to play Genshin Impact’s gachas. The developer behind the game has agreed to block players under 16 years old from making in-game purchases without parental consent in order to settle a complaint from the Federal Trade Commission. It has also agreed to pay a $20 million penalty. Samuel… Continue reading FTC orders Genshin Impact’s developer to block young teens from making in-game purchases
Perplexity AI has reportedly submitted an 11th-hour bid to save TikTok in the US
Just one day before TikTok is expected to shut down in the US, startup Perplexity AI has submitted a bid to TikTok’s parent company ByteDance proposing a merger that would allow it to continue operating, CNBC reports. Citing an anonymous source, CNBC reports that the proposed merger would “create a new entity combining Perplexity, TikTok… Continue reading Perplexity AI has reportedly submitted an 11th-hour bid to save TikTok in the US
Instagram swoops in with 3-minute Reels and rectangular profile grids as the TikTok ban gets real
Instagram is rolling out a bunch of changes this weekend that will conveniently make it look a lot more like TikTok, which could go dark in the US on Sunday now that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the law banning the app if parent company ByteDance doesn’t sell it. Those changes include… Continue reading Instagram swoops in with 3-minute Reels and rectangular profile grids as the TikTok ban gets real
Hackers Apparently Stole the FBI’s Call Logs With Confidential Informants
“Not good.” Intel Atlantic The FBI admitted that hackers appear to have broken into AT&T’s systems last year to steal months of call and text logs — data pilfering that could endanger the agency’s own operatives. According to a document reviewed by Bloomberg, the FBI scrambled to contain the disaster. The infiltrators got access to data… Continue reading Hackers Apparently Stole the FBI’s Call Logs With Confidential Informants
Top AI Investor Says His Companies Are Filled With “America-Hating Communists” Destroying Them From the Inside
If you’ve felt a vibe shift, you’re not alone: there’s a massive revolution afoot, led by “America-hating communists.” At least, that’s according to Marc Andreessen, the cofounder of the powerful venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has made immense sums of money by investing in tech companies ranging from Facebook to Airbnb and is now… Continue reading Top AI Investor Says His Companies Are Filled With “America-Hating Communists” Destroying Them From the Inside
Amazon Says All It Needs to Do Before Releasing an AI-Powered Alexa Is to Solve the Giant Engineering Problem That Nobody Else on Earth Has Been Able to Solve
Amazon is still hard at work in its efforts to realize an AI-powered Alexa digital assistant. As the Financial Times reports, the tech giant still has to sort out “several technical hurdles” before rolling out the long-awaited feature. One of them, according to Amazon AI team lead Rohit Prasad, is solving the pesky issue of… Continue reading Amazon Says All It Needs to Do Before Releasing an AI-Powered Alexa Is to Solve the Giant Engineering Problem That Nobody Else on Earth Has Been Able to Solve