October 26, 2026 11:23 AM
October 26, 2026
Rehab Charged With Providing Illegal Drugs to Addicts in Grim Scam
What if it’s not drug companies or dodgy dealers trying to keep you hooked, but rehab? It sounds…
Are Delivery Robots Scanning You Into a Database Scarier Than Flock?
For all the controversy they’ve caught this year, Flock cameras only collect and store license plate data from…
Growing Majority of Americans Convinced That AI Is Bad for Society
In case there was any doubt over the powerful tide of anti-AI sentiment, a new poll shows that…
Creator of Super Smash Brothers Offers Blistering Takedown of AI-Generated Games
Go ahead and use AI to make your video game — if you want the result to be…
ChatGPT Is Building Detailed Psychological Profiles of Its Users
Chatbots are building intimate “algorithmic self-portraits” of users as they retain information to offer a hyper-personalized experience, researchers…
Someone Ran a Chemical Analysis of Bodega Retatrutide and Dear Lord
Like gas station kratom, research-grade peptides have become widely available for consumers at convenience stores across the United…
Florida Police Show Off Incredibly Tiny and Goofy Quadcopter That Fits Exactly One Cop at a Time
Thanks to the rise of military-style imaging drones, AI-integrated surveillance towers, and automatic license plate readers, police across…
Banks Preparing for Aftermath of Unprecedented Catastrophe Caused by AI
Doomsaying about the coming AI apocalypse is no longer relegated to outbursts from a few tech billionaires. Now,…
We Investigated Character.AI and Found a Horror Show. Now It’s Bankrupt.
In October 2024, as The New York Times first reported, a mother in Florida named Megan Garcia filed…
AI Billionaires Are Flooding Money Into Politics to Influence Elections, But It’s Backfiring
Unreasonably wealthy AI plutocrats are pouring billions of dollars into US elections. Elon Musk alone has pumped more…
Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers
Earlier in October, Finnish authorities ordered Google’s affiliate data center developer Tuike Finland Oy to immediately suspend the…
Man Dies After Being Mowed Down by Self-Driving Tesla, Police Say
Police say that a 71-year-old man was killed after being struck by a Tesla allegedly in Full Self-Driving…
Palmer Luckey Says He’s Breeding Genetically Enhanced Dogs for the Military
Try to imagine the most dystopian military startup you can think of, and there’s a good chance it…
Airbnb Hosts Are Having a Meltdown After New Rules Means They Can’t Force Guests to Clean Up Everything For Them
The reign of tyrannical Airbnb hosts is over. On Wednesday, Airbnb unveiled a new policy update that prevents…
Unitree Unveils Fearsome Bodyguard Robot
Surely the robots that’ve been heavily marketed with all kinds of martial arts stunts would never be designed…
Trump Admin to Blast Immigrants With Heat-Ray Gun
From AI surveillance towers to robot dog patrols, the US-Mexico border has long been a proving ground for…
Trump Says He Called the CEO of Google to Rename the Atlantic Ocean
President Donald Trump called Google to rename the Atlantic Ocean — at least according to the not always…
US Government Accuses Russian Spacecraft of “Threatening Behavior” and Orbital “Weapons Operations”
Last Saturday, a 17,000 mph game of cat-and-mouse appears to have played out in low Earth orbit. According…
Man Arrested After Telling Claude About Plans to Shoot Up Daycare
A man in Sydney, Australia was arrested this week after telling Anthropic’s Claude that he wanted to kill…
Bryan Johnson Announces Plans for Mass Revenge
For years, multi-millionaire Bryan Johnson has chased after immortality, embracing bizarre “anti-aging” procedures like hyperbaric oxygen therapy and…
Man Hires Swarm of AI Agents to Go on Epic Hacking Spree Against Major Companies
A cybercriminal used AI agents to commit a string of attacks against more than 100 different companies — an…
Nobel-Winning Computer Scientist Says AI Has Become Conscious: “We’re Toast”
Geoffrey Hinton, one of the godfathers of AI, is prognosticating about our future with trademark gloom. In an…
There Are Signs of Serious Trouble in the Data Center Industry
Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, a torrent of money has flowed into building out data…
Head of Instagram Says He Has No Idea How to Deal With Wave of Horrible AI Slop
AI slop purveyors are stealing comedians’ jokes to create viral Instagram videos of fake comics. And Adam Mosseri,…