August 25, 2026 6:13 AM
August 25, 2026
NASA Fires Up Futuristic Plasma Thruster Designed to Take Us to Mars
Covering the well over 100 million miles to Mars is no easy feat. Even in the best case…
Wild Video Shows Ukrainian Troops Evacuate Babushka With a Military Robot
One granny has been safely plucked from the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian war by the unlikeliest of heroes:…
AV Companies Might be in Trouble Now As Cops Start Ticketing Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles have an accountability problem. Because there’s no driver, there’s nobody to hold liable when the car…
Toilet Maker Spikes in Value as It Flushes Money Into AI
Last month, failing tech bro shoe company Allbirds made the baffling announcement that it was pivoting to AI…
Japanese Airport Trialing Humanoid Robots as Baggage Handlers
The future is truly upon us — because the next time your check-in luggage gets battered, you could…
New England Journal of Medicine Retracts Paper Because Photo of Patient’s Insides Was Garbled by AI
Medical journals are being flooded with shoddy AI-generated work, a growing threat to the scientific community that could…
Eric Trump’s Crypto Company Is Falling Into Total Disaster
President Donald Trump and his spawn have reaped billions of dollars worth of crypto during his second term…
An Out of Control SpaceX Rocket Is Going to Smash Into Moon, Astronomer Says
One of Elon Musk’s spacecraft will finally reach the lunar surface — but probably not in the way…
Gen Z Is Turning Against AI in an Incredible Way
For years now, tech leaders have warned that AI will usher in a technological revolution on an unprecedented…
Elon Musk Just Got Badly Humiliated in Court
Elon Musk helped birth OpenAI in 2015, a world-changing AI non-profit which he lavished with tens of millions…
Amazon’s New AI-Generated “Podcasts” Shilling Every Imaginable Products Are Already Backfiring Spectacularly
Companies keep forcing AI features to do things that no one ever thought they needed, or indeed ever…
OpenAI Strangely Concerned About Goblins
OpenAI is forbidding its latest AI model from discussing an unlikely topic: goblins. As Wired reports, the company’s…
You Will Never in 100 Years Guess What Elon Musk’s Lawyer Does as a Side Job
If Elon Musk’s antics over the past few years have felt like a three-ring circus, there just might…
Scientists Announce Results After Scanning 3I/ATLAS for Alien Signals
In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly…
Your Jaw Will Hit the Floor When You Find Out How Much the Average OpenAI Worker Makes
Throughout 2025, the top Silicon Valley firms have been engaged in a feeding frenzy of epic proportions, shelling…
The Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down
The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long…
NASA Reportedly Shutting Down Its Largest Library, Throwing Materials Away
NASA’s budget is still an unfathomable mess. The government shutdown late last year once again delayed proceedings to…
New Parents Mocked for Letting ChatGPT Name Their Baby
Naming your child isn’t a task to be taken lightly. It’s a crucial step in the child-rearing process…
Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
Earlier this week, a troubling trend emerged on X-formerly-Twitter as people started asking Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok to…
Scientist Puzzled by “Symmetric Jet Structure” on 3I/ATLAS
It may have made its closest approach to Earth last month, but the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS continues to…
Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog
Law enforcement has quickly embraced AI for everything from drafting police reports to facial recognition. The results have…
Man Operating Robot Accidentally Makes It Kick Him Directly in the Nutsack
In a now viral video, a man controlling a Unitree robot accidentally made the humanoid kick him right…
Scientists Graft Human Ear Onto Foot
In a bizarre first, the South China Morning Post reports, doctors in China have surgically grafted a patient’s…
China Planning Crackdown on AI That Harms Mental Health of Users
While many world governments seem happy to let untested AI chatbots interact with vulnerable populations, China looks to…