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Astronomers have long debated the source of ULXs, chalking their brightness up to optical illusions. A new study confirms that they're all that they appear.
NASA

NASA Confirms That Cosmic Object Is so Bright That It Defies Laws of Physics

It's definitely not an optical illusion.

By Frank Landymore

Meta employees are reportedly struggling to navigate a work culture plagued by mass firings, cost-cuts, and "absentee" bosses.
Future Society

It Sounds Like Facebook Is Completely Falling Apart

"They're saying it’s 'Hunger Games' meets 'Lord of the Flies,' where everyone is trying to prove their worth to management."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group calling themselves the "overemployed" are harnessing the power of generative AI to work multiple full-time jobs at the same time, Vice reports.
OpenAI

Grifters Using ChatGPT to Work Multiple Full-Time Jobs at Once

"ChatGPT does like 80 percent of my job if I’m being honest."

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has bought around 10,000 graphics cards and is hiring AI experts to build a ChatGPT competitor within Twitter, Insider reports.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Buys Ten Thousand GPUs for Secretive AI Project

It's a big gamble.

By Victor Tangermann

President Joe Biden wants to impose strict emissions regulations on automakers to ensure EVs make up the majority of new car sales by 2030.
Pollution

Biden to Propose Extreme Car Pollution Limits to Drive Up EV Sales

"It is nothing short of a complete transformation of the automotive industrial base and the automotive market."

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers let 25 artificial intelligence-powered bots loose inside a virtual town — and they acted a lot more like humans than one might expect.
Artificial Intelligence

Researchers Let 25 AI Bots Loose Inside a Virtual Town. The Results Were Fascinating.

It's like a game of "Sims," but without any human intervention.

By Victor Tangermann

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried joked with his collaborators about a "tendency to lose track of millions of dollars in assets," according to a new report.
Blockchain

SBF and Friends Apparently Joked About Their “Tendency to Lose Track of Millions of Dollars in Assets”

"We sometimes find $50 million of assets lying around that we lost track of; such is life."

By Victor Tangermann

If you're sending humans back to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years, you better make sure your astronauts are safe — and look good while doing it.
Moon

NASA’s Moon Spacesuits Are Brain-Meltingly Expensive

A spacecraft-like suit comes with a spacecraft-like price tag.

By Frank Landymore

An AI artist has imagined what Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos would look like if they lived in slums — and honestly, the images go kind of hard.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Shows What Mark Zuckerberg Would Look Like Living in Poverty

Riches to rags.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Another day, another AI bro looking to defeat death — and almost certainly looking to monetize your grief via AI algorithms in the process.
Artificial Intelligence

Tech Guy Changes Mind About Emulating Dead Parents After Watching “Black Mirror” Episode

"I get it now."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The new director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has spoken about her decision to be sworn in on a copy of "Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan.
NASA

New NASA Goddard Director Explains Why She Was Sworn in on a Carl Sagan Book

A still more glorious dawn awaits.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Years after shutting down its robotics division, OpenAI is now back in the game after raising funding for Norwegian robotics company 1X.
OpenAI

Oh God… OpenAI Is Working on a Humanoid Robot

The company wants to "augment" the labor market with AI humanoids.

By Frank Landymore

Folks have begun using AI image generators to make porn of people who don't exist — and it seems to be a seller's market. 
Artificial Intelligence

People Are Actually Selling AI-Generated Nudes on Reddit

"At the end of the day, if they’re not real, who really cares?"

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's been a year since Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland was let out of prison early — and he's already planning another one.
Future Society

Billy McFarland Threatens to Hold Another Fyre Festival

"We deserve this timeline."

By Noor Al-Sibai

A user instructed an autonomous AI agent, dubbed ChaosGPT, to destroy humanity. Though the bot gave the mission its darndest, it didn't quite work out.
Artificial Intelligence

Someone Directed an AI to “Destroy Humanity” and It Tried Its Best

Better luck next time?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After reports revealed that Tesla employees shared "intimate" customer images taken by the cars' cameras, someone is now suing the company over it. 
Tesla

Tesla Hit With Lawsuit Over Reports About Employees Watching Car Cameras

"Tesla needs to be held accountable for these invasions and for misrepresenting its lax privacy practices to him and other Tesla owners."

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter Circles is broken. Very broken. So broken that, in a particularly terrible turn, some folks' secret nude photos appeared in random feeds. Not good.
Future Society

Twitter Accidentally Made Users’ Secret Nudes Public

"Twitter seems to be outright failing to filter out private content before serving it to users."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the UK's terrorism watchdogs is warning that human society may soon start to witness AI-assisted — or even AI-propogated — terrorism.
Artificial Intelligence

UK Appointee Warns Rogue AIs Could Recruit Terrorists

"AI-enabled attacks are probably round the corner."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

We knew crypto mining uses tons of energy — but new investigations have revealed that the situation is actually worse than we thought. 
Cryptocurrency

Mining Crypto Is Even Worse for the Environment Than We Thought

It's even making YOUR power bill higher.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter CEO Elon Musk just got absolutely roasted on Twitter — something that completely flew over his head.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Just Got Roasted to His Face and Seemed to Have No Idea

Burn!

By Victor Tangermann