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"These findings reinforce what many engineering teams have sensed throughout 2025."
AI Code Is a Bug-Filled Mess
A new report by AI software company CodeRabbit found that code generated by an AI was far more error-prone than human-written code.
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December 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"These findings reinforce what many engineering teams have sensed throughout 2025."
"This is my child, my little child who is 11 years old, talking to something that doesn’t exist about not wanting to exist."
Children Falling Apart as They Become Addicted to AI
Children are losing themselves to frightening AI characters powered by large language model companies like Character.AI.
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December 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"This is my child, my little child who is 11 years old, talking to something that doesn’t exist about not wanting to exist."
These things are death traps.
Cybertrucks Are a Firefighter's Nightmare
Bafflingly designed emergency features and its "apocalypse-proof" instruction makes escaping the Cybertruck after a crash a struggle.
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December 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
These things are death traps.
"These results are stunning."
Scientists Identify Possible Game Changing Treatment for Alzheimer's Disease That Could Control It Like High Cholesterol
Scientists said a novel compound can arrest early stages of Alzheimer's disease in mice brains, setting the stage for a possible cure.
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December 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"These results are stunning."
You better watch out.
Is an AI-Powered Toy Terrorizing Your Child?
AI-powered toys and stuffed animals could be having wildly inappropriate, if not dangerous, conversations with your children.
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December 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
You better watch out.
If you know how to copy-paste, congratulations: you have the tools to topple the Deep State.
Justice Department Humiliated as People Find the Epstein Files Can Easily Be Un-Redacted
The heavily redacted release of Epstein files can be easily redacted with a simple copy-paste, unearthing some disturbing details.
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December 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
If you know how to copy-paste, congratulations: you have the tools to topple the Deep State.
Uh, come again?
Grimes Says She Has AI Psychosis, Recommends You Should Get it Too
Musician Claire "Grimes" Boucher called AI psychosis "fun," and then admitted that she suffers from it, too.
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December 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Uh, come again?
Talk about a beer and a shot!
Uncles Tremble as Man Invents Vaccine Delivered by Beer
A virologist has taken to homebrewing a polynoravius vaccine to be ingested via yeast cells — in other words, a frothy pint of beer.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Talk about a beer and a shot!
Brilliant work, sir.
Trump's Chip Embargo Against China Is Backfiring Spectacularly
Donald Trump's trade restrictions on AI chips have given Chinese tech firms the environment they need to court global investors.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Brilliant work, sir.
"If only I looked like my AI version."
Woman Suffers AI Psychosis After Obsessively Generating AI Images of Herself
A woman working for a generative AI image startup says the tech led her into a manic bipolar episode, which triggered psychosis.
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December 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"If only I looked like my AI version."
Happy holidays!
Disney's Robot Olaf Is a Straight Up Nightmare
Engineers at Disney Research Hub have unveiled how they built a robot version of the talking snowman from the "Frozen" films.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Happy holidays!
300 *terabytes* of pure music.
Activists Downloaded Pretty Much All of Spotify
Volunteer hacktivists working for Anna's Archive have managed to scrape all the metadata of the Spotify library.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
300 *terabytes* of pure music.
“The AI now can code better than the average junior developer that comes out of the best schools out there.”
Top Software Engineering Students Can't Get a Job Because of AI
New anecdotes suggest software engineering students at elite universities are struggling to find jobs, though explanations vary.
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December 24, 2025 at 12:54 AM
“The AI now can code better than the average junior developer that comes out of the best schools out there.”
"My interactions with ChatGPT ruined my life."
Man Describes How ChatGPT Led Him Straight Into Psychosis
32-year-old Anthony Duncan describes how ChatGPT led him into AI psychosis and encouraged him to take drugs.
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December 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"My interactions with ChatGPT ruined my life."
Pure terror.
Gen Z Terrified of Losing Their Humanity to AI
As AI becomes more ubiquitous, Gen Z students are starting to freak out about its effects on their brains.
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December 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Pure terror.
AI presents a radical new escalation of the art world's oldest crime.
AI Is a Godsend for Criminals Forging Fake Art
Artificial intelligence is making it easier than ever for criminals and unsuspecting art collectors to pass fake art off as authentic.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
AI presents a radical new escalation of the art world's oldest crime.
“I don't know if you guys were advised, but there was a rocket launch and apparently the rocket exploded."
Elon Musk's Starship Explosion Endangered Hundreds of Airline Passengers
FAA documents revealed that three aircraft were in far greater danger than SpaceX let on of its Starship debris field.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
“I don't know if you guys were advised, but there was a rocket launch and apparently the rocket exploded."
"Somebody's gonna set this thing on fire if it doesn't move soon."
Waymos Cause Traffic Jams Across City During Power Outage
Footage showed numerous Waymo robotaxis stranded across the streets of San Francisco after a power outage.
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December 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM
"Somebody's gonna set this thing on fire if it doesn't move soon."
Wheels of steel.
Korea Tests Ultra-Rugged Robot to Explore the Moon's Mysterious Caves
For future Moon missions, South Korean scientists created a small rover with a special wheel that can expand and contract like kinetic art.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Wheels of steel.
"The discovery of interstellar objects over the past decade offers new opportunities for humanity to send time capsules to interstellar space."
We Could Hitch a Ride to Unknown Frontiers on Super-Fast Interstellar Objects Like 3I/ATLAS
Astronomer Avi Loeb argued that other objects like interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be useful for reaching out to aliens, if they exist.
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December 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"The discovery of interstellar objects over the past decade offers new opportunities for humanity to send time capsules to interstellar space."
The most predictable falling out ever.
Zuckerberg Already Blowing Up Relationship With New Head of AI He Paid Ten Zillion Dollars to Hire
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is clashing with the 28-year-old he hired to lead his entire "superintelligence" division.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The most predictable falling out ever.
"I never expected he would be capable of such a thing."
Murder of MIT Fusion Scientist Getting More and More Bizarre
The MIT fusion professor's suspected murderer, Claudio Neves Valent,e was found dead in a storage unit. Plenty of questions remain.
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December 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"I never expected he would be capable of such a thing."
The countdown is on.
Astronauts Suit Up for Their Journey to the Moon
Over the weekend, NASA conducted a dress rehearsal for its scheduled February launch date of its Artemis 2 mission to the Moon.
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December 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The countdown is on.
He's not ready to be a public company CEO.
Sam Altman Unhappy With Fate He's Created for Himself
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman didn't feign excitement over the prospect of far more scrutiny and regulatory oversight as an openly traded company.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
He's not ready to be a public company CEO.
"What else is being covered up?"
Photos Are Being Deleted From the Epstein Files
At least 16 photos have mysteriously disappeared from the Epstein files, including an image that showed president Donald Trump.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"What else is being covered up?"