August 29, 2026 8:55 PM
August 29, 2026
Zoo Officials Horrified by AI Data Center Menacing Their Endangered Animals
AI data center projects have become astonishingly unpopular. Their opposition has garnered strong bipartisan support, quickly turning the…
Meta Furious Over Bombshell Smart Glasses Revelation
Code uncovered by journalists revealed that Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech into its AI-enabled smart glasses —…
The Math on SpaceX’s IPO Is Virtually Impossible
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is slated to go public this week at a market cap of $1.75 trillion, which…
Scientists Detect Massive Structure Under Antarctica
Researchers have uncovered the existence of a monumental geological structure buried two miles beneath the frigid ice of…
US Soccer Scanning Videos of Millions of Youth Players to Identify New Stars
The United States Soccer Federation is hoping to recruit players from across the world by using AI to…
New York City Installing Sensors to Detect Pedestrians, Vehicles, and Pretty Much Everything Else
It may sound like yet another rollout of a dystopian surveillance state network of facial recognition cameras —…
New Study Finds Something Horrible Contaminating Half of California’s Water
There’s something monstrous lurking in the waterways of California, and it isn’t the Sacramento Mothman. According to a…
Suburbanites Freaked Out by Mysterious Drones Leering Into Their Homes at Night
Residents of the mid-sized burb of Norwich, Connecticut are disturbed at what they’ve described as massive drones descending…
Psychiatrists Investigating People Who Get Trapped Inside Vivid Daydreams
There’s nothing inherently wrong with daydreaming. Letting your thoughts wander through imaginary worlds can provide a much-needed distraction…
Astronomers Say Star Self-Destructed So Catastrophically That It Left Behind No Trace of Its Existence
When a star explodes, it typically leaves behind some sort of remnant: an exposed, ultra-dense core, for example,…
Trump Desperately Pumps Money Into Dying Coal Industry
The coal industry has been in decline for decades. But tell that to president Trump, who’s firmly convinced…
Catholic Church Boots Exorcist After He Said UFOs Are Demons
A Catholic priest just fumbled the job of a lifetime. On Wednesday, Monsignor Stephen Rossetti was stripped of…
OpenAI Cofounder Deletes Controversial Analysis of Which Jobs Are Getting Steam Engined by AI
While the ability of AI tools to steam engine entire human occupations remains a subject of heated debate,…
Sam Altman Confronted At Oscars Party Over Pentagon Deal
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman became a guest of dishonor at an after-Oscars bash last Sunday, after being viciously…
Crypto Market Descending Into Chaos
Since October of last year, the global crypto market has lost nearly $2 trillion in value. Much of…
Absurd AI-Powered Lawsuits Are Causing Chaos in Courts, Attorneys Say, “Clogging the System” and Driving Up Costs
It was clear that things had gone off the rails when a run-of-the-mill dispute with a homeowner’s association…
Luxury Cruise Descends Into a Diarrhea Nightmare
Ships have always been a particularly efficient vector for diseases. Plague-infested rats found new homes thanks to merchant…
Trump Threatens to Do Something Horrible in Africa Unless He Gets a Deal on Precious Minerals
Donald Trump has been busy in Africa. Look no further than airstrikes in Nigeria, travel bans on 29…
Crowd’s Reaction to BuzzFeed’s New AI App: Uncomfortable Laughter
BuzzFeed made an unfortunate announcement during its company’s earnings report last week, admitting that “there is substantial doubt…
Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over
Thousands of tech workers are being laid off, from Atlassian slashing 1,600 jobs to Jack Dorsey’s fintech company…
Venture Capitalist Warns That It’s All About to Come Crashing Down
AI companies continue to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into enormous infrastructure projects, fully expecting demand for…
Nvidia Ridiculed for “Sloptracing” Feature That Uses AI to Yassify Video Games in Real Time
Nvidia? The gaming GPU company? On Monday, the multi-trillion dollar AI chipmaker unveiled its latest effort at weaving…
Robot Goes Berserk in California Restaurant, Dragged Away by Staff After Smashing Tableware
Humanoid robots are rapidly gaining hype, from battlefields to the factory floor. But there are clear growing pains…
Panicked OpenAI Execs Cutting Projects as Walls Close In
In 2025 alone, OpenAI released a controversial text-to-video generator, dubbed Sora, and an abysmally slow web browser called…