No credible news organization is issuing corrections on half the material it publishes

Submission statement: New reporting finds that it's not just that CNET let an AI publish news articles that were later shown to be substantially fabricated and plagiarized. It's actually a lot worse -- at internal meetings before they deployed the AI, leadership acknowledged the factual errors and plagiarism, but ultimately chose to deploy the AI anyway. In the end, more than 50 percent of its articles required significant corrections for factual mistakes and plagiarism.

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A scary thought: orbital ads hovering over major cities.

In a new paper published in the journal Aerospace, researchers from the Moscow-based technical institute Skoltech and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology concluded that sending a formation of satellites into orbit to display commercials above population centers could not only be feasible, but cost a mere $65 million per mission.

Each individual "pixel" or satellite of the space billboard would have to be pretty massive to reflect enough light and make the whole thing financially feasible. One researcher suggested each cubesat satellite could be as large as a 350-square-foot solar sail, referencing the area of LightSail 2, the largest solar sail to have ever been sent to space so far.