July 16, 2026 5:33 PM
July 16, 2026
Millionaire Big Game Hunter Trampled to Death by Elephants
While big game hunting for food is an ancient practice, it’s more recently turned into a sport. It’s…
Palantir’s Employees Are in Crisis
The military and intelligence contractor Palantir has been embroiled in nonstop controversy during Trump’s second term. It’s been…
Tech Companies Are Using Insidious Tactics to Build Data Centers on Indigenous Lands, Activists Say
Last month, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction…
Norway Approves Autonomous Buses for Public Roads
After a ten-year period of trial and error, officials approved fully autonomous buses for operation in Norway, where…
The Horrible Economics of AI Are Starting to Come Crashing Down
An eyebrow-raising trend has emerged this year: tech leaders rating their employees’ productivity based on the number of…
Google Exec Says Your Favorite Video Games Are Secretly Made With AI
That new, unapologetically derivative open world game or umpteenth shooter sequel you’re currently addicted to? It was almost…
Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What That Golden Orb Found at the Bottom of the Pacific Ocean Actually Was
After spending two and half years pondering a “golden orb” found at the bottom of the ocean, scientists…
Trump’s Huge AI Data Center Project Is Falling Apart Behind the Scenes
Donald Trump’s bid to cash in on the AI data center boom seems to have sprung a leak…
You’ll Spill Your Juice When You Learn How Many of Florida’s Orange Trees This Incurable Bacteria Has Already Infected
Whether you take it with pulp or without, you may soon be lucky just to get some OJ…
Elon Musk Admits He Lied to Tesla Customers’ Faces for Years About Self-Driving
After over a decade of promising that fully autonomous driving is right around the corner, Tesla CEO Elon…
FBI Investigating Series of Deaths Among Top Scientists With Very Specific Specialties
On February 27, retired Air Force Research Laboratory commander William Neil McCasland, who once worked at the Wright-Patterson…
SpaceX’s IPO Plan Will Give Elon Musk Ironclad Rule Over the Resulting Empire
When SpaceX makes it debut on the stock exchange later this year, experts expect it to be the…
Doctor Says What Border Patrol Agents Did After Shooting Alex Pretti Was Sickening
A doctor who witnessed the brutal shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents says that the agents…
Tesla Kills Autopilot After Storm of Criticism, Paywalls Basic Features
The concept for Tesla’s driver-assistance system, Autopilot, has been around for well over a decade. Elon Musk’s EV…
Earth’s Lower Orbit Could Rapidly Collapse, Scientists Warn
If you thought humanity already had its hands full with climate change, think again. With satellites and space…
Trump Forgets the Word for “Alzheimer’s” While Insisting His Memory Is Fine
Experts have long questioned president Donald Trump’s claims of having a clean bill of health. He has been…
Scientists Investigating 2,000-Year-Old Artifact That Appears to Be a Battery
A 2,000 year old battery, or just a very interesting pot? This is the debate that’s been swirling…
Entire City Buried by Epic Snow
As much of North America is still recovering from a devastating winter storm over the weekend, other parts…
AI Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find
Generative AI relies on a massive body of training material, primarily made up of human-authored content haphazardly scraped…
Meta Just Quietly Admitted a Major Defeat on AI
Meta says it’s cutting off teenagers’ access to its AI characters — at least until it can build…
AI Agents Are Mathematically Incapable of Doing Functional Work, Paper Finds
A months-old but until now overlooked study recently featured in Wired claims to mathematically prove that large language…
Scientists Say Go Ahead, Keep Gooning
Adult content has never been as accessible as it is now, thanks to the internet. Hell, online smut…
Job Seekers Sue Company Scanning Their Résumés Using AI
Thanks to scores of competing AI systems clogging up online application portals, applying for a new job in…
Scientists Intrigued by Unfamiliar Life Form
It’s a plant! It’s a fungus! It’s… an entirely new type of lifeform hitherto unknown to science? That…