July 15, 2026 7:36 PM
July 15, 2026
Man Lights 1.2 Million Square Foot Warehouse on Fire for Not Paying Him Enough
Many workers’ pay is effectively frozen in an unforgiving labor market that hasn’t seen any meaningful increases in…
NASA Scientists Screamed With Delight When They Saw Something Smashing Into the Moon
As NASA’s Artemis 2 crew careened around the far side of the Moon earlier this week — breaking…
Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets
Google News has started showing Polymarket bets alongside actual news articles, often appearing as large blocks that contain…
The New York Times Says It’s Identified the Creator of Bitcoin
What is the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin? Is it actually a brainy…
We Talked to a Writer Accused of Publishing An AI-Generated Essay in The New York Times
Was AI used to produce a personal essay that wound up in the pages of the New York…
Naked Man Bursts Into Tesla Service Center With a Shotgun
It was bound to happen sooner or later. On Monday this week, a man holding only a shotgun…
Student Dies When Hospital Has No ICU Doctors, Calls One on Videochat Who Pronounces Him Dead Remotely, Lawsuit Claims
The parents of a 26-year-old dental student named Conor Hylton are suing a Connecticut hospital after their son…
Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be virtually unprecedented in human history. A…
Moon Astronaut Captures Shot of Earth That Lets You See Its Razor-Thin Atmosphere Perfectly
On December 7, 1972, NASA astronaut and Apollo 17 crew member Harrison Schmitt took a stunning photo of…
Microsoft Mocked for Terms of Service That Admit Copilot Is for “Entertainment Purposes Only”
Users of Microsoft’s Windows have grown frustrated with the company’s insistence on stuffing its Copilot AI chatbot into…
Anthropic Warns That “Reckless” Claude Mythos Escaped a Sandbox Environment During Testing
In a move that could be seen as either responsible AI development or an expertly-executed hype maneuver, Anthropic…
Iran Demanding Huge Bitcoin Payments to Pass Through Strait of Hormuz
Late Tuesday evening, US president Donald Trump said the US had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran…
Activists Downloaded Pretty Much All of Spotify
Hacktivists with the group Anna’s Archive — a search engine for shadow libraries, which are unauthorized collections of…
Gen Z Terrified of Losing Their Humanity to AI
As generative AI seeps into virtually every aspect of our daily lives through jobs, entertainment, and even food,…
Elon Musk’s Starship Explosion Endangered Hundreds of Airline Passengers
On January 16, SpaceX conceded that the latest prototype of its enormous Starship spacecraft had “experienced a rapid…
Man Describes How ChatGPT Led Him Straight Into Psychosis
32-year-old Anthony Duncan first used ChatGPT to help with the business side of his career as a content…
Top Software Engineering Students Can’t Get a Job Because of AI
Graduates at some of the top universities are finding it nearly impossible to find new jobs in software…
Korea Tests Ultra-Rugged Robot to Explore the Moon’s Mysterious Caves
If humans finally colonize the Moon, lunar caves formed from primeval volcanic activity could provide shelter from cosmic…
Zuckerberg Already Blowing Up Relationship With New Head of AI He Paid Ten Zillion Dollars to Hire
This summer, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg moved heaven and earth to recharge his company’s lagging AI division, spending…
We Could Hitch a Ride to Unknown Frontiers on Super-Fast Interstellar Objects Like 3I/ATLAS
Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on December 19, coming within just 167 million…
Waymos Cause Traffic Jams Across City During Power Outage
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stay these robotaxis of their appointed trips…
Sam Altman Unhappy With Fate He’s Created for Himself
Several major companies — including Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Sam Altman’s OpenAI, and competitor Anthropic — are eyeing enormous…
Astronauts Suit Up for Their Journey to the Moon
If all goes according to plan, four astronauts are set to become the first humans to travel past…
Murder of MIT Fusion Scientist Getting More and More Bizarre
Last week, lauded theoretical physicist and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Nuno Loureiro was…