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  In an unmistakable case of irony, KnowBe4, the developer of a security awareness program, hired a remote worker — who turned out to be a North Korean hacker. The company hired the software engineer after they had passed through four separate video interviews and cleared background checks. But shortly after the worker was sent

The Cybertruck: as far as reliability is concerned, it's no Toyota. In an embarrassing incident that adds a fair deal of credibility to the Tesla pickup truck's reputation as a dodgy a ride, car reviewers for the automotive testing company Edmunds attempted to take one of these blocky-behemoths for a spin — only to instantly

A South Carolina man accused of pretending to be a lawyer has just had another allegation leveled against him: that he used AI to write his phony legal documents, local daily newspaper The Post and Courier reports. The accused, TK-year-old Nathan Chambers, is alleged to have used his father's name to pose as a real

China's reusable Shenlong spacecraft may not just be used for scientific purposes, experts warn. In interviews with Reuters, space defense experts said that some of the uncrewed Shenlong spaceplane's latest maneuvers suggest that it may have anti-satellite uses as well.  

An increasing number of Silicon Valley investors and Wall Street analysts are starting to ring the alarm bells over the billions of dollars being invested in AI, an overconfidence that could result in a massive bubble. As the Washington Post reports, investment bankers are singing a dramatically different tune than last year, a period marked

Air Lock With two NASA astronauts still stranded in space for weeks, officials at the space agency have insisted that the troubled Boeing Starliner, plagued with equipment malfunctions, can take back the two explorers back to Earth at anytime. So, why haven't they? An unnamed retired astronauts tells The Atlantic the bald face, obvious truth

  For many years, scientists have wondered if we could be living inside of a simulation. It's a tantalizing theory, popularized by the 1999 blockbuster "The Matrix" — could humans be the pawns trapped inside of a much larger virtual reality that they're not in control of? What if there was a way to find

In a stunning sound byte that's resurfaced online, Ohio senator and vice presidential candidate JD Vance suggested that the federal government should intervene to punish people who travel across state lines to get abortions. Posted on X-formerly-Twitter by the Kamala Harris for President campaign's rapid response account, the 48-second clip involves the bestselling author fantasizing

Octopus Teacher Signs of Intelligent Life More on octopuses: United Kingdom Declares Octopuses, Squids Are Sentient Beings

At some point, X-formerly-Twitter auto-opted its users into sharing their data with Grok, owner Elon Musk's bizarre "anti-woke" chatbot — and the site didn't tell anyone about it, either. Flagged by Rolling Stone's Noah Shachtman, it remains unclear when X introduced this so-called "data sharing" change. Twitter has opted you into training Elon's weirdo A.I.

As this year's WWE-worthy presidential race continues to heat up, a bizarre viral rumor about Donald Trump's running mate having relations with a couch has, seemingly, captured more attention than the recent attempt on the ex-president's life. When comparing search terms on Google Trends, the search giant's comparative analytics tool, Futurism found that in the past

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's on-and-off-again partner Claire "Grimes" Boucher has come out in support of the mercurial entrepreneur's estranged, transgender daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson. "I love and am forever endlessly proud of Vivian," the musician tweeted late Thursday evening. The news comes shortly after NBC News published an exclusive first interview with the 20-year-old, who

  The rocket designed to carry the first humans to the Moon in over half a century has officially made its way to NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) just over a year ahead of its tentative launch date. The enormous, 212-foot rocket stage made its way from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to

So Close! ChatGPT creator OpenAI has officially entered the AI search competition with SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine prototype that, according to the company's announcement, is designed to "combine the strength of our AI models with information from the web to give you fast and timely answers with clear and relevant sources." "We believe that

Mighty Likely NASA's Perseverance Rover has found a rock on Mars that scientists believe may contain signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. As the New York Times reports, NASA researchers aren't quite ready to declare that they've found definitive biosignatures — the scientific term for "signs of life" — in the piece of ancient

Spare Seats The return date of NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who traveled to the International Space Station on board Boeing's plagued Starliner spacecraft over seven weeks ago, keeps getting pushed back. Engineers have been hard at work investigating several helium leaks that officials discovered after the pair arrived at the station, affecting

NASA's $450 million lunar explorer, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), will not be going to the Moon. Something else will be taking its place, though — and given the costs involved, the decision is bound to raise a few eyebrows, if not serious questions about the space agency's budget situation. The rover, which

What happens when you feed AI-generated content back into an AI model? Put simply: absolute chaos. A fascinating new study published in the journal Nature shows that AI models trained on AI-generated material will quickly experience rapid "model collapse." Basically, as an AI model cannibalizes AI-generated data, that AI model's outputs become increasingly bizarre, garbled,

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Ten or fifteen years ago, Elon Musk seemed like a milquetoast liberal. He chummed around with Barack Obama, talked about the need to move away from fossil fuels, and accepted huge amounts of government assistance. But over the past few years, he's taken a rightward turn so extreme that it gives a sense of whiplash.