Victor Tangermann

Scientists have developed a computer "worm" that can spread from one computer to another using generative AI, a warning sign that the tech could be used to develop dangerous malware in the near future — if it hasn't already. As Wired reports, the worm can attack generative AI-powered email assistants to obtain data from emails […]

Rocket Failure The Drake equation, formulated by late astrophysicist Frank Drake in 1961, explores the question of why we still have yet to encounter an extraterrestrial civilization in our galaxy. The equation takes a number of different factors into consideration, including the number of stars that have planets orbiting them, the rate of star formation, […]

Sky Hole Punch NASA's Terra satellite has captured a stunning image of "fallstreak holes" or "hole-punch clouds," scientifically known as cavum clouds, hovering over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico. The massive, sinkhole-like objects vaguely resemble droplets of water, floating thousands of feet above the surface. Their appearance has repeatedly been erroneously linked to UFOs and […]

Unearthed Scientists are worried that rising global temperatures could cause buried nuclear waste, which dates back to the Cold War, to resurface. According to a January report by the US Government Accountability Office, as spotted by ABC News, waste beneath former nuclear weapons testing sites could be unearthed as soon as 2100 if temperatures continue […]

Pfft Russia's space agency says that air is continuing to leak from its segment of the International Space Station and that specialists are monitoring the situation. Fortunately, the leak isn't posing any danger to any of the station's crew. The news comes after NASA's ISS program manager Joel Montalbano told reporters during a Crew-8 mission […]

  In 2010, scientists detected unusual seismic waves under Granada, Spain, which eventually led to a surprising finding: an oceanic slub that had completely flipped upside down as it was being pushed beneath its neighbor. As detailed in a paper published in the journal The Seismic Record, the team found that the "Alboran slab," which […]

Iron Man Race A number of daredevil pilots took to the sky on Wednesday, racing their jetpacks around a predetermined route through the Dubai Marina in the United Arab Emirates. Footage shows a row of jetpack-clad men taking off from a dock, blasting between pairs of inflated obstacles, a 21st-century spin on Red Bull's Air […]

  Multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk is officially suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company of hiding its AI model's secrets from the world. It's a major escalation of a falling out that dates back at least to the time Musk cofounded the company almost nine years ago. In 2019, Musk left OpenAI, […]

Status Symbol Auction house Cox Automotive just sold a Foundation Series Cybertruck for an eyewatering $244,000, more than twice its original price, as CarScoops reports, to a Porsche dealership in South Orlando, Florida. It's an interesting new development that highlights just how much of a status symbol the oddball pickup has become. And apart from […]

AI Robot Uprising Humanoid robot maker Figure has announced it has signed a new deal with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. The company recently closed a $675 million round of funding at a $2.6 billion valuation as well with some notable backers, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft, and AI chipmaker Nvidia. It's a notable agreement, especially considering […]