Man Drives Cybertruck Into Lake to Test Elon Musk’s “Boat” Claims, and It Went About as Well as You’d Guess

Longtime Cybertruck watchers might remember a peculiar day back before the brutalist pickup was even released, when Tesla…

May 23, 2026 2 min read
Doomsday Glacier Shows Signs of Imminent Disintegration

Bad news for anybody holding out hope for a future free of climate disaster: one of the largest…

May 23, 2026 2 min read
SpaceX Announces Plans to Put Billionaire on First Rocket to Mars

The future of space travel is pay to play, but that might not be a bad thing. During…

May 23, 2026 2 min read
Starbucks Scraps Disastrous AI Tool

Hold onto your pumpkin spice lattes, because Starbucks is canning its AI tool after it turned out to…

May 23, 2026 3 min read
Marc Andreessen Sputters Incomprehensibly at Question About How AI Will Actually Benefit Humankind

There’s plenty of hype to go around about AI. It’s going to revolutionize this and automate that. But…

May 23, 2026 4 min read
Cannes Film Festival Says the Wall Street Journal Is Wrong: It’s Not Debuting an AI-Generated Feature Film This Week

This week, the Wall Street Journal ran a provocative story claiming that a fully AI-generated movie called “Hell…

May 22, 2026 6 min read
Finance Bros Tremble in Fear That They Could Be Replaced by AI Too

It’s not looking good for finance bros as another major banker has sung the praises of AI automating…

May 22, 2026 3 min read
Democrats’ 2024 Election Autopsy Shows Signs of Sloppy AI Generation

The long awaited Democratic Party “autopsy” of the 2024 election failure has finally been released, and it’s riddled…

May 22, 2026 3 min read
Town Councilmember Goes Berzerk at Surveillance Camera Ban, Threatens to Outlaw Virtually All Modern Technology

Like data centers, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) are incredibly unpopular with voters around the US. Plenty of…

May 22, 2026 3 min read
SpaceX Stock May Actually Be a Horrendous Investment

Elon Musk has just pulled back the curtain on the biggest public stock offering in history, and the…

May 22, 2026 3 min read
Fake OpenAI Ads Appear on Subway: “Yes, We Built a Machine That Tells Teenagers to Kill Themselves… But It Might Also Help Them With Their Homework”

An artist in London plastered fake OpenAI ads inside city subway cars calling attention to ChatGPT’s close ties…

May 22, 2026 4 min read
Scientists Detect Huge Structure Under Ocean Fueling the Deadly Upcoming El Niño

Scientists say they’ve pinpointed the super-warm undersea structure responsible for this year’s El Niño weather pattern, which they…

May 22, 2026 2 min read
AI Agents Are Mathematically Incapable of Doing Functional Work, Paper Finds

A months-old but until now overlooked study recently featured in Wired claims to mathematically prove that large language…

Jan 26, 2026 3 min read
Scientists Say Go Ahead, Keep Gooning

Adult content has never been as accessible as it is now, thanks to the internet. Hell, online smut…

Jan 26, 2026 4 min read
Job Seekers Sue Company Scanning Their Résumés Using AI

Thanks to scores of competing AI systems clogging up online application portals, applying for a new job in…

Jan 25, 2026 3 min read
Scientists Intrigued by Unfamiliar Life Form

It’s a plant! It’s a fungus! It’s… an entirely new type of lifeform hitherto unknown to science? That…

Jan 25, 2026 3 min read
When You Learn How Low the 2025 Murder Rate Was, You’ll Realize How Profoundly the Media Has Failed the American People

The headlines of 2025 painted a portrait of America in chaos, driven by the financial logic of America’s…

Jan 25, 2026 3 min read
Strange Mushroom Makes You See Tiny People Chilling on Every Surface

Magic mushrooms, an informal group of fungi that contain the naturally occurring psychedelic substance psilocybin, are known for…

Jan 25, 2026 4 min read
OnlyFans Rival Seemingly Succumbs to AI Psychosis, Which We Dare You to Try Explain to Your Parents

Something strange is happening with ManyVids, an OnlyFans-like porn platform with millions of users. For roughly the past…

Jan 25, 2026 4 min read
Children Starting School Are Trying to Swipe Books Like They’re Phones

An alarming proportion of kids just starting school are baffled by how books work. In a new survey…

Jan 25, 2026 3 min read
Waymo’s School Bus Situation Just Got Way Worse

If Waymo thought regulators would get off its back for its robotaxis blowing past stopped school buses, it…

Jan 25, 2026 3 min read
Trump Building Top Secret Installation Under East Wing

Three months ago, the Trump administration broke ground on its highly controversial plans to add a sprawling ballroom…

Jan 25, 2026 3 min read
Trump Admin Warns FEMA Not to Talk About “Ice” in Winter Storm Because They’re Scared People Will Use the Clips to Make Fun of ICE

As a severe winter storm approaches, the Trump administration has bigger concerns on its plate: not getting trolled…

Jan 25, 2026 3 min read
Scientist Horrified as ChatGPT Deletes All His Research

ChatGPT may be an excellent tool in case your strongly-worded email to your landlord about that ceiling leak…

Jan 24, 2026 4 min read