August 27, 2026 9:45 PM
August 27, 2026
SpaceX Now Faces a Terrible Peril
Investors were not impressed by SpaceX’s first-ever earnings report earlier this week. Shares dropped by more than ten…
We Talked to the Guy Who Built a Chatbot That’s Just Him Manually Responding to People One-by-One
On July 27, a billboard went up in San Francisco advertising an AI service called ChatTJB. But the…
Trump Cabinet Doctor Boasts of Ability to Soil Himself During Dinner Parties Without Detection
In case you need any more evidence that the Trump administration is run and advised by cranks, here’s…
Police Department Not Happy When Every Single One of Its Flock Cameras Gets Stolen
Whether magicians, thieves, or just fed up citizens, somebody has made an entire city’s worth of ALPRs vanish…
It’s So Hot in Japan That Zoo Animals Are Dropping Dead
Temperatures in Japan have gotten so extreme that zoo animals are dropping dead — though this may be…
Kalshi Defends Plan to Bet on Lives of Cancer Patients
Prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket have long garnered a reputation for allowing users to make all kinds of…
Texas Data Centers Suffer Brutal Collision With Reality
Texas is tripling down on the construction of AI data centers, at any cost. But there’s a glaring…
Elon Musk Allegedly Stiffing Contractors on Huge Bills
Being unbelievably wealthy comes with powerful perks — like getting away with being too cheap to pay people…
SpaceX Achieves Its First Moon Landing by Accidentally Crashing Into It at 5,400 Miles Per Hour, Causing Huge Explosion and 60-Foot Crater
At long last, a Moon landing for SpaceX — just not the kind it was hoping for. After…
Google’s AI Is Telling Users That Flock Cameras Are Filled With Valuable Gold and Copper
Google’s notorious AI Overview just handed would-be Flock vandals a perfect excuse to carve into the company’s controversial…
Anthropic CEO Says His Employees Are a Bunch of Untrustworthy Rats
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei apparently can’t believe that not everyone at the company is as noble-minded as he…
BMW Suddenly Blasts Its Cars’ Internal Screens With Aggressive Advertisements
For certain BMW owners, enormous car payments aren’t the only rude reminder that they don’t actually own their…
Law School Bans Laptops and Phones as AI Cheating Scandal Grows
Classes are going to look a little different for the University of Chicago’s first year law students. On…
Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic’s Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care
One of the largest health networks integrating AI into the medical space is facing allegations that its high-tech…
Chinese Spacecraft Approaches Mysterious Object Near Earth
The Chinese space age is upon us. Beyond banner projects like the nation’s very own orbital space station…
Trump Administration Scrapping Nuclear Energy Rules Requiring Plants to Keep Radiation Levels “As Low as Reasonably Achievable”
As government agencies go, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has left a lot to be desired, often operating…
Meta Caught Running Ads for Child Abuse
For many years now, child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has run rampant on Meta’s platforms. The Mark Zuckerberg-led…
Man Sucked Out of Airplane, Dangles by Seatbelt
It pays to buckle up. A passenger on Ryanair — because of course — had his insistence on…
OpenAI Is Shutting Down Its Browser That Was Supposed to Change Everything
In October, OpenAI unveiled an AI browser dubbed Atlas, purportedly designed to help you “understand your world” and “achieve…
Journalist Alarmed When He’s Fired, But Company Keeps Posting AI Slop Under His Name
Being fired was only the first indignity that one freelance writer had to suffer. Even though Ben Touati…
Scientists Propose Dimming Sun to Combat El Niño
Last month, the United Nations warned that this year’s El Niño, a naturally occurring climate pattern characterized by…
Christopher Nolan Unloads on AI Slop
Director Christopher Nolan has a reputation for tortuous storytelling. His movies elliptically jump across time (“Memento”), or move…
Palantir Insiders Disgusted by Company’s Leadership
As tech companies go, the surveillance giant Palantir plays it looser than most. Specializing in deadly military targeting…
Americans Are Raging About Autonomous Police Drones Swarming the Skies
There’s a hot new phrase bouncing around police departments across the United States: “drone-as-first-responder.” From small-town Indiana to…