July 16, 2026 9:02 AM
July 16, 2026
Researchers Invented a Fake Disease to Trick AI and the Funniest Possible Thing Happened
In 2024, a team led by University of Gothenburg medical researcher Almira Osmanovic Thunström invented a fake disease…
Hospital Reuses Syringes, Infects Hundreds of Children With HIV
Nightmarish scenes are playing out in one hospital in Taunsa, a city located in the central Punjab province…
Study Finds AI Use Eats Away at Users’ Confidence in Their Own Brains
Researchers are growing increasingly suspicious that outsourcing intellectual tasks to AI is causing a range of cognitive deficits.…
Democrats Warned Not to Upset Multi-Million Dollar AI Lobbyists, Even Though It’d Be a Slam Dunk With Voters
During the 2024 presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, the Democratic party establishment made the strange…
You Are Not Prepared to Learn the Size of Neanderthal Infants
Neanderthal babies were apparently bigger — and grew faster — than familiar human tykes. At least, El Pais…
City Council Wrecked in Voter Bloodbath After Allowing New Data Center
Small town politicians are learning the hard way that when Americans say no to data centers, they mean…
Mother Reportedly Doesn’t Know Her Son Died Because She’s Been Talking to an AI Version of Him
For years now, a thriving cottage industry in China has been offering families the opportunity to speak to…
Trump Secretly Believes That Diet Coke Kills Cancer Cells Inside the Body
President Donald Trump has an idea about soft drinks that’s pretty fringe even by his own eccentric standards.…
Man at City Council Meeting Makes Devastating Case Against Proposed Local Data Center
The growing anger over the AI industry’s obsession with building massive and resource-intensive data centers across the country…
Millions of Americans Are Talking to AI Instead of Going to the Doctor, and It’s Giving Them Horrendously Flawed Medical Advice
While Google’s AI may no longer recommend eating rocks or confidently telling users to put glue on their…
Robot Dogs Patrolling Precious Crops as Food Crisis Deepens
Robot dogs are increasingly finding real life uses as guardians of sensitive sites like AI data centers, the…
There Are Signs of a Massive AI Backlash
The public outrage over the tech industry’s obsession with AI is starting to boil over — and the…
Scientists Now Studying AI as a Novel Biological Organism
AI models are now everywhere, from hospitals to churches. The astonishing thing is that even AI experts still…
If You Use AI Chatbots to Follow the News, You’re Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain
As corporate consolidation and ideological capture continue to wreak havoc on journalism across the world, some might be…
Moon Hotel Now Taking Reservations
Do you want to stay at the first ever hotel on the Moon? Well, it’s going to cost…
Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error
A deluge of research has painted a picture of our world being drowned in tiny, inescapable microplastics. Our…
Government Paid “Eight Figures” for Mysterious Device Believed to Cause Havana Syndrome
It’s no secret that the US military budget is the largest in the world, and indeed one of…
Robots Have a Small Problem: They Completely Suck
Tech leaders are predicting an imminent revolution in the field of robotics, promising a future in which humanoid…
Matthew McConaughey Is Using a Clever Legal Trick to Bludgeon AI Companies
For years now, actors have rung the alarm bells over the AI industry planning to sell their likeness…
Microsoft Shuts Down Library, Replaces It With AI
Does Microsoft hate books more, or its own workers? It’s hard to say, because The Verge reports that…
AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown
AI data centers on the East Coast are gobbling up so much juice that nonprofit grid operator PJM…
Doctor Says Trump Appears to Be Showing Signs of a Stroke
When Donald Trump won his second term in the White House, he was the oldest man in the…
Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth
The use of generative AI for creative purposes has spawned a major countermovement. From game developers reeling from…
Network of Home Computers Detected 100 Potential Alien Signals
For over two decades, millions of people volunteered the computational capacity of their computers to help UC Berkeley…