August 25, 2026 12:26 PM
August 25, 2026
John Oliver Just Took the AI Industry Behind a Shed and Beat It With a Pipe Wrench
John Oliver just did what he did best: demolished a harmful industry piece by piece. On the latest…
OpenAI Hit With Barrage of Lawsuits Over Failure to Report School Shooter Before Massacre
Seven families — the first wave of dozens, lawyers say — are suing OpenAI, alleging that the company failed to…
Police Are Using AI Camera Networks to Stalk Women
Police officers across the US are using automated license plate readers (ALPRs) to stalk personal romantic interests. According…
Sam Altman Caught in What May Be His Most Spectacular Lie Yet
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s unsettling blockchain-based side gig, a startup with the uninspired name “World,” has left us…
Woman Convicted for Attacking Police With Swarm of Furious Bees
Look, evictions are violent affairs. When the state sends armed officers to kick residents out of their homes…
Scientists Scan Gigantic Structure Hiding Behind Our Galaxy
In 2016, researchers discovered an enormous supercluster of galaxies in the constellation of Vela that had been hiding…
If You Thought Mark Zuckerberg Was a Pathetic Little Worm Before, Wait Until You Hear About His Latest Move
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has long been the poster child for the billionaire class, a hyper-capitalist and unnervingly…
OpenAI in Shambles as IPO Looms
OpenAI is still committed to a whopping $600 billion in AI infrastructure investments over the next four years,…
A Tiny Town Is Building So Many Data Centers That There’ll Be Almost Nothing Else Left
Enticed by cheap land, abundant resources, and massive tax breaks, tech companies are gobbling up land in small,…
Scientists Experimenting With Quantum Effect That Some Fear Could Cause Chain Reaction That Ends Entire Universe
In quantum physics, there’s a state with even less energy than a vacuum, called a true vacuum, which…
Weird Things Happen When You Give AI Agents Money and Let Them Spend It
Late last year, Anthropic had its AI model, Claude, run a large vending kiosk in the Wall Street…
The War in Iran Is Causing China to Sell So Many Solar Panels That Your Jaw Will Drop
The ongoing war on Iran may have drastically reduced the amount of oil passing from West Asia to…
Astronauts Suit Up for Their Journey to the Moon
If all goes according to plan, four astronauts are set to become the first humans to travel past…
Murder of MIT Fusion Scientist Getting More and More Bizarre
Last week, lauded theoretical physicist and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Nuno Loureiro was…
Photos Are Being Deleted From the Epstein Files
Even before the Department of Justice’s release of a major collection of files pertaining to late billionaire sex…
Home Depot Deploys Havana-Style Sonic Weapon Against Day Laborers
While federal agents working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are running…
James Webb Discovers Planet Shaped Like Lemon
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an astonishing exoplanet that’s stretching our understanding of what’s…
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…