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- It is our somber duty to report, dear reader, that if you search the words "how to edge" on Google, the words "in class" are recommended as the top autocomplete suggestion. For those blessedly innocent enough to not know what the verb "edging" means, let us elucidate you: as WebMD explains, edging occurs when a […]
- A machine learning researcher is claiming to have knowledge of kinky drug-fueled orgies in Silicon Valley's storied hacker houses — and appears to be linking those parties, and the culture surrounding them, to OpenAI. "The thing about being active in the hacker house scene is you are accidentally signing up for a career as a […]
- Show Us Receipts In an age of growing UFO belief, a handful of Congress members are calling on the government to show its cards. Titled the "UAP Transparency Act," a reference to "unidentified aerial/anomalous phenomenon," the government's term for UFOs, the new law introduced by Tennessee Republican Tim Burchett would require that all documents about […]
- Damage Plan OpenAI has had a tough week. Its reveal of the upcoming ChatGPT 4o — that's an "o" for "omni," not a "40" as in the number — was impressive on a technical level, but CEO Sam Altman made an unforced error by comparing the talking AI to the dark 2013 romance film "Her," […]
- Head Count Electric vehicle maker Tesla has been hit by round after round after round of layoffs over the past month or so, to the degree that it's somewhat hazy exactly how many employees have been affected. And the cuts keep piling up, with CNBC now obtaining government paperwork through a public records request that […]
- Arms Race New photos from NASA show the space agency's astronauts testing spacesuits in the Arizona desert — but we're not sure these things are quite spaceworthy yet. Why? Because they're missing, among other things, arms, legs and visors, leading to an entertaining photoshoot in which astronauts Kate Rubins and Andre Douglas trudge around completing […]
- Smoking Gun In an awkward turn, an environmental group has slapped Tesla with a lawsuit this week, CNBC reports, for spewing pollution from its factory in Fremont, California and violating the Clean Air Act. Despite Tesla touting that its factories are conscious in limiting waste, the California non-profit group Environmental Democracy Project alleges in its […]
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