August 25, 2026 9:48 PM
August 25, 2026
Remember the Publisher That Put Fake Writers in Sports Illustrated? It Just Rebranded as an AI Company
The Arena Group — the media company which, in 2023, allowed a contractor called AdVon Commerce to publish AI-generated…
Game Dev CEO Accused of Replacing Writers With AI is Now Completely Crashing Out
Saber, the developer behind the upcoming Rideshare “Stimulator” video game, is being accused of replacing its writers with…
Giant Oil Tanker Runs Aground in Marine Nature Preserve, Spills Nonstop for Weeks
When an oil tanker runs aground in a contested war zone, does it make a sound? Evidently not…
Insane Dad Boasts About Using AI to Construct a “Truman Show” Style False Reality For His Son To Play In
Behold the final boss of tech-brained overprotective dads. Worried about his son talking to strangers on Roblox, he…
College Kids Are Using AI Agents to “Take” Entire Online Classes for Them by Logging Directly Into the Course Management Software
With the rise of agentic models, why stop at using chatbots to look up answers? Some students are…
Facebook Is Filling With Viral AI-Generated Silver Foxes Wooing Women by Ranting About How Terrible Men Are
We bring you this dispatch from the AI slop dungeon known as Facebook: fake, AI-generated podcast bros are…
Phoebe Gates Took Secret Stanford Course on Controlling Society, Used It to Recruit for Her Startup That’s Now Facing Accusations
Bill Gates’ 23-year-old daughter Phoebe Gates made headlines this week for all the wrong reasons. Damning internal Slack…
Organisms Living Inside Psychopaths Could Be Driving Bad Behavior, Scientists Claim
In bound-to-be-controversial new research, scientists claim they’ve discovered a link between the specific balance of microflora in the…
Hackers Created a Device That Can Take Over a Boeing 737 Jet’s Autopilot Without Anyone Noticing
Your fear of flying is only going to get worse once you hear what these white hat hackers…
OpenAI’s “Head of Ethics” Suddenly Leaves Company Under Mysterious Circumstances
Following a growing string of high-profile departures, OpenAI has lost its head of ethics at arguably the worst…
Driver Pulls Up Directly to Firehouse When His Tesla Inexplicably Bursts Into Flames
At this point, it’s a pretty well known fact that electric vehicles — and, at least in the…
ICE Reveals Horrific Plan to Outfit Agents With Electrocution Torture Gloves
The good guys protecting us from people who want to work and live here will continue their morally…
Tesla Whistleblower Describes Wildly Dangerous Safety Lapses While Developing Full Self-Driving
For years, Tesla has faced intense public and regulatory scrutiny over the safety of its self-driving software. Now,…
Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows
Since the launch of Flock Safety in 2017, the ACLU estimates the company installed some 100,000 automatic license…
OpenAI’s Escaped Models Were Allegedly Rampaging More Extensively Than Previously Reported
Last week, OpenAI claimed that a group of its AI models had broken containment, successfully hacking into the…
We Are Mildly Horrified by This AI Startup That Coerced People Into Getting Tattoos of Its Logo in Exchange for a Job Interview
The US job market is in a weird place right now. Life is clearly rough for the working…
Scientists Forced to Go on OnlyFans After Their Funding Was Cut
When you’re a scientist relying on government funding to conduct your research, and that government suddenly yoinks all…
The More People Learn About AI, the More They Want It Out of Their Lives
For a time, it appeared as if AI would find broad acceptance among the American masses. The peanut…
Columbia Economist Baffled as to Why the Masses Aren’t Rising Up Against Elon Musk
As unpopular as SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become in the popular eye, some say the…
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
When the United States ratified the 13th amendment in 1865, federal lawmakers very nearly outlawed slavery for good…
FTC Concerned About Meta Surveillance of Users of Erectile Dysfunction Apps
If you’re among the 2.6 million active users of the popular telehealth apps Hims and Hers to obtain…
Major Publisher Cans $2.4 Million Book Deal After Author Was Accused of Using AI, for a Very Cynical Reason
Book publisher Minotaur, which is owned by leading publishing company Macmillan US, has walked away from a $2.4…
Iran Appears to Be Blasting Amazon Data Centers Off the Map
There’s data center activism, fought with Facebook groups and petitions, and then there’s data center annihilation, fought with…
Kalshi Sued for Running Illegal Gambling Operation
After years of facilitating a surge in gambling addiction by allowing users to make dubious bets on anything…