August 29, 2026 11:34 AM
August 29, 2026
Major Teachers Union Pleads With Elementary Schools to Stop Giving Young Kids AI
Angry parents aren’t the only ones railing against the proliferation of AI in schools. The American Federation of…
Behold! Duke Scientists Build Biblically Accurate Angel Robot
Be not afraid, human. A new robot developed at Duke University isn’t intended to strike fear into the…
Scientists Spot What Appears to Be a Ring-Shaped “Planet Factory” Deep Out in Space
Astronomers have spotted a “planet factory” in space that could explain the origins of bizarre meteorites scattered across…
Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI
When it comes to AI’s place in the classroom — and its role in education broadly — some…
AI Company Paying Random People $2,000 Per Month to Crank the Hog
AI companies have long relied on armies of data labelers, whose job it is to annotate, tag and…
Random Standard Wi-Fi Routers Can Scan Your Body to Identify Exactly Who You Are, Alarming New Research Finds
If you were paranoid about digital tracking before, you might want to think twice about reading any further.…
Woman Alarmed When Her Trusted Therapist Starts Recording Her With AI
Therapy is predicated on trust. You can’t be honest and vulnerable, and share how you’re really feeling, if…
Websites Are Spying on Your Solid State Drive
These days, it’s nearly impossible to traverse the web without leaving some trace of your activity. That’s thanks…
Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board
We’ve seen Waymo’s fleet of autonomous taxis cause plenty of mayhem on public streets. They like to ignore…
AI Filmmaker Compares His Tech to Something That Gets Worse the More You Think About It
Jorge R. Gutierrez, the animator behind the beloved animated film “The Book of Life,” is enraging his fans…
Why Is Sam Altman Teaming Up With Jared Leto, a Creep With Extensive Sex Abuse Allegations?
Last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s unsettling blockchain-based side gig seemingly got its Mars all confused. Let’s back…
Tech CEOs Have a Problem: Even Their Closest Allies Now See AI as a Sign of Laziness and Dishonesty
Tech founders and CEOs are all rapidly adopting AI, deploying it across their companies and personally using it…
Astronomer Who Discovered Water on Distant Planet Murdered Outside Home
A renowned Caltech astronomer who studied distant exoplanets was shot and killed outside his home in a rural…
Something Very Alarming Happens When You Give AI the Nuclear Codes
In 2024, Stanford researchers let loose five AI models — including an unmodified version of OpenAI’s GPT-4, its…
Intriguing New Smartphone Design Features a Small Robot Arm
The form factor of smartphones hasn’t changed all too much since the original iPhone debuted back in 2007.…
The Average American Would Pay $49 Per Month to Drink Recycled Toilet Water, Study Finds
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Similarly, the water in your toilet bowl could be another person’s…
Kalshi Says It’s Busted a MrBeast Staffer for Insider Trading
There are plenty of reasons to suspect that insider trading could be rampant on prediction platforms Kalshi and…
If AI Causes an Office Job Wipeout, It’ll Cause Huge Problems for Blue Collar Work Too
Blue collar workers may be enjoying a certain degree of schadenfreude at seeing the panic over tech, finance,…
New App Detects the Radio Fingerprint of Smart Glasses and Warns You When Someone Is Using Them Nearby
Meta Wayfarer G2s. TCL Nxtwear Gs. RayNeo Air 3s. With so many smart glasses flooding the marketplace, it…
Meta’s Head of AI Safety Just Made a Mistake That May Cause You a Certain Amount of Alarm
OpenClaw, an open source AI agent that supposedly “actually does things,” has driven everyone in the industry completely…
Google Apologizes for Sending the Worst Push Notification You Can Possibly Imagine
Disaster tends to strike when you let automated systems distribute news, especially on sensitive topics. The latest case…
Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much
These days, it’s not enough to sit and watch as AI destroys a generation of students, makes it…
Discord’s Verification Saga Has Devolved Into a Complete Self-Inflicted Embarrassment
Messaging platform Discord’s efforts to roll out age verification software have been nothing short of a disaster. Back…
The Winklevoss Twins’ Crypto Company Is in Crisis After the Bitcoin Crash
America’s favorite twins are struggling these days, as Bitcoin’s crash continues to hammer their decade-old crypto exchange, Gemini…