March 17, 2026 5:43 PM
March 17, 2026
Constant Space Launches Turning Earth’s Atmosphere Into a “Crematorium,” Scientists Say
Constant space launches are turning the atmosphere into a “crematorium” for satellites and other space debris. That was…
Creator of Claude Code Fears This Could Be the Last Year That Software Engineers Are Employable
The warning signs are piling up for anyone still working as a software engineer in 2026. In a…
Government Insiders Concerned by Musk’s Erratic and Sycophantic Grok Being Deployed for Incredibly Sensitive Purposes
The Trump administration is scrambling to replace Claude, the chatbot embedded throughout the Pentagon’s entire scaffolding, with Elon…
Anonymous Kalshi User Makes Huge Bet That the White House Is About to Confirm Alien Life or Technology
Is the US government about to confirm that aliens are real? That’s the claim floating around among those…
The Hubble Is Inexorably Falling to Earth
For years now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has had its fair share of brushes with death. The groundbreaking…
The Economy Is Lurching Downward as Fear of AI Spreads
AI chipmaker Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, demolished analyst expectations this week when it posted a massive…
AI Workers, and Even CEOs, Suddenly Turning Against the Trump Administration
The Trump administration has a new rival in its ongoing feud with AI company Anthropic: Silicon Valley’s rank-and-file.…
Chatbot Use Can Cause Mental Illness to Get Worse, Research Finds
A new study found that chatbot use appeared to worsen symptoms of mental illness in people struggling with…
Anthropic Blowout With Military Involved Use of Claude for Incoming Nuclear Strike
Anthropic’s ongoing battle with the Pentagon over the military’s use of its AI systems flared up this week…
Huge Study Finds Living Near Nuclear Plants Linked With Cancer Deaths
Conventional wisdom holds that nuclear power plants — outside of ultra-rare disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima — are…
Anthropic CEO Warns of “Tsunami” on Horizon
Dario Amodei may boast many credentials, but we weren’t aware that meteorologist was one of them. This week,…
Anthropic Drops Its Huge Safety Pledge That Was Supposedly the Whole Point of the Company
In 2021, a splinter group of former OpenAI employees founded a new startup, Anthropic, to pursue building AI…
AIs Controlling Vending Machines Start Cartel After Being Told to Maximize Profits At All Costs
In December, Anthropic red teamers and business journalists at the Wall Street Journal teamed up in a bold…
Emails Show Epstein Scheming That Environmental Destruction Could Solve “Overpopulation”
For all the horrible stuff crammed into the Epstein files, they sure have a way of making even…
The Object at the Core of the Milky Way Might Not Be a Black Hole at All, Scientists Say
The traditional understanding is that the center of our galaxy is dominated by a supermassive black hole. The…
New AI Video Generator Is So Impressive That It’s Scaring Hollywood
Text-to-video generating tools have made tremendous leaps in a few short years. We went from a horrifying clip…
Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Scientists Say
Surprise, surprise: all that climate stuff scientists have been warning us about is coming back to bite us.…
Microsoft Added AI to Notepad and It Created a Security Failure Because the AI Was Stupidly Easy for Hackers to Trick
As Microsoft continues to force AI features onto users of its Windows operating system and other crucial software,…
They Gave a Robot a Sword
Folks, it finally happened: they gave a robot a sword. Over the past few years, engineers have often…
Former xAI Staffers Say They Were Burned Out by the Company’s Carelessness and Lack of Innovation
Earlier this week, two cofounders of Elon Musk’s xAI abruptly announced their departure, meaning that half of the…
Another OpenAI Researcher Just Quit in Disgust
A mere two years ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed the idea of stuffing his company’s blockbuster chatbot…
Man Lets AI Rent His Body
Last week, we brought you the story of RentAHuman, a platform brokering connections between AI agents and humans…
Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care
When Meta announced it would strip its failed VR goggles division for parts, the bet was simple: funnel…
NASA Running Out of Non-Life Explanations for What Its Rover Found on Mars
Last year, NASA’s Curiosity rover made a fascinating discovery after boring into a suspected ancient lake bed on…