August 25, 2026 1:52 PM
August 25, 2026
Kentucky Middle School Sends Students Home on First Day of Class With AI-Generated Educational Materials Full of Inexcusable Hallucinations, Including a Map Labeled With “North Dahota” and “Olkchoma”
Kentucky parents are outraged after discovering that horribly inaccurate educational materials handed out to their middle school students…
Americans Are Tossing Salad in Unprecedented Numbers
Over the weekend, senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) excoriated health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr in a letter over his…
New ChatGPT Feature Collects Every Keystroke You Make
OpenAI has revealed a new feature for ChatGPT’s desktop app on macOS that basically tracks your clicks, keystrokes,…
The Economy Has Spoken: Stuff That’s AI-Generated Has Almost Zero Value
Online marketplaces are being flooded with AI slop — but is anybody willing to actually pay for it?…
There’s Pretty Much No Good Way to Fight an Electric Vehicle Fire, New Study Finds
Electric vehicles offer plenty of benefits. There’s the instant torque, savings on fuel — and, of course, they’re…
Experts Warn That AI Slop Is Corrupting Kids’ Brains
What do you get when you let an endless feed of AI fruitslop videos loose on screen-addicted kids?…
Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It’s Almost Hard to Believe
A decade ago, young adults were flocking to vaunted tech giants like Google and Apple in pursuit of…
Facebook Is Drowning In Islamophobic AI Slop Calling for Violence Against Muslim Americans
When far-right white nationalist Jake Lang rolled up to a peaceful religious procession in Dearborn, Michigan earlier this…
The Subreddit for “Regretful Parents” Just Might Be the Darkest Place Online
A macabre community is thriving on Reddit, united by one core feeling: massive regret over having brought children…
Cursed Startup Now Offering Buy-Now-Pay-Later Radiation Exposure Kits in Case of Nuclear Armageddon
Nuclear holocaust isn’t a scenario to be taken lightly. In the unlikely event that nuclear war ever breaks…
Dario Amodei’s Wife Is Closely Linked to Jeffrey Epstein
There are alarmingly few degrees of separation between moral paragon of the AI industry Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei…
Publisher of Axios Boasts That He Uses AI to “Read” Everything For Him Now, Instead of Using His Brain
All is not well in the fourth estate. On Tuesday, the publisher of Axios hit “post” on an…
The Real Victims of the AI Surveillance Panopticon? Crime Fiction Writers
AI-powered Flock cameras are blanketing the country. Data brokers are selling veritable dossiers worth of information on everyone…
Tesla Explosion Sends Injured Firefighters to the Hospital
Two firefighters were rushed to the hospital on Wednesday, after a Tesla parked in a family garage exploded.…
Labor Union Sues Over Self-Driving Trucks
Self-driving trucks could be hauling cargo across highways in the near future. But not without the Teamsters having…
Reading the Room Perfectly, Donald Trump Becomes Greatest Defender of Data Centers
It’s no secret that data centers have become a massive sore point for a vast swathe of the…
Time Magazine Now Running Ads Meant Specifically to Influence AI Agents
If you feel like the internet is turning into a place for bots — not to mention by…
Robot Dogs Suddenly Taking Jobs From Human Security Guards
They’re agile, they’re creepy, and they may be coming for human jobs. Robot dogs affixed with AI-integrated cameras…
Reddit Finally Found a Way to Make Its Mods Even Worse: Replace Them With AI
Reddit has long heavily relied on moderators, a team of volunteers working without pay to keep Reddit communities…
AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build
The amount of pollution spilling out of fossil-fuel generators is astounding. In the United States, this explosion of…
Texas Avoids Blackout by the Grace of Solar Power
When Texas’s privately-run electrical grid collapsed amid a battery of winter storms in February of 2021, it plunged…
Scientist Reveals Plan to Save Earth From Destruction by the Sun
In something like five billion years from now, our Sun is expected to run out of hydrogen fuel,…
VC-Funded Startups Linked to Persistent Fraud
It turns out the venture capital industry doesn’t just merely fund junky AI startups — it also systematically…
Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
Meta was paying out-and-out neo-Nazis to post on Facebook, an investigation from Australia’s ABC News found. These pages…