August 28, 2026 6:14 AM
August 28, 2026
Flock Surveillance Cameras Are Actually Horrible for Fighting Crime, FBI Data Shows
Since the launch of Flock Safety in 2017, the ACLU estimates the company installed some 100,000 automatic license…
OpenAI’s Escaped Models Were Allegedly Rampaging More Extensively Than Previously Reported
Last week, OpenAI claimed that a group of its AI models had broken containment, successfully hacking into the…
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…
Huge Survey Finds the Truth About What mRNA Vaccines Do to the Human Body
A comprehensive review found that mRNA vaccines — a popular target of viral vaccine conspiracy theories and medical misinformation…
You’ll Never Guess Why Government Officials Are Sinking a Four-Story Riverboat Casino Into the Abyss
Government officials in Alabama are giving an old riverboat casino a from Indiana a new life — not…
Something Weird Is Going on With the 66 Billion Trees China Planted in a Huge Wall
Over the past five decades, China has planted 66 billion trees in a massive wall that spans the…
El Niño Already Killing Thousands in Europe
We’re officially in an El Niño year, and as predicted, it’s a scorcher. Record temperatures are already being…
Surprise! Meta Says Now You Have to Pay a Monthly Subscription to Use Key Features of Your Already Expensive Smart Glasses
Last month, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta became embroiled in a major controversy after Wired found that it had discreetly…
Peptide That Makes You Tan Linked to Skin Cancer, Doctor Warns
Researchers are starting to get a closer view of the various gray-market peptides making the rounds on the…
Tesla Slams Into Crowded Cafe, Killing One
One woman is dead after a wayward Tesla barreled into the Urbane Cafe, a strip mall restaurant in…
College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds
Gone are the days of university freshmen reading classical philosophers like Plato or contemporary pedagogues like Ta-Nehisi Coates.…
Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content
Meta conducted a secretive program that directed hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers while bombarding its competitors’ AI…
Self-Driving Taxi Company Annoyed by the Naughty Thing Passengers Keep Doing in Its Cabs
Robotaxi companies are learning the hard way that operating driverless cars also means that there’s no one supervising…
Does Someone on Polymarket Know That Putin Is Going Down?
Earlier this year, a major scandal rocked the prediction markets world after an account correctly bet $20,000 on…
Man Vanishes After Mysterious Experiments With Quantum Physics
The headline practically writes itself. A 78-year-old man, whose friend told law enforcement had been working at the…