April 7, 2026 4:36 AM
April 7, 2026
With the Metaverse Canceled and Zuckerberg Training AI to Run the Company, Meta Is Slashing Its Headcount
Intermittent layoffs are the norm at Meta, but it’s now carrying them out as its shift towards building…
Those Viral Posts About the Brave Kidnapped Dogs Escaping and Finding Their Homes Together Are Fake, You Gullible Buffoons
In Disney’s beloved 1993 family film, “Homeward Bound,” a ragtag group of two dogs and a cat embark…
There’s Something Incredibly Weird About Two Delivery Robots Crashing Through Glass Bus Shelter in Chicago Within a Few Days of Each Other
Chicagoans are ducking for cover as delivery robots turn into heat-seeking missiles for innocent glass structures. On Tuesday, another…
OpenAI Cancels Spicy “Adult Mode” Chatbot as Crisis Deepens
The walls continue to close in on OpenAI. The company recently raised an additional $10 billion in funding,…
Why Is Everyone Losing Their Minds Over This Little Old Mars Pyramid?
The pyramids in Egypt have long been a fixation for conspiracy theorists, who like to claim they were…
Scientists Cloned a Mouse, Then Cloned the Clone, Et Cetera. The Results Were Horrific
Here’s the cautionary tale you didn’t know you needed: cloning the same mouse in perpetuity will produce horrific…
Zuckerberg Suffers Pair of Bruising Courtroom Defeats in Two Days That Could Cost Him a Fortune
On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta was handed a devastating loss after a New Mexico jury determined it intentionally…
Physicists Successfully Deliver First Bottle of CERN Antimatter From the Antimatter Factory
For thirty minutes on Tuesday, a team of researchers white-knuckled it across the CERN campus on the outskirts…
Surreal Footage Shows Melania Trump Walking Into White House Summit With Humanoid Robot
President Donald Trump’s State-of-the-Union speech last month was notably light on education policy. While actively dismantling the US…
Why Does Every Case of AI Hiring a Human Feel Like a Groveling Publicity Stunt?
It’s been a strange launch for RentAHuman, the job platform built for AI agents to hire human gig…
Scan Finds Presence of Nuclear Fuel in 3I/ATLAS
Deuterium, a stable and non-radioactive isotope of hydrogen that features a neutron in addition to the single proton…
Evidence Grows That Trump Is Using the War in Iran to Manipulate Markets
Just after noon on Friday, March 20th, US president Donald Trump declared victory to a group of reporters…
Disturbing AI Food Slop Is Strangling the Internet
Women crashing through glass bridges. Cat parents grinding their children into mincemeat. Poor people rioting in Walmart. Whichever…
China’s Moon Landing Is Starting to Look Very Real
In an announcement last month, NASA officials announced major changes to its Moon program, pushing the first lunar…
Iran Says It’s Ready to Destroy the Global Economy
If the Trump administration was expecting it’d quickly wrap up its “little excursion” in Iran like in a…
People Really, Really Despise AI — Even More Than ICE, Poll Finds
Anti-AI sentiment surged over the last year as the hype surrounding the tech showed no signs of slowing…
Retired Air Force Major General With UFO Connections Disappears in New Mexico
The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) in Ohio has played a central role in UFO lore. The base…
CEOs Say Yeah, AI Might Be a Bubble, But They’re Gonna Keep Shoveling Money Into the Furnace Because All Their Friends Are
A new survey by accounting firm KPMG US found a contradiction in how CEOs are thinking about AI:…
Grammarly Is Pulling Down Its Explosively Controversial Feature That Impersonates Writers Without Their Permission
Grammarly infuriated journalists, authors, and academics with its “Expert Review” feature, which impersonated writers — both dead and…
The AI-Generated Tilly Norwood Just Dropped the Worst Music Video We’ve Ever Seen
Late last year, video production company Particle6 triggered near-universal backlash when it unveiled its so-called “AI actress” dubbed…
US Military Tested Havana Syndrome Weapon on Large Mammals, Whistleblowers Says
Sprawling revelations about so-called Havana Syndrome show no signs of going away. Rumors of the alleged neurological condition…
US Military Investigating Whether AI Was Involved in Bombing Elementary School in Iran
Commercial satellite imagery captured last week shows the eerie devastation following the bombing of an Iranian elementary school.…
Waymos Are a Huge Drain on Public Resources, Government Data Shows
In their 2022 book “The Road to Nowhere,” tech critic Paris Marx considered the implications of the death…
FCC Deciding Whether to Allow Startup to Launch Huge Mirror Satellite to Blast Sunlight on Cities at Nighttime
The US Federal Communication Commission is reviewing an application to launch and deploy a massive mirror satellite in…