September 15, 2026 9:35 PM
September 15, 2026
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…