October 5, 2026 9:56 AM
October 5, 2026
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…
Scientists Detect Weird Anomalies in Clouds of Venus
Mysteries abound on our planetary neighbor Venus, not least of all because it’s permanently shrouded in a thick…
NASA Satellite Images Show Huge Colored Plumes Staining the Ocean
NASA satellites are tracking an intriguing patch of colored plumes in the waters off the US’s Mid-Atlantic coast.…
Sheriff Puzzled by UFOs Hovering Over Power Station
Sure, an inexplicable small-town mystery is fun. But for John Grossnickle, sheriff of Sweetwater County, Wyoming, this one’s…
Kyrie Irving Has “Incident” With Humanoid Robot
What’re professional team sports without a good shoving match? Basketball star Kyrie Irving got into one recently —…
When Asked to Generate an Alphabet Poster for Preschoolers, the Latest Version of ChatGPT Just Flails Wildly
On December 11, OpenAI release ChatGPT 5.2, the latest version of the widely used AI chatbot. As it…
Waymo Spotted Driving Wrong Way Down Busy Street
You don’t share the road with robotaxis — the robotaxis munificently share the road with you. This week,…
Bernie Sanders Calls for Halt on Construction of New Data Centers
While some anti-AI advocates have called for some extreme property damage to halt the AI boom, Vermont Senator…
Truth Social Stock Explodes as It Merges With Nuclear Fusion Company
President Donald Trump’s failing social media tech bid has tirelessly tried to reinvent itself into a viable business.…
Tesla Owner Says FSD Is Great Except for the Part Where It Can’t Drive in the Sun
If Elon Musk is to be believed, there will be hundreds of thousands — if not millions —…
New NASA Director Taking Over Agency in Crisis
It’s been almost a full year since NASA last had a full-time leader. The agency, responsible for the…
Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit
You know those memes about how there’s no such thing as a free VPN? Here’s the ultimate cautionary…
Scientists Intrigued by Huge Structure Under Bermuda
The Bermuda Triangle, a loosely defined region bounded by Bermuda, the Bahamas, and Puerto Rico, has been the…
Hacker Busts Startup Running Huge Web of AI-Generated “Influencers” on Instagram
Back in October, word started making the rounds of an AI startup called Doublespeed. Backed by venture capital…
AI Sends School Into Lockdown After It Mistook a Student’s Clarinet for a Gun
Students at Lawton Chiles Middle School in Florida were sent scrambling into lockdown last week, after an alert…