October 14, 2026 2:19 PM
October 14, 2026
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Here’s a hazard you probably didn’t expect from too much screen time. Two doctors in the UK reported…
America’s Health Care System Is So Screwed That Patients Are Flying to China for Cancer Treatment
The myriad horrors of the US healthcare system have spawned generations of medical tourism from the wealthiest country…
California, Which Is Creating All the AI That’s Poisoning Children, Just Cracked Down on AI Use for Its Own Kids
Frontier AI labs are seemingly in a race to melt the impressionable minds of underage users into a…
Bizarre New Websites Are Designed Specifically to Spark Dopamine in Your Brain
As far as completely pointless ways to kill time on your phone, this is certainly one of the…
Aging Congress Is Completely Ill-Equipped to Regulate AI, or Seemingly Even Understand It
Surely our creaking gerontocracy is well-equipped to respond to a technology as novel, disruptive, and rapidly evolving as…
Earth May Have Had a Larger Cousin that the Sun Devoured
Did the Earth once have a larger cousin that was devoured by the Sun? And more importantly: would…
GLP-1 Users Are Being Cruelly Shamed by Their Own Families
GLP-1 weight loss drugs are changing lives in more ways than one. In a new piece for The…
College Students Using AI to Cheat Are Going to Absurd Lengths to Avoid Detection
You wouldn’t be remiss to accuse college students using AI to cheat of being lazy. But some of…
Federal Agents Are Secretly Monitoring Americans’ Financial Transactions So Cops Can Arrest People They Find Suspicious
The surveillance state is trying out a new tactic: pocket watching. 404 Media reports on how secretive “predictive…
China Deploys Rare Type of Space Junk That Pollutes Orbit for Hundreds of Years
The number of space launches has skyrocketed over the last few years, rapidly turning the Earth’s atmosphere into…
Werner Herzog Demolishes Talentless Hacks Who Use AI to Imitate Other Filmmakers
The legendary German director Werner Herzog had a few choice words about other so-called “filmmakers” who use AI…
Lawyers Already Lining Up to Defend Victims of Cybercab Crashes
Tesla’s mawkishly sleek new Cybercab has begun rolling out to Austin, Texas this week, with more sighted in…
Zuckerberg Under Fire After His Superyacht Declined to Help a Vessel in Distress
What’s the point of having a superyacht if you’re forced to share it with some unwashed poors? That’s…
Zuckerberg’s Manifesto About the Glorious Freedoms AI Will Bring Was Completely Contradicted by His Own CTO During a Company Meeting
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg just dumped a lengthy manifesto on his utopian vision for an AI “superintelligence”-driven future.…
Scientists Warn That New Satellites Could Cause Eye Damage for People on the Ground
Last month, the Federal Communications Commission approved an experimental and controversial new satellite being developed by venture Reflect…
USA Today Journalists Horrified by Newspaper’s Partnership With Palantir
Last week, Nieman Lab revealed that USA Today‘s parent company USA Today Co (formerly Gannett) was partnering with…
Flock’s Secret Surveillance Plan Will Make You Gasp
Flock had a devious plan to expand its surveillance network past its army of AI-powered license plate scanners.…
Amazon Used a Startlingly Dirty Trick to Build a Data Center Without Consent of Community
A quiet war is playing out in rural communities across the country. City council meetings are bursting into…
Meta Exec Rages Against Employees Asking for More Time Off Because AI Made Them More Efficient
Even as they promise AI will supercharge productivity, tech leaders are sending a clear message: any efficiency gains…
Droughts Are Getting So Intense That Ancient Ruins Are Beginning to Surface From Dried Up Rivers
Water levels in rivers across Europe are reaching astonishing lows lately as a record heatwave continues to bake…
Volunteers Tracking Lost Dog Baffled When Locals Trash Thermal Imaging Drone
In a time of rising skepticism against tech surveillance, it seems not even the best intentions can spare…
Scammers Tremble as AI Comes for Their Jobs
Turns out there’s one thing AI chatbots are definitively better at than humans: scamming innocent people. A new…
Scientists Genetically Engineer High-Protein Lettuce
Scientists have finally created what might be the only thing that can get meatheads to eat their veggies:…
Elon Musk’s Efforts to Cut Spending in the Government Were So Incompetent That It’s Shocking, Internal Analysis Finds
In terms of demoralizing the federal workforce and demolishing the public sector, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency…