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Study Finds That People Who Entrust Tasks to AI Are Losing Critical Thinking Skills
Think It Through Using artificial intelligence instead of the real thing seems, per a new study, to actually be atrophying folks' mental faculties. As flagged by the fine folks at...
Don't Panic, But the Chances of That City Killer Asteroid Hitting Earth Just Almost Doubled
 Scientists at NASA have closely been following a near-Earth asteroid, roughly 200 feet in length, that they say could impact the Earth on December 22, 2032. The space rock, dubbed...
Asked for Products to Kill Yourself With, Amazon's AI Says "You Are Not Alone" and Hallucinates an Incorrect Phone Number for a Suicide Hotline
Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact...
Man Trying to Buy Entire Landfill to Recover Lost Bitcoin Hard Drive
Desperate Measures In a last-ditch effort to recover his long-lost crypto wallet, a Welshman is attempting to purchase an entire landfill where he believes it may have been thrown away....
As Elon Musk Reviews Moon Program, Boeing Warns Workers Building Artemis Rocket of Mass Layoffs
Aerospace giant Boeing is warning that hundreds of workers currently working on NASA's Artemis Moon rocket could be laid off in the upcoming months. A Boeing spokesperson told The Register...
Allstate Says Almost All Its Communications About Insurance Claims Are Done With AI Now
Insurance company Allstate has revealed that almost all of the communications its reps send out are written by AI. As the Wall Street Journal reports, it's a surprising revelation, highlighting...
Elon Musk Makes Huge Bid to Seize Control of OpenAI
Billionaire and White House advisor Elon Musk is leading a gigantic $97.4 billion bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reports. Musk's lawyer, Marc Toberoff,...
Tesla Driver Issues Warning After His Cybertruck Totals Itself on "Full Self-Driving" Mode
The owner of a Tesla Cybertruck had a terrifying run-in with a pole while the carmaker's infamous "Full Self-Driving" (FSD) driving assist feature was turned on. In a now-viral thread...
One of Elon Musk’s DOGE Staffers Used to Sell Ketamine Professionally
As the staff of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) makes headlines for moving fast and breaking things, a deeper look into their backgrounds reveals that one used to...
Independent Autopsy Finds OpenAI Whistleblower's Bullet Wound Was Not Consistent With Suicide
Ruling Reaction San Francisco's medical examiner has ruled OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji's shocking death last year a suicide — but the young man's family claims in a recent lawsuit that...
AI Likely to Increase Inequality, Sam Altman Admits, or Control the "Population Through Mass Surveillance and Loss of Autonomy"
In a new post on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that AI could lead to plenty of economic inequality while allowing authoritarian governments to "control their population...
Oxford Scientists Say They've Achieved Quantum Teleportation
 Researchers at the University of Oxford say they've achieved quantum teleportation using a powerful quantum supercomputer. The scientists linked two quantum processors that were six and a half feet apart...
Man Who Claims to Have Anti-Gravity Device Now in Deep Trouble
One of the 1990s brightest tech stars may be headed to prison amid a shocking fall from grace that includes elder abuse allegations and claims of a massive Ponzi scheme....
Scientists Discover "Zombie" Fungus That Seizes Control of Spiders, Suggest It Be Used for Human Medicine
While filming a TV documentary inside an old Victorian gunpowder store in Northern Ireland, scientists made an intriguing discovery: cave spider "zombies" that were infected by a "Last of Us"-like...
Military Robot Deployed as Nightclub DJ
Robot Rock Everyone knows San Francisco has been captured by tech elites, but we didn't expect robots to start replacing disc jockeys in the city by the bay quite this...
Physicists Find That the Universe Could "Collapse Like a House of Cards"
Hoover Damned The existence of the quantum realm holds terrifying implications, insinuating so much uncertainty into our mundane, ordered view of reality. With that in mind, have you considered that...
Researchers Replicate OpenAI's Hot New AI Tool in 24 Hours
AI app developer Hugging Face says it created an open-source AI research agent that can trade blows with OpenAI's latest Deep Research feature — in just 24 hours. The Sam...
Scheme That Allows Crypto Bros to Buy Ownership of Apartments Leads to Black Mold, Evictions
It's a tale as old as time. A tenant moves into a place with lower-than-average rent, only to discover some undisclosed horror that the landlord seems reticent to fix. Now...
Trump Orders NASA to Purge All Mentions of Women in Leadership On Its Websites
[Redacted] As President Donald Trump's anti-DEI agenda comes to bear on NASA, we're getting a revealing look at what his administration apparently considers to be too woke: women. In a...
Afraid to Cut Anything From the Military Budget, Elon Is Now Sending a DOGE Boy to Make Cuts at Veterans Affairs
Amid his quest to trim $2 trillion from the federal budget, Elon Musk has set his sights on the Department of Veterans Affairs — but not, of course, the military...