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2024-11-22, 23:36AllFake After duping the Los Angeles school system into giving her gobs of money, the founder of an AI ed tech firm allegedly spent a lot of it on herself. As the LA Times reports, 33-year-old Joanna Smith-Griffin, the founder of an AI startup called AllHere, has been charged by federal prosecutors...
Checkmarked X Users Caught Promoting Sites That Sell Child Sex Abuse Videos
2024-11-22, 22:42Verified Horrible Verified accounts on Elon Musk's social media platform X-formerly-Twitter are promoting the sale of child sex abuse videos. As the BBC found, the identified accounts were using Saudi Arabic phrases and hashtags to link to websites that sell the appalling content. Other associated...
Donald Trump Is Already Ignoring Elon Musk's Suggestions
2024-11-22, 21:48Writing on the Wall These days, it feels like everyone's trying to figure out how long Elon Musk and Donald Trump's new bromance could possibly last. The latest datapoint, make of it what you will. The president-elect is already disregarding some of Musk's suggestions. "While I have offered my...
Grimes Says Elon Musk’s Brutal Custody Battle Was Driving Her to Bankruptcy
2024-11-22, 20:54Break the Bank Elon Musk's most famous baby mama is once again speaking out about her difficult relationship with the billionaire. Claire "Grimes" Boucher, mother to three of Musk's 12 known children, wrote in a post on X-formerly-Twitter that her tumultuous custody battle with the 53-year-old...
Hacktivists Leak Chatlogs From Andrew Tate's Fake Online University
2024-11-22, 19:24Clearcut Logging Hackers have targeted a phony "online university" founded by the far-right influencer and alleged human trafficker Andrew Tate, gaining access to thousands of files and chatlogs from people who paid for his sketchy lessons. As the Daily Dot reports, a group of purported...
Elon Musk's Diablo IV Build May Only Look Good Because He's Great At Exploiting Loopholes
2024-11-22, 18:30Power Player Elon Musk recently shared a clip of him clearing The Pit — a severely challenging dungeon in the punishing action role-playing game Diablo IV — in about one minute and 50 seconds, potentially setting a world record. But some Diablo fans think that Musk's supposed accomplishment is just...
Experts Say Elon Musk's Ridiculous "DOGE" Initiative Could Actually Crush Innovation
2024-11-22, 17:19Innovation Killer President-elect Donald Trump has appointed multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk and big pharma shill Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a new "Department of Government Efficiency" (or DOGE, in a nod to a cringey memecoin) an effort to inflict "temporary hardship" on the American people by...
COP29 Climate Summit Being Held in Petrostate Where People Bathe Their Nude Bodies in Crude Oil
2024-11-22, 16:24Fossil Fools While attending the United Nations' COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan, a New York Times reporter decided to engage in a time-honored local custom of bathing his entire nude body in crude oil. As the newspaper reports, the same oil that fueled the Soviet victory over the Nazis had led...
OpenAI "Accidentally" Deleted Evidence From Its New York Times Lawsuit
2024-11-22, 15:30File Error OpenAI made a major oopsie when its engineers accidentally deleted a bunch of evidence sought by the New York Times in its copyright lawsuit against the AI firm and its benefactor Microsoft. In a over the suit, lawyers for the NYT and the New York Daily News said that a ton of evidentiary...
Grimes Says Elon Musk Has Become "Unrecognizable"
2024-11-21, 23:31Grime Time Claire "Grimes" Boucher is getting personal on Elon Musk's "everything" app as she opens up about how the right-wing billionaire has affected her and her art. The Canadian-born artist and mother to three of Musk's ever-growing litter of children suggested in a lengthy post on...
Henry Kissinger Issues AI Warning From Beyond the Grave
2024-11-21, 23:31Midas Touch It's been nearly a year since Nobel peace laureate and war criminal Henry Kissinger died — but he's somehow still offering policy suggestions from beyond the grave. In an uncanny video introducing his posthumously-published book "Genesis," an AI-generated voice clone of the amply loathed...
Elon Musk's Father Is Worried About Him
2024-11-21, 22:37Errol of His Ways Elon Musk's estranged father, Errol Musk, is concerned that his son is stretching himself too thin.� "Elon has no eyes on anything more than trying to make sure that whatever he does now he's able to give a proper job without affecting his own work," he said in a recent interview...
Internet Notices Something Bizarre in Image Posted by Kesha
2024-11-21, 21:07Dellusonal Pop sensation Kesha Sebert, known more commonly as Kesha, has landed in hot water with fans after posting a painfully AI-generated image on social media. The image shows a pile of leather handbags with the word "delusional" spray painted in black across each of them, intended to market...
Real Dogs' Reaction to Robodogs is Terrifying
2024-11-21, 20:13Dog Days The internet is flooded with videos of AI-powered robot dogs meeting real furry puppies, who often seem horrified to have come across what they seem to perceive as a canine abomination. In one clip recently posted to X-formerly-Twitter, a large unlucky dog encounters what seems to be...
Newspaper Fires Two AI Reporters After Bizarre Behavior
2024-11-21, 19:19You're Fired Hawaiian local broadcaster and newspaper The Garden Island has fired the two AI bots it recently introduced as its new anchors. As Wired journalist Guthrie Scrimegour — who was also previously let go by the paper — reports, the bots known as James and Rose were let go just two months...
