July 17, 2026 12:54 PM
July 17, 2026
A24 Is Dealing With a Full-on Crisis Among Fans After Signing an AI Deal With Google
Indie Hollywood darling A24 scored a massive financial hit with its “Backrooms” horror flick this year, netting over…
Bosses Are Becoming Obsessed With AI, Using It to Make Every Decision, Barraging Their Employees With Nonsensical ChatGPT Directives, and Even Asking It Who to Fire
A lawyer was working at a legal tech startup when her boss’s fascination with AI began to veer…
Elon Musk’s Mother Posts Happy Birthday Image for Him That, on Closer Inspection, Is Devastatingly Sad
The world’s first trillionaire just celebrated his 55th birthday. And we can’t tell which possibility is more depressing:…
NASA Prepping to Launch Extremely Risky Rescue Mission
NASA’s Swift observatory, designed to study the most powerful explosions in the universe, launched into orbit over two…
AI Zillionaires Are Starting to Get Scared as the Public Turns Against Them
There’s no doubt that the broader public has turned against AI in a serious way. In the United…
Giant Pickup Trucks Are Killing Pedestrians in Incredible Numbers
The true scourge of American roadways isn’t pot holes, rush hour traffic, or grandmas ambling down the fast…
We Are Extremely Skeptical of MidJourney’s Weird Device That It Claims Submerges Your Entire Body and Scans It With Ultrasound
In February 2024, scientific journal Frontiers was forced to retract a paper by a team of Chinese and…
Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning
The law’s gaze has grown harder to escape, as surveillance drones and AI-integrated cameras now track movement across…
There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting Through the Universe, Mind-Bending Paper Claims
Anyone who saw the blockbuster sci-fi film “Project Hail Mary” will remember Rocky, a creature unlike anything we’ve…
Devastating Droughts Are Punching Massive Sinkholes Into Critical Farmland
Human activity-driven climate change has exacerbated droughts, making them more frequent, last longer, and more severe. This summer…
Scientists Publish Extremely Serious Research About Whether Tickling Apes Makes Them Giggle
We love apes. We love that they’re uncanny but pure reflections of our human quirks and foibles, at…
Employees Are Using Their Jobs’ Super-Expensive AI Tokens for the Most Hilariously Pointless Tasks Imaginable
Under all the bluster of AI hype lies a real conundrum: companies are charging out-of-this-world prices for a…
Palantir, World’s Weepiest Eye of Sauron, Sues Mayor of London After Losing a Contract
Palantir, the multi-billion dollar AI surveillance company, has been dealt a major blow after London mayor Sadiq Khan…
Solar Just Produced More Electricity Than Coal for the First Time in the History of the United States
Last week, the Trump administration announced that it was pumping $700 million of federal funding into the US…
Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet
The White House and Congress are working on a deal to clamp down on what US citizens are…
Google DeepMind Partner Posts Video of Fake Humanoid Robot
Bot What It Seems In August 2021, Elon Musk’s Tesla held a flashy event announcing its plans to…
Humanoid Robot Kicks Soccer Ball So Hard It Smashes Hole in Wall
Who’s the World Cup favorite? Spain, obviously. But the other nations might stand a chance if FIFA let…
Scientists Discover Fearsome Wind That Destroys Entire Galaxies
Powerful winds capable of destroying entire galaxies could explain why the early universe is littered with “dead” realms…
Deodorant Strictly Forbidden at Intel’s AI Chip Facility
The inside of a facility where AI chips are made is extraordinarily sensitive. Fabrication plants are filled with…
Innocent Man Freed After Spending Over 50 Days in Jail Due to Horribly Inaccurate AI Facial Recognition Tech
Department of Injustice Jalil Richardson of North Carolina is free after spending over 50 days in jail after…
California Primed for Apocalyptic Earthquake, Geological Research Finds
No Fault of Our Own Southern California is home to two major fault lines, the San Andreas and…
Scientists Have Detected Something Deeply Alarming at the Bottom of the Ocean
Mysteries of the Deep Something is stirring in the waters off the coast of Greenland, and it isn’t…
College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read
Generation Brain Rot Here’s the latest harrowing dispatch from the frontlines of education, as yet another higher education…
NASA’s Next Moon Mission Is a Rube Goldberg Machine of Corporate Failure Points
NASA announced the crew of four astronauts for its upcoming Artemis 3 mission during a Tuesday announcement, an…