August 4, 2026 8:28 AM
August 4, 2026
The Diarrhea Lettuce Is Officially Killing People
Authorities are struggling to get the outbreak of an explosive diarrhea-causing parasite under control. According to the Centers…
Top Consulting Group PwC Caught Using AI on “Thought Leadership” Report About AI, Resulting in Corporate Document Filled With Bizarre Hallucinations
PwC, one of the “Big Four” consulting firms, has been caught red-handed publishing “thought leadership” reports about AI…
Tech Bro Boasts He Used AI to Secretly Monitor Toddlers’ Conversations, Categorize Them In Giant Database
Parents, if you’re thinking about subjecting your child to some bizarre AI experiment: don’t. “Toddler spent her first…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife Shuts Down School for the Disadvantaged
A school for low-income students cofounded by Mark Zuckerberg’s wife, Priscilla Chan, has officially shut its doors. The…
Poll Finds Overwhelming Majority Disgusted by Trump’s Relationship With AI Industry, Saying He’s Using the Tech to Tear Down Democracy
Even before Donald Trump was sworn in for his second stint in the White House, he was promising…
America Getting Lesson in Consequences of Trump’s War on Public Health as Rare Disease Outbreaks Ravage the Country
For a president who upholds “Make America Healthy Again” as a load-bearing narrative pillar, Donald Trump has gone…
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
When the Federal Aviation Administration shut down air traffic to El Paso Airport earlier this year, nobody could…
Cops Mistype Username, Send Innocent Man to Prison for 18 Months
A single typo by cops led to an innocent Canadian man spending 18 months in jail. The man,…
Sam Altman’s Parenting Strategy Sounds Low Key Horrifying
Late last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon that raising a child was…
Tesla Whistleblower Describes Wildly Dangerous Safety Lapses While Developing Full Self-Driving
For years, Tesla has faced intense public and regulatory scrutiny over the safety of its self-driving software. Now,…
Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows
Since the launch of Flock Safety in 2017, the ACLU estimates the company installed some 100,000 automatic license…
OpenAI’s Escaped Models Were Allegedly Rampaging More Extensively Than Previously Reported
Last week, OpenAI claimed that a group of its AI models had broken containment, successfully hacking into the…
We Are Mildly Horrified by This AI Startup That Coerced People Into Getting Tattoos of Its Logo in Exchange for a Job Interview
The US job market is in a weird place right now. Life is clearly rough for the working…
Scientists Forced to Go on OnlyFans After Their Funding Was Cut
When you’re a scientist relying on government funding to conduct your research, and that government suddenly yoinks all…
The More People Learn About AI, the More They Want It Out of Their Lives
For a time, it appeared as if AI would find broad acceptance among the American masses. The peanut…
Columbia Economist Baffled as to Why the Masses Aren’t Rising Up Against Elon Musk
As unpopular as SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become in the popular eye, some say the…
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
When the United States ratified the 13th amendment in 1865, federal lawmakers very nearly outlawed slavery for good…
FTC Concerned About Meta Surveillance of Users of Erectile Dysfunction Apps
If you’re among the 2.6 million active users of the popular telehealth apps Hims and Hers to obtain…
Major Publisher Cans $2.4 Million Book Deal After Author Was Accused of Using AI, for a Very Cynical Reason
Book publisher Minotaur, which is owned by leading publishing company Macmillan US, has walked away from a $2.4…
Iran Appears to Be Blasting Amazon Data Centers Off the Map
There’s data center activism, fought with Facebook groups and petitions, and then there’s data center annihilation, fought with…
Kalshi Sued for Running Illegal Gambling Operation
After years of facilitating a surge in gambling addiction by allowing users to make dubious bets on anything…
Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks
Google Earth is the de facto record of our entire planet. But today, the company undermined its own…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly
Despite having almost nothing to show from his enormous spending on AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling…
Amazon Insiders Horrified at “Catastrophically Expensive” Internal AI Usage
Even the gazillion-dollar empire that is Amazon is reeling from the costs of letting its employees run loose…