April 4, 2026 7:45 AM
April 4, 2026
There’s a Blinking Warning Sign for the Data Centers in Space Industry
It’s plain to see that Elon Musk’s ambition of putting data centers in space is a daring and…
Moon Spacecraft’s Toilet Fails Hours Into Ten-Day Journey
The four crew members of NASA’s historic Artemis 2 mission around the Moon may be on one of…
Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed
The data centers powering your favorite AI chatbot are running low on helium, cash, and neighbors who don’t…
JONATHAN THE 193-YEAR-OLD TORTOISE IS STILL ALIVE, REPEAT HE HAS NOT DIED
On Wednesday, sorrow swept through the Futurism newsroom as we heard that Jonathan, a 193-year-old Seychelles giant tortoise…
Chinese University Announces 30-Story “Artificial Island” for Marine Research Purposes
Some countries pump out aircraft carriers to project power across the globe; others build research megastructures to plumb…
The Trump Administration Is Doing Something Horrifying to Workers at Nuclear Facilities
It isn’t just the guys handling plutonium who need to worry about radiation — every US nuclear worker,…
Conspiracy Theorists Are Going to Have a Field Day as NASA Gears Up to Launch Historic Moon Mission on April Fools’ Day
Conspiracy theories have run rampant over the decades following NASA’s historic Apollo missions to the surface of the…
Leaked Claude Code Shows Anthropic Building Mysterious “Tamagotchi” Feature Into It
After Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code to its blockbuster Claude chatbot, netizens swiftly pounced to start plowing…
SpaceX Files for IPO
Following months of rumors, Bloomberg reports that Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX has confidentially filed for an initial…
Here’s Why Google Searches for “Bimbofication” Are Surging
Searches for “bimbofication” began surging Tuesday, from an average index score of zero to 100 in a single…
The Iran War Has Cut Off Supply of a Gas the AI Industry Desperately Needs
Forget gas prices and fertilizer. One of the biggest casualties of the US war on Iran could be…
The Fact That Anthropic Has Been Boasting About How Much Its Development Now Relies on Claude Makes It Very Interesting That It Just Suffered a Catastrophic Leak of Its Source Code
Earlier this year, the head of Anthropic’s blockbuster Claude Code AI agent Boris Cherny boasted that “pretty much…
Bluesky Users Respond With Overwhelming Disgust to Platform’s New AI
In its early days, Twitter alternative Bluesky tried to paint itself as a safe haven from the onslaught…
Law Seeks to Ban Public Officials From Making Polymarket Bets on Upcoming Bloodshed, Because Apparently We Live in a Complete Dystopia
Bad news, war profiteers: efforts are underway in the US to ban public officials from placing Polymarket and…
Top ICE Official Falling Apart Medically Due to Stress of Getting Yelled At
Look — it doesn’t matter if your job is supervising a burger joint or managing an office; it’s…
Scientists Intrigued by Microbe That That Makes Mice Swole
A special gut microbe helped mice get jacked, researchers found. Because this microbe is found in humans, it…
Sharks Showing Unusually High Levels of Cocaine
The expression “coked to the gills” has never been more apt. Scientists from Brazil have discovered that sharks…
Scientist Thawing Out Fragments of His Friend’s Cryogenically Preserved Brain
Shortly after the influential biogerontologist L. Stephen Coles was declared legally dead in 2014, his brain was put…
China Built the World’s Largest Outdoor Escalator, and It’s a Modern Marvel That Looks Like It Never Stops Rising Into the Sky
Now officially taking rides: an over-a-half-mile long escalator that stretches ever upward in a mountainous city in China’s…
Protesters Stage Unsettling Demonstration in Front of Palantir’s Office
Hundreds of protestors descended on Palantir’s unmarked office building in downtown Manhattan over the weekend. Organized by the…
Data From Chinese Moon Lander Shows Signs of Peculiar Radiation “Cavity”
As NASA continues to push for a permanent presence on the Moon, future space travelers will face plenty…
Wikipedia Editors Tried and Tried to Work With AI Content, Eventually Realized It Was Total Trash and Banned It Entirely
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales once described his creation as a “temple of the mind.” Now, a decade on,…
Seminole Nation Becomes First Indigenous Group to Ban Planet-Cooking Data Centers From Its Land
The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma just became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction from…
Strange Modular Robots Are Writhing Across Landscapes
The future of robotics may not lie in the clunky androids we’ve been seeing so many of lately,…