October 26, 2026 12:18 PM
October 26, 2026
Palmer Luckey Says He’s Breeding Genetically Enhanced Dogs for the Military
Try to imagine the most dystopian military startup you can think of, and there’s a good chance it…
Airbnb Hosts Are Having a Meltdown After New Rules Means They Can’t Force Guests to Clean Up Everything For Them
The reign of tyrannical Airbnb hosts is over. On Wednesday, Airbnb unveiled a new policy update that prevents…
Unitree Unveils Fearsome Bodyguard Robot
Surely the robots that’ve been heavily marketed with all kinds of martial arts stunts would never be designed…
Trump Admin to Blast Immigrants With Heat-Ray Gun
From AI surveillance towers to robot dog patrols, the US-Mexico border has long been a proving ground for…
Trump Says He Called the CEO of Google to Rename the Atlantic Ocean
President Donald Trump called Google to rename the Atlantic Ocean — at least according to the not always…
US Government Accuses Russian Spacecraft of “Threatening Behavior” and Orbital “Weapons Operations”
Last Saturday, a 17,000 mph game of cat-and-mouse appears to have played out in low Earth orbit. According…
Man Arrested After Telling Claude About Plans to Shoot Up Daycare
A man in Sydney, Australia was arrested this week after telling Anthropic’s Claude that he wanted to kill…
Bryan Johnson Announces Plans for Mass Revenge
For years, multi-millionaire Bryan Johnson has chased after immortality, embracing bizarre “anti-aging” procedures like hyperbaric oxygen therapy and…
Man Hires Swarm of AI Agents to Go on Epic Hacking Spree Against Major Companies
A cybercriminal used AI agents to commit a string of attacks against more than 100 different companies — an…
Nobel-Winning Computer Scientist Says AI Has Become Conscious: “We’re Toast”
Geoffrey Hinton, one of the godfathers of AI, is prognosticating about our future with trademark gloom. In an…
There Are Signs of Serious Trouble in the Data Center Industry
Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, a torrent of money has flowed into building out data…
Head of Instagram Says He Has No Idea How to Deal With Wave of Horrible AI Slop
AI slop purveyors are stealing comedians’ jokes to create viral Instagram videos of fake comics. And Adam Mosseri,…
Major Data Center Developer Rents Floating Prison Barge to House Contract Construction Workers
What does it take to get a hyperscale data center built this late into 2026? A whole army…
Trump’s Department of Homeland Security Secretly Ordered Cybersecurity Operatives to Acquire a Voting Machine and Hack It
Donald Trump’s second spin in the White House has been mired in high-profile incidents of graft and corruption,…
Experts Warn of Humans Becoming Empty Vessels Controlled by AI
AI tools continue to automate more parts of our lives — and in turn, we become more reliant…
We Regret to Inform You That “GatGPT” Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
Someone vibe-coded a gun and 3D-printed it — and wants the freedom loving citizens of the world to…
Google’s DeepMind Quietly Hiring Nuclear Physicists
Top AI labs have been hiring subject matter experts across academic disciplines for years at this point —…
Wait, Was Elon’s “Flying Car” Just an Empty Shell?
Flying cars are right around the corner, if Tesla CEO Elon Musk is to be believed. Last week,…
Recipe Scammers Are Using an AI-Generated Emily Blunt as a Slop Puppet to Promote Their Garbage
A new report exposes thousands of scam websites flooding the web with AI-generated recipes. In the report, Decrypt…
Political Candidates Spending An Obscene Amount of Money on AI-Generated Election Slop
Whether as short-form slop Reels or the data centers that spit them out, Americans are absolutely sick of…
Truth Social Stock Hits All-Time Low as Userbase Craters on Trump’s Twitter Clone
Donald Trump’s Twitter clone, Truth Social, is in serious trouble. The company has weathered bad news before, hitting…
IMF Warns That AI Bubble Could Take Down the Entire World Economy
Fears of an AI bubble have been growing for years. And now the International Monetary Fund is the…
78-Year-Old Woman Hauled Off In Handcuffs After Blocking Delivery Robot
A retired professor was handcuffed and arrested last week, for the crime of standing on the sidewalk in…
Anthropic Secretly Lobbying Government to Only Shut Down an AI Model If It’s Poised to Kill More Than 50 People
For months, executives at top AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic have been dumping tens of millions of…