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The empire strikes back with F-bombs: AI Darth Vader goes rogue with profanity, slurs
For a short period of time on Friday, Darth Vader could drop F-bombs in the video game Fortnite as part of a voice AI implementation gone wrong, reports GameSpot. Epic Games rapidly deployed a hotfix ...
Do these Buddhist gods hint at the purpose of China’s super-secret satellites?
The four patches show the Four Heavenly Kings, protector deities in Buddhism who guard against evil forces in the four ...
RFK Jr’s plan to ban fluoride supplements will “hurt rural America,” dentists say
Nevertheless, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under anti-vaccine advocate and conspiracy theorist Robert F.
From birth to gene-edited in 6 months: Custom therapy breaks speed limits
The researchers described the unprecedented speed of the oversight steps as being "through alternative procedures." In month ...
Sierra made the games of my childhood. Are they still fun to play?
Judged by current standards, the Sierra games are no longer what I would play for fun.
Meta argues enshittification isn’t real in bid to toss FTC monopoly case
Rather than enshittification, what Meta did to Instagram could be considered "a consumer-welfare bonanza," Meta argued, while ...
The top fell off Australia’s first orbital-class rocket, delaying its launch
The payload fairing at the top of Gilmour Space's first Eris rocket was supposed to deploy a few minutes after lifting off ...
xAI says an “unauthorized” prompt change caused Grok to focus on “white genocide”
On Wednesday, the world was a bit perplexed by the Grok LLM's sudden insistence on turning practically every response toward ...
Rocket Report: How is your payload fairing? Poland launches test rocket.
Welcome to Edition 7.44 of the Rocket Report! We had some interesting news on Thursday afternoon from Down Under. As Gilmour ...
OpenAI introduces Codex, its first full-fledged AI agent for coding
We've been expecting it for a while, and now it's here: OpenAI has introduced an agentic coding tool called Codex in research ...
The 2025 VW Tiguan caters to US tastes at an affordable price
Don’t ask about curb weights, either, as more powerful drivetrains, including widespread adoption of hybrid-electric ...
FBI warns of ongoing scam that uses deepfake audio to impersonate government officials
The FBI is warning people to be vigilant of an ongoing malicious messaging campaign that uses AI-generated voice audio to ...