July 16, 2026 7:34 AM
July 16, 2026
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…
A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale
On Tuesday evening, we published an original interview with a researcher who had recently coauthored an intriguing study…
Pentagon Disturbed as Its Fleet of Drones Is Left Bobbing in the Ocean When Elon Musk’s Starlink Fails
Two dozen unmanned surface vessels — autonomous boat drones, basically — were left floating in the Pacific ocean…
Clavicular Says He’s Quitting Drugs, Meaning He Can’t IRL Stream Anymore Because He’s Unable to Mog Sober
Braden “Clavicular” Peters was rushed to the hospital earlier this week after suffering a suspected drug overdose. A…
Fury Erupts as Val Kilmer’s Estate Announces Starring Role in AI Film Made From Beyond the Grave
Hollywood actors have been ringing the alarm bells over an industry that’s seemingly hellbent on replacing them with…
Allbirds Stock Now Crashing as Reality Sets in About Its Delusional AI Pivot
Tech bro sneaker company Allbirds made a huge splash yesterday when it announced a baffling pivot to AI…
NAACP Sues Elon Over His Noxious AI Data Center
Elon Musk may have yet another day in court, at least if the NAACP has anything to say…
More Than Half of Men Aged 18 to 49 Have Already Fallen Into Online Sports Betting
Sports betting has seen a massive surge in popularity since a 2018 Supreme Court decision struck down a…
Top Security Experts Alarmed by Power of Anthropic’s New Hacker AI
In November, Anthropic revealed that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group had exploited its Claude AI’s agentic capabilities to…
Teens Alarmed at What AI Is Doing to Their Minds
There’s a strange dynamic emerging around artificial intelligence. Research has shown that young people — who are typically…
Video Shows Amazon Delivery Drone Dropping Package Directly Onto Concrete, Smashing Its Delicate Contents
Over the past few months, Amazon has been rapidly deploying its Prime delivery drones to cities across the…
What It Really Means That a Failing Shoe Brand “Pivoted to AI” and Its Stock Soared 700 Percent
As it turns out, all it takes to turn a cash-bleeding company into the New York Stock Exchange’s…
New Law Would Let Grok Victims Sue Creeps Who Generated Nonconsensual Nudes
On Tuesday, the US senate passed a new law that would allow victims to sue individuals who use…
Google Now Stuffing Ads Into Its AI Products
In 2026, Google’s AI is embracing that oldest and noblest of internet traditions: sponsored content. Over the weekend,…
Music Fans Explode With Joy as Bandcamp Bans AI Music
Bandcamp, a major music distribution platform favored by indie artists, announced Tuesday that it would be “putting human…
ICE Reportedly Stole a 10th Grader’s Phone, Then Seemingly Sold It for Cash
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents reportedly stole a teenage boy’s phone — and then seemingly pawned it…
Grok Is Getting Access to Classified Military Networks
Back in December, Elon Musk’s pet chatbot Grok made headlines for casually distributing the private addresses and phone…
AI Has Basically Killed Stack Overflow
Since 2008, Stack Overflow has been an immensely helpful resource for developers, allowing them to crowdsource answers to…
Financial Expert Says OpenAI Is on the Verge of Running Out of Money
The AI industry continues to pour tens of billions of dollars into resource-intensive models and the infrastructure to…
Video Shows Passenger Bail From Waymo in Path of Oncoming Train
A passenger bailed from his Waymo robotaxi as the vehicle drove dangerously close to an oncoming railcar. Viral…
Opposition to Elon Musk’s AI Stripping Clothing Off Children Is Nearly Universal, Polling Shows
Color us shocked: pretty much everyone hates that Elon Musk’s Grok has been digitally undressing photos of adults…
Indie Developer Deleting Entire Game From Steam Due to Shame From Having Used AI
An indie game developer experienced a moment of profound moral clarity, and is now deleting his partially-AI-made game…
Tech Billionaires Have No Answer for What’ll Happen If AI Takes All Jobs
At this point, tech corporations have made it no secret that their end goal is to replace all…
NASA Has Some Very Bad News About Its Mars Spacecraft
On December 6, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, which has been studying the Red Planet’s…