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New Site Lets AI Rent Humans
February 6th, 2026I think that it’s not satire. Via: Futurism: The machines aren’t just coming for your jobs. Now, they want your bodies as well. That’s at least the hope of Alexander Liteplo, a software engineer and founder of RentAHuman.ai, a platform for AI agents to “search, book, and pay humans for physical-world tasks.” When Liteplo launched […]
Las Vegas: Investigation Into Illegal Biolab
February 4th, 2026Via: USA Today: Federal and local authorities are investigating a suspected biological laboratory found inside a Las Vegas residence that they said is owned by a person connected to a 2023 illegal biolaboratory probe in Central California. A SWAT team with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department assisted the Federal Bureau of Investigation with serving […]
Finally, Some Possibly Good News About Firefox: AI Off Switch
February 2nd, 2026With the growing hostility toward AI slop creeping into everything, Mozilla might see an opportunity here to claw back some market share after years of steady decline. With Firefox, however, one must always be waiting for the other shoe to drop… Via: Mozilla: AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from […]
CERN Accepts $1 Billion in Private Cash Towards Future Circular Collider
January 31st, 2026Via: Physic’s World: The CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva has received $1bn from private donors towards the construction of the Future Circular Collider (FCC). The cash marks the first time in the lab’s 72-year history that individuals and philanthropic foundations have agreed to support a major CERN project. If built, the FCC would be the […]
SpaceX: 1 Million Satellites For Orbital Data Center [???]
January 31st, 2026Via: PC Magazine: SpaceX is requesting to launch up to one million satellites to create a network of orbiting data centers around Earth. Late on Friday, the company filed the request with the Federal Communications Commission, describing the project as a “constellation of satellites with unprecedented computing capacity to power advanced artificial intelligence (‘AI’) models […]
Eugenics: IVF “Genetic Optimization”
January 28th, 2026Via: CBS: Big leaps in science have made a once-impossible, much-debated question come to life: Would you design your unborn child? Kian Sadeghi, the 25-year-old founder and CEO at Nucleus Genomics, believes every parent has a right to do just that, selecting qualities they desire – from height to weight to intelligence. He calls it […]
“Scientists Use AI to Create a Virus Never Seen Before”
January 26th, 2026Via: Daily Mail: Lab–grown life has taken a major leap forward as scientists use AI to create a new virus that has never been seen before. The virus, dubbed Evo–?2147, was created by scientists from scratch using new technologies that could revolutionise the course of evolution. With just 11 genes, compared to the 200,000 in […]
And Now… U.S. Unveils Plans for ‘New Gaza’ with Skyscrapers
January 23rd, 2026Via: BBC: The US has unveiled its plans for a “New Gaza” that would see the devastated Palestinian territory rebuilt from scratch. Slides showed dozens of skyscrapers stretching along the Mediterranean coast and housing estates in the Rafah area, while a map outlining the phased development of new residential, agricultural and industrial areas for the […]
China to Launch 200,000 Satellites for ‘Mega-Constellation’
January 20th, 2026Via: Daily Mail: China has applied to launch almost 200,000 satellites into space, sparking concerns that the nation seeks to build a ‘mega-constellation’. On December 29, a newly formed body called the Institute of Radio Spectrum Utilisation and Technological Innovation filed applications for two satellite constellations. Each of these enormous collections of spacecraft, dubbed CTC-1 […]
“Bank of England Must Plan for Financial Crisis Sparked by Aliens”
January 17th, 2026Via: The Times: The Bank of England must plan for a financial crisis being triggered by an official announcement confirming the existence of alien life, one of its former policy experts has claimed. Helen McCaw served as a senior analyst in financial security at the UK’s central bank, preparing for events that could impact the […]
