July 22, 2026 2:34 AM
July 22, 2026
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…
College Students Consumed by “Resignation and Despair” as They’re Relentlessly Pressured to Use AI
We hear a lot about how college students are happy to use AI to help with their studies,…
Grocery Stores Deploying “AI Shopping Carts” Stuffed With Cameras to Track Your Exact Coordinates and Bombard You With Ads
Whether you’re dodging Flock cameras on the freeway, ever-listening smartphones in your pocket, or AI bots at the…
Out-of-Control Icebergs Are Wreaking Havoc on the Oceans
One consequence of climate change you probably haven’t considered? Iceberg traffic. In a new study published in the…
Scientists Building World’s Most Powerful Radio Telescope Deep in the Nevada Desert
Researchers at Caltech are gearing up to begin construction on what could become the most sensitive and fastest…
OpenAI Just Hired a Guy Accused of Terrible Things
OpenAI, a company currently fighting more than a dozen consumer safety and wrongful death lawsuits, just hired Noam…
Get Ready for a Catastrophic Leak That Reveals All Your Messages and Search History
AI is revolutionizing cyberattacks, as advancements in the tech allow bad actors to find and exploit unknown vulnerabilities…
We Are Admittedly a Bit Startled by This Medical Case Report About Giving an Elderly Woman With Advanced Alzheimer’s a Gigantic Dose of Psychedelic Mushrooms Just to See What Would Happen
Scientists continue to investigate the potential clinical use of psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in psychedelic mushrooms, for everything…
The “Made in America” Trump Phone Appears to be a Disguised Cheapo Chinese Smartphone
Nine months after it was supposed to ship to consumers, the smartphone nobody asked for is finally here.…
Pizza Hut’s AI Store Control System Is Such a Disaster That It’s Wasted $100 Million, Lawsuit Alleges
A lot goes into getting that warm pizza to your doorstep. Dough is kneaded, toppings are sprinkled, ovens…
Mark Zuckerberg Has Been Playing a Cruel Game With Meta Employees
For the past several weeks, thousands of workers at Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta have sat in employment purgatory as…
Book About AI’s Effects on the “Future of Truth” Found to Contain Slew of AI-Hallucinated Quotations
Truth in the age of AI, indeed. A buzzy new book called “The Future of Truth: How AI…
Elon Musk Compares His Work to Miracles Performed by Jesus Christ
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: a formerly beloved public figure eviscerates their own reputation via…
Students Boo and Jeer as AI Name-Reader Flops Spectacularly at College Graduation Ceremony
The president of Glendale Community College was pelted with a chorus of furious boos after an AI tool…
Trump Caught Buying Tech Stocks and Then Pumping Their Value by Publicly Praising Them
If you’re surprised by any of the Trump family’s grifting since Donald’s return to office, you just haven’t…
Mark Zuckerberg Used Shell Companies to Bully Native Hawaiians
Currently ranked as the sixth richest person on Earth, it should come as no surprise that Mark Zuckerberg…
Marc Andreessen Goes Ballistic Over Video Making Fun of Him
Being a gazillionaire means you have a lot of enemies. It also means you have a lot of…
Sports Illustrated Deletes Entire Author After Accusation of AI Plagiarism
Sports Illustrated deleted an author — and his entire archive of articles — from its website following allegations…
If Starship Explodes Again, It Could Derail SpaceX’s Entire IPO
SpaceX has enjoyed a lot of leeway when its Starship rocket has failed or exploded because of the…
Parents Explode in Fury at School’s Plan to Constantly Film Their Children to Train AI
A planned University of Washington study would’ve had preschool teachers wear cameras to record first-person footage of everything…