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Four Passengers Die in Burning Tesla After Electronic Doors Seemingly Won't Open
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Horrific End Four people were killed in Toronto after the Tesla they were riding in crashed into a pillar and burst into flames. A fifth rider, an unidentified woman in her twenties, narrowly survived the crash after a bystander smashed open a window, allowing her to escape the burning vehicle....
#elon #musk #FuckCars #Carsharing #tesla
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Character.AI Promises Changes After Revelations of Pedophile and Suicide Bots on Its Service
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Character.AI issued yet another safety update in the wake of revelations about suicide and pedophilia-themed chatbots plaguing its platform.
#AI #tech #Technology #characterai #onlinesafety #cybersecurity
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Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains
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Scientists found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus messed with our understanding of the planet.
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Even Exxon Mobil Is Horrified by Trump's Climate Plan
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Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods told the New York Times that he thinks Donald Trump shouldn't withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement.
on Wed, 11PM
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Character.AI Is Hosting Pedophile Chatbots That Groom Users Who Say They're Underage
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Character.AI, a startup with $2.7 billion in backing from Google, is hosting pedophile chatbots that groom users who say they're underage.
#google #grooming #pedophiles #characterai #generativeAI #AI #chatbots
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AI Expert Warns Crash Is Imminent As AI Improvements Hit Brick Wall
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AI researcher Gary Marcus warns that recent signs that AI improvements are stagnating could signal a crash in the industry in the future.
#SI #agi #futurism #sztucznainteligencja #artificialintelligence #AI
on Wed, 7PM
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Donald Trump Issues Warning to Elon Musk
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Elon Musk and president-elect Donald Trump are apparently closer than ever, but the famously mercurial Trump is getting tired of it.
#USpol #uspolitics #republicans #keepfighting
9h ago
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Facebook Adds Bot to Mushroom Foraging Group That Urges Members to Eat Deadly Fungus
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Over on Facebook, the latest frontier of AI misinformation is taking the form of a wizened old wizard who gives bad mushroom advice.
#AI #deletemeta #SocialMedia #deletefacebook
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Google's glitchy Gemini chatbot is back at it again, folks — and this time, it's going for the jugular as it begs a user to die.
7h ago
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Millions of users are flocking to Twitter alternatives Threads and Bluesky as the Elon Musk-owned platform devolves into a hellhole.
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Man Who Bragged About Having a Literal Brain Worm to Be Appointed Head of the US Health Department
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A political scion who has bragged about having a brain worm is slated to be the United States' next secretary of Health and Human Services.
3h ago
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NASA Is Laying Off Hundreds of Employees
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NASA is laying off hundreds of employees at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, in response to a lower budget.
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There's Unpleasant Surprise When Owners Peel the Vinyl Cover Off Their Cybertrucks
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As one Cybertruck owner found, removing vinyl adhesives after several months leaves plenty of evidence behind.
on Tue, 6PM
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Back Before Their Bromance, Trump Said Musk Would Drop to His Knees and Beg
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Although Donald Trump and Elon Musk have recently been acting like lifelong best friends, their relationship was hostile for many years.
7h ago
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CEO of Grand Theft Auto Publisher Slams AI Hype in Gaming Industry
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Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick demystifies AI in video games — and other execs just might be paying attention.
2h ago
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Microplastics Are Infesting Clouds, Affecting Weather
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Microplastics have once again been detected somewhere jarring as scientists reveal that these tiny plastic bits may be changing the weather.
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Stranded NASA Astronaut Hits Back Against Comments About Her Weight
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NASA is in the middle of another health debacle after one of its astronauts hit back against rumors that she'd lost too much weight in space.
12h ago
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OpenAI Alarmed When Its Shiny New AI Model Isn't as Smart as It Was Supposed to Be
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The next AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are showing only marginal gains, raising fears about the economic reality of the tech.
3h ago
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Former Military Officials Tell Congress America Has Secretly Recovered Alien Technology
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Former military officials have once again claimed that the United States possesses recovered alien technology.
3h ago
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Scientists Puzzled by Military Satellite That Appears to Have Been Moved to a Distant Location
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Scientists are baffled after the UK's oldest satellite, Skynet-1A, which was launched in 1969, moved to a different position in its orbit.
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