August 25, 2026 5:08 PM
August 25, 2026
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,…
Scammers Furious That Their Fellow Criminals Are Using AI, Saying It’s Unethical
The AI sloppification of the internet comes for us all, even the petty scammers and fraudsters doing business…
The CDC Fired All Its Cruise Ship Inspectors Before the Hantavirus Outbreak
A deadly hantavirus outbreak tearing through a Dutch cruise ship has put health officials on alert, raising questions…
Huge Analysis Finds That the Average Person Is Getting Absolutely Hosed on Polymarket
The United States is in the throes of widespread gambling addiction. Sports betting ads have become practically inescapable,…
Under Threat of Perjury, OpenAI’s Former CTO Is Admitting Some Very Interesting Stuff About Sam Altman
The bizarre and messy court battle between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former OpenAI investor Elon Musk trudges…
CEOs Say AI Gives Them Only Two Options, and Both Are Bad News for Employees
In an age of AI, our hardworking CEOs are being tortured with a tough decision, according to new…
You’ll Never Guess Trade Unions’ Position on AI Data Centers
Trade unions have a centuries-long history of squaring up against the might of industrial capitalists to fight for…
Man Gets Clean Bill of Health From Super-Expensive MRI Scan, Then Gets Horrible News
A 35-year-old New York City man paid about $2,500 for a whole body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan…
Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg’s Vision Fails
After years of failing to produce a profitable augmented reality platform, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is pounding one of…
Mother of Elon Musk’s Child Sues xAI Over Grok Abuse
Elon Musk’s Grok AI kicked off a massive scandal over the past month when users started using it…
Google’s AI Insists That Next Year Is Not 2027
We have it on good authority that next year is not 2027. That authority, of course, is Google’s…
New Study Finds AI in Schools Is Undermining Kids’ Social and Intellectual Development
AI models are being unleashed into schools across the world, in a massive experiment on kids with uncertain…
Scientists Preparing to Simulate Human Brain on Supercomputer
In 2024, researchers completed the first-ever map of the circuitry of a fruit fly’s brain. Despite its diminutive…
Scientists Now Studying AI as a Novel Biological Organism
AI models are now everywhere, from hospitals to churches. The astonishing thing is that even AI experts still…
If You Use AI Chatbots to Follow the News, You’re Basically Injecting Severe Poison Directly Into Your Brain
As corporate consolidation and ideological capture continue to wreak havoc on journalism across the world, some might be…
Moon Hotel Now Taking Reservations
Do you want to stay at the first ever hotel on the Moon? Well, it’s going to cost…
Wait… All Those Studies May Have “Detected” Microplastics in the Human Body Because of a Severe Error
A deluge of research has painted a picture of our world being drowned in tiny, inescapable microplastics. Our…
Government Paid “Eight Figures” for Mysterious Device Believed to Cause Havana Syndrome
It’s no secret that the US military budget is the largest in the world, and indeed one of…
Robots Have a Small Problem: They Completely Suck
Tech leaders are predicting an imminent revolution in the field of robotics, promising a future in which humanoid…