July 17, 2026 9:16 AM
July 17, 2026
Is Your Air Conditioning Killing People Thousands of Miles Away?
When horrible things happen to people you care about, it’s only natural to seek someone to blame. If…
CEO Says He’ll Fire Any Employee Who Sends Him More AI Slop
We’ve been hearing a lot lately about bosses who have embraced AI so much that they’ve become loose…
SpaceX Investors Are Having Another Brutal Day
In the weeks following its dramatic IPO, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has yet to find stable ground. After shooting…
Scientists Just Found Something Very Disturbing About the AMOC Current Deep Below the Ocean: Evidence That Its Weakening Isn’t Just a Fluke, and If It Collapses, the World Could Be Plunged Into Climate Catastrophe
Chilling news: a mysterious patch of cold water at the bottom of the north Atlantic is caused by…
Scientists Build Fully Synthetic Life Form That Can Eat and Reproduce
Scientists claim that for the first time in history, they have constructed a synthetic cell that feeds, grows,…
Thieves Are Absolutely Loving All of These New Data Center Projects
An enormous amount of resources and money go into the construction of a data center. The enormous facilities…
Factories Attach Cameras to Workers, in Hopes of Replacing Them With Robots
Today, sweatshop workers across the Global South are being made to pull double duty: both stitching clothes together,…
Boys Are So Unprepared by the Education System That They’re Hitting High School Unable to Read Anything More Challenging That a Children’s Book
Fewer teens than ever are reading books, and boys especially. And the ones who do read are either…
Top AI Researchers Terrified of a “Chernobyl Moment”: a Mass Casualty Event, or Worse, That Turns the World Against AI Forever
US and Chinese AI researchers are calling for global cooperation on the tech, fearing that its unchecked development…
Brown University Professor Horrified to Discover Largest AI Cheating Scandal in Ivy League History
Award winning economist and Brown University professor Roberto Serrano says he has detected what appears to be the…
Venture Capitalists Disgusted by Solar Power Because It’s Generating Too Much Clean Electricity to Be Grossly Profitable
As the Trump administration continues to debilitate the United States’ path to green power, other parts of the…
Elon Musk Is Crashing Out Badly
Over the weekend, Elon Musk publicly challenged anybody to “cite a single name of someone who died” as…
Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues
Morale at Meta has seemingly hit rock bottom. Employees have been roiling from multiple rounds of major layoffs.…
Woman “Seriously and Permanently Injured” by Egg McMuffin, Lawsuit Alleges
We’ve all heard the story of the woman who sued McDonald’s for selling her scalding hot coffee —…
Scientists Detect Hundreds of Earthquakes Deep Beneath Antarctica
Something is stirring deep beneath the thick sheet of ice blanketing Antarctica. With the help of deep learning…
Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class
Would you believe it: a teacher and her students say their reading ability soared after banning tech in…
Google CEO Humiliated by Graduating Stanford Students as They Walk Out of His Speech in Protest
As anger at the tech industry boils over, college students across the United States are using their graduation…
CEOs Now Being Forced to Reverse Course, Cut AI Spending
The era of AI maximalism is grinding to a halt. It was only months ago that CEOs were…
Meta’s Super Expensive New AI Team Is Already a Complete Catastrophe
Now that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of a metaverse has collapsed in on itself, the billionaire has…
Woman’s Death Blamed on Hospital’s AI System
As AI finds its way into hospital systems around the world, the case of one Brazilian woman makes…
Humanoid Robot Preparing to Climb Mount Everest
Humanoid robots are, by definition, pretty extreme. Requiring top-of-the-line batteries, a high-degree of mobility, and a very accurate…
NASA Loads Moon Rocket onto Giant Trump-Branded Train
NASA is gearing up for its extremely ambitious next Moon mission, which will see a crew of astronauts…
Scientists Investigate Strange Rumbling Beneath Utah
A mysterious earthquake deep below northern Utah had scientists scratching their heads back in 1979. The rumble seemingly…
Earth’s Underground Fungus Network Is So Gigantic That If You Stretched It Out, It Would Reach to Other Star Systems
Scientists have mapped the Earth’s entire underground fungal network, showing that it’s so extensive that if it were…