July 22, 2026 4:08 AM
July 22, 2026
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…
Tension Flared on Space Station as Russia Threatened to Drill and Saw Into Wall, Prompting NASA Astronauts to Take Shelter
For many years, both NASA and its Russian counterpart Roscosmos have struggled to contain persistent leaks plaguing the…
Cop Accused of Using AI to Fake Evidence
Law enforcement agencies across the world have rushed to integrate AI into their investigations, promising faster arrests and…
Elon Musk’s Conflicts of Interest With the Trump Administration Regulating SpaceX Are So Profound That They Have Grim Implications for Society
After SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO last week, it’s facing an agonizing crunch to show investors that it has a…
SpaceX Stock Has Officially Fallen All the Way Down to the Low $170s
At first, it felt like the sky was the limit. After its blockbuster Wall Street debut on Friday,…
Anthropic Sued for Allegedly Ripping Off Its Highest-Paying Customers
An angry customer is suing Anthropic on behalf of all users of its priciest subscription tiers. In a…
Google’s AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real
If you Google “SCP-565” — an iconic entry in the collaborative fan fiction universe known as the “SCP…
AI CEOs Baffled by Hatred of Their Technology
A bulk of Americans really hate AI — and many AI CEOs can’t quite grasp why. There’s a serious…
People Are Getting Plastic Surgery to Look More AI-Generated
Life imitates AI art. Plastic surgeons say that more patients are coming in and asking to look like…
Grade Inflation Is Going Nuts as Every Student Is Basically Submitting the Same Essay
Being a straight-A student doesn’t mean what it used to. Today, widely available AI chatbots make cheating on…
Tech Workers, Long Treated Like Aristocracy, Are Now Human Waste
Ten years ago if you had told a tech industry recruiter their days are numbered, you’d be laughed…
An Entire “Local Newspaper” Just Shut Down When All Its Reporters Were Busted as AI Fakes
Ever stumble across an online “news article” that just doesn’t feel quite right? You may be onto something.…
James Webb Spots Strange Structure at Core of Distant Galaxy
A stunning new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope shows a nearby galaxy bursting with light…
If You Used Insider Knowledge to Score Big on Polymarket, You May Now Be in Huge Trouble
The spoilsports at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission no longer want you profiting off of geopolitical turmoil…
Investors Flocking to Super-Anonymous Cryptocurrency Used for the Sketchiest Stuff Imaginable
When Bitcoin first launched in 2009, it promised its users a decentralized digital currency that would be free…
Robophobic Airline Bans Humanoid Robots From Flights After Disruption
Southwest Airlines appears to have become the first airline to enshrine a no-robots policy into their rulebook, after…
Swarm of Empty Waymos Descends on Unsuspecting Suburb, Circle Cul-de-Sacs for Hours on End Like Strange Ghosts
Nearly a year after Waymos touched down in Atlanta for the first time, residents of the community of…
Mayor Eats His Words After Admitting He’s Delegating Work to 11 AI Agents
Employees haven’t been shy about pushing back against AI in the workplace. In a clear disconnect, bosses are…
Oops: Bosses Realize Their Companies Have Been Swarmed by Legions of Redundant AI Agents
Woe is the c-suite. After heedlessly embracing AI tech at the expense of their workers, some bosses are…