On Saturday Elon Musk sat in his personal jet and tested out Starlink’s in-air WiFI by streaming some Path of Exile 2. Less than five minutes into the stream, someone in game chat asked him to “jerk off mr trump so he dies of a heart attack!” For the next hour and 40 minutes, the…
Polymarket, an online betting marketplace that bills itself as the future of news, can’t decide whether or not Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelenskyy wore a suit during a recent appearance in Europe. The gambling site is set to make a final judgement about the question in a few hours and more than $160 million in crypto…
I woke up restless and kind of hungover Sunday morning at 6 am and opened Reddit. Somewhere near the top was a post called “TIL in 2002 a cave diver committed suicide by stabbing himself during a cave diving trip near Split, Croatia. Due to the nature of his death, it was initially investigated as…
True transformation requires ongoing innovation processes, not just reacting to one breakthrough technology.
In a video that fills me with wonder at being alive in 2025, someone in an inflatable Pikachu costume was seen loping down the street in Turkey alongside anti-Erdoğan protesters fleeing from the cops. Pikachu was spotted amongst anti-Erdoğan protesters fleeing from police in Antalya, Turkey last night. — Adam Schwarz (@adamjschwarz.bsky.social) 2025-03-27T14:36:22.725Z The protests—reportedly…
The AI industry was rocked in recent days with the release of an open source AI model from Chinese start-up DeepSeek that can compete with the best AI models from U.S. companies despite purportedly costing just $6 million to train. While cheap, powerful AI models are a great thing for companies looking to deploy AI,…
According to the CA, the healthcare sector experienced a 95 percent jump in ransomware incidents after they grew from 20 to 39 cases in October alone.
Reddit’s conversational AI product, Reddit Answers, suggested users who are interested in pain management try heroin and kratom, showing yet another extreme example of dangerous advice provided by a chatbot, even one that’s trained on Reddit’s highly coveted trove of user-generated data. The AI-generated answers were flagged by a user on a subreddit for Reddit…
“Like these games you will,” the quote next to a cartoon image of Yoda says on the website starwarsweb.net. Those games include Star Wars Battlefront 2 for Xbox; Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II for Xbox 360, and Star Wars the Clone Wars: Republic Heroes for Nintendo Wii. Next to that, are links to a…
Ypsilanti, Michigan resident KJ Pedri doesn’t want her town to be the site of a new $1.2 billion data center, a massive collaborative project between the University of Michigan and America’s nuclear weapons scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) in New Mexico. “My grandfather was a rocket scientist who worked on Trinity,” Pedri said…
