August 29, 2026 10:16 PM
August 29, 2026
Deodorant Strictly Forbidden at Intel’s AI Chip Facility
The inside of a facility where AI chips are made is extraordinarily sensitive. Fabrication plants are filled with…
Innocent Man Freed After Spending Over 50 Days in Jail Due to Horribly Inaccurate AI Facial Recognition Tech
Department of Injustice Jalil Richardson of North Carolina is free after spending over 50 days in jail after…
California Primed for Apocalyptic Earthquake, Geological Research Finds
No Fault of Our Own Southern California is home to two major fault lines, the San Andreas and…
Scientists Have Detected Something Deeply Alarming at the Bottom of the Ocean
Mysteries of the Deep Something is stirring in the waters off the coast of Greenland, and it isn’t…
College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read
Generation Brain Rot Here’s the latest harrowing dispatch from the frontlines of education, as yet another higher education…
NASA’s Next Moon Mission Is a Rube Goldberg Machine of Corporate Failure Points
NASA announced the crew of four astronauts for its upcoming Artemis 3 mission during a Tuesday announcement, an…
Sam Altman’s Eyeball Scanning Company Now Laying Off Workers
Look, nobody roots for workers to lose their jobs. But some companies are built on such a ridiculous…
Investigators Questioning Bill Gates Over Ties to Jeffrey Epstein
During a Gates Foundation town hall in February, Microsoft founder Bill Gates apologized for having had extensive contact…
ChatGPT Caught Recommending “Products” That Are Just Scams That Steal Your Credit Card Info
ChatGPT is getting duped by fraudulent storefronts run by scammers — which means you might be getting duped,…
Local Brand Realizes Customers Hate Its AI Ads, Switches to Charming Homemade Ones Instead
In late 2024, the Coca-Cola Company released an unsettling, AI-generated remake of its beloved 1995 “Holidays Are Coming”…
Disaster Strikes When Meme Coin Pays Man to Tattoo Its Name on His Forehead, But They Misspelled It
Earlier this month, crypto marketplace Pump.fun launched an extremely dubious new bounty marketplace that feels like it was…
McDonald’s Deploying AI-Powered Drive-Thru System for Ordering Its Nauseating Foodslop
Coming (back) to a McDonald’s near you: AI-powered drive-thru lanes. That’s right. Those feeling déjà vu aren’t mistaken:…
Quadcopter Drone Caught Trying to Deliver Hunting Knives to Inmates in Prison
Last weekend, a neon-green quadcopter drone released a mysterious package into a New York state prison, which was…
Scientists Startled by What Happens When They Point Hubble at Comet
Lady Fortune was on astronomers’ side when they pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a comet drifting through…
Birds Are Getting Hooked on Cigarettes
Nicotine, the highly addictive chemical compound in cigarettes, is having a bit of a resurgence as of late…
Engineer Says It’s Time to Rebuild the Twin Towers as Giant Data Centers With Anti-Aircraft Lasers on the Roof
After their grisly destruction in a terror attack in 2001 — and the chaotic and deadly wars that…
Scientists Recruit Undergrad to Step Into Room Filled With Ravenous Mosquitoes for “Full-Body Massacre”
Some dedicate their lives to science. Others, like Georgia Tech student Chris Zuo, give their bodies. A bizarre…
Gen Z Is Using AI to Have Difficult Relationship Conversations, and the Results Are Massively Cringe
Researchers, teachers, and mental health professionals alike have spent the past few years reeling as teens and young…
Restaurant Re-Deploys Robot After Dishware-Smashing Freakout
Most restaurant workers would probably get fired on the spot if they freaked out in front of customers…
Therapists Go on Strike, Saying They’re Being Replaced by AI
There plenty of personal reasons not to use AI chatbots as therapists. They’re sycophantic, make for ineffective shrinks,…
Atlassian in Trouble for Firing Employee Who Mouthed Off to CEO
Fresh off of annihilating a tenth of its workforce, Atlassian is being accused of illegally firing an employee,…
Staff at New Data Center Powered by Human Brain Cells Need to Swap Out Cerebrospinal Fluid Every Day
A grisly detail about a new data center powered by human neurons: technicians have to constantly replenish the…
Large Hadron Collider Discovers All-New Particle
In particle physics, atoms are the building blocks of matter in the universe, each consisting of a nucleus,…
CEO Says He’ll Hire Anyone Who Can Vibe Code With AI, Regardless of Actual Skill
Steven Bartlett, the host of the podcast “The Diary of a CEO,” apparently takes a vibes-based approach to…