July 19, 2026 1:59 PM
July 19, 2026
Failing Robot Cop Company Knightscope Now Publishing Bizarre AI Slop Fan Fiction About Its Robots Solving Absurd Crimes
For its 13 years in businesses, robot security company Knightscope has weathered a remarkable run of self-inflicted disasters.…
Amazon Investigating Its Own Employees for Daring to Oppose AI Data Center
Though the data centers undergirding the AI boom are becoming hugely unpopular with US voters, companies like Amazon…
Meta’s Program That Spies on Every Employee’s Computer Just Blew Up in Its Face in Spectacular Fashion
Meta’s controversial program that spied on its employees’ computers has backfired spectacularly. Though its chief technology officer Andrew…
White House Pushes Back Against Claim That Trump Was Given Early Access to a Powerful Experimental Weight Loss Drug
According to president Donald Trump’s annual medical exam, results of which were released last month, the 80-year-old’s body…
Trump Orders Construction of Powerful Quantum Computer
Let it never be said that he makes small swings. President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive…
AI Companies Are Trying to Seize Control of Elections
With trillions of dollars on the line, it should come as no surprise that tech companies are spending…
Amazon Just Pulled Something Absolutely Craven to Avoid Embarrassing Its Friends at OpenAI
There was apparently one threat that the centibillion dollar AI firm OpenAI, and its multitrillion dollar partner Amazon,…
SpaceX Stock Has Officially Fallen Below Its Opening Price
Elon Musk’s SpaceX went stratospheric following its June 12 IPO, soaring from an opening price of $150 to…
New Paper Proposes What Really Causes AI Psychosis
Psychiatrists and other researchers are still working to understand the phenomenon known as “AI psychosis,” in which users…
Tech Stocks Are Abruptly Collapsing
Following a blockbuster IPO earlier this month, Elon Musk’s SpaceX experienced a rude awakening. The rocket company’s shares…
A24 Fans in Meltdown After It Enters AI Partnership With Google
A24 has spent years carefully crafting its image as a canny underdog studio that platforms artist driven films.…
Illinois Is Getting Battered by Freak Tornadoes
So far in 2026, the top US state for tornadoes isn’t Kansas or Oklahoma, but the unlikely state…
Apocalypse Bunker Fails as Wealthy Residents Turn on Each Other
More and more wealthy individualsare buying up luxurious underground shelters to survive the apocalypse, whether it’s in the…
Influential Tech Founder Says His Peers Are Suffering From Mass AI Psychosis
It’s no secret that many of the world’s top CEOs are obsessed with AI. By pursuing lofty goals…
YouTube Announces Plans to Crack Down on AI Slop
It’s no secret that YouTube is overrun with AI slop. It’s made gestures towards reining in the flood…
This Summer Is Going to Kill a Lot of People
Summer hasn’t even started in the Northern Hemisphere, and thermometers around the globe are already fit to burst.…
AI Firm Trots Out Digitally Resurrected Corpse of Stan Lee You Can Use to Create Mind-Numbing Slop
Stan Lee, an icon of the comic books world, died in 2018. But tell that to ElevenLabs, the…
New Website Detects Apocalypse If Billionaire Jets Start Fleeing en Masse
Billionaires aren’t like us. They get special tax breaks to protect their fortunes, operate private intelligence rings, and…
Debt Collectors Are Being Replaced With AI Agents
With inflation out of control amidst a low-fire, low-hire economy, the amount of private debt in the United…
Elon Musk Furious at Starlink Being Used for American Suicide Drones
SpaceX has established itself as an influential contractor for the US military, allowing the Pentagon access a proprietary…
The MyPillow Guy’s Entire Business is Being Held Hostage by Hackers
Monstrous defeats keep coming for Mike Lindell, the notorious entrepreneur behind the MyPillow brand and one-time advisor to…
Nvidia CEO Begs Execs to Stop Telling Workers They’re Fired Because of AI
We’ve long had our doubts about tech leaders making boisterous claims about automating jobs with AI. For a…
More Than This Many Hours of Sleep Is Linked to Early Death, Scientists Find
How much should we sleep each night? It’s the age-old question that makes almost nobody happy, since most…
NASA Releases Sweeping Plans for Moon Base
NASA remains committed to developing a permanent presence on the Moon — space science budgets be damned. During…