August 29, 2026 8:54 AM
August 29, 2026
Welp, They’re Officially Displaying Ads Directly on Your Monitor
If there’s one thing that smart TVs have proven, it’s that some tech is better off staying dumb. …
Chinese Companies Are Unleashing AI-Powered Robo-Chefs
Chinese engineers are zeroing in on one of the loftiest goals in applied robotics: fully automated cooking. At…
People Taking Down Flock Towers Are Becoming Folk Heroes, With Communities Circling to Protect Them
At this point, Flock automatic license plate readers are basically a 90-10 issue in the US. In fact,…
Data Shows That Mark Zuckerberg Is the Anti-Dolly Parton: Instead of Being Loved by Everybody Across the Political Spectrum, Pretty Much Everybody Despises Him, Regardless of Their Beliefs
When Dolly Parton died this week, everyone mourned. She was the queen of country music and a magnetic…
Russia Now Using Fully AI-Controlled Drones to Kill Ukrainian Civilians, Powered by Nvidia Chips
In a joint statement earlier this week, United Nations chief António Guterres and Red Cross president Mirjana Spoljaric…
Chinese Scientists Develop Muscle Grafts That Can Be Injected Straight Under the Skin
In his genre-defining 1984 sci-fi novel “Neuromancer,” William Gibson envisioned a future filled with “joeboys,” or “nearly identical…
NASA’s Powerful New Space Telescope, Just Cleared for Launch, Was Developed by an Intelligence Agency to “Spy on America’s Adversaries”
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has a lot to live up to. The orbital observatory, a long-awaited…
Mark Zuckerberg Had a Secret Plan to Replace Meta Staff With AI Agents, and It Backfired Spectacularly
In May, Meta laid off roughly ten percent of its global workforce, affecting almost 8,000 people. The vast…
NYC’s Buzziest Nightclub Announces Stance On Smart Glasses: Even Try To Bring Them In, You’re Banned Forever
Basement, arguably New York City’s best-known contemporary nightclub, has always had a tight, Berghain-esque door policy. That’s part…
Meta Working on “Kill Switch” in Face of Overwhelming Disgust With Its “Pervert Glasses”
Much like Google’s infamous Google Glass smart glasses, Meta’s camera-equipped AI Glasses have turned into a widely derided…
Meta Forced to Make Massive Changes Limiting How Minors Can Use Instagram and Facebook
Meta has officially ended a landmark legal standoff over social media addiction among children, agreeing to pay some…
Least Delusional AI Investor Said He’s Saving Money to Buy Entire Galaxies, Ignoring the Pesky Speed of Light
Leopold Aschenbrenner, the founder of the ill-fated hedge fund Situational Awareness, held a belief in AI so outrageous…
Police Chief Brags That His Officers Have Been Using Electro-Shock Gloves for Years
When police officers in Oklahoma admitted to using electro-shock gloves to subdue two students over the 2025-2026 school…
Police Use Surveillance Cameras to Narc On Guy Who Found $30 on the Ground
Be assured, citizen, that the mass surveillance state is being put to good use. Earlier this month, the…
Streamers Now Going Live With Grizzly Bears, Which Will Surely End Well and Not Like in “Grizzly Man”
More than 20 years after the horrifying death of Timothy “Grizzly Man” Treadwell, a few young bear fanatics…
Jailed Tate Brothers Make Humiliating Confession About Their “Wealth” as They Face Extradition for Terrible Crimes
Scared of facing the inside of a British prison cell, social media controversy magnets Andrew Tate and his…
Freak Landslide Completely Swallows Entire Mountain Village
A Himalayan border crossing between China and Nepal was obliterated by an ungodly landslide following torrential flooding across…
Top WSJ Editor Approves AI-Assisted Writing, Says AI is a “Fact of Modern Life” in Major Inflection Point for Media Industry
The Wall Street Journal is giving opinion authors the go-ahead to use AI in the writing process without…
Designer Creates World’s Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance Cameras
While some privacy advocates are content to saw down camera towers, one artist is pushing back against the…
Bill Gates Announces That He Is the First Person Ever to Be Concerned About the Effects of AI
Bill Gates can’t believe that no one is worried about AI as much as he is. In a…
Your Coworkers Are Becoming “Meat Proxies” for AI
Last year, netizens coined a new term to reflect our growing disdain for AI bots slowly usurping our…
Police Are Putting Up Fake 3D-Printed Flock Cameras and Swooping In to Arrest People Who Vandalize Them
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is desperately trying to stop his mass surveillance startup from turning into one…
Huge Leak Shows Microsoft Salaries That’ll Make You Jump Out the Window
A newly leaked spreadsheet has revealed just how wild salaries are at one of the most valuable companies…
Mayor Livid When Even More Police Are Arrested for Using Flock Database Inappropriately
Three more police officers have been arrested after using Automatic License Plate Readers supplied by the surveillance company…