August 25, 2026 7:44 AM
August 25, 2026
Climate Change Is Getting So Bad That It’s Making Food Less Nutritious
Climate change’s effects often aren’t obvious. In a particularly lateral example of how our planet’s changing environment is…
Double Murder Suspect Asked ChatGPT How to Hide Body in Dumpster
Earlier this month, we got a glimpse of the harrowing conversations that Florida State University school shooting suspect…
Meta Had the Worst Possible Response When Its Workers Were Watching Naked Footage of Its Ray-Ban AI Glasses Users
In February, Meta contractors in Kenya told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten that the company required them…
An Elegant Solution to AI Slop: Tax It, and Use the Resulting Billions of Dollars to Fund Cultural Institutions, Artists, and Researchers
If you can’t beat ’em, tax ’em. AI slop is as certain as government levies these days, infecting…
The “Pentastack” of Illegal Drugs That Looksmaxxers Like Clavicular Are Taking to Enjoy a Night Out Sounds Like a One-Way Trip to the Hospital
Look, if you’re out there safely experimenting with drugs, no judgment. There are plenty of ketamine therapy clinics…
Chinese Court Rules That a Worker Cannot Be Replaced by AI
While workers in the western world agonize over what seems to be an impending job apocalypse, their Chinese…
Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What Causes “Ghosts”
There are unseen forces behind why a house might feel haunted — but no, it’s not ghosts. New…
There’s Something Bizarre About the Offices of AI Startups
With questions swirling about whether hundreds of AI startups will ever translate the tech into real-world economic returns,…
You’ll Gasp When You Hear How Many Chinese EVs You Can Buy For the Price of a Single US Car
American automakers have some explaining to do. According to new reporting from Reuters, you could buy up to…
NASA’s Moon Landing Schedule Slipping Horrendously Under Trump
During his first term in late 2017, president Donald Trump announced that the United States would make its…
Bank CEO Brags He Used AI Clone of Himself to Host Conference Call
If you decided to blow off a Zoom meeting by sending an AI dummy instead, you might find…
New AI Trained Only on Pre-1930 Data Speaks Like the Most Old-Timey Guy Imaginable
Tired of your AI chatbot’s constantly-glazing therapy-speak? You could instead try striking up a conversation with “Talkie,” an…
Trump’s Golden Smartphone Is Getting Sketchier and Sketchier
In June 2025, Donald Trump Jr. proudly announced the founding of a mobile operator called Trump Mobile, including…
Dell Admits That Customers Are Disgusted by PCs Stuffed With AI Features
The tech industry’s insistence on cramming AI into virtually every aspect of their consumer-facing offerings, from AI apps…
Terrified Investors Are Bracing for an AI Bubble “Reckoning”
Fears over a growing AI bubble that could wipe out the entire economy if it were to burst…
“Microslop”: Infuriating Video Sums Up How Microsoft Is Ruining Windows With AI
If you were already skeptical — if not livid — about Microsoft’s ongoing campaign to drown Windows 11…
CIA Will Neither Confirm Nor Deny Records on 3I/ATLAS
Ever since it was first spotted hurtling through the solar system, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has maintained that…
New Law Would Prevent Trump Officials From Invading a Country and Profiting by Placing Bets on Polymarket
“Men do not make laws,” goes a maxim attributed to US president Calvin Coolidge. “They do but discover…
Live Coverage: Is Grok Still Being Used to Create Nonconsensual Sexual Images of Women and Girls?
Grok, the flagship chatbot created by the Elon Musk-founded AI venture xAI and infused into X-formerly-Twitter — a platform…
Tesla Loses Trademark to “Cybercab” Due to Its Own Staggering Incompetence
In a blunder that sums up Tesla’s struggling efforts in the self-driving space, Electrek reports that the Elon…
If the War Against the Machines Is Fought Via Martial Arts, Humans Are Gonna Catch an Epic Beat Down
If machines ever fight a war against humans, it’ll probably be fought with modern weapons of war —…
Scientists Discover Impossible Object in Deep Space
While peering into some of the oldest regions of the known universe — dating back to just 1.4…
Chinese Fusion Reactor Achieves Plasma Density Previously Thought to Be Impossible
Scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) program rang in the new year with a stunning accomplishment:…
Tesla Accused of Killing Family, Plus Their Dog, by Steering Vehicle Head-on Into Oncoming Semi-Truck
A man is suing Tesla after half his family was killed when their Model X, which was running…