March 17, 2026 11:26 PM
March 17, 2026
Astronomer Who Discovered Water on Distant Planet Murdered Outside Home
A renowned Caltech astronomer who studied distant exoplanets was shot and killed outside his home in a rural…
Something Very Alarming Happens When You Give AI the Nuclear Codes
In 2024, Stanford researchers let loose five AI models — including an unmodified version of OpenAI’s GPT-4, its…
Intriguing New Smartphone Design Features a Small Robot Arm
The form factor of smartphones hasn’t changed all too much since the original iPhone debuted back in 2007.…
The Average American Would Pay $49 Per Month to Drink Recycled Toilet Water, Study Finds
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Similarly, the water in your toilet bowl could be another person’s…
Kalshi Says It’s Busted a MrBeast Staffer for Insider Trading
There are plenty of reasons to suspect that insider trading could be rampant on prediction platforms Kalshi and…
If AI Causes an Office Job Wipeout, It’ll Cause Huge Problems for Blue Collar Work Too
Blue collar workers may be enjoying a certain degree of schadenfreude at seeing the panic over tech, finance,…
New App Detects the Radio Fingerprint of Smart Glasses and Warns You When Someone Is Using Them Nearby
Meta Wayfarer G2s. TCL Nxtwear Gs. RayNeo Air 3s. With so many smart glasses flooding the marketplace, it…
Meta’s Head of AI Safety Just Made a Mistake That May Cause You a Certain Amount of Alarm
OpenClaw, an open source AI agent that supposedly “actually does things,” has driven everyone in the industry completely…
Google Apologizes for Sending the Worst Push Notification You Can Possibly Imagine
Disaster tends to strike when you let automated systems distribute news, especially on sensitive topics. The latest case…
Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much
These days, it’s not enough to sit and watch as AI destroys a generation of students, makes it…
Discord’s Verification Saga Has Devolved Into a Complete Self-Inflicted Embarrassment
Messaging platform Discord’s efforts to roll out age verification software have been nothing short of a disaster. Back…
The Winklevoss Twins’ Crypto Company Is in Crisis After the Bitcoin Crash
America’s favorite twins are struggling these days, as Bitcoin’s crash continues to hammer their decade-old crypto exchange, Gemini…
ChatGPT Users Are Crashing Out Because OpenAI Is Retiring the Model That Says “I Love You”
In August 2025, OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model, calling it the “smartest, fastest, and most useful…
Researchers Studied What Happens When Workplaces Seriously Embrace AI, and the Results May Make You Nervous
Even if AI is — or eventually becomes — an incredible automation tool, will it make workers’ lives…
Google Has a Major Problem With ICE
Google’s rank-and-file are joining together to address their bosses with a collective demand: cut ties with the US…
Anthropic Researcher Quits in Cryptic Public Letter
An Anthropic researcher just announced his resignation in a cryptic and poetry-laden letter warning of a world “in…
TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It’s Providing User Data to ICE
Last month, the popular social video app TikTok finalized a deal with investors, including Oracle, to appease a…
If Scientists Ever Find Strong Evidence of Alien Life, Communicating It Will Pose Serious Issues
We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among…
“Novelist” Boasts That Using AI She Can Churn Out a New Book in 45 Minutes, Says Regular Writers Will Never Be Able to Keep Up
At the height of his powers, and perhaps his amphetamine habit, legendary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick cranked…
Bitcoin Finally Finds Practical Use: Kidnapping Senior Citizens for Ransom
For years, Bitcoin evangelists have grasped at straws trying to explain what their digital currency is actually good…
Forget the NFL: New Sport Forces Two Massive Guys to Smash Into Each Other like Rhinos
Turns out the sci-fi filmmakers got it backwards. All those ’70s and ’80s dystopias like “Rollerball,” “The Running…
Photo Shows Elon Musk at Jeffrey Epstein Dinner
A newly revealed photo shows Elon Musk attending a “wild” dinner with Jeffrey Epstein and other powerful tech…
SpaceX Is Building Its Own Particle Accelerator
The Sun unleashes a torrent of charged particles. Some of them slam into the Earth’s atmosphere, triggering breathtaking…
Elon Musk Announces Huge Change: Self-Growing City on Moon Now Top Priority at SpaceX
Just over a year ago, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made it abundantly clear he was not interested in…