July 17, 2026 4:15 PM
July 17, 2026
Waymo Caught Driving Straight Into Oncoming Traffic
The hits keep coming for Waymo, whose self-driving taxi cabs are behaving like European tourists who haven’t quite…
Boeing’s Starliner Is Such a Disaster That We Don’t Even Have Words
Boeing’s Starliner, originally intended to serve as an alternative to SpaceX’s workhorse Dragon spacecraft, has been nothing short…
Scanning Your Baby’s Eyeballs Will Tell You How Their Brain Will Turn Out, Research Suggests
Who needs palm readings? New research suggests that scanning a preterm baby’s eyeballs can predict how its brain…
Light Pollution is Causing Fish to Live Miserable, Bitter Lives, Researchers Find
Nobody likes a night interrupted by blinding artificial light, least of all the fish who make their home…
AI Companies Are Learning an Ironic Lesson as the People They Pay to Improve Their Chatbots Are Just Feeding AI Slop Into Them
For tech companies racing to be the king of the AI hill, there are few things more precious…
Mark Zuckerberg Is Selflessly Building Yet Another Horrible Product Nobody Asked For
The explosive popularity of prediction markets, spearheaded by Polymarket and Kalshi, has shocked experts, who are warning of…
Airplane Crashes Into Skyscraper in China
A shocking aviation incident occurred in China when a small aircraft flew into Beijing’s tallest skyscraper on Friday,…
Ford Scrambled to Rehire Engineers After Sabotaging Itself With AI
Ford just admitted that it scrambled to rehire former employees and find new technicians after its AI systems…
Massive Data Center Cooks Nearby Residents Alive Amidst Deadly Heatwave
As Europe bakes in the throes of a deadly heatwave, residents living near the continent’s largest data center…
NASA Has a Major Problem Threatening Its Entire Moon Plans
To get SpaceX’s mammoth Starship all the way to the Moon and back with astronauts on board will…
All But Five US States Are Currently Experiencing Droughts
Only a few days into what looks to be a summer for the history books, droughts are already…
If There Wasn’t Enough Opposition to AI Data Centers Already, Now They’re Supercharging Inflation
The shockingly unpopular drive to pepper the United States with massive AI data centers isn’t just driving up…
AI Will Consume as Much Water as a Billion People By 2030, UN Report Estimates
AI data centers will consume as much water as the water needs of 1.3 billion people by 2030,…
NASA’s James Webb Discovers That 3I/ATLAS Let One Rip as It Passed Through Solar System
The mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS fascinated scientists as it made its way through the inner solar system last…
Chinese Post Office Deploys Humanoid Robots to Sort Mail
It’s no secret by now that the Chinese tech sector is going all-in on robotics. Last September, the…
Researchers Put AI Models in Charge of Analyzing Sports, and They Choked Spectacularly
Good news for sports broadcasters and fans who’d prefer their play-by-plays to have that human-touch: AI doesn’t know…
It Turns Out Lookmaxxing Has Some Extremely Emasculating Side Effects
Earlier this year, so-called “looksmaxxing” influencer Braden “Clavicular” Peters was rushed to the hospital after suffering a suspected…
New York Times Roasted for “Profiling” the “AI-Generated Actress” Tilly Northwood
The New York Times is getting torn apart by readers after its magazine published a “profile” of the…
Anthropic Scared, Calls for Global Freeze on AI Advances
Anthropic is calling for a global “pause” on AI development, claiming that the technology is nearing a point…
You Will Be Shocked to Hear That George Santos Is Under Investigation for Insider Trading on Kalshi
Gasp! Disgraced former Republican congressman George Santos is under federal investigation for insider trading on the prediction market…
CEO Says There Will Be No Raises Because He Spent All the Money on AI
For years, tech CEOs have used AI as an excuse to justify layoffs. In reality, though, many experts…
Kevin O’Leary Pleads With Locals to Allow His Massive Data Center If He Shrinks It Down to the Size of One Manhattan
“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary wants to build a menacingly large data center facility near the Great Salt…
It’s Possible That SpaceX Could Collapse Spectacularly
Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO is a mere week away, with the space company aiming to raise a whopping…
ISS Astronauts Ordered to Enter Evacuation Mode
Astronauts on board the International Space Station were ordered to shelter inside their spacecraft after discovering new “cracks…