August 29, 2026 3:10 PM
August 29, 2026
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…
Residents Furious at Plan to Seize and Destroy Their Homes for AI Data Centers
As dozens of cities across the US are forced to scrap their plans to build power-hungry data centers,…
BuzzFeed Lays Off 33 Percent of Remaining Staff After Bizarre Pivot to AI
Things just keep getting worse for BuzzFeed. On Monday, the struggling media company announced the layoffs of 180…
Elon Musk Launches New Service Where You Can Send Him All Your Money and Hope for the Best
If you were looking for even more ways to give Elon Musk your hard-earned cash, you’re in luck!…
This New Meta “Advertisement” Is Absolutely Brutal
Last week, we came across a cleverly subversive advertisement for Meta’s controversial smart glasses, which overlaid socialite Kylie…
Sam Altman Says Even the Power of AI Will Never Lead to a Shorter Work Week
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has some bad news to share: AI will never lead to a shorter work…
El Niño Set to Upend the World Economy
The West Pacific has swung back into an El Niño phase, bringing nearly unprecedented heat to vast swaths…
Korean Workers Vote to Go On Strike, Fearing Robots Could Replace Them
Sensing where the winds are blowing, Hyundai factory workers in South Korea have voted to go on strike…
Waymo Caught Driving Straight Into Oncoming Traffic
The hits keep coming for Waymo, whose self-driving taxi cabs are behaving like European tourists who haven’t quite…
Boeing’s Starliner Is Such a Disaster That We Don’t Even Have Words
Boeing’s Starliner, originally intended to serve as an alternative to SpaceX’s workhorse Dragon spacecraft, has been nothing short…
Scanning Your Baby’s Eyeballs Will Tell You How Their Brain Will Turn Out, Research Suggests
Who needs palm readings? New research suggests that scanning a preterm baby’s eyeballs can predict how its brain…
Light Pollution is Causing Fish to Live Miserable, Bitter Lives, Researchers Find
Nobody likes a night interrupted by blinding artificial light, least of all the fish who make their home…
AI Companies Are Learning an Ironic Lesson as the People They Pay to Improve Their Chatbots Are Just Feeding AI Slop Into Them
For tech companies racing to be the king of the AI hill, there are few things more precious…
Mark Zuckerberg Is Selflessly Building Yet Another Horrible Product Nobody Asked For
The explosive popularity of prediction markets, spearheaded by Polymarket and Kalshi, has shocked experts, who are warning of…
Airplane Crashes Into Skyscraper in China
A shocking aviation incident occurred in China when a small aircraft flew into Beijing’s tallest skyscraper on Friday,…
Ford Scrambled to Rehire Engineers After Sabotaging Itself With AI
Ford just admitted that it scrambled to rehire former employees and find new technicians after its AI systems…
Massive Data Center Cooks Nearby Residents Alive Amidst Deadly Heatwave
As Europe bakes in the throes of a deadly heatwave, residents living near the continent’s largest data center…
NASA Has a Major Problem Threatening Its Entire Moon Plans
To get SpaceX’s mammoth Starship all the way to the Moon and back with astronauts on board will…
All But Five US States Are Currently Experiencing Droughts
Only a few days into what looks to be a summer for the history books, droughts are already…