March 15, 2026 2:14 PM
March 15, 2026
Harvard Professor Says AI Users Are Losing Cognitive Abilities
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is perhaps best known for raising eyebrows with public suggestions that various stellar phenomena…
Sam Altman Admits He’s Made a Huge Mistake
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went into full damage control mode over the weekend. A day before the United…
Waymo Says It Has Nothing to Say After Its Self-Driving Taxi Blocked an Ambulance Responding to a Mass Shooting
A Waymo robotaxi blocked an ambulance from responding to the scene of a mass shooting in Austin, Texas,…
Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
The Condé Nast-owned Ars Technica has terminated senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following a controversy over his role…
Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses
Meta’s Ray Ban AI glasses have shot up in popularity in recent years, selling over seven million pairs…
AI Tools Are Supercharging Hackers
It’s no secret that AI models have come a long way, from tools that can complete high school…
Sam Altman in Damage Control Mode as ChatGPT Users Are Mass Cancelling Subscriptions Because OpenAI Is “Training a War Machine”
OpenAI just handed one of its biggest rivals a massive PR victory, in a blunder that even CEO…
US Military Using Claude to Select Targets in Iran Strikes
The ongoing attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched by a joint coalition of US and Israeli…
White House Responds as Scabby Mark Appears on Trump’s Neck
After kicking off major strikes in Iran on Saturday, president Donald Trump wasn’t in a hurry to return…
Microsoft Bans the Word “Microslop” on Copilot Discord, Gets So Humiliated That It Locks Down the Whole Server
Last year, the editors of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary anointed their word of the year as “slop,” a term denoting…
Anonymous Polymarket Accounts Won $1.2 Million on Trump’s Iran Strikes in Suspicious Bets
It’s been less than eight weeks since an anonymous account on Polymarket netted over $400,000 after successfully predicting…
James Webb Takes Long, Hard Look Inside Uranus
Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, has only been visited once by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, which…
Here’s How Many Remote Operators Waymo Has Per Self-Driving Taxi
Autonomous ride-hailing services companies have built their image on the concept that their vehicles fully drive themselves. The…
Japan Opens School Staffed Entirely by Virtual Waifus
Japan’s gakushu juku industry — private, after-hours study schools — has spent decades monetizing the country’s notoriously busted…
AI Is Destroying Grocery Supply Chains
Whole Foods shelves sit empty after a data breach shut down its wholesale distributor. Meat packers working for…
Barrage of Emails From AI Politics Platform Defeats Clean Air Initiative
Late in 2023, the corporate world was abuzz with the utopian promise of AI — especially about the…
Eric Trump Pouring Funding Into “Low Cost-Per-Kill” Drone Corporation
Somewhere in the long tradition of Trump family grifting, there’s a line between “nakedly corrupt” and “genuinely mortifying.”…
Antarctica’s Gravity Hole Growing Stronger, Scientists Find
For decades, scientists have been studying intriguing “gravity holes,” which are enormous depressions in the Earth’s crust where…
Cities Are Shredding Their AI Surveillance Contracts en Masse
Since the start of 2025, at least 30 cities have canceled their contracts with Flock Safety, the AI…
AI “Filmmaker” Gets Funding, Begs For Ideas On What to Actually Make
An AI “filmmaker” was viciously mocked after begging his followers for ideas on what to make. “I will…
Hackers Working on Method to Make Ring Cameras Store Footage Locally, Never Giving It to Amazon
When you buy a Ring camera for your house, you’re also agreeing to let Amazon store everything it…
In Blind Test, Audiophiles Unable to Tell Difference Between Sound Signal Run Through an Expensive Cable and a Banana
High-quality cables have long been marketed as a key way to get the most out of high-end equipment,…
The Economics of 3D Printed Homes Are Surprisingly Horrible
The pitch for 3D-printed housing has always been the same: robots build faster, waste less, need fewer humans…
Scientists Suggest That Igniting Oil Spills to Create Fire Tornadoes Might Actually Be Good for the Oceans
When you think of saving our oceans, what comes to mind? Maybe you think about reef restoration techniques…