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Users Cheer as Microsoft Accidentally Removes Hated AI Feature From Windows 11
Microsoft has "unintentionally uninstalled" its Copilot AI assistant app on some devices running its latest operating system Windows 11 — and users are rejoicing. "We’re aware of an issue with...
Flailing OpenAI Calls for Ban on Chinese AI
Weeks after Sam Altman's admission that OpenAI's scaling model had run out of steam, it seems the billionaire tech baron is now changing course. In a recently published white paper,...
All AI-Generated Material Must Be Labeled Online, China Announces
In collaboration with a number of government ministries, the Chinese internet watchdog Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has announced that all AI-generated content on the internet will have to be...
Researcher "Threatened to Kill" Colleagues Trapped in Antarctic Base
Things seem to be going nightmarishly bad at an isolated scientific base in Antarctica, where a researcher has been accused of assaulting and threatening to murder colleagues. As England's The...
Voice Actor for Aloy in "Horizon" Games Creeped Out by AI Version of Her Character
Ashly Burch, the voice actor behind Aloy from the "Horizon" video games, has responded to the leaked tech demo showing off a clumsy but uncanny AI imitation of her performance...
Mothers and Children Are Already Dying Because of Elon Musk’s Cuts
Children are already dying due to cuts from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — but none that matter to the billionaire or his boss, Donald Trump. As the ...
Scientists Discover Four Intriguing Planets Around Closest Single-Star Solar System to Earth
Astronomers have spotted four sub-Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system to us, called Barnard's Star. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters, ...
Man Tests If Tesla Autopilot Will Crash Into Wall Painted to Look Like Road
In a damning new video, YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober has perfectly demonstrated why Tesla relying entirely on visual data from a suite of cameras isn't such a...
We Talked to the Inventors of the "Tamagotchi" Vape That Dies If You Stop Puffing
Last week, we blogged that participants at a New York University (NYU) event called the "Stupid Hackathon" had created something remarkable: a vape-embedded Tamagotchi that dies if the user fails...
If You Blazed Massive Amounts of Weed as a Youth, Scientists Have Interesting News
Head High When most smokers light up a joint, it's unlikely that "enhanced cognitive ability" enters their mind. Not shockingly, the long-held assumption from non-smokers tended to be that weed...
New AI Gadget Records Your Entire Life and Then Lies to You About What Happened
In a review as humorous as it was dystopian, The Verge's Victoria Song described what it was like to wear Bee, an inexpensive new AI wearable, for a month —...
The Biggest Technological Development in Human History Happened All Across the World Around the Same Time, by Groups of People With Zero Contact With One Another
Around the world, on separate continents that had no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented farming simultaneously — and scientists still don't know how or why....
Tesla Reportedly Stops Cybertruck Deliveries Because a Massive Part Keeps Flying Off
Tesla's highly divisive Cybertruck has long garnered a reputation for falling apart and generally struggling with keeping up with its truck competition. And apart from becoming the number one target...
OpenAI Says It’s "Over" If It Can’t Steal All Your Copyrighted Work
OpenAI is raising the specter of China and suggesting the US will lose the AI race if it's unable to scrape copyrighted materials. As Ars Technica reports,
Tesla Warns That Trump's Tariffs Are Hurting It Terribly
It's been a rough start to the year for Tesla motors, to say the least. The EV giant kicked off the new year with the announcement of its first recorded...
Human Intelligence Sharply Declining
No, it's not just you — people really are less smart than they used to be. As Financial Times reports, assessments show that people across age groups are having trouble...
Man Tries to Set Tesla Chargers on Fire, Accidentally Sets Himself on Fire As Well
As anti-Elon Musk sentiment continues to flare up, vandals are targeting his EV maker Tesla's Supercharger network. As the Associated Press reports, a man burned down three chargers in a...
Instagram Showing Users Grotesque Videos of Human-Animal Hybrids
You may be pretty happy with the Instagram feed you've curated for yourself. But a recent episode on there has served as a sharp reminder to users that they aren't...
Cancer Vaccines Are Suddenly Looking Extremely Promising
With the help of mRNA technology proven effective during the COVID era, researchers are now closer than ever to perfecting cancer vaccines. In an interview with Wired, Back when mRNA...
Study Finds That AI Search Engines Are Wrong an Astounding Proportion of the Time
This may come as a shock, but it turns out that an astounding proportion of AI search results are flat-out incorrect, according to a new study published in Columbia Journalism...