Scientists: It’s do or die time for America’s primacy exploring the Solar System
"When you turn off those spacecraft’s radio receivers, there's no way to turn them back on."
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Tucker Carlson asks Sam Altman if an OpenAI employee was murdered ‘on your orders’
While interviewing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson brought up his belief in a conspiracy theory that former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji was “definitely murdered.” The researcher’s death in November 2024, which was ruled a suicide by the San Francisco police, followed his release of statements online and in […]
The Free Ride for EVs in the Carpool Lane Is Coming to an End
The US government is ending a program that allowed EVs and hybrids to display a “Clean Air Vehicle” sticker and use the HOV lane on freeways, even if the driver was alone in the car.
Cancel Culture Comes for Artists Who Posted About Charlie Kirk’s Death
A "South Park" episode was taken off air, a DC comic series was canceled, and several artists were fired in the aftermath of the shooting.
Bullets Found After the Charlie Kirk Shooting Carried Messages. Here’s What They Mean
The inscriptions on bullets recovered near the scene of Charlie Kirk's murder appear to reference video games like Helldivers 2 and online furry role-play, not a legible political ideology.
Google AI Releases VaultGemma: The Largest and Most Capable Open Model (1B-parameters) Trained from Scratch with Differential Privacy
Google AI Research and DeepMind have released VaultGemma 1B, the largest open-weight large language model trained entirely with differential privacy (DP). This development is a major step toward building AI models that are both powerful and privacy-preserving. Why Do We…
RFK Jr.‘s CDC may limit COVID shots to 75 and up, claim they killed kids
A battle is brewing over mRNA vaccines, which could intensify backlash against Kennedy.
Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack
Unofficial mod lets classic Nintendo GameCube title use AI chatbots with amusing results.
The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation
While I generally respect The Wall Street Journal, every once in a while it sees fit to remind me that it is, in fact, owned by Rupert Murdoch. This time, it printed something dangerously close to anti-trans blood libel in the wake of Charlie Kirk's shooting. In its live-update blog yesterday, the Journal wrote, "Ammunition […]
GPT-5 dominated 210 Werewolf games with superior manipulation and strategic thinking
French startup Foaster.ai built a new benchmark to test how well AI models handle social interactions. After 210 games of “Werewolf,” GPT-5 came out on top by mastering manipulation and strategic thinking. The article GPT-5 dominated 210 Werewolf games with…