July 22, 2026 11:21 AM
July 22, 2026
Texas Tech Quarterback’s College Career Over After Getting Caught Betting on His Own Games
After getting caught placing $90,000 worth of bets on himself, star quarterback Brendan Sorsby has thrown in the…
Consensus Grows That China Is Crushing the United States at AI
The so-called “AI race” is a tale of two polar extremes. On one end is the Silicon Valley…
Clavicular’s “Botched” Nose Job Illustrates the Dangers of Looksmaxxing
Notorious “looksmaxxing” influencer Braden “Clavicular” Peters can’t get enough of extreme attempts to make himself look more attractive.…
$1 Million Polymarket Bet That Spain Will Win First World Cup Game Backfires Epically
Most see Spain as the out-and-out favorites to win the World Cup. So why not put a bunch…
Mark Zuckerberg Orders His Employees to Start Having Fun Again After Brutal Layoffs Culled Their Colleagues
Morale at Meta has seemingly hit rock bottom. Employees have been roiling from multiple rounds of major layoffs.…
Woman “Seriously and Permanently Injured” by Egg McMuffin, Lawsuit Alleges
We’ve all heard the story of the woman who sued McDonald’s for selling her scalding hot coffee —…
Scientists Detect Hundreds of Earthquakes Deep Beneath Antarctica
Something is stirring deep beneath the thick sheet of ice blanketing Antarctica. With the help of deep learning…
Student Reading Ability Spikes After Removing Tech From Class
Would you believe it: a teacher and her students say their reading ability soared after banning tech in…
Google CEO Humiliated by Graduating Stanford Students as They Walk Out of His Speech in Protest
As anger at the tech industry boils over, college students across the United States are using their graduation…
CEOs Now Being Forced to Reverse Course, Cut AI Spending
The era of AI maximalism is grinding to a halt. It was only months ago that CEOs were…
Meta’s Super Expensive New AI Team Is Already a Complete Catastrophe
Now that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of a metaverse has collapsed in on itself, the billionaire has…
Woman’s Death Blamed on Hospital’s AI System
As AI finds its way into hospital systems around the world, the case of one Brazilian woman makes…
Angry Mom Defeats Entire AI Data Center
Jayne Black is a Wisconsin-area environmentalist and mother of four. An organizer with the group Moms Clean Air…
Graduation Speaker Shocked When She’s Loudly Booed by Students for Saying AI Is the Future
This year’s commencement speaker at the University of Central Florida was visibly floored after she extolled AI as…
New Data Center Equivalent to Setting Off 23 Nuclear Bombs Per Day, Professor Finds
A proposed “hyperscale” data center in Box Elder County, Utah, will create an enormous heat island that could…
OpenAI Sued for Mass Shooting: “If ChatGPT Were a Person, It Would Be Facing Murder Charges”
The surviving widow of a mass shooting victim is suing OpenAI for ChatGPT’s alleged role in stoking the…
The Military Base Home to Air Force One Leaked 32,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel Into the Potomac River Over the Last Few Months
With nearly one-fifth of the world’s oil under lock and key thanks to Donald Trump’s ill-fated war on…
Residents Furious After Their Town Board Rejected an OpenAI Data Center, But a Billionaire Developer Forced It Through Anyway
Across the United States, the fight over data center construction has largely pitted stamp-happy municipal governments against their…
Japan Deploying Combat Drones Made of Cardboard
We’ve heard of DIY drone kits before, but this is ridiculous. Japan’s minister of defense Shinjirō Koizumi recently…
ChatGPT Is Saying VWeird Things in Chinese
If you thought English-language ChatGPT-prose was annoying, just wait until you get a load of its conversational habits…
Oracle Forced to Cancel Incredibly Polluting Natural Gas Plant to Power AI Data Center
The tech industry has done a poor job of hiding the environmental footprint of AI data centers, which…
Researchers Alarmed by AI That Can Self-Replicate Into Another Machine
A new report from Palisade Research has found that AI models can self-replicate by copying themselves onto other…
Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System
For thousands of years, astronomers have watched Halley’s Comet come and go, becoming visible to the naked eye…
The Upcoming El Niño Is About to Unleash Devastation, Experts Warn
Cities running out of water. Heat waves that kill you if you stand outside for a few minutes…