August 26, 2026 8:46 AM
August 26, 2026
If You Used Insider Knowledge to Score Big on Polymarket, You May Now Be in Huge Trouble
The spoilsports at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission no longer want you profiting off of geopolitical turmoil…
Investors Flocking to Super-Anonymous Cryptocurrency Used for the Sketchiest Stuff Imaginable
When Bitcoin first launched in 2009, it promised its users a decentralized digital currency that would be free…
Robophobic Airline Bans Humanoid Robots From Flights After Disruption
Southwest Airlines appears to have become the first airline to enshrine a no-robots policy into their rulebook, after…
Swarm of Empty Waymos Descends on Unsuspecting Suburb, Circle Cul-de-Sacs for Hours on End Like Strange Ghosts
Nearly a year after Waymos touched down in Atlanta for the first time, residents of the community of…
Mayor Eats His Words After Admitting He’s Delegating Work to 11 AI Agents
Employees haven’t been shy about pushing back against AI in the workplace. In a clear disconnect, bosses are…
Oops: Bosses Realize Their Companies Have Been Swarmed by Legions of Redundant AI Agents
Woe is the c-suite. After heedlessly embracing AI tech at the expense of their workers, some bosses are…
The Latest Data on El Niño Is a Looming Nightmare
Unprecedented extreme weather is no longer once-in-a-lifetime. We live in an era when seasonal hurricanes have the potential…
College Kid Shuts Down High Speed Trains With a Laptop and a Radio
In Taiwan, a 23-year-old college student is in hot water after hacking the country’s high speed rail system…
Amazon Employees Forced to Hit Quotas on AI Use, Immediately Start Using it for Everything Except Work
On the surface, companies across nearly every industry seem to be gobbling up AI contracts. Yet under the…
Dentists Are Using AI to Scare Patients Into Unnecessary Dental Work, According to an Explosive Investigation
Is your dentist upselling you on something? Does your old filling really need to be replaced, and is…
Scientists Detect Weird Anomalies in Clouds of Venus
Mysteries abound on our planetary neighbor Venus, not least of all because it’s permanently shrouded in a thick…
NASA Satellite Images Show Huge Colored Plumes Staining the Ocean
NASA satellites are tracking an intriguing patch of colored plumes in the waters off the US’s Mid-Atlantic coast.…
Mamdani Forces Delivery Apps to Pay Back $4.6 Million Cheated From Drivers
New York City’s mayor isn’t even a month into his term, and he’s already delivering a crushing blow…
New Study Examines How Often AI Psychosis Actually Happens, and the Results Are Not Good
We’ve seen plenty of evidence suggesting that prolonged use of popular AI chatbots like ChatGPT can coax some…
Lab Grown Meat Is Failing For One Key Reason, Analyst Claims
For years, the cultivated meat industry has struggled to emerge as a practical alternative to the brutal factory…
Cybertruck Attempts to Fling Baby Onto Highway
A couple says their Tesla Cybertruck nearly dumped their baby onto the side of the highway after its…
Galactic Monsters Grew in Cocoons Like Giant Bugs, Scientists Say
How the most massive objects in the universe first formed is one of the biggest headscratchers in astrophysics.…
This Photo of Mars at Night Is Straight Up Haunting
The length of a night on Mars isn’t too different from here on Earth, lasting just over 12…
Experts Growing Worried About World in Which AI Takes Your Job and You Have No Way to Provide for Yourself
In a massive 20,000-word screed, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that AI will act as a “general labor…
Evidence Grows That AI Chatbots Are Dunning-Kruger Machines
If using an AI chatbot makes you feel smart, we have some bad news. New research flagged by…
Tech CEOs Say AI Is Ushering in an Age of Abundance, But Instead the Evidence Shows That It’s Pushing Down Wages
Billionaire tech CEOs have often insisted that AI is ushering in an era of plenty, in which automation…
Former NASA Employee Issues Desperate Plea to Head of Agency
Last year, the Trump administration declared war on climate science. In the first two weeks of Trump’s second…
Major AI Companies Aren’t Even Pretending to Make Money
In a way, Silicon Valley has always asked investors to suspend disbelief to fund pie-in-the-sky projects, but the…
Chinese Adults Taking Strange AI Devices to Bed With Them
China is a country defined by major contradictions. The nation is governed by a communist party that has…