April 24, 2026 9:46 PM
April 24, 2026
Florida Opens Criminal Probe Into ChatGPT’s Role in School Shooting
In April 2025, a student opened fire on the campus of Florida State University, killing two and wounding…
AI Chatbots Telling Cancer Patients to Try Useless Woo-Woo Treatments Instead of Chemotherapy
AI chatbots will recommend that cancer patients try unproven alternatives to chemotherapy and offer up other unscientific medical…
Scientists Puzzled by Huge Shadowy Blight Spreading Across Surface of Mars
A shadowy presence is spreading across the surface of Mars. New images released by the European Space Agency…
Meta Installing Software on Employee Computers to Track Everything They Do, Feed the Data to AI
As if activity-monitoring software installed on your work computer that snitches on you if you’re away from the…
Prego Pivots From Budget-Tier Pasta Sauce to Small Microphones That Listen to Your Family’s Intimate Conversations
Ever sit down at an awkward family dinner and think to yourself: “You know what this conversation needs?…
Chinese Workers Horrified as Bosses Direct Them to Train Their AI Replacements
For years, a buzzy Silicon Valley startup called Mercor has been hiring an army of desperate job-seekers —…
Concern Grows That AI Is Damaging Users’ Cognitive Abilities
Last year, a team of researchers led by MIT research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna used electroencephalograms to monitor the…
Jeff Bezos’ Botched Space Launch Was So Bad It Could Threaten NASA’s Entire Moon Program
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin experienced a significant setback over the weekend. During its third launch, the…
Guess What This Creepy Underwater Thing Is That Was Photographed by US Navy Divers for NASA
It may look like the underwater remains of a church that’s been submerged for hundreds of years following…
Tesla Drivers Losing Patience at Elon Musk’s Eternal Excuses
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promising that his company’s EVs will be capable of fully driving themselves…
JPMorganChase Data Center Gets $77 Million Handout to Create Grand Total of One Job
Back in March, we shared the story of a $136 million data center going up in Northeastern Ohio,…
Nvidia CEO Loses His Cool at Tough Question
Look, being CEO of the largest company by market cap in the world isn’t a cakewalk. It takes…
Man at City Council Meeting Makes Devastating Case Against Proposed Local Data Center
The growing anger over the AI industry’s obsession with building massive and resource-intensive data centers across the country…
Millions of Americans Are Talking to AI Instead of Going to the Doctor, and It’s Giving Them Horrendously Flawed Medical Advice
While Google’s AI may no longer recommend eating rocks or confidently telling users to put glue on their…
Robot Dogs Patrolling Precious Crops as Food Crisis Deepens
Robot dogs are increasingly finding real life uses as guardians of sensitive sites like AI data centers, the…
There Are Signs of a Massive AI Backlash
The public outrage over the tech industry’s obsession with AI is starting to boil over — and the…
A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale
On Tuesday evening, we published an original interview with a researcher who had recently coauthored an intriguing study…
Pentagon Disturbed as Its Fleet of Drones Is Left Bobbing in the Ocean When Elon Musk’s Starlink Fails
Two dozen unmanned surface vessels — autonomous boat drones, basically — were left floating in the Pacific ocean…
Clavicular Says He’s Quitting Drugs, Meaning He Can’t IRL Stream Anymore Because He’s Unable to Mog Sober
Braden “Clavicular” Peters was rushed to the hospital earlier this week after suffering a suspected drug overdose. A…
Fury Erupts as Val Kilmer’s Estate Announces Starring Role in AI Film Made From Beyond the Grave
Hollywood actors have been ringing the alarm bells over an industry that’s seemingly hellbent on replacing them with…
Allbirds Stock Now Crashing as Reality Sets in About Its Delusional AI Pivot
Tech bro sneaker company Allbirds made a huge splash yesterday when it announced a baffling pivot to AI…
NAACP Sues Elon Over His Noxious AI Data Center
Elon Musk may have yet another day in court, at least if the NAACP has anything to say…
More Than Half of Men Aged 18 to 49 Have Already Fallen Into Online Sports Betting
Sports betting has seen a massive surge in popularity since a 2018 Supreme Court decision struck down a…
Top Security Experts Alarmed by Power of Anthropic’s New Hacker AI
In November, Anthropic revealed that a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group had exploited its Claude AI’s agentic capabilities to…