August 16, 2026 12:31 PM
August 16, 2026
Chinese Netflix Competitor Opens Floodgates to AI Slop
It may be the beginning of the end for the global legions of C-drama fans. iQIYI, the Chinese…
Millionaire Big Game Hunter Trampled to Death by Elephants
While big game hunting for food is an ancient practice, it’s more recently turned into a sport. It’s…
Palantir’s Employees Are in Crisis
The military and intelligence contractor Palantir has been embroiled in nonstop controversy during Trump’s second term. It’s been…
Tech Companies Are Using Insidious Tactics to Build Data Centers on Indigenous Lands, Activists Say
Last month, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction…
Norway Approves Autonomous Buses for Public Roads
After a ten-year period of trial and error, officials approved fully autonomous buses for operation in Norway, where…
The Horrible Economics of AI Are Starting to Come Crashing Down
An eyebrow-raising trend has emerged this year: tech leaders rating their employees’ productivity based on the number of…
Google Exec Says Your Favorite Video Games Are Secretly Made With AI
That new, unapologetically derivative open world game or umpteenth shooter sequel you’re currently addicted to? It was almost…
Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What That Golden Orb Found at the Bottom of the Pacific Ocean Actually Was
After spending two and half years pondering a “golden orb” found at the bottom of the ocean, scientists…
Trump’s Huge AI Data Center Project Is Falling Apart Behind the Scenes
Donald Trump’s bid to cash in on the AI data center boom seems to have sprung a leak…
You’ll Spill Your Juice When You Learn How Many of Florida’s Orange Trees This Incurable Bacteria Has Already Infected
Whether you take it with pulp or without, you may soon be lucky just to get some OJ…
Elon Musk Admits He Lied to Tesla Customers’ Faces for Years About Self-Driving
After over a decade of promising that fully autonomous driving is right around the corner, Tesla CEO Elon…
FBI Investigating Series of Deaths Among Top Scientists With Very Specific Specialties
On February 27, retired Air Force Research Laboratory commander William Neil McCasland, who once worked at the Wright-Patterson…
White House Confused by How Random YouTuber’s Stream Became Featured on Its Website
The executive branch has been infiltrated by an unexpected entity: a random livestreamer. On Friday, the White House…
Twitter User Uncovers Secret Link to Bizarre CDC Text File
It’s not quite a CIA black site, but a link to an old Centers for Disease Control and…
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:…