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Mozilla's new CEO announced that Firefox would become a "modern AI broswer." Its most diehard fans are revolting.
Ethics

After Outcry, Firefox Promises “Kill Switch” That Turns Off All AI Features

"I've never seen a company so astoundingly out of touch with the people who want to use its software."

Space startup Max Space unveiled plans for an inflatable space station that can expand to a whopping 12,300 cubic feet.
International Space Station

Bonkers New Space Station Expands to Full Size From Single Capsule

It's absolutely enormous once fully inflated.

A comapny has come up with an intriguing approach that stores energy in enormous domes that are filled with compressed carbon dioxide gas.
Pollution

Google Rapidly Deploying Huge CO2 Battery Facilities That Store 200 Megawatt Hours of Power

"They can really plug and play this."

A tracker purports to reveal the true size of Tesla's puny Robotaxi fleet, eliciting chortles and derision.
Self-Driving Vehicles

The Number of Robotaxis Tesla Is Actually Running Will Make You Snort Out of Your Nose With Pure Derision

That's it?!

2025 will be remembered as the year AI's novelty faded and public skepticism became one of the dominant attitudes.
Ethics

AI Backlash Grew Massively in 2025

2025 will be remembered as the year of anti-AI discontent.

A new report by AI software company CodeRabbit found that code generated by an AI was far more error-prone than human-written code.
Google

AI Code Is a Bug-Filled Mess

"These findings reinforce what many engineering teams have sensed throughout 2025."

Bafflingly designed emergency features and its "apocalypse-proof" instruction makes escaping the Cybertruck after a crash a struggle.
Tesla

Cybertrucks Are a Firefighter’s Nightmare

These things are death traps.

Scientists said a novel compound can arrest early stages of Alzheimer's disease in mice brains, setting the stage for a possible cure.
Treatments

Scientists Identify Possible Game Changing Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease That Could Control It Like High Cholesterol

"These results are stunning."

Children are losing themselves to frightening AI characters powered by large language model companies like Character.AI.
Ethics

Children Falling Apart as They Become Addicted to AI

"This is my child, my little child who is 11 years old, talking to something that doesn’t exist about not wanting to exist."

AI-powered toys and stuffed animals could be having wildly inappropriate, if not dangerous, conversations with your children.
Ethics

Is an AI-Powered Toy Terrorizing Your Child?

You better watch out.

A virologist has taken to homebrewing a polynoravius vaccine to be ingested via yeast cells — in other words, a frothy pint of beer.
Viruses

Uncles Tremble as Man Invents Vaccine Delivered by Beer

Talk about a beer and a shot!

The heavily redacted release of Epstein files can be easily redacted with a simple copy-paste, unearthing some disturbing details.
Future Society

Justice Department Humiliated as People Find the Epstein Files Can Easily Be Un-Redacted

If you know how to copy-paste, congratulations: you have the tools to topple the Deep State.

Musician Claire "Grimes" Boucher called AI psychosis "fun," and then admitted that she suffers from it, too.
Artificial Intelligence

Grimes Says She Has AI Psychosis, Recommends You Should Get it Too

Uh, come again?

Donald Trump's trade restrictions on AI chips have given Chinese tech firms the environment they need to court global investors.
Investing

Trump’s Chip Embargo Against China Is Backfiring Spectacularly

Brilliant work, sir.

A woman working for a generative AI image startup says the tech led her into a manic bipolar episode, which triggered psychosis.
Mental Health

Woman Suffers AI Psychosis After Obsessively Generating AI Images of Herself

"If only I looked like my AI version."

Engineers at Disney Research Hub have unveiled how they built a robot version of the talking snowman from the "Frozen" films.
Robotics

Disney’s Robot Olaf Is a Straight Up Nightmare

Happy holidays!

Artificial intelligence is making it easier than ever for criminals and unsuspecting art collectors to pass fake art off as authentic.
Ethics

AI Is a Godsend for Criminals Forging Fake Art

AI presents a radical new escalation of the art world's oldest crime.

Volunteer hacktivists working for Anna's Archive have managed to scrape all the metadata of the Spotify library.
Hacking

Activists Downloaded Pretty Much All of Spotify

300 *terabytes* of pure music.

As AI becomes more ubiquitous, Gen Z students are starting to freak out about its effects on their brains.
Ethics

Gen Z Terrified of Losing Their Humanity to AI

Pure terror.

FAA documents revealed that three aircraft were in far greater danger than SpaceX let on of its Starship debris field.
Starship

Elon Musk’s Starship Explosion Endangered Hundreds of Airline Passengers

“I don't know if you guys were advised, but there was a rocket launch and apparently the rocket exploded."