March 15, 2026 1:49 AM
March 15, 2026
China’s Moon Landing Is Starting to Look Very Real
In an announcement last month, NASA officials announced major changes to its Moon program, pushing the first lunar…
Iran Says It’s Ready to Destroy the Global Economy
If the Trump administration was expecting it’d quickly wrap up its “little excursion” in Iran like in a…
People Really, Really Despise AI — Even More Than ICE, Poll Finds
Anti-AI sentiment surged over the last year as the hype surrounding the tech showed no signs of slowing…
Retired Air Force Major General With UFO Connections Disappears in New Mexico
The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) in Ohio has played a central role in UFO lore. The base…
CEOs Say Yeah, AI Might Be a Bubble, But They’re Gonna Keep Shoveling Money Into the Furnace Because All Their Friends Are
A new survey by accounting firm KPMG US found a contradiction in how CEOs are thinking about AI:…
Grammarly Is Pulling Down Its Explosively Controversial Feature That Impersonates Writers Without Their Permission
Grammarly infuriated journalists, authors, and academics with its “Expert Review” feature, which impersonated writers — both dead and…
The AI-Generated Tilly Norwood Just Dropped the Worst Music Video We’ve Ever Seen
Late last year, video production company Particle6 triggered near-universal backlash when it unveiled its so-called “AI actress” dubbed…
US Military Tested Havana Syndrome Weapon on Large Mammals, Whistleblowers Says
Sprawling revelations about so-called Havana Syndrome show no signs of going away. Rumors of the alleged neurological condition…
US Military Investigating Whether AI Was Involved in Bombing Elementary School in Iran
Commercial satellite imagery captured last week shows the eerie devastation following the bombing of an Iranian elementary school.…
Waymos Are a Huge Drain on Public Resources, Government Data Shows
In their 2022 book “The Road to Nowhere,” tech critic Paris Marx considered the implications of the death…
FCC Deciding Whether to Allow Startup to Launch Huge Mirror Satellite to Blast Sunlight on Cities at Nighttime
The US Federal Communication Commission is reviewing an application to launch and deploy a massive mirror satellite in…
Body Horror Robot Turns Human Into Centaur
We’ve seen plenty of robot appendages designed to decrease exertion, from futuristic exoskeletons that can allow you to…
Study Finds That Execs Are Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
The headlines warning about AI melting our brains usually point to students or workers, which — fair enough.…
A Machine Learning Engineer Thought He Was Safe From AI Layoffs. Then He Got Some Depressing News
While the exact impact of AI on the job market remains hazy at best, ongoing fears that an…
Using AI to Do Your Taxes Is Likely to Backfire Spectacularly
Tax season, that dreaded time of year, is upon us. But if you were hoping that newfangled AI…
Efforts Grow to Ban Octopus Farming
The case for a prohibition on octopus farming is simple enough: we probably shouldn’t raise animals capable of…
Kalshi Sent Bizarre Message to Underage Streamer
Kalshi hasn’t been particularly subtle about sucking young users into its gambling empire. Now, new reporting from the…
AI Job Loss Is Breaking the Psyche of Workers, Psychiatrist Warns
If you’re one of the hundreds of millions of Americans who earn a wage for a living, it…
Scientists Find Microbes Can Survive Traveling from Planet to Planet While Clinging to Asteroids
In an effort to explain how life started on Earth billions of years ago, some scientists have suggested…
Emergency Responders Say They’re Now Unpaid “Roadside Assistance” for Confused Waymos
Overseas teleoperators aren’t the only ones stuck cleaning up Waymo’s messes. Emergency responders are also having to swoop…
Atmospheric CO2 Getting So High That It’s Weakening Human Skeletons
Though talks of climate change typically conjure up images of dripping glaciers and rising tides, it turns out…
You’ll Choke When You Hear How Many Full-Time Jobs a $136 Million Data Center Will Actually Create
Fit Precast, an industrial concrete company, is dropping $102 million on a new facility in Gastonia, North Carolina,…
Evidence Grows That Google’s AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry
Media workers aren’t so much being replaced by AI systems as fed to one: Google’s gluttonous AI Overviews,…
Famed Plastic Surgeon Weighs in on Jim Carrey’s Face
Is it a shock that an aging actor may or may not have gotten work done on their…