August 25, 2026 8:21 PM
August 25, 2026
Japan Deploying Combat Drones Made of Cardboard
We’ve heard of DIY drone kits before, but this is ridiculous. Japan’s minister of defense Shinjirō Koizumi recently…
ChatGPT Is Saying VWeird Things in Chinese
If you thought English-language ChatGPT-prose was annoying, just wait until you get a load of its conversational habits…
Oracle Forced to Cancel Incredibly Polluting Natural Gas Plant to Power AI Data Center
The tech industry has done a poor job of hiding the environmental footprint of AI data centers, which…
Researchers Alarmed by AI That Can Self-Replicate Into Another Machine
A new report from Palisade Research has found that AI models can self-replicate by copying themselves onto other…
Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System
For thousands of years, astronomers have watched Halley’s Comet come and go, becoming visible to the naked eye…
The Upcoming El Niño Is About to Unleash Devastation, Experts Warn
Cities running out of water. Heat waves that kill you if you stand outside for a few minutes…
Man Wearing Smart Glasses Secretly Records Woman, Demands Money to Delete Video From His Socials
A man secretly filmed a woman with smart glasses, before demanding money to take down the video he…
A Major Paper Claiming AI Is Good for Students Just Got Retracted, Which Is Very Bad News for Advocates of AI in the Classroom
The jury’s still out on AI’s effectiveness as a learning tool, but research so far paints a grim…
Amazon Admits Its Flagship AI Coding Tool Isn’t Good Enough for Its Own Workers to Use
In November, Amazon leaders sent an internal memo to employees, pushing them to use its in-house code generating…
Fury Erupts After Google Chrome Sneakily Installs 4 GB AI Model On Users’ PCs
As of 2026, Google maintains an iron grip on the web browser market, boasting well over three billion…
Cybertruck Recalled to Keep Its Wheels From Flying Off While Driving
Tesla’s Cybertruck is facing yet another recall. And it’s not some minor software update: a glaring flaw meant…
In Irony-Soaked Incident, Amazon Data Center Shuts Down Due to High Temperatures
On Thursday, Amazon Web Services said that one of its major data centers in north Virginia was overheating…
Scientists Suddenly Discover That Cow Tools Are Real
After more than forty years, a bizarre panel from “The Far Side” comic strip has finally become prophecy.…
Trump’s HHS Trashes Top African Health Organization as “Fake” and “Powerless”
Last week, we broke down a major debacle unfolding in the health research space. To recap: over the…
The CEO of Microsoft Suddenly Sounds Extremely Nervous About AI
It sounds like Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is already coming up with excuses in case the whole AI…
Astronauts Helicoptered to Hospital After Mystery Evacuation From Space Station
Earlier this month, NASA announced that it had to cancel a scheduled spacewalk, citing a “medical situation” affecting…
Tesla Cybercab Spotted Dripping Liquid
Anybody who’s regularly driven in winter conditions knows the importance of keeping windshield washer fluid topped up. Keeping…
They Started an Entire College Dedicated to Resisting Cancel Culture, and Then the Funniest Possible Thing Happened
In 2021, a crew of self-described free speech martyrs announced they were founding a university to save American…
As Microsoft Stuffs Windows With AI, New Update Prevents Users From Turning Off Their PCs
Microsoft is hellbent on stuffing Windows 11 with AI — and many feel that this is coming at…
Experts Concerned That AI Progress Could Be Speeding Toward a Sudden Wall
Is the AI industry racing towards a point where the tech’s progress stalls out or slows to a…
Young Tech Bros Are Embracing Celibacy in Favor of the All-Consuming Drive for Wealth
The future moguls of corporate America aren’t living like the new money princes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The…
Inventor Building AI-Powered Suicide Chamber
The inventor of a controversial suicide pod is making sure his device keeps up with the times by…
NASA Moves Giant Artemis II Rocket to Launchpad to Blast Astronauts to Moon
NASA’s Moon rocket has made it to its launchpad. On Saturday, the towering assembly — comprising the enormous…
Cybertruck Sales Show Stomach-Churning Drop
Tesla’s “apocalypse-proof” Cybertruck is continuing to experience a near-cataclysmic plunge in sales that seems impossible to recover from.…