July 15, 2026 6:33 PM
July 15, 2026
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…
The Moon Spacecraft’s $30 Million Toilet Has Been a Bit of a Disaster
As we continue to feast on breathtaking images of the Moon’s far side taken by the crew of…
ChatGPT Is Sending People Into Obsessive Spirals of Hypochondria
Bad things happen when an AI chatbot latches onto one of your neuroses. The infamously sycophantic machines are…
Sam Altman’s Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and the public face of ChatGPT, has carved out an image for himself as…
We’re In Utter Disbelief About the Photos the Moon Astronauts Just Sent Back
On Monday, the four crew members of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission made history, officially breaking the record for…
College Students Losing Ability to Participate in Class Discussions Because They Offloaded Their Thinking to AI
It’s well known that students from grade schools to the big universities are increasingly outsourcing their thinking to…
JP Morgan Concerned Tesla Stock Will Crash by 60 Percent in Face of Ongoing Business Failures
Tesla’s first quarter results this year left plenty to be desired. The embattled EV maker’s sales fell short…
Photos Are Being Deleted From the Epstein Files
Even before the Department of Justice’s release of a major collection of files pertaining to late billionaire sex…
Home Depot Deploys Havana-Style Sonic Weapon Against Day Laborers
While federal agents working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are running…
James Webb Discovers Planet Shaped Like Lemon
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an astonishing exoplanet that’s stretching our understanding of what’s…
White House Confused by How Random YouTuber’s Stream Became Featured on Its Website
The executive branch has been infiltrated by an unexpected entity: a random livestreamer. On Friday, the White House…
Twitter User Uncovers Secret Link to Bizarre CDC Text File
It’s not quite a CIA black site, but a link to an old Centers for Disease Control and…
Police Warn of Robot Crime Wave
The use of autonomous drones on the battlefield has already raised plenty of murky ethical questions. Many experts…
Rats Successfully Trained to Shoot Demons in “Doom”
In 2020, Hungarian software engineer and neuroscientist Viktor Tóth came up with a fascinating experiment. With the use…
YouTube Now Shutting Down Channels Posting AI Slop
YouTube’s janitors are swooping in to mop up the slop. As reported by Deadline, the Google-owned video platform…
Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
In 2025, there seem to be as many narratives about AI as there are startups peddling the stuff.…
Elon Says His New Rocket Is as Important as the Origin of Life Itself
Multibillionaire Elon Musk has never exactly been humble about his corporate empire, but his latest comments are genuinely…
SpaceX Is Buying Up an Unfathomable Number of Cybertrucks
Now that EV tax incentives have gone up in smoke, Tesla is expected to disappoint once again with…
Rivers Turn Bright Orange in Alaska
Some of Alaska’s scenic rivers and streams look downright apocalyptic this year because they turned a flagrant orange…