August 25, 2026 6:43 PM
August 25, 2026
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…
Thermoses Linked to Permanent Vision Loss
It turns out that Thermos bottles are potential Rube Goldberg machines for blinding you in cartoonish but utterly…
Hacker Takes Over Robot Lawnmower, Runs Over Innocent Man
Is building autonomous robots equipped with sharp oscillating blades that roam your front yard a good idea? What…
China Presses Pause on Self-Driving Taxis Nationwide After Issue Where They Blocked Streets. America Could Learn a Lot From That
Earlier this year, dozens of autonomous vehicles from the Chinese company Baidu suddenly stopped in their tracks in…
Meta Has Entered Its Death Spiral
It’s hard to even imagine now, but immediately after it launched in 2004, there was nothing on the…
Cursed New AI Service Writes a Mother’s Day Card and Mails It to Your Mom, Without Any Human Involvement Except Inputting Your Credit Card Details
Hey kids! Want to tell your mom you love her, but without expending a single iota of emotional…
NASA Says Strange Red Dots in Sky Are an Unknown Class of Object That Looks Like a Huge Evil Eye
There’s a fresh twist in the mystery of the “little red dots.” Astronomers say they’ve found a new specimen,…
Arrests Made for Murder at Amazon Facility
An Amazon fulfillment center in Texas became a murder scene after a dispute between co-workers spiraled into a…
There’s a Particularly Sinister Explanation for Why Trump Wants to Seize Greenland
On the campaign trail leading up to his election in 2024, Donald Trump made a plenty of bizarre…
Outer Space Is a Viscous Fluid, New Paper Claims
There’s endless debate among cosmologists about what really makes up the emptiness of outer space, though many believe…
Tech Corporations Engaging in “Human Fracking”
Social media algorithms keep us all hopelessly engaged. The data these platforms gather on us enable feeds to…
Nuclear Bunker Falling Into Ocean
How’s a literal nuclear bunker hanging off the side of a crumbling cliff face for portent symbols of…
Scientists Just Discovered Something Horrid About Those Disposable Coffee Cups You’ve Been Slurping
According to a wealth of recent scientific literature, microplastics, tiny pieces of debris anywhere from one micrometer to…
AI Surveillance Systems Are Causing a Staggering Number of Wrongful Arrests
These days, AI surveillance systems are everywhere. They’re watching our roads, tracking our purchases at the grocery store,…
Government Tells Tesla That This Is Definitely the Last Time It Can Blow Off Deadline to Turn In Data On Why FSD Is Constantly Ignoring Traffic Laws
Elon Musk’s Tesla would never get special treatment by the US government, right? This week, Ars Technica reports,…
Elon Musk Says His Optimus Robot Is So Dope That People Will Forget Tesla Ever Made Cars
Amid abysmal car sales that continue to plummet worldwide and major regulatory hurdles plaguing the company’s driver assistance…
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
While AI companies continue to command the global economy and pour billions of dollars into building data centers,…
Man Confused by AI-Generated Reports That He’s Dead
You know the old adage “don’t believe everything you see on the internet”? In the age of AI,…
Media Execs Prepare for AI to Bring End of Journalism Industry
Will the slow anaconda crush of AI mean the end of journalism? It’s hard to imagine it completely…