August 26, 2026 7:07 AM
August 26, 2026
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.…
Doctors’ AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments With Patients
If you’ve been to a medical appointment in the past two or three years, chances are high that…
Men Haven’t Yet Noticed That a Large Number of Women Are Disgusted by AI
If you’ve been on TikTok lately, you might have come across a viral meme showing yet another dark…
Scientists Say Test Subjects Were Able to Quit Smoking After They Blasted Their Brains With a Huge Magnet
If you’ve ever tried to quit cigarettes, you know that nicotine addiction is ridiculously difficult to beat. A…
Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Serum That Activates a Dormant Ability to Regrow Lost Limbs in Mammals
For millennia — since at least the time of Aristotle — medical thinkers have pondered why certain animals…
Elon Musk Absolutely Obsessed With Tweets From Random Guy In India Who Constantly Glazes Him, Analysis Shows
It looks like Elon Musk has an even bigger sycophant than his AI model Grok. According to a…
Meta Employee Attacks Zuckerberg for Collecting Every Employee Keystroke
Mark Zuckerberg’s new initiative to track employee computer use is tearing the company apart. In a sign that…
Devious Prankster Posts Real Monet Painting, Tells People It’s AI-Generated, and Watches the Chaos Unfold
A poster wrought some moderate havoc this week when they shared a cropped image of a real Monet…
Crabby 82-Year-Old Politician Attacks 10-Year-Old Child for Thinking Electric Cars Are Cool
North Carolinian congresswoman Virginia Foxx has never shied away from regressive takes. Over her many decades in politics,…
AI Appears to Be Trapping Certain Job Applicants in a Limbo Where They Never Get an Interview for “Reasons” That Are Completely Unfair
For workers already enmeshed in the US workforce, AI is akin to a far-off asteroid, a looming threat…
Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes
You’d hope that the world’s brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the nature of our…
Intriguing New Machine Turns Air Into Gasoline You Can Put Straight Into Your Car
For many years, engineers have suggested sucking up the excess carbon dioxide in our planet’s atmosphere to battle…
It’s Starting to Look Like AI Has Killed the Entire Model of College
Well before “AI” had entered the lexicon of evening newscasters, the university model of higher-education was in trouble.…
Scientists Testing Controversial Human Rejuvenation Compound Called ER-100
During the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Elon Musk called human aging a “very solvable” problem.…
The United States Is Suffering Stomach-Churning Brain Drain
As Donald Trump has taken an axe to US federal spending, thousands of highly educated experts in scientific…
Experts Say Bitcoin’s Crash Is Only Getting Started
Cryptocurrency markets plunged this week — to the dismay of crypto bros everywhere — with Bitcoin reaching two-month…
Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Asking to Visit His Notorious Island
Somehow, Elon Musk’s infamous outburst accusing Donald Trump of being in the Epstein files has managed to age…
Mystery Man Dressed as FBI Agent Tries to Break Luigi Mangione Out of Jail
A mysterious man, dressed as an FBI agent, showed up to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in…
Amid Lawsuits, OpenAI Says It Will Retire “Reckless” Model Linked to Deaths
OpenAI announced on Thursday that it would retire GPT-4o — an especially warm, sycophantic version of the chatbot at…
Darren Aronofsky’s AI-Generated Show Contains Garbled Neural Gore, Even Just in the Teaser Trailer
The use of generative AI in creative fields has turned into a flame war — a nightmare of…
OpenAI Representatives Are Going to Critics’ Houses With Threats and Demands
A man who works at an AI watchdog group was alarmed when OpenAI suddenly showed up at his…
Microsoft Stock Takes Most Massive Single-Day Loss Since Pandemic as Its AI Efforts Flail
Microsoft is taking a pounding in the stock market. On Thursday, the Redmont giant’s share price collapsed by…
Crypto Bros in Meltdown as Bitcoin Crashes
The crypto market has not had a cozy winter. After Bitcoin suffered some epic tumbles in November, the…