July 17, 2026 4:13 AM
July 17, 2026
Tesla Slams Into Crowded Cafe, Killing One
One woman is dead after a wayward Tesla barreled into the Urbane Cafe, a strip mall restaurant in…
College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds
Gone are the days of university freshmen reading classical philosophers like Plato or contemporary pedagogues like Ta-Nehisi Coates.…
Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content
Meta conducted a secretive program that directed hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers while bombarding its competitors’ AI…
Self-Driving Taxi Company Annoyed by the Naughty Thing Passengers Keep Doing in Its Cabs
Robotaxi companies are learning the hard way that operating driverless cars also means that there’s no one supervising…
Does Someone on Polymarket Know That Putin Is Going Down?
Earlier this year, a major scandal rocked the prediction markets world after an account correctly bet $20,000 on…
Man Vanishes After Mysterious Experiments With Quantum Physics
The headline practically writes itself. A 78-year-old man, whose friend told law enforcement had been working at the…
Weird Al Turns Down Huge Sum to Appear in Ad for AI
Celebrities that you don’t actually know probably shouldn’t be your role models. Still, we’d be lying if we…
Simple Prompt Turns ChatGPT Into a Sociopath That Ignores Safety Guardrails
Researchers at the British AI security startup Mindgard found that a simple prompt spurred ChatGPT to drop its…
Amazon Is Spewing a Record Breaking Amount of Pollution to Power Its AI Data Centers
Amazon is breaking all kinds of records on the back of the AI boom, and not the good…
Biohackers Attempted Neurosurgery to Control a Lobster’s Nervous System and Give the Controls to OpenClaw, and How It Ended Will Tell You a Lot About the Ethics and Competence of AI Bros These Days
David Foster Wallace once asked readers to “consider the lobster,” in his famous essay about the ethics of…
The Amount of Profit Trump Is Making Off Crypto and Corruption Will Blow Your Mind
As the first billionaire president of the United States, Donald Trump is nothing if not an indictment of…
Tesla’s Semi Truck Involved In Horrific Crash That Killed Married Couple
A Tesla Semi was involved in a grisly crash earlier this week with two passenger vehicles that killed…
Research Suggests the Older You Get, the More Weed You Should Smoke
Could smoking weed protect your aging brain? A study recently highlighted by The Washington Post suggests it might.…
A New Store in Hong Kong Has No Human Employees, Just a Single Humanoid Robot
Sometimes we like convenience stores for their charm as much as their actual convenience. Now, a new one…
A New Type of Gambling Scandal Is Sweeping Through Sports
Before playing at this year’s World Cup, the Ivory Coast soccer player Elye Wahi was arrested on alleged…
Controversial MIT Study Investigates What’s Really Worse for the Environment: Gas or Electric Cars
Debates have raged for years over whether electric vehicles are really better for the environment than old-school ones…
Volunteer Under Investigation for Cleaning Polluted River Without a License, Faces Two Years in Prison
Sometimes it feels like no good deed goes unpunished. You can’t hand out food to the homeless without…
Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers
Not that anyone in power is going to care, but there’s even more evidence that Americans are coming…
Meta Exec Admits Zuckerberg Has Crushed Workers’ Spirits
Workplace morale at Meta is in a tailspin after Mark Zuckerberg and his executive crew slashed thousands of…
Waymo Has Been Defeated by New York City
It’s not exactly straightforward to navigate New York City by car. Manhattan, in particular, is a confusing maze…
Companies That Embraced AI Are Now Rotting Away in a Very Specific Way
Companies that went all-in on using generative AI tools are developing a major “workslop” problem. In their pursuit…
Weather So Brutal That Dean Passes Out at College Graduation
It’s official folks: El Niño is upon us. For some, that means get ready for an unseasonable deluge…
Microsoft Announces New Feature That Narcs on You to Your Boss
In a world of mouse jigglers and workplace surveillance, there’s a clear divide between employees who wish to…
TikTok Has Been Completely Taken Over by AI Slop
AI slop has become practically inescapable on social media, with low-rent and at-times terrifying AI-generated videos drowning out…