An Entire “Local Newspaper” Just Shut Down When All Its Reporters Were Busted as AI Fakes

Ever stumble across an online “news article” that just doesn’t feel quite right? You may be onto something.…

May 18, 2026 3 min read
James Webb Spots Strange Structure at Core of Distant Galaxy

A stunning new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope shows a nearby galaxy bursting with light…

May 17, 2026 3 min read
If You Used Insider Knowledge to Score Big on Polymarket, You May Now Be in Huge Trouble

The spoilsports at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission no longer want you profiting off of geopolitical turmoil…

May 17, 2026 4 min read
Investors Flocking to Super-Anonymous Cryptocurrency Used for the Sketchiest Stuff Imaginable

When Bitcoin first launched in 2009, it promised its users a decentralized digital currency that would be free…

May 17, 2026 4 min read
Robophobic Airline Bans Humanoid Robots From Flights After Disruption

Southwest Airlines appears to have become the first airline to enshrine a no-robots policy into their rulebook, after…

May 17, 2026 2 min read
Swarm of Empty Waymos Descends on Unsuspecting Suburb, Circle Cul-de-Sacs for Hours on End Like Strange Ghosts

Nearly a year after Waymos touched down in Atlanta for the first time, residents of the community of…

May 17, 2026 3 min read
Mayor Eats His Words After Admitting He’s Delegating Work to 11 AI Agents

Employees haven’t been shy about pushing back against AI in the workplace. In a clear disconnect, bosses are…

May 17, 2026 2 min read
Oops: Bosses Realize Their Companies Have Been Swarmed by Legions of Redundant AI Agents

Woe is the c-suite. After heedlessly embracing AI tech at the expense of their workers, some bosses are…

May 17, 2026 3 min read
The Latest Data on El Niño Is a Looming Nightmare

Unprecedented extreme weather is no longer once-in-a-lifetime. We live in an era when seasonal hurricanes have the potential…

May 17, 2026 2 min read
College Kid Shuts Down High Speed Trains With a Laptop and a Radio

In Taiwan, a 23-year-old college student is in hot water after hacking the country’s high speed rail system…

May 17, 2026 3 min read
Amazon Employees Forced to Hit Quotas on AI Use, Immediately Start Using it for Everything Except Work

On the surface, companies across nearly every industry seem to be gobbling up AI contracts. Yet under the…

May 16, 2026 3 min read
Dentists Are Using AI to Scare Patients Into Unnecessary Dental Work, According to an Explosive Investigation

Is your dentist upselling you on something? Does your old filling really need to be replaced, and is…

May 16, 2026 3 min read
AI Data Centers Pushing Electric Grid Into Meltdown

AI data centers on the East Coast are gobbling up so much juice that nonprofit grid operator PJM…

Jan 17, 2026 2 min read
Doctor Says Trump Appears to Be Showing Signs of a Stroke

When Donald Trump won his second term in the White House, he was the oldest man in the…

Jan 16, 2026 3 min read
Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth

The use of generative AI for creative purposes has spawned a major countermovement. From game developers reeling from…

Jan 16, 2026 3 min read
Network of Home Computers Detected 100 Potential Alien Signals

For over two decades, millions of people volunteered the computational capacity of their computers to help UC Berkeley…

Jan 16, 2026 4 min read
Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core

For years now, AI companies, including Google, Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI, have insisted that their large language models…

Jan 16, 2026 4 min read
RFK Jr Startled by Trump’s Ability to Remain Alive Despite Dumpster-Tier Diet

Much ink has been spilled over US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dalliances with anti-vaccine conspiracy theories,…

Jan 16, 2026 2 min read
ICE’s AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster

As headlines teem with stories of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers beating protestors, holding children hostage, and…

Jan 16, 2026 3 min read
After Being Pillaged By AI Companies, Wikipedia Signs Deal to Get Paid By Them

Wikipedia has signed training deals with a host of major AI companies, helping it recoup some of the…

Jan 16, 2026 3 min read
There’s Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security’s New Drone Video That We’re Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute

Whether you’re a one-room film production house or a propagandist for a massive arm of the US government,…

Jan 16, 2026 3 min read
New Law Would Let Grok Victims Sue Creeps Who Generated Nonconsensual Nudes

On Tuesday, the US senate passed a new law that would allow victims to sue individuals who use…

Jan 16, 2026 3 min read
Google Now Stuffing Ads Into Its AI Products

In 2026, Google’s AI is embracing that oldest and noblest of internet traditions: sponsored content. Over the weekend,…

Jan 15, 2026 2 min read
Music Fans Explode With Joy as Bandcamp Bans AI Music

Bandcamp, a major music distribution platform favored by indie artists, announced Tuesday that it would be “putting human…

Jan 15, 2026 3 min read