July 17, 2026 10:25 AM
July 17, 2026
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…
Elon Musk Confronted With List of People He’s Killed, Including Children
On the same week as his 55th birthday, almost-trillionaire Elon Musk attempted to defend himself after representative Ro…
You Are Entirely Unready to Learn the Name of the Company That Accidentally Filled the Reflecting Pool With Green Algae
US President Donald Trump has been desperately trying stop the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC from…
Anthropic Hires Economist Who Says 33 Percent Chance of Human Extinction Is Acceptable
Out of all the big AI players, Anthropic is the one that likes to doomsay about AI the…
Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue
Demand for the computing power that undergirds AI models — “compute,” in the lingo of the industry —…
Madonna Issues Explosive Take on AI
If you’re using AI to try and make “art,” Madonna Ciccone has some bad news for you. In…
Grim New Prediction Market Lets Gamblers Bet on Raging Wildfires
Ever wanted to role play a claims adjustor in Southern California? Now you can — with Wyldfyre, the…
Scientists Horrified as Huge Heatwave Hits Antarctica
When you’re studying weather patterns across Antarctica, recording breaking heat is pretty much one of the last things…
Consulting Firm’s Report on How Awesome AI Is Found to Contain Idiotic AI Hallucinations
A new report that was supposed to be a shining panegyric to how useful AI is was caught…
Tesla on Autopilot Smashes Straight Through Garage Door, Driver Says
A Washington driver’s Tesla literally made an entrance by swerving into someone’s garage door and smashing it completely…
Meta Employee Laid Off, Immediately Detained by ICE
With a constant churn of layoffs, a program to surveil its workers in the name of AI data…
Working From Home Has a Grim Effect on Your Brain, Surprise Research Finds
Most people would kill for a work-from-home job, but it turns out it can have some grim effects…
Autonomous Robots Confirmed to Have Killed Human Soldiers
Humanity has officially passed a grim milestone: the first confirmed death at the hands of a fully-autonomous robot…
Visa Officially Allowing AI Agents to Go Ham With Your Credit Card
Throw caution to the wind and forget your retirement plans. The future is now, baby, and we’re letting…
Scientists Concerned Latest Gene Editing of Human Embryos Could “Open the Floodgates”
Editing the genes of a human embryo remains highly controversial, particularly after Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the…
The El Niño Situation Is Looking Absolutely Brutal
Last week, the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization issued a confident prediction that El Niño will form at…
Eighty Residents Sue SpaceX, Saying Elon Musk’s Constant Rocket Launches Are Literally Destroying Their Homes
The 22,000-some employees of Elon Musk’s SpaceX enjoy their very own company town, complete with subsidized housing, corporate…
Prime Minister of the UK Vows to Unleash AI Tutors on 450,000 Poor Children
UK prime minister Keir Starmer doubled down on his promise to unleash dubious “AI tutors” on nearly half…
SpaceX’s IPO Shows That We Aren’t Even Close to Peak AI Bubble
Wall Street opened the floodgates today, releasing years of pent-up hype surrounding SpaceX’s long-awaited IPO. Elon Musk’s unprofitable…