Noor Al-Sibai

As the lunar space race heats up, the United States is growing increasingly concerned about its chief adversary using the Moon to launch attacks. As the military website Defense One reports, Space Force's Anthony Mastalir, a brigadier general who commands the off-planet security force's Indo-Pacific section, seemed worried that China might not honor the decades-old […]

Policy Update Until recently, Glassdoor allowed users to anonymously trash talk their employers — but the site has apparently updated its policies and begun adding real names without consent. As Ars Technica reports, one Glassdoor user discovered this unfortunate new policy while trying to get her own information taken down. Upon hearing about a real-name policy […]

AIvory Tower With those AI-generated images of supersized mouse dicks and now with papers blatantly written by ChatGPT or other chatbots, the academic community clearly has a huge problem. As 404 Media reports, AI-generated papers are being passed off not only in low-quality academic journals, but in some reputable ones as well — highlighting not only […]

After spending nearly a decade hyping WeightWatchers, Oprah Winfrey has changed her tune and is now taking the CEO of her ex-sponsor to task. During a wide-ranging ABC special about her relationship with her weight, Winfrey at one point confronted Sima Sistanti, the CEO of the company now known as WW International, about the program […]

Loose Lips OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is remaining tight-lipped about its secretive Q* project — even after admitting that his company is something of a leaky ship. Even among those who followed along with OpenAI's November massacre that saw Altman temporarily ousted, it's easy to overlook the Q* (pronounced "queue-star") of it all, particularly because, […]

A pair of new studies out of the National Institutes of Health have found that government agents who claim to have suffered from the so-called "Havana syndrome" had no lasting brain damage. In interviews with the New York Times and NPR about the new studies that were published this week in The Journal of the American […]

Outstanding Question OpenAI is not ruling out some use cases where its forthcoming Sora video generator might create nudity — and that could be bad news for the company. In a sweeping interview with the Wall Street Journal about the forthcoming tool, OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati suggested that the company hasn't yet figured out […]

In a groundbreaking investigation, federal prosecutors are looking into whether Meta-formerly-Facebook profited from ad sales for regulated drugs and the shady telehealth services that pushed them. As the Wall Street Journal reports, US prosecutors in Virginia subpoenaed Meta last year as part of its probe into the tech company's culpability in illegal and unregulated substances sold […]

From Russia With Love The king is alive! Long live the king! As the Daily Dot reports, Russian outlets like Sputnik and others advanced the phony claim, which was based around a grainy and clearly-manipulated screenshot meant to be a Buckingham Palace memorandum that said, with none of the pomp and circumstance associated with the […]

All Apologies As things continue to literally and metaphorically fall apart at Boeing, the CEO of United Airlines is trying to reassure (and retain) customers. "Unfortunately, in the past few weeks, our airline has experienced a number of incidents that are reminders of the importance of safety," United CEO Scott Kirby said in a Monday […]