August 4, 2026 6:13 PM
August 4, 2026
We Are Mildly Horrified by This AI Startup That Coerced People Into Getting Tattoos of Its Logo in Exchange for a Job Interview
The US job market is in a weird place right now. Life is clearly rough for the working…
Scientists Forced to Go on OnlyFans After Their Funding Was Cut
When you’re a scientist relying on government funding to conduct your research, and that government suddenly yoinks all…
The More People Learn About AI, the More They Want It Out of Their Lives
For a time, it appeared as if AI would find broad acceptance among the American masses. The peanut…
Columbia Economist Baffled as to Why the Masses Aren’t Rising Up Against Elon Musk
As unpopular as SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become in the popular eye, some say the…
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
When the United States ratified the 13th amendment in 1865, federal lawmakers very nearly outlawed slavery for good…
FTC Concerned About Meta Surveillance of Users of Erectile Dysfunction Apps
If you’re among the 2.6 million active users of the popular telehealth apps Hims and Hers to obtain…
Major Publisher Cans $2.4 Million Book Deal After Author Was Accused of Using AI, for a Very Cynical Reason
Book publisher Minotaur, which is owned by leading publishing company Macmillan US, has walked away from a $2.4…
Iran Appears to Be Blasting Amazon Data Centers Off the Map
There’s data center activism, fought with Facebook groups and petitions, and then there’s data center annihilation, fought with…
Kalshi Sued for Running Illegal Gambling Operation
After years of facilitating a surge in gambling addiction by allowing users to make dubious bets on anything…
Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It’s Immediately Used to Fake Terror Attacks
Google Earth is the de facto record of our entire planet. But today, the company undermined its own…
Mark Zuckerberg’s Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly
Despite having almost nothing to show from his enormous spending on AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling…
Amazon Insiders Horrified at “Catastrophically Expensive” Internal AI Usage
Even the gazillion-dollar empire that is Amazon is reeling from the costs of letting its employees run loose…
The United States Is Rapidly Running Out of Blood
For only the second time in its history, the American Red Cross has declared a “national blood supply…
If You AI-Generate Code, Hackers Just Found a Devious Method to Install Malware Directly on Your Computer
Despite certain improvements in accuracy, large language models still hallucinate a lot. So much so, in fact, that…
Microsoft CEO Warns That Companies Embracing AI Could Drive Themselves Out of Business
The business world has quickly learned that there’s such a thing as using too much AI, as they…
NASA Rescue Mission Spirals Into Crisis
Last month, NASA announced that it was launching an unprecedented and risky mission to rescue its aging Swift…
Residents Furious at Plan to Seize and Destroy Their Homes for AI Data Centers
As dozens of cities across the US are forced to scrap their plans to build power-hungry data centers,…
BuzzFeed Lays Off 33 Percent of Remaining Staff After Bizarre Pivot to AI
Things just keep getting worse for BuzzFeed. On Monday, the struggling media company announced the layoffs of 180…
Elon Musk Launches New Service Where You Can Send Him All Your Money and Hope for the Best
If you were looking for even more ways to give Elon Musk your hard-earned cash, you’re in luck!…
This New Meta “Advertisement” Is Absolutely Brutal
Last week, we came across a cleverly subversive advertisement for Meta’s controversial smart glasses, which overlaid socialite Kylie…
Sam Altman Says Even the Power of AI Will Never Lead to a Shorter Work Week
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has some bad news to share: AI will never lead to a shorter work…
El Niño Set to Upend the World Economy
The West Pacific has swung back into an El Niño phase, bringing nearly unprecedented heat to vast swaths…
Is Mark Zuckerberg Actually TRYING to Destroy Meta?
Back in the mid-2000s, Mark Zuckerberg had a pretty awesome product: a site called Facebook, which was still…
You Are Entirely Unprepared for the Noise This Data Center Constantly Blasts at Neighbors’ Homes
Earlier this month, we brought you the story of a data center in the sleepy Michigan town of…