July 15, 2026 9:46 PM
July 15, 2026
Trump Hires Orbital Towing Company to Build Space Interceptors
When the goal is to construct a multi-tiered orbital missile-defense platform, there aren’t a lot of contractors to…
Psychologists Found Something Horrible About the Kind of Men Seeking Trad Wives
The tradwife aesthetic, as it’s sold to women, is easy enough to understand. In our world of social…
Man Punished for Breaking Into Moo Deng’s Zoo Enclosure
The maniac who broke into Moo Deng’s crib finally got his due. The BBC reports that a Thai…
To Get Swole, Teens Are Pumping Themselves Full of Drugs Meant for Fattening Cows for the Slaughterhouse
In previous years, looks-conscious teens might have splurged on glamour shots at the mall, or fine-tuned their selfies…
Foolish Pollsters Are Now Just Asking AI What Voters Would Say in Response to Questions and Publishing It at Face Value
Last month, Axios was forced to issue a bizarre correction for a blog post about a growing maternal…
OpenAI Says Not to Worry About UBI, Because It Has Another Idea
As AI companies warn of mass automation and the end of work as we know it, ChatGPT maker…
Police Officer Helplessly Waves Arms at Waymo That Careened Wrong Way Through Whataburger Drive-Thru
Thousands of Waymo self-driving taxis have flooded the street of major urban centers across the country, where critics…
Someone Just Threw a Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s House
San Francisco police say they’ve arrested a suspect who allegedly attacked the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman…
New York Times Makes Substantial Changes to Article That Glazed a Sleazy AI Startup: “Our Piece Should Have Included That Information”
Last week, the New York Times published a laudatory profile of a startup called Medvi, which is basically…
Space Scientists Wince as Astronauts’ Lives Depend on Artemis 2’s Controversial Heat Shield During Plunge Back to Earth
NASA’s Artemis 2 mission has successfully journeyed around the far side of the Moon and is currently making…
The Moon Astronauts Have Been Working Out With a NASA Rowing Machine in Space
NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which is expected to splash down in the Pacific Ocean later today after careening around…
First AI Model From Zuckerberg’s Wildly Expensive Superintelligence Lab Flops Compared to Virtually All Rivals
Late last year, news emerged that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta would be shedding its open source roots to instead…
Ship of Scientists Headed to Doomsday Glacier
A team of scientists are staring climate change in the eye, the New York Times reports, setting sail…
Doctors Say AI Use Is Almost Certainly Linked to Developing Psychosis
There continue to be numerous reports of people suffering severe mental health spirals after talking extensively with an…
It’s Starting to Feel a Lot Like Tesla’s Robotaxi Program Is Mostly Smoke and Mirrors
Elon Musk once promised that pivoting Tesla into the self-driving taxi business would generate the automaker trillions of…
Public Rejoices as Porsche Releases Beautiful Ad Not Made Using AI
This holiday season, German automaker Porsche is winning hearts and minds by putting out a Christmas-themed ad that…
People Jabbing Themselves With Black Market “GLP-3” Drugs
Some people are hitting a weight loss plateau with GLP-1 agonist drugs like Ozempic, so they’re turning to…
Alzheimer’s Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
A team of American scientists claim they have done something miraculous: they “cured” lab mice suffering from Alzheimer’s…
Days After Mass Bricking Event, Waymo Fleet Shuts Down Again
Waymo has hit another bump in the road. Just days after its robotaxi fleet crumbled into complete disarray…
Musician Cancelled as AI Falsely Accuses Him of Horrific Crimes
Who needs vicious music columnists when you live in the age of AI? Apparently not Ashley MacIsaac, a…
Autopilot Autonomously Lands Plane After Cabin Loses Pressure, for the First Time Ever
An autopilot system took over a plane and pulled off an emergency landing completely autonomously. The nail-biting intervention…
Doomsday Glacier Approaching Catastrophic Collapse
The Thwaites Glacier, an enormous shelf of ice in the Antarctic, has been given the ominous nickname of…
After Outcry, Firefox Promises “Kill Switch” That Turns Off All AI Features
The backlash against AI invading almost every aspect of the computing experience is growing by the day. Particularly…
Bonkers New Space Station Expands to Full Size From Single Capsule
The International Space Station was painstakingly assembled segment by segment, launched into orbit by many expensive and logistically…