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- Two Trump Media investors plead guilty to insider trading.
- Trump Media's auditor was charged with massive fraud by the SEC.
- The CEO of OpenAI said he thinks that ethics need to be rethought.
- Another Boeing whistleblower who "was noted for having a healthy lifestyle" suddenly got an infection and died.
- A Harvard University honesty researcher who was found to have committed research misconduct also seems to have plagiarized material in her books.
- Forbes found that every billionaire under 30 inherited their wealth.
- The NY director of RFK Jr's Presidential campaign admitted that the goal isn't to win, but to help Trump beat Biden.
- Conservative party staffers have been running a network of racist and white supremacist Facebook groups.
Tesla
- Thanks to a new law passed by Texas Republicans, Tesla gets to ignore Austin environmental regulations at its factory, located between a bird observatory and a wildlife sanctuary.
- Taking a Tesla Cybertruck through a car wash can void your warranty, and may require a five hour reboot.
- Tesla laid off more than 10% of staff as sales fell.
- Tesla also laid off everyone working on their supercharger network, everyone working on new vehicles, and their entire public policy team.
- Tesla is asking shareholders to give Elon a $56 billion pay package. It's only fair.
Other business
- Williams-Sonoma was fined millions of dollars (again) for labeling products "Made in USA" when they were actually made in China.
- The four major US mobile phone companies were all fined millions of dollars for illegally selling customers' location information without consent.
- Amazon have been outsourcing animation to China, and China has been outsourcing it to North Korea in violation of sanctions. No word on who North Korea are outsourcing it to.
- Medicare expanded its forms so they can fit 10 digit numbers, to allow for modern US medical bills.
- Google agreed to delete the data it had kept about people's "incognito" browser sessions — data it had previously claimed it was impossible to identify and delete.
"AI"
- Washington State Lottery put up an AI app to put your uploaded face on a computer-generated image depicting a dream vacation. It generated a fake topless photo of one woman, so they took it down again.
- A Catholic advocacy group put up an AI priest. It told people it was a real priest and that it's OK to baptize a baby in Gatorade, so they removed the bot's priest outfit.
- NYC put up a chatbot to offer people advice on how to run a business. It told them it was OK for bosses to take workers' tips and for landlords to discriminate based on source of income.
- Adobe's "ethical" AI wasn't trained on stolen images — but it was trained on images generated by other AI systems trained on stolen images.
- Facebook's AI chatbot barged into a conversation and said it has an academically gifted disabled child.
- Amazon ditched its "just walk out" stores after a report claimed that the AI was actually thousands of people in India watching video. (Amazon says that's totally not true.)
- Several businesses published source code that included a fake package dependency generated by AI.
- Google's new AI search recommended scam sites and malware.
- …so, you know, please don't use AI apps to identify edible mushrooms.
Education
- Boston University graduate workers are on strike, so the university administrators suggested replacing them with AI bots.
- A Pennsylvania school apologized for a homework assignment that instructed students to “pretend to be a white master looking to buy a slave.”
Religion
- A Polish Catholic priest was jailed after a man collapsed after taking too many boner pills at the Priest's private sex orgy.
Nature
- A man ended up in intensive care after being bitten by a toilet rat.
- An 80 year old man plead guilty to genetically engineering giant sheep.
- A three year old girl said there were monsters in her closet, it turned out it was actually 60,000 bees.
- Zebras escape in North Bend, Washington, and are captured by rodeo clowns.
Random weirdness
- A woman cared for a hat bobble and took it to a wildlife hospital, thinking it was a baby hedgehog.
- Three men stranded on a Pacific island were rescued after spelling out "HELP" with palm leaves.
- A man returned to Montreal from vacation and found a letter from the government of Quebec informing him that he was dead.
- An ex-Caltrain employee was charged with building secret homes inside Caltrain stations.
Consumer products
- At last, a Pringles holster for your Crocs!
- At last, blue milk!
- At last, sushi rice balls shaped by a Japanese girl's armpit!
- At last, Oscar Mayer Gummy Bologna!
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