August 27, 2026 2:56 PM
August 27, 2026
AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build
The amount of pollution spilling out of fossil-fuel generators is astounding. In the United States, this explosion of…
Texas Avoids Blackout by the Grace of Solar Power
When Texas’s privately-run electrical grid collapsed amid a battery of winter storms in February of 2021, it plunged…
Scientist Reveals Plan to Save Earth From Destruction by the Sun
In something like five billion years from now, our Sun is expected to run out of hydrogen fuel,…
VC-Funded Startups Linked to Persistent Fraud
It turns out the venture capital industry doesn’t just merely fund junky AI startups — it also systematically…
Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
Meta was paying out-and-out neo-Nazis to post on Facebook, an investigation from Australia’s ABC News found. These pages…
Why Aren’t Any AI Companies Watching Their Frontier Models to Make Sure They Don’t Go on Hacking Sprees?
Last month, OpenAI made a headline-generating claim: that a group of its AI models had conspired to break…
Roku Unleashes 24/7 AI Slop Channel
Roku is giving the masses what they never asked for: an unending conveyor belt of AI slop. Those…
33 Students Treated for Deadly Bacteria Exposure When Classroom Experiment Goes Horribly Wrong
Talk about homework: a large class of undergraduates at an unnamed university in Utah became the unfortunate subject…
Public Offers Implausible Number of Alibis for Man Accused of Destroying Flock Cameras
When police in West Virginia’s Monongalia County arrested 20-year-old Wesley Jackson for his alleged involvement in the destruction…
Authorities Alarmed When Person With Measles Spends Entire Day Frolicking Around Universal Studios
Even notorious anti-vaxxer and US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr had to urge families to vaccinate their…
Google Data Center Announces Plans to Pave Over Protected Wetlands
Residents of Fort Wayne, Indiana may have to say goodbye to over four acres of federally protected wetland…
AI Model Invents Completely New Viruses Unknown to Nature
In case you weren’t already feeling paranoid about how AI is shaping our future, scientists for the first…
Climate Activists Pelt Microsoft Data Center With Balloons Full of Acid
As the public backlash to AI data centers continues to escalate, activists are resorting to extreme measures to…
It’s Laughably Easy to Poison Open-Weight AI Models, Researcher Finds
Good news, everyone: “open-weight” AI models that are available to anyone to download and run are comically easy…
As Much of the East Coast Is Choking on Wildfire Smoke, Texas Is Drowning in Life-Threatening Floods
Fresh off a month that saw all but five states mired in severe drought, the US is reeling…
Striking Workers Bring Car Factory to a Screeching Halt Over Humanoid Robots
From the factories of Detroit to the postal warehouses in Shenzhen, a new kind of worker is clocking…
Top Meta Exec Describes Controversial Facial Recognition Feature in Detail After the Company Claimed It Didn’t Exist
Meta executives claimed that a controversial facial recognition feature didn’t “exist.” Fast forward a few weeks later, and…
Family Horrified When They’re Forced to Sell Their Beloved Home to Make Way for AI Data Centers
Like a tornado descending from the heavens, data centers are tearing through homes across the US, roaring like…
AI-Pilled Tech CEO Convinced He Has the Perfect Solution for Online Dating, Announces Harebrained App Idea
Look, dating in the 2020s sucks. The apps are bad, people are rude, and the etiquette of it…
SpaceX Eager to Support the Pentagon’s Lethal AI Models
After years of being engaged, it looks like SpaceX and the Pentagon are finally ready to send out…
Trump Decimated a Satellite Program That Would’ve Vastly Improved Wildfire Smoke Monitoring
When Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the DOGE boys started snipping wires across DC, they took out critical…
Brutal Humanoid Robot Cage Match Stops Abruptly When One of the Robot’s Heads Pops Off
You might wince at the professional spectacle of two humans beating each other to a pulp. But when…
Hackers Expose How AI Music App Suno Stole Decades Worth of Copyrighted Music
A hack revealed in detail how AI music generating app Suno scraped millions of songs, likely including copyrighted…
AI Bubble Fears Are Starting to Spill Over
Yet another domino appears to be falling as part of the Ruth Goldberg machine that will eventually pop…