August 25, 2026 8:26 PM
August 25, 2026
Tech Layoffs So Far This Year Have Officially Blown Past the Total for 2025
Last year was a bloodbath for tech workers around the world. Across all of 2025, this strata of…
Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of Pedophilia
Elon Musk’s “maximum truth-seeking” AI Grok is dropping some nuclear takes about its creator. “ELON MUSK WATCHES CHILD…
Remember the Publisher That Put Fake Writers in Sports Illustrated? It Just Rebranded as an AI Company
The Arena Group — the media company which, in 2023, allowed a contractor called AdVon Commerce to publish AI-generated…
Game Dev CEO Accused of Replacing Writers With AI is Now Completely Crashing Out
Saber, the developer behind the upcoming Rideshare “Stimulator” video game, is being accused of replacing its writers with…
Giant Oil Tanker Runs Aground in Marine Nature Preserve, Spills Nonstop for Weeks
When an oil tanker runs aground in a contested war zone, does it make a sound? Evidently not…
Insane Dad Boasts About Using AI to Construct a “Truman Show” Style False Reality For His Son To Play In
Behold the final boss of tech-brained overprotective dads. Worried about his son talking to strangers on Roblox, he…
College Kids Are Using AI Agents to “Take” Entire Online Classes for Them by Logging Directly Into the Course Management Software
With the rise of agentic models, why stop at using chatbots to look up answers? Some students are…
Facebook Is Filling With Viral AI-Generated Silver Foxes Wooing Women by Ranting About How Terrible Men Are
We bring you this dispatch from the AI slop dungeon known as Facebook: fake, AI-generated podcast bros are…
Phoebe Gates Took Secret Stanford Course on Controlling Society, Used It to Recruit for Her Startup That’s Now Facing Accusations
Bill Gates’ 23-year-old daughter Phoebe Gates made headlines this week for all the wrong reasons. Damning internal Slack…
Organisms Living Inside Psychopaths Could Be Driving Bad Behavior, Scientists Claim
In bound-to-be-controversial new research, scientists claim they’ve discovered a link between the specific balance of microflora in the…
Hackers Created a Device That Can Take Over a Boeing 737 Jet’s Autopilot Without Anyone Noticing
Your fear of flying is only going to get worse once you hear what these white hat hackers…
OpenAI’s “Head of Ethics” Suddenly Leaves Company Under Mysterious Circumstances
Following a growing string of high-profile departures, OpenAI has lost its head of ethics at arguably the worst…
Top Consulting Group PwC Caught Using AI on “Thought Leadership” Report About AI, Resulting in Corporate Document Filled With Bizarre Hallucinations
PwC, one of the “Big Four” consulting firms, has been caught red-handed publishing “thought leadership” reports about AI…
Tech Bro Boasts He Used AI to Secretly Monitor Toddlers’ Conversations, Categorize Them In Giant Database
Parents, if you’re thinking about subjecting your child to some bizarre AI experiment: don’t. “Toddler spent her first…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife Shuts Down School for the Disadvantaged
A school for low-income students cofounded by Mark Zuckerberg’s wife, Priscilla Chan, has officially shut its doors. The…
Poll Finds Overwhelming Majority Disgusted by Trump’s Relationship With AI Industry, Saying He’s Using the Tech to Tear Down Democracy
Even before Donald Trump was sworn in for his second stint in the White House, he was promising…
America Getting Lesson in Consequences of Trump’s War on Public Health as Rare Disease Outbreaks Ravage the Country
For a president who upholds “Make America Healthy Again” as a load-bearing narrative pillar, Donald Trump has gone…
It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico
When the Federal Aviation Administration shut down air traffic to El Paso Airport earlier this year, nobody could…
Cops Mistype Username, Send Innocent Man to Prison for 18 Months
A single typo by cops led to an innocent Canadian man spending 18 months in jail. The man,…
Sam Altman’s Parenting Strategy Sounds Low Key Horrifying
Late last year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon that raising a child was…
Tesla Whistleblower Describes Wildly Dangerous Safety Lapses While Developing Full Self-Driving
For years, Tesla has faced intense public and regulatory scrutiny over the safety of its self-driving software. Now,…
Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows
Since the launch of Flock Safety in 2017, the ACLU estimates the company installed some 100,000 automatic license…
OpenAI’s Escaped Models Were Allegedly Rampaging More Extensively Than Previously Reported
Last week, OpenAI claimed that a group of its AI models had broken containment, successfully hacking into the…
We Are Mildly Horrified by This AI Startup That Coerced People Into Getting Tattoos of Its Logo in Exchange for a Job Interview
The US job market is in a weird place right now. Life is clearly rough for the working…