August 29, 2026 2:15 PM
August 29, 2026
LinkedIn Adds Button on Every Post to Report “Seems Like AI Slop,” Which Is Definitely Going to Get a Real Workout
Perhaps more so than any other social media platform, LinkedIn has been inundated with lazy AI-generated brainrot content.…
NASA Mars Rover Discovers Field of Mesmerizing Polygons
A vast field of mesmerizing polygons has left Mars scientists enthralled. Don’t be mistaken: NASA didn’t send a…
Cambridge Analytica’s Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm
It may already feel like a distant memory, but Cambridge Analytica was once implicated in one of the…
Meta’s Attempted Crackdown on AI Glasses Perverts Is Already Failing
Meta knows its AI-powered camera equipped spectacles are widely seen as “pervert glasses.” And though it professes to…
Schools Deploying Pepper Spray Drones to Sic on Mass Shooters
How do we combat the scourge of school shootings? The distinctly cyberpunk gamble that some places of learning…
Hack “Writers” Fuming After ChatGPT Starts Refusing Prompts to Copy a Specific Author’s Style
It only took them three and a half years, but the powers that be at OpenAI have apparently…
South Korean Authorities Scrambling to Save Stock Market From AI Bubble
The US and European stock markets might be numb to the enormity of the AI bubble at this…
Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure
By now, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who isn’t broadly familiar with the AI heavyweights and…
The United States Is Rapidly Running Out of Blood
For only the second time in its history, the American Red Cross has declared a “national blood supply…
If You AI-Generate Code, Hackers Just Found a Devious Method to Install Malware Directly on Your Computer
Despite certain improvements in accuracy, large language models still hallucinate a lot. So much so, in fact, that…
Microsoft CEO Warns That Companies Embracing AI Could Drive Themselves Out of Business
The business world has quickly learned that there’s such a thing as using too much AI, as they…
NASA Rescue Mission Spirals Into Crisis
Last month, NASA announced that it was launching an unprecedented and risky mission to rescue its aging Swift…
Giant Pickup Trucks Are Killing Pedestrians in Incredible Numbers
The true scourge of American roadways isn’t pot holes, rush hour traffic, or grandmas ambling down the fast…
We Are Extremely Skeptical of MidJourney’s Weird Device That It Claims Submerges Your Entire Body and Scans It With Ultrasound
In February 2024, scientific journal Frontiers was forced to retract a paper by a team of Chinese and…
Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning
The law’s gaze has grown harder to escape, as surveillance drones and AI-integrated cameras now track movement across…
There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting Through the Universe, Mind-Bending Paper Claims
Anyone who saw the blockbuster sci-fi film “Project Hail Mary” will remember Rocky, a creature unlike anything we’ve…
Devastating Droughts Are Punching Massive Sinkholes Into Critical Farmland
Human activity-driven climate change has exacerbated droughts, making them more frequent, last longer, and more severe. This summer…
Scientists Publish Extremely Serious Research About Whether Tickling Apes Makes Them Giggle
We love apes. We love that they’re uncanny but pure reflections of our human quirks and foibles, at…
Employees Are Using Their Jobs’ Super-Expensive AI Tokens for the Most Hilariously Pointless Tasks Imaginable
Under all the bluster of AI hype lies a real conundrum: companies are charging out-of-this-world prices for a…
Company Pulls Delivery Robots From All College Campuses
College campuses across the country will no longer be swarming with tiny rolling robots. Starship Technologies, a leading…
Cops Caught Using AI to Edit Picture of Pathetic Drug Bust
After giddy business executives, cops are emerging as some of the AI industry’s most devoted disciples. Police officers…
Trending Surgical Procedure That Changes the Color of Your Eyes Alarms Scientists
A French ophthalmologist is performing surgery that can permanently change the color of your pupils. But not everybody…
Tom Hanks Frets AI Could Voice Woody in Even More “Toy Story” Movies
It’s 2026 and we’re still getting new “Toy Story” movies. In fact, we’re now on “Toy Story 5”…
Event About How to Adapt to Extreme Heat Canceled Due to Brutal Heatwave
Europe is in the grips of a devastating and deadly heatwave, shattering temperature records for the month of…