July 21, 2026 9:35 PM
July 21, 2026
Research Suggests the Older You Get, the More Weed You Should Smoke
Could smoking weed protect your aging brain? A study recently highlighted by The Washington Post suggests it might.…
A New Store in Hong Kong Has No Human Employees, Just a Single Humanoid Robot
Sometimes we like convenience stores for their charm as much as their actual convenience. Now, a new one…
A New Type of Gambling Scandal Is Sweeping Through Sports
Before playing at this year’s World Cup, the Ivory Coast soccer player Elye Wahi was arrested on alleged…
Controversial MIT Study Investigates What’s Really Worse for the Environment: Gas or Electric Cars
Debates have raged for years over whether electric vehicles are really better for the environment than old-school ones…
Volunteer Under Investigation for Cleaning Polluted River Without a License, Faces Two Years in Prison
Sometimes it feels like no good deed goes unpunished. You can’t hand out food to the homeless without…
Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers
Not that anyone in power is going to care, but there’s even more evidence that Americans are coming…
Meta Exec Admits Zuckerberg Has Crushed Workers’ Spirits
Workplace morale at Meta is in a tailspin after Mark Zuckerberg and his executive crew slashed thousands of…
Waymo Has Been Defeated by New York City
It’s not exactly straightforward to navigate New York City by car. Manhattan, in particular, is a confusing maze…
Companies That Embraced AI Are Now Rotting Away in a Very Specific Way
Companies that went all-in on using generative AI tools are developing a major “workslop” problem. In their pursuit…
Weather So Brutal That Dean Passes Out at College Graduation
It’s official folks: El Niño is upon us. For some, that means get ready for an unseasonable deluge…
Microsoft Announces New Feature That Narcs on You to Your Boss
In a world of mouse jigglers and workplace surveillance, there’s a clear divide between employees who wish to…
TikTok Has Been Completely Taken Over by AI Slop
AI slop has become practically inescapable on social media, with low-rent and at-times terrifying AI-generated videos drowning out…
Democrats’ 2024 Election Autopsy Shows Signs of Sloppy AI Generation
The long awaited Democratic Party “autopsy” of the 2024 election failure has finally been released, and it’s riddled…
Town Councilmember Goes Berzerk at Surveillance Camera Ban, Threatens to Outlaw Virtually All Modern Technology
Like data centers, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) are incredibly unpopular with voters around the US. Plenty of…
SpaceX Stock May Actually Be a Horrendous Investment
Elon Musk has just pulled back the curtain on the biggest public stock offering in history, and the…
Fake OpenAI Ads Appear on Subway: “Yes, We Built a Machine That Tells Teenagers to Kill Themselves… But It Might Also Help Them With Their Homework”
An artist in London plastered fake OpenAI ads inside city subway cars calling attention to ChatGPT’s close ties…
Scientists Detect Huge Structure Under Ocean Fueling the Deadly Upcoming El Niño
Scientists say they’ve pinpointed the super-warm undersea structure responsible for this year’s El Niño weather pattern, which they…
The Trump Phone Appears to Have Already Leaked Its Customers’ Personal Information Through a Glaring Exploit
Donald Trump’s smartphone has only been in reviewers’ hands for a few days, and it’s already coming apart…
Jeff Bezos Lectures the Public, Saying They Should Be Grateful for the Wonders of AI
Feeling grateful for all the wonderful ways AI has changed your life yet? Jeff Bezos thinks you should…
Zuckerberg Tells the Tattered Remainder of His Workers That He Won’t Conduct Another a Mass Firing for at Least Seven Months
The tech giant Meta fired about 8,000 workers yesterday — about 10 percent of its staff — and reassigned 7,000…
Elon Musk’s Ex Says He Bragged About 10,000 Lasers in Orbit That Are “Not a Piece They’ll See on the Chess Board”
If “always keep them guessing” was actually a strategy for success, Elon Musk might be president right now…
A CEO of a Bank Just Said Something So Ghoulish About Its Plans for AI That He’s Now in Full Damage Control Mode
AI has emboldened CEOs to make all kinds of smug declarations that betray their contempt for lowly human…
It Seems a Lot Like Trump Accidentally Invested $1 Million in a Conveyor Belt Sushi Restaurant Thinking It Was an AI Hardware Company
Donald Trump is nothing if not a keen investor. As recent tax filings have shown, the US president…
Google Is Making Huge Changes That Are Poised to Decimate What’s Left of Journalism
It’s looking like time to sound two death knells. One for the demise of the simple Google search,…