15 May An Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral Inside Meta Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity.
15 May We Now Know How Many People the CDC Is Monitoring for Hantavirus There are no confirmed cases in the US, but 41 people who were potentially exposed to the Andes virus are in quarantine or being monitored for symptoms.
15 May The Real Losers of the Musk v. Altman Trial A federal jury is now deciding whether Elon Musk will win his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman—but the trial has made everyone look bad.
14 May Instagram’s New Instants App Is a Snapchat Clone for Thirst Traps Instagram’s Instants app lets you send disappearing photos—and it’s probably where your horny friends will post spicy pics.
14 May Everyone at the Musk v. Altman Trial Is Using Fancy Butt Cushions The plaintiffs and defense have rested their cases, as well as their rear ends.
14 May What It Will Take to Make AI Sustainable Researcher Sasha Luccioni argues we need better emissions data and a better sense of how people are using AI in the first place.
13 May The Unitree GD01 Is a Giant Mecha Robot You Can Actually Buy China’s Unitree, famous for making low-cost dancing robots, will now sell you a giant, wall-smashing mecha.
13 May xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit Emails show that Elon Musk’s company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.
13 May Elon Musk Had ‘Hair-Raising’ Idea of Passing OpenAI On to His Kids, Sam Altman Says Musk’s lawyers questioned Altman over allegations of deception and his network of financial investments, but the OpenAI CEO painted a picture of Musk as obsessed with controlling the company.
12 May Testing for ‘Bad Cholesterol’ Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story There’s a more accurate way of measuring who’s at risk for cholesterol-related health issues. So why don’t more doctors use it?
