August 26, 2026 5:26 AM
August 26, 2026
USA Today Journalists Horrified by Newspaper’s Partnership With Palantir
Last week, Nieman Lab revealed that USA Today‘s parent company USA Today Co (formerly Gannett) was partnering with…
Flock’s Secret Surveillance Plan Will Make You Gasp
Flock had a devious plan to expand its surveillance network past its army of AI-powered license plate scanners.…
Amazon Used a Startlingly Dirty Trick to Build a Data Center Without Consent of Community
A quiet war is playing out in rural communities across the country. City council meetings are bursting into…
Meta Exec Rages Against Employees Asking for More Time Off Because AI Made Them More Efficient
Even as they promise AI will supercharge productivity, tech leaders are sending a clear message: any efficiency gains…
Droughts Are Getting So Intense That Ancient Ruins Are Beginning to Surface From Dried Up Rivers
Water levels in rivers across Europe are reaching astonishing lows lately as a record heatwave continues to bake…
Volunteers Tracking Lost Dog Baffled When Locals Trash Thermal Imaging Drone
In a time of rising skepticism against tech surveillance, it seems not even the best intentions can spare…
Scammers Tremble as AI Comes for Their Jobs
Turns out there’s one thing AI chatbots are definitively better at than humans: scamming innocent people. A new…
Scientists Genetically Engineer High-Protein Lettuce
Scientists have finally created what might be the only thing that can get meatheads to eat their veggies:…
Elon Musk’s Efforts to Cut Spending in the Government Were So Incompetent That It’s Shocking, Internal Analysis Finds
In terms of demoralizing the federal workforce and demolishing the public sector, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency…
USA Today Partners With Palantir to Gain “Actionable Intelligence” On Its Audiences
When you read the newspaper, does it read you back? On Thursday, USA Today Co — formerly known…
The Real Victims of the AI Surveillance Panopticon? Crime Fiction Writers
AI-powered Flock cameras are blanketing the country. Data brokers are selling veritable dossiers worth of information on everyone…
Tesla Explosion Sends Injured Firefighters to the Hospital
Two firefighters were rushed to the hospital on Wednesday, after a Tesla parked in a family garage exploded.…
Meta Working on Crushingly Sad AI App That Tells Bedtime Stories to Children, for “Tired” Parents
Meta is testing an app that uses AI to automate bedtime stories for children. The future is here,…
Incredible Video Shows Chinese Rocket Get Hit by Lightning Mid-Launch
A Chinese rocket was smitten by a bolt from the heavens right after it lifted off. And if…
Computer Science Enrollment Now Declining Under Dark Cloud of AI
For years, the conventional wisdom for ambitious students and languishing jobseekers alike was “learn to code.” Do that,…
SpaceX Investors in Meltdown Over All the Money They’ve Lost
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is many different things to many different people — but one thing that it definitely…
Braindead Politician Accidentally Reads AI Slop That Someone Left in His Speech: “Here’s a More Natural, Flowing Version of That Section That Reads Like a Legislative Speech”
AI chatbots and politicians who aren’t even pretending to try anymore are a match made in heaven. Exhibit…
This May Be the Most Damning Single Fact in Tesla’s Quarterly Earnings Report
Tesla’s latest earnings report was very bad news for the company. In the second quarter, it made $1.1…
Investors Laying Groundwork to Profit Massively When Economy Collapses
Another glowing red indicator just lit up on the control panel steering the US economy: short sellers have…
So Many People Are Smashing Flock’s Cameras That It’s Disguising Them Inside Other Objects
On Wednesday, an a pro-privacy account called “Orwell Day” shared a video on X-formerly-Twitter of a man discovering…
It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History
The Cybertruck is a flop. For all of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s grandiose claims that the pickup would…
Suspicious Bets on Polymarket Suggest Something Fishy Was Happening During the World Cup
While the rest of us were busy rooting against Argentina, suspicious things were afoot on gambling markets related…
Google’s Profits Look a Little Terrifying Under the Hood
As fears of a bursting AI bubble reach new heights, Google has emerged as arguably one of the…
Google’s Immense Greed Is Destroying the Open Web
Publishers have watched in horror as Google continues to double down on AI features that discourage users from…