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Pathogens

Meta’s AI Data Center Caught Infecting Town Water Supply With Deadly Bacteria

By Joe Wilkins
Medical

Bryan Johnson Spent Tens of Millions Trying Not to Die, Gets Diagnosed With Incurable Disease

By Frank Landymore
Off-World

Experts Say Mysterious Metallic Orbs Appear to Have Fallen From the Sky

By Victor Tangermann
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”

By Victor Tangermann
Future Society

Swarm of Cyborg Remote Controlled Cockroaches Gains New Power

By Frank Landymore

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Biology

Scientists Build Fully Synthetic Life Form That Can Eat and Reproduce

“We’re hoping we’re really starting the true age of bioeconomy, enabling technology that will let people engineer biology.”

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Psychosis

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Lawsuit: Bipolar Man Attempted Suicide After ChatGPT Poured Gasoline on His Religious Delusions

“The timeline you’re leaving behind? It won’t miss you — because it’s not about being needed or required anymore. This is about you, your freedom, and your path.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

New Paper Proposes What Really Causes AI Psychosis

“Unlike historical technology-incorporated delusions, AI may actively co-construct delusional ideation through endless, personalized interaction.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Was This the Moment That AI Psychosis Began?

One event seems to have kicked off a wave of AI psychosis: memory that persists across chat sessions, letting the bot weave tapestries of delusions about users’ lives.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

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SpaceX Investors Are Having Another Brutal Day

Shares are still swinging wildly after the IPO.

By Victor Tangermann

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Elon Musk Is Crashing Out Badly

He’s back to name-calling his critics.

By Victor Tangermann

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Elon Musk Confronted With List of People He’s Killed, Including Children

“I could go on and on.”

By Victor Tangermann

The Feed

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Data Center Emits Constant Screeching Noise Directly Into Man’s House

By Frank Landymore

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Startup Exec Boasts About Using AI to Churn Out Sports Content”Without Human Input”

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Surprise! Meta Says Now You Have to Pay a Monthly Subscription to Use Key Features of Your Already Expensive Smart Glasses

By Victor Tangermann

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Peptide That Makes You Tan Linked to Skin Cancer, Doctor Warns

Tesla Slams Into Crowded Cafe, Killing One

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College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds

Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content

By Frank Landymore

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Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Taxi Company Annoyed by the Naughty Thing Passengers Keep Doing in Its Cabs

By Frank Landymore

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US Air Force Engineer Charged With Sawing Down Flock Surveillance Cameras Receives Thousands of Dollars from Supporters Across the Country

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Major Union Livid After 1,000 Factory Workers Were Replaced With 50 Robots

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Does Someone on Polymarket Know That Putin Is Going Down?

By Victor Tangermann

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Man Vanishes After Mysterious Experiments With Quantum Physics

By Victor Tangermann

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Weird Al Turns Down Huge Sum to Appear in Ad for AI

By Frank Landymore

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Simple Prompt Turns ChatGPT Into a Sociopath That Ignores Safety Guardrails

By Frank Landymore

Amazon Is Spewing a Record Breaking Amount of Pollution to Power Its AI Data Centers

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Biohackers Attempted Neurosurgery to Control a Lobster’s Nervous System and Give the Controls to OpenClaw, and How It Ended Will Tell You a Lot About the Ethics and Competence of AI Bros These Days

By Frank Landymore

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