August 26, 2026 2:18 AM
August 26, 2026
Dude Asks AI Agent to Book Gym Spot, Accidentally Launches Autonomous Cyberattack
An Australian man asked his personal AI agent to book him a spot at his local gym. Little…
Doctors Warn That Med Students Are Surrendering Their Brains to Medical AIs That Are Even Worse than Regular Chatbots
It’s no secret that doctors across the world are using AI tools to do stuff from taking notes…
Man Covers Car in Special Wrap That Breaks Flock Cameras’ Electronic Brains
In light of plummeting public support for its widespread automatic license plate readers, surveillance company Flock has lost…
Protesters Arrested After Storming OpenAI Lobbying Office
Over 30 student activists came together on Monday afternoon to occupy the Gallup Building in Washington DC, home…
Google Just Updated Its Home Page to Replace the “Search” Button With a Bunch of AI
Since its earliest days, Google’s homepage has been iconic in its simplicity: a central text box and a…
It’s Official: This Is the Hottest America Has Ever Been
It’s not just you — the United States is going through a record-bustingly hot summer. According to the…
AI Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots
German AI researcher and hedge fund manager Leopold Aschenbrenner became the poster child for the hubris of an…
Amazon’s New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States
Tech Goliaths are scrambling to build as much AI computing capacity as they possibly can, come hell or…
Homeschool Parents Are Planning Lessons With ChatGPT
As if the practice of homeschooling wasn’t fraught enough already, parents are now bragging about using large language…
Zuckerberg Under Fire After His Superyacht Declined to Help a Vessel in Distress
What’s the point of having a superyacht if you’re forced to share it with some unwashed poors? That’s…
Zuckerberg’s Manifesto About the Glorious Freedoms AI Will Bring Was Completely Contradicted by His Own CTO During a Company Meeting
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg just dumped a lengthy manifesto on his utopian vision for an AI “superintelligence”-driven future.…
Scientists Warn That New Satellites Could Cause Eye Damage for People on the Ground
Last month, the Federal Communications Commission approved an experimental and controversial new satellite being developed by venture Reflect…
El Niño Set to Upend the World Economy
The West Pacific has swung back into an El Niño phase, bringing nearly unprecedented heat to vast swaths…
Is Mark Zuckerberg Actually TRYING to Destroy Meta?
Back in the mid-2000s, Mark Zuckerberg had a pretty awesome product: a site called Facebook, which was still…
You Are Entirely Unprepared for the Noise This Data Center Constantly Blasts at Neighbors’ Homes
Earlier this month, we brought you the story of a data center in the sleepy Michigan town of…
It Seems a Lot Like Dead Internet Has Actually Come True
The infamous dead internet theory was originally a conspiracy that posited that the vast majority of the internet…
Suspicion Grows About OpenAI’s Tale About Its Rogue Hacker AI
Last week, ChatGPT maker OpenAI issued what seems like a frightening memo about an “unprecedented cyber incident” involving…
Elon Musk Is Having One of His All-Time Meltdowns
What would you do if you were unfathomably wealthy? Collect superyachts, throw extravagant parties, and just generally live…
High School Teacher Arrested for Clapping in Support of Anti-Data Center Activists
If you’re among the millions of US citizens against power-hungry data centers going up in your town, you…
SpaceX Stock Hammered After Starship Booster Fails in First Launch Since IPO
Was SpaceX’s recent Starship flight test a success or a failure? Many are hailing it as a victory,…
Sam Altman Announces That the Singularity Has Arrived
The “singularity” is here — according to Sam Altman, who we’d wager has an ulterior motive behind promoting…
A Whole Bunch of People’s Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There’s Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of chat logs and projects created with Anthropic’s Claude — some including sensitive personal and company information…
The AI Industry Has Acted So Badly That It’s Now Dealing With a Huge Wave of Hatred
The tech overlords pushing the AI boom are quickly wearing out what little welcome they had. You may…
The Type of Orbital Data Centers That Billionaires Want to Launch Into Space Would Wreak Ecological Catastrophe, Scientists Warn
Over the past year or so, a puzzling idea has taken hold among billionaires ranging from Elon Musk…