March 17, 2026 5:22 PM
March 17, 2026
Ring Boasts About Power to Surveil Entire Neighborhoods
When Ring’s latest commercial came on over a Super Bowl ad break, it offered a service that seems…
Sickos Cackle With Glee as Bitcoin Starts to Fall Again
Mainstream cryptocurrency Bitcoin plummeted earlier this month, crashing down to a sliver over $60,000 — which is well…
Erratic Elon Musk Tells Employees to Build Massive Catapult on Moon
As Elon Musk tries to sweep his Mars ambitions under the rug like an embarrassing teenage phase, he’s…
Job Board for AI Agents Immediately Overrun With Humans Desperate for Work
When you start a “bounty” board meant for AI agents during one of the worst job markets since…
Law Firm Sacks Hundreds of Employees Amid Pivot to AI
The Chicago based multinational law firm Baker McKenzie is laying off up to a thousand employees as part…
Fear Grows That AI Is Permanently Eliminating Jobs
In 2026, the grim comedy of late capitalism seems to have found a perfect punchline: workers laid off…
ChatGPT Users Are Crashing Out Because OpenAI Is Retiring the Model That Says “I Love You”
In August 2025, OpenAI released its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model, calling it the “smartest, fastest, and most useful…
Researchers Studied What Happens When Workplaces Seriously Embrace AI, and the Results May Make You Nervous
Even if AI is — or eventually becomes — an incredible automation tool, will it make workers’ lives…
Google Has a Major Problem With ICE
Google’s rank-and-file are joining together to address their bosses with a collective demand: cut ties with the US…
Anthropic Researcher Quits in Cryptic Public Letter
An Anthropic researcher just announced his resignation in a cryptic and poetry-laden letter warning of a world “in…
TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It’s Providing User Data to ICE
Last month, the popular social video app TikTok finalized a deal with investors, including Oracle, to appease a…
If Scientists Ever Find Strong Evidence of Alien Life, Communicating It Will Pose Serious Issues
We may not have found any definitive proof of extraterrestrial life just yet, despite plenty of hope among…
Grok Is Getting Access to Classified Military Networks
Back in December, Elon Musk’s pet chatbot Grok made headlines for casually distributing the private addresses and phone…
AI Has Basically Killed Stack Overflow
Since 2008, Stack Overflow has been an immensely helpful resource for developers, allowing them to crowdsource answers to…
Financial Expert Says OpenAI Is on the Verge of Running Out of Money
The AI industry continues to pour tens of billions of dollars into resource-intensive models and the infrastructure to…
Video Shows Passenger Bail From Waymo in Path of Oncoming Train
A passenger bailed from his Waymo robotaxi as the vehicle drove dangerously close to an oncoming railcar. Viral…
Opposition to Elon Musk’s AI Stripping Clothing Off Children Is Nearly Universal, Polling Shows
Color us shocked: pretty much everyone hates that Elon Musk’s Grok has been digitally undressing photos of adults…
Indie Developer Deleting Entire Game From Steam Due to Shame From Having Used AI
An indie game developer experienced a moment of profound moral clarity, and is now deleting his partially-AI-made game…
Tech Billionaires Have No Answer for What’ll Happen If AI Takes All Jobs
At this point, tech corporations have made it no secret that their end goal is to replace all…
NASA Has Some Very Bad News About Its Mars Spacecraft
On December 6, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, which has been studying the Red Planet’s…
Driverless Delivery Vans in China Are Rampaging Through Cities Like Grand Theft Auto
The future is here, and it’s bouncing all over the back alleys of China. Numerous clips of autonomous…
Union Representing NASA Workers Says Space Agency’s New Administrator Is a Straight-Up Liar
During the government shutdown in November, the Trump administration suddenly accelerated its plans to shutter over a dozen…
NASA Deploys Orbital Telescope Designed to Do Something Incredible
On Sunday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stuffed with cargo carried a brand new NASA telescope into space,…
The Richest 1 Percent Burned Their Entire Share of Carbon for the Year in Just 10 Days
In less time than it takes to get bored of your new year’s resolution, the planet’s wealthiest people…