August 25, 2026 11:04 AM
August 25, 2026
Even After Two Massacres, OpenAI Still Hasn’t Stopped ChatGPT From Helping Plan School Shootings
Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text…
Explosion Reported on Site as SpaceX Prepares Starship for Another Launch
During its inaugural launch of its first Starship rocket prototype just over three years ago, SpaceX decided not…
Busy Roadways Clogged as Waymo Becomes Stumped by Small Puddle
Waymo’s autonomous cabs have logged millions of miles navigating complex city streets. Last week in Austin, one was…
Passengers Groan as Robot Passenger Causes Hour-Long Delay at Oakland Airport
Humanoid robots still struggle to accomplish real-world tasks with human-level dexterity. At the airport, though, they’ve already proven…
Apple Is Blocking Vibe Coding Apps From the App Store, Infuriating Developers
There’s unrest brewing in the world of vibe-coding startups. Apple is blocking AI coding apps on the App…
Approaching Half of New Podcasts Appear to Be AI Slop
Approaching half of new podcasts appear to be AI slop. Of the 10,871 new podcast feeds created in…
Richard Dawkins One-Shotted By AI Girl
The famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins may have coined the word “meme,” but lately it feels like he’s…
Jeff Bezos’ Moon Lander Just Completed a Key Test
NASA is still hoping to land the first Artemis astronauts on the surface of the Moon by the…
Zuckerberg Trying to Simulate Human Biology at the Cellular Level
Mark Zuckerberg is following a path paved by fellow billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffet: laundering his untold…
Scientists and Lawmakers Horrified at Trump’s Brutal Budget for NASA
Hot on the heels of NASA’s historic trip around the Moon, the Trump administration wasted no time in…
The Chinese Streaming Industry Is Being Gutted by AI-Generated Shows
Earlier this year, TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance released the latest version of its Seedance AI video generating tool.…
Startup Says It’s Invented a Beanie That Reads Your Mind
If you thought AI-integrated smart glasses were bad, wait until you get a load of Sabi, a Palo…
Plastic Surgeons Are Using Material From Dead People on New Patients
Cosmetic surgeons have turned to using a “fat filler” harvested from dead people in order to give patients…
Researchers Just Discovered Something Startling About How Conservatives Pick Political Positions
If you’ve been watching the intense partisan divide over the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent…
War Profiteers Furious After Polymarket Refuses to Pay Out on Venezuelan Invasion Bets
Nearly a week after US strikes bombarded Venezuela during the kidnapping of its president Nicolás Maduro, betting platform…
Doomsday Glacier Bombarded by Earthquakes
Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected rattling Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier — the…
Elon’s xAI Is Losing Staggering Amounts of Money
Elon Musk constructed his personal mythology around a pair of weighty accomplishments: building actual, stable businesses around both…
Pentagon Begs Shop to Stop Sending Butt Plugs to Military Personnel
The owners of a Toronto-based sex toy shop made a bizarre discovery after opening two returned items that…
Scientists Weirded Out by Cosmic Bones in Distant Space
Current theories suggest that dark matter — the mysterious substance that’s believed not to emit, absorb, or reflect…
Billionaire NASA Head Offers Bizarre Perk for Top Staff
It took almost a year for the Trump administration to settle on a non-interim NASA administrator. Back in…
Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized
Move over, Ship of Theseus — there’s a new paradoxical thought experiment in town. Some power users of…
Government Approving Artist Visas for OnlyFans Models Based on How Many Followers They Have
For foreign-born people looking for an easy entry into the United States, success no longer seems to hinge…
China Builds Wild Gravity Machine
China has unveiled an extremely powerful “hypergravity machine” that can generate forces almost two thousand times stronger than…
Tech Billionaire Says It’s Time for the Government to Suspend Freedom of Speech
From the Alien and Sedition Acts to various Red Scares, American history is littered with panicked attempts to…