Study Finds Tesla Has Higher Rate of Fatal Accidents Than Any Other Car
2024-11-21, 18:24Death Drive Tesla has the highest rate of fatal accidents on the road out of every other car brand in the US, according to new research. The study, conducted by the automotive site iSeeCars, analyzed data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System maintained by the US National Highway Traffic...
If Trump Actually Goes Through With His Deportations, Grocery Prices Will Spike Brutally
2024-11-21, 17:30Mean Grocer President-elect Donald Trump successfully campaigned on lowering prices, especially at the supermarket. But this could be impossible to achieve if he wants to deliver on his other big promise: the mass deportation of millions of immigrants. As farmers and economists warn, carrying out...
Photos Show Kim Kardashian Holding Hands With Tesla Robot
2024-11-21, 16:18International celebrity Kim Kardashian has shared a strange series of pictures showing her hanging out — and engaging in just a touch of PDA — with a Tesla Optimus humanoid robot sitting inside a Cybercab. The provocative series of photos, clearly intended to market her shapewear line, didn't quite...
If You Take Adderall, RFK Jr. Should Probably Make You Quite Nervous
2024-11-21, 15:06President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has a lot of dangerous opinions about healthcare — and his comments about drugs, addiction, and rehabilitation should give anybody pause, perhaps especially if they rely on an Adderall...
Trump Nominates Television Quack Dr. Oz to Run Medicare and Medicaid
2024-11-21, 15:06President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Mehmet Oz, the controversial television doctor and failed Senate candidate for Pennsylvania who has routinely promoted pseudoscientific and unproven medical treatments, to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS.) This is a critical position...
Embarrassed Teslas Drivers Buying Huge Numbers of Anti-Elon Bumper Stickers
2024-11-21, 01:14Drag Race For longtime Tesla owners, Elon Musk's increasing rightwing crusading has made their electric cars into mortifying red flags — and now, a bunch are sticker-slapping back. As the climate change news site Heatmap reports, a Hawaii-based sticker maker is doing a booming business selling...
People Are Getting Their Eyeballs Tattooed
2024-11-21, 00:20An unusual cosmetic surgery procedure that involves permanently changing the color of your eyes using tattoos soaring in popularity. As the Wall Street Journal reports, experts are warning that the procedure — called keratopigmentation, or corneal tattooing — could leave lasting damage. The...
Body Language Expert Says Trump Is Acting "Submissive" Around Musk
2024-11-20, 23:26Bondage, Discipline, Sadism, Musk A body language expert assessed Elon Musk and Donald Trump's behavior around each other and concluded that the future president is acting uncharacteristically deferential around his star-crossed friend. Former police officer Darren Stanton analyzed a video of the...
Someone Made a Deranged Version of Coke's AI Holiday Ad and It's Way Better
2024-11-20, 21:57AI Gore Coca-Cola drew criticism for rolling out an uninspired and lazily AI-generated holiday advertisement this year. The ad is pretty much exactly the kind of insipid corporate sludge you'd expect from AI: predictable, unimaginative and vaguely uncanny. Fortunately, Redditors took matters into...
Experts Alarmed by People Uploading Their Medical Scans to Elon Musk's Grok AI
2024-11-20, 21:03To celebrate its new image-understanding capabilities, Elon Musk has encouraged his followers to share medical documents like MRI scans and x-rays with Grok, his AI chatbot integrated into X-formerly-Twitter. "This is still early stage, but it is already quite accurate and will become extremely...
Robodog Runs Full Marathon
2024-11-20, 20:09Dog Racing A robot dog has run and completed an entire 26.2 mile marathon. Built by the South Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), the dogged competitor — dubbed RAIBO2 — is the first quadrupedal robot to complete a full-length marathon in an official competition, the...
Elon Musk Clearly Has Humongous Daddy Issues
2024-11-20, 19:15Though Elon Musk disputes various claims about his life story, one thing is perfectly clear: he has immense daddy issues. "Almost every crime you can possibly think of, has done," Musk told Rolling Stone in 2017 — reportedly while crying — of his father, a South African wheeler-dealer who has...
Amazon Robots Struggling to Keep Up With Human Workers
2024-11-20, 18:21Mike Mulligan Autonomous robots are filling up Amazon warehouses, where they're sorting, loading, and unloading packages with impressive efficiency. But it sounds like they're still outmatched by humans when it comes to many essential tasks. The e-commerce giant's robotic arm Sparrow, for example,...
Expert Warns That Elon Musk May Gut NASA
2024-11-20, 17:27Now that president-elect Donald Trump has solidified his bromance with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the role of NASA could start to look dramatically different. Trump has put Musk in charge of a so-called "Department of Government Efficiency," where the mercurial CEO has promised to excise $2 trillion from...
Trump Comes to Watch as Elon Musk's Spacecraft Crashes Into the Ocean and Explodes
2024-11-20, 16:15Swing and a Miss On Tuesday afternoon, president-elect Donald Trump attended his new buddy SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's rocket launch, like a hands-off dad showing up at his son's softball game. But Musk didn't exactly hit it out of the park this time around. Unfortunately for the tycoon, minutes after...
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