Double Dealing X, formerly Twitter, has for the better part of the past decade been involved in a lawsuit suing the US government for greater transparency on its surveillance practices on the platform. The lawsuit continued under Elon Musk…
Gavel Strike Disgraced crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for defrauding investors out of billions of dollars. That's roughly half of the sentence the Manhattan federal court was expected to hand out.…
Leaks from a notoriously sketchy data broker have revealed the locations of hundreds of people who visited convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's Bahaman island before his 2019 arrest and subsequent death behind bars. In an investigation,…
Ping Ping Ping A Boston Dynamics SPOT robot that was sent inside a home by Massachusetts state police was shot three times by a person barricaded inside. As the Associated Press reports, the robotics company believes it's the first time…
Amazon has been a huge staging ground for the proliferation of AI-generated spam. In fact, as we noticed earlier this year, its marketplace has already started to fill up with shoddy AI-generated listings — at the same time, of course,…
Some would have you worrying about an AI apocalypse à la The Terminator or The Matrix. A new report, however, warns of another catastrophe caused by the tech that's much more immediate and mundane: a "jobs apocalypse." According to the…
Just Condemnation While some podcast fans may blindly stan their parasocial icons, it appears that those who listen to Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman are not among them. In several posts on the r/AndrewHuberman subreddit, many of…
The world of alien-believers has just gained a new out acolyte: veteran actress and "The View" moderator Whoopi Goldberg. "They're already here," Goldberg said during a recent exchange with "Ghostbusters" star Kumail Nanjiani on the talk…
Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk is charging around $1,000 a month in the US for its diabetes and obesity treatment. But according to a new investigation by a team of researchers, that's nowhere near the actual cost of producing semaglutide, the…
Hit Squad In the wake of some jarring allegations against Stanford neuroscientist and podcaster Andrew Huberman, his fellow brother-in-microphones, Lex Fridman, is coming to his defense. "It's heartbreaking to see a hit-piece written about…
Ever since the world's top online filth purveyor Pornhub blocked all of Texas earlier this month, the libidinous desires of residents of the Lone Star State have been on full display via Google search trends.
It's official, folks: the privately-launched Moon lander is dead. Intuitive Machines, the company that launched the "Odysseus" lander with funding from NASA, has announced in a series of posts on X-formerly-Twitter that the historic first…
Workers Rights Violations In incredibly unexpected news that absolutely no one saw coming, The Lever reports that the shipping giant responsible for Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse — a tragedy that's left at least six people…
NASA's Commercial Crew program was designed to provide a safe, reliable, and cost-effective way to get astronauts to and from the International Space Station from US soil. While SpaceX has made considerable progress with its Crew Dragon…
Just before 1:30 am, a massive 95,000 ton cargo ship issued an urgent "mayday" signal, warning first responders to clear the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Moments later, the vessel smashed into a piling, sending several sections of the massive…
Tubes and Windmills While companies have encountered major headwinds in turning the Hyperloop, an entirely new and unproven form of transportation, into a reality, the European Hyperloop Center is still hoping to open the first functional…
Exes and Unfollows That was fast! It appears that billionaire Elon Musk has once again unfollowed his ex-girlfriend Claire "Grime" Boucher on X-formerly-Twitter, as caught by the ever-on-top-of-things bot account @BigTechAlert. Per …
Laugh It Off Spending six months in space can provide a lot of good and a lot of bad experiences for the astronauts who live aboard the International Space Station — and it apparently provides some laughs, too. As Space.com reports, the…
Bodybuilding legend, "Terminator" actor, and former politician Arnold Schwarzenegger has become a little more "cybernetic organism, living tissue over metal." The 76-year-old announced during an episode of his "Arnold's Pump Club" podcast…
If someone tells you that you have a big head, take that as a compliment. Apparently, people’s brains have gotten bigger compared to those born in the 1930s, according to scientists, who have also surmised that bigger brains may stave off…
Sincerely Yours, Mark The hunt for talent in the artificial intelligence world is getting so intense and competitive that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has started writing personal letters to employees at Google's DeepMind, imploring them to…
As Neuralink touts its first human brain-computer interface (BCI) implant patient, a member of Congress is taking the Food and Drug Administration to task for letting it happen without checking out its facilities first. As Reuters reports,…
Going Dark For over two decades, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the world's most powerful telescope of its kind, has provided astronomers with an unparalleled view, allowing them to better understand the structure and evolution of the…
Bye! A detained Binance executive has reportedly broken out of custody in Nigeria. Per Forbes, the escaped executive, British-Kenyan citizen Nadeem Anjarwalla, was arrested by Nigerian authorities alongside US citizen and fellow Binancer…
The first person to ever get a Neuralink transplant hadn't heard of the Elon Musk-owned company six months ago — and once he found out about its gruesome past, he had some questions. "I read a lot of the negative stuff about this before…
Former Stability AI CEO Emod Mostaque is ready to move on. Mere days after the founder of the Stable Diffusion maker stepped down, Mostaque shared a selfie of himself and his wife on a video call with none other than Microsoft CEO Satya…
All Aboard Don't want Google's experimental AI search feature embedded into your search pages? That might just be too bad. According to Search Engine Land, Google has started unleashing its AI-powered Search Generative Experience (SGE)…
Postmortem After his tragic death that resulted from flying into a building, veterinarians at the Bronx Zoo have found some underlying — and likely fatal — illnesses in the body of Flaco the Eurasian eagle owl. In a press release, the…
Earlier this week, a Russian Soyuz rocket docked with the International Space Station, carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy — and Belarusian flight attendant Marina Vasilevskaya, who won the trip as part of a…
AI Air Head OpenAI has given a number of directors, production companies, and creative agencies early access to its Sora text-to-video generator — and the results range from astonishing to downright terrifying. Toronto-based multimedia…