March 11, 2026 11:21 PM
March 11, 2026
Waymos Are a Huge Drain on Public Resources, Government Data Shows
In their 2022 book “The Road to Nowhere,” tech critic Paris Marx considered the implications of the death…
FCC Deciding Whether to Allow Startup to Launch Huge Mirror Satellite to Blast Sunlight on Cities at Nighttime
The US Federal Communication Commission is reviewing an application to launch and deploy a massive mirror satellite in…
Body Horror Robot Turns Human Into Centaur
We’ve seen plenty of robot appendages designed to decrease exertion, from futuristic exoskeletons that can allow you to…
Insiders Afraid the Government Will Nationalize the AI Industry
Depending on who you ask, AI was the financial growth story of 2025. In the first nine months…
YouTube Filling With Horrifying AI Slop for Children
In an age when more and more young children are hooked on digital devices, YouTube is bombarding them…
Top OpenAI Executive Quits in Protest
A top OpenAI executive has quit the company over its agreement with the Department of Defense that allows…
Looks Like the Economy Is Hitting a “Nightmare Scenario”
Tankers in the Strait of Hormuz have ground to a halt, cutting off much of the world from…
Xiaomi Now Using Humanoid Robots to Assemble Electric Cars
There’s a new “intern” on the assembly line, and it won’t be pausing every hour to take a…
The Supreme Court Just Dealt a Crushing Blow to “AI Artists”
Proponents of generative AI say the tech has greatly lowered the barriers of entry in the art world,…
Study Finds That Execs Are Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
The headlines warning about AI melting our brains usually point to students or workers, which — fair enough.…
A Machine Learning Engineer Thought He Was Safe From AI Layoffs. Then He Got Some Depressing News
While the exact impact of AI on the job market remains hazy at best, ongoing fears that an…
Using AI to Do Your Taxes Is Likely to Backfire Spectacularly
Tax season, that dreaded time of year, is upon us. But if you were hoping that newfangled AI…
Efforts Grow to Ban Octopus Farming
The case for a prohibition on octopus farming is simple enough: we probably shouldn’t raise animals capable of…
Kalshi Sent Bizarre Message to Underage Streamer
Kalshi hasn’t been particularly subtle about sucking young users into its gambling empire. Now, new reporting from the…
AI Job Loss Is Breaking the Psyche of Workers, Psychiatrist Warns
If you’re one of the hundreds of millions of Americans who earn a wage for a living, it…
Scientists Find Microbes Can Survive Traveling from Planet to Planet While Clinging to Asteroids
In an effort to explain how life started on Earth billions of years ago, some scientists have suggested…
Emergency Responders Say They’re Now Unpaid “Roadside Assistance” for Confused Waymos
Overseas teleoperators aren’t the only ones stuck cleaning up Waymo’s messes. Emergency responders are also having to swoop…
Atmospheric CO2 Getting So High That It’s Weakening Human Skeletons
Though talks of climate change typically conjure up images of dripping glaciers and rising tides, it turns out…
You’ll Choke When You Hear How Many Full-Time Jobs a $136 Million Data Center Will Actually Create
Fit Precast, an industrial concrete company, is dropping $102 million on a new facility in Gastonia, North Carolina,…
Evidence Grows That Google’s AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry
Media workers aren’t so much being replaced by AI systems as fed to one: Google’s gluttonous AI Overviews,…
Famed Plastic Surgeon Weighs in on Jim Carrey’s Face
Is it a shock that an aging actor may or may not have gotten work done on their…
Meta Lied About Its Smart Glasses Protecting User Privacy, New Class Action Lawsuit Claims
Meta may have sold seven million of its Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 alone — but likely didn’t…
Hubble Spots Bizarre Galaxy That Appears to Be 99.9 Percent Dark Matter
The universe is overrun with dark matter, outweighing the ordinary stuff that stars and planets are made of…
The Rage at OpenAI Has Grown So Immense That There Are Entire Protests Against It
OpenAI has faced protests on and off for years. But after its CEO Sam Altman announced a new…