September 14, 2026 9:48 AM
September 14, 2026
Amazon Deploying AI Tech That Forces Actors’ Mouths to Match Dubbed Dialogue
Amazon is catapulting us into the final boss of sub vs dub debates. On Thursday, its Prime Video…
OpenAI Faces Congressional Probe Over Swarm Hacking Incident
Earlier this week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon drew major media attention after announcing he was quitting his job,…
Laptop Toasts Boy
Here’s a hazard you probably didn’t expect from too much screen time. Two doctors in the UK reported…
America’s Health Care System Is So Screwed That Patients Are Flying to China for Cancer Treatment
The myriad horrors of the US healthcare system have spawned generations of medical tourism from the wealthiest country…
California, Which Is Creating All the AI That’s Poisoning Children, Just Cracked Down on AI Use for Its Own Kids
Frontier AI labs are seemingly in a race to melt the impressionable minds of underage users into a…
Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain
As far as completely pointless ways to kill time on your phone, this is certainly one of the…
Aging Congress Is Completely Ill-Equipped to Regulate AI, or Seemingly Even Understand It
Surely our creaking gerontocracy is well-equipped to respond to a technology as novel, disruptive, and rapidly evolving as…
Earth May Have Had a Larger Cousin that the Sun Devoured
Did the Earth once have a larger cousin that was devoured by the Sun? And more importantly: would…
GLP-1 Users Are Being Cruelly Shamed by Their Own Families
GLP-1 weight loss drugs are changing lives in more ways than one. In a new piece for The…
College Students Using AI to Cheat Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Avoid Detection
You wouldn’t be remiss to accuse college students using AI to cheat of being lazy. But some of…
Federal Agents Are Secretly Monitoring Americans’ Financial Transactions So Cops Can Arrest People They Find Suspicious
The surveillance state is trying out a new tactic: pocket watching. 404 Media reports on how secretive “predictive…
China Deploys Rare Type of Space Junk That Pollutes Orbit for Hundreds of Years
The number of space launches has skyrocketed over the last few years, rapidly turning the Earth’s atmosphere into…
Werner Herzog Demolishes Talentless Hacks Who Use AI to Imitate Other Filmmakers
The legendary German director Werner Herzog had a few choice words about other so-called “filmmakers” who use AI…
Lawyers Already Lining Up to Defend Victims of Cybercab Crashes
Tesla’s mawkishly sleek new Cybercab has begun rolling out to Austin, Texas this week, with more sighted in…
Top Chinese Court Issues Sweeping Legal Crackdown on AI Deepfakes
Months after China’s Intermediate People’s Court ruled against a company using AI to liquidate an employee’s position, the…
Firefighters Say There’s a Glaring Issue With Tesla’s Cybercab
Tesla’s flashy gold Cybercabs are rolling out to the streets of Austin, their butterfly doors glowing under the…
Meta Releases Uber-Creepy AI Chatbot as Its Platforms Crumble Under Grotesque Child Abuse
Meta’s platforms are in a sorry state as grotesque AI slop continues to proliferate widely. As a recent…
Elon Musk Is So Mad About This New Documentary That He’s Threatening Legal Action
Does Elon Musk, who claims to be so smart that chess bores him, understand what the Streisand effect…
Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP Meme Coin Is Either a National Disgrace or the Funniest Thing He’s Ever Done, and We’re Not Entirely Sure Which
At this point, if you’re not using personal access to political power to run billion-dollar crypto scams, you’re…
Deranged Stalker Seizes Control of Woman’s Tesla Software to Terrorize Her While Driving
It’s no secret that car owners have handed an immense amount of control over their vehicles to software.…
Anthropic Just Revealed That It’s Stopped Foreign Agents From Using Claude to Develop Possible Bioweapons
Anthropic says it stopped several instances of foreign scientists using its AI agents to create possible biological weapons,…
OpenAI’s Supposed Mathematical Breakthrough Devolves Into Explosive Drama as Mathematician Accuses It of Stealing His Work
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it had found a solution for a famous unsolved problem in mathematics by…
Trump’s Plan to Give Every American Adult $5,000 After the Midterm Would Add $1.3 Trillion to the National Debt
With his approval ratings in the gutter, US president Donald Trump is cooking up another cash advance for…
LG TVs Caught Secretly Recording Users and Scanning Their Homes For Other Devices, Even When Disconnected From the Internet
It’s no exaggeration to say that if you own an LG smart TV, it might be spying on…