ChatGPT Goes NSFW
TLDR HighlightsThe Policy: Erotica, "spicy" tones, and unrestricted expression are coming to verified users. Sam Altman admits the old safety layers made the AI less useful and less fun.The Industry Domino Effect: This isn't just a tweak; it’s a tectonic shift. Expect Google and other competitors to follow suit quickly to avoid losing the massive "companionship" and engagement market.The Business Play: Digital intimacy is highly profitable. We’re looking at a future of AI-powered OnlyFans clones, custom "lovers," and subscription personalities that remember your preferences.Moderation Mess: Age verification and guardrails are in place, but exploits are inevitable. The transition from "safe"
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We’ve always looked at Mars as a dusty museum of failed potential, a place that flirted with habitability, lost the spark, and froze over. But if plasma physicist Dr John Brandenburg is right, that red dust might actually be fallout. According to him, Mars wasn’t just unlucky. It was attacked. Brandenburg’s Large Planet Altering R-Process Event hypothesis (yes, it’s as cheerful as it sounds) suggests that an ancient, Earth-like civilisation on Mars was wiped out by a pair of nuclear explosions powerful enough to sterilise a planet. The theory, published in papers like Evidence of Massive Thermonuclear Explosions on Mars,
Read moreChatGPT: The Future Operating System That’s Quietly Taking Over
Something strange is happening. Computers have stopped asking what you want them to do and started asking why. It’s unsettling, like your toaster suddenly demanding a mission statement before it browns the bread. Welcome to the age of Agentic Computing, where your laptop isn’t a tool anymore; it’s a colleague. A tireless, overconfident one that calls itself “helpful” while quietly running your life. According to McKinsey, this shift is being compared to the Industrial Revolution, except instead of steam engines, it’s polite algorithms asking for permission to take over your operating system. Microsoft and Apple are already leading the charge.
Read moreBorn for Efficiency, Forged for War
When the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology announced a new chromium-molybdenum-silicon alloy that doesn’t melt until just below hell’s own thermostat, the news barely made a ripple. It should have caused an earthquake. This thing doesn’t just survive fire. It thrives in it. It could outlive the engine that burns it. For decades, engineers have been chained to nickel-based superalloys brilliant, strong, but with a heat ceiling that ends dreams at around 1,100°C. Beyond that, they soften, oxidise and fall apart, forcing designers to duct air through them just to stop them from melting themselves. The new Cr-Mo-Si alloy laughs at
Read moreThe KGB’s Green Thumb: How Moscow Cultivated Europe’s Energy Dependence
Sometimes the smartest weapon isn’t a missile. It’s an idea that makes your enemy build your strategy for you. In the late 1970s, West Germany was buzzing with protests. Farmers, students, and anti-war activists were uniting against nuclear power. Their fear was simple enough, another Chernobyl before Chernobyl even happened. Out of those rallies emerged what would become the German Green Party, a movement born from the soil of local activism, not Kremlin conspiracy. Or so the story goes. Because while the Greens were busy chaining themselves to reactor fences, the KGB was watching with quiet fascination. The Soviets had
Read moreFrom Langley to the Feed: How Propaganda Learned to Code
In the old days, propaganda took effort. You had to find journalists willing to pretend the script was their idea, slip them some funding, and maybe a medal if things went really well. The CIA’s Operation Mockingbird was exactly that kind of vintage manipulation, dozens of reporters secretly tied to the agency, a few hundred more sympathetic, and suddenly the country saw exactly what it was meant to see. The Church Committee later confirmed the relationships in 1975, exposing how at least fifty journalists had direct CIA links, while Carl Bernstein estimated it was closer to four hundred. Back then,
Read moreThe Death of the Jingle and the Rise of the Cynical Consumer
Once upon a time, jingles ruled the airwaves. They were simple, repetitive, and cheerfully manipulative. “Plop plop, fizz fizz,” “I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Wiener,” “You can trust your car to the man who wears the star.” These weren’t just ads, they were cultural glue, binding together a public that largely believed what it was told. The mid-20th century was the Golden Age of the advertising jingle, born from post-war comfort and shared optimism. America had emerged from World War II as the dominant industrial power, fuelling an era of mass consumption and centralised media that created the
Read moreGraphene Just Went Supersonic, And It Might Fix the World’s Bandwidth Problem
If there’s one material that refuses to stay quiet, it’s graphene. The one-atom-thick sheet of carbon that’s been hyped since the late 2000s has just done something new, and this time, it actually lives up to the promise. Scientists have managed to make electrons inside graphene move faster than sound. Not the speed of light, we’re not rewriting Einstein here, but faster than the speed of sound through the material itself. In plain terms, the electrons are now breaking a quantum sound barrier, generating microscopic shockwaves that could change how we build chips, send data, and maybe stop your Wi-Fi
Read moreThe Stranger Passing Through Our Solar System Might Not Be Alone
If Earth had a doorbell, it just rang. Quietly. From 269 million kilometres away. Meet 3I/ATLAS, our third confirmed interstellar visitor after ‘Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov. It slipped into our Solar System this summer, not so much arriving as intruding,a cold relic from another star system that wandered too close to the neighbourhood and is now being interrogated by every telescope we have. Unlike its mysterious, cigar-shaped predecessor, 3I/ATLAS came in hot and obvious, flaring with a carbon dioxide-rich coma so large it could swallow Earth several times over. NASA’s MAVEN and ExoMars missions even turned their cameras toward it as
Read moreThe Great Decoupling: How AMD and OpenAI Just Declared War on the NVIDIA Empire
For nearly a decade, NVIDIA has been the unchallenged emperor of AI silicon. Its CUDA ecosystem was the moat, its GPUs the castle walls, and its profits, 75% margins to be exact, were the gold piled inside. Then OpenAI went and pulled a Julius Caesar. In October 2025, it forged a 6-gigawatt alliance with AMD, splitting its AI infrastructure between NVIDIA’s familiar green glow and AMD’s upstart Instinct hardware. On paper it’s diversification; in reality it’s an act of rebellion. NVIDIA once powered OpenAI’s entire 10-gigawatt AGI factory. But the empire got greedy. The so-called “NVIDIA tax” made every new
Read moreThe Day Guns Fell Silent, and the War Raged On.
War has gone quiet. The weapons don’t explode anymore; they hum. Somewhere, a machine scans the sky for drones and fires an invisible pulse that fries them mid-flight. No smoke, no shrapnel, just silence, the kind that feels like the world holding its breath. This is the age of directed energy weapons, tools that replace bullets with beams. High-Power Microwaves are at the front of this revolution, turning electrical energy into focused radio waves powerful enough to melt circuitry and erase guidance systems. They travel at the speed of light, have no ammunition limits, and cost almost nothing per shot.
Read moreThe US Navy’s Plan to Turn Seawater into Jet Fuel
There’s a certain poetry in the idea of warships turning the sea beneath them into the fuel that powers their planes above. It’s the kind of concept that sounds like either science fiction or military PowerPoint optimism, but this one called Project GENESIS or the more cinematic Sea Dragon is very real. And it might just change global energy logistics forever. The US Navy’s Seawater-to-Jet-Fuel (S2J) programme aims to do something that borders on alchemy: pull carbon and hydrogen out of seawater and turn it into jet fuel. The trick lies in using the ocean’s abundance seawater contains roughly 140
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