August 5, 2026 4:20 AM
August 5, 2026
Trump Secretly Believes That Diet Coke Kills Cancer Cells Inside the Body
President Donald Trump has an idea about soft drinks that’s pretty fringe even by his own eccentric standards.…
Man at City Council Meeting Makes Devastating Case Against Proposed Local Data Center
The growing anger over the AI industry’s obsession with building massive and resource-intensive data centers across the country…
Millions of Americans Are Talking to AI Instead of Going to the Doctor, and It’s Giving Them Horrendously Flawed Medical Advice
While Google’s AI may no longer recommend eating rocks or confidently telling users to put glue on their…
Robot Dogs Patrolling Precious Crops as Food Crisis Deepens
Robot dogs are increasingly finding real life uses as guardians of sensitive sites like AI data centers, the…
There Are Signs of a Massive AI Backlash
The public outrage over the tech industry’s obsession with AI is starting to boil over — and the…
A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale
On Tuesday evening, we published an original interview with a researcher who had recently coauthored an intriguing study…
Pentagon Disturbed as Its Fleet of Drones Is Left Bobbing in the Ocean When Elon Musk’s Starlink Fails
Two dozen unmanned surface vessels — autonomous boat drones, basically — were left floating in the Pacific ocean…
Clavicular Says He’s Quitting Drugs, Meaning He Can’t IRL Stream Anymore Because He’s Unable to Mog Sober
Braden “Clavicular” Peters was rushed to the hospital earlier this week after suffering a suspected drug overdose. A…
Fury Erupts as Val Kilmer’s Estate Announces Starring Role in AI Film Made From Beyond the Grave
Hollywood actors have been ringing the alarm bells over an industry that’s seemingly hellbent on replacing them with…
Allbirds Stock Now Crashing as Reality Sets in About Its Delusional AI Pivot
Tech bro sneaker company Allbirds made a huge splash yesterday when it announced a baffling pivot to AI…
NAACP Sues Elon Over His Noxious AI Data Center
Elon Musk may have yet another day in court, at least if the NAACP has anything to say…
More Than Half of Men Aged 18 to 49 Have Already Fallen Into Online Sports Betting
Sports betting has seen a massive surge in popularity since a 2018 Supreme Court decision struck down a…
Police Warn of Robot Crime Wave
The use of autonomous drones on the battlefield has already raised plenty of murky ethical questions. Many experts…
Rats Successfully Trained to Shoot Demons in “Doom”
In 2020, Hungarian software engineer and neuroscientist Viktor Tóth came up with a fascinating experiment. With the use…
YouTube Now Shutting Down Channels Posting AI Slop
YouTube’s janitors are swooping in to mop up the slop. As reported by Deadline, the Google-owned video platform…
Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
In 2025, there seem to be as many narratives about AI as there are startups peddling the stuff.…
Elon Says His New Rocket Is as Important as the Origin of Life Itself
Multibillionaire Elon Musk has never exactly been humble about his corporate empire, but his latest comments are genuinely…
SpaceX Is Buying Up an Unfathomable Number of Cybertrucks
Now that EV tax incentives have gone up in smoke, Tesla is expected to disappoint once again with…
Rivers Turn Bright Orange in Alaska
Some of Alaska’s scenic rivers and streams look downright apocalyptic this year because they turned a flagrant orange…
Actual Human Interaction Flourishes After High School Bans Phones
New York state banned smartphones in schools this September, and teachers are weeping tears of joy. As New…
Anthropic’s Advanced New AI Tries to Run Vending Machine, Goes Bankrupt After Ordering PlayStation 5 and Live Fish
Still think AI is ready to revolutionize the economy? A new experiment might change your mind. In a…
This New Statistic on Kessler Syndrome Will Give Anyone Who Cares About Space Travel an Instantaneous Stress Headache
In 1978, NASA researcher Donald Kessler and his colleagues published a paper titled “Collision frequency of artificial satellites:…
Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients’ Race Data and Being Racist With It
Just when you thought you heard it all, AI systems designed to spot cancer have startled researchers with…
Officials Deploying AI Surveillance Devices in School Bathrooms
Public spaces aren’t the only place you need to be worried about being monitored. In 2025, officials are…