March 8, 2026 12:56 PM
March 8, 2026
AI Tools Are Supercharging Hackers
It’s no secret that AI models have come a long way, from tools that can complete high school…
Sam Altman in Damage Control Mode as ChatGPT Users Are Mass Cancelling Subscriptions Because OpenAI Is “Training a War Machine”
OpenAI just handed one of its biggest rivals a massive PR victory, in a blunder that even CEO…
US Military Using Claude to Select Targets in Iran Strikes
The ongoing attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched by a joint coalition of US and Israeli…
White House Responds as Scabby Mark Appears on Trump’s Neck
After kicking off major strikes in Iran on Saturday, president Donald Trump wasn’t in a hurry to return…
Microsoft Bans the Word “Microslop” on Copilot Discord, Gets So Humiliated That It Locks Down the Whole Server
Last year, the editors of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary anointed their word of the year as “slop,” a term denoting…
Anonymous Polymarket Accounts Won $1.2 Million on Trump’s Iran Strikes in Suspicious Bets
It’s been less than eight weeks since an anonymous account on Polymarket netted over $400,000 after successfully predicting…
James Webb Takes Long, Hard Look Inside Uranus
Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, has only been visited once by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, which…
Former Delivery Drivers Are Getting Weird New Jobs as Delivery Robots Take Over
Gig delivery workers, already earning poverty wages, are now being undercut by robots that don’t need tips. These…
Researchers Get Human Brain Cells Running Doom
In 2022, Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs made a big splash after announcing that it had taught “mini-brains”…
Evidence Grows That One of the Largest Known Stars Is Poised to Explode in a Spectacular Blast
One of the largest known stars in the cosmos is poised for catastrophe. After witnessing the massive object…
ChatGPT Health Is Staggeringly Bad at Recognizing Life-Threatening Medical Emergencies
Earlier this year, OpenAI launched a new tool called ChatGPT Health, which is designed to ingest your medical…
A Staggering Proportion of High School Kids Are Using AI to Do Their Homework, Which Is Probably Not Going to End Well
Who could’ve guessed that when you give millions of kids free access to a homework-writing chatbot, they’d stop…
Damage to Chinese Spacecraft Was Worse Than Reported
In early November, Chinese astronauts on board the country’s Tiangong space station made a terrifying discovery. According to…
Man Bet Entire Life Savings of $342,195.63 That Elon Musk Would Fail
Ten years ago, betting your life savings against the success of Elon Musk would have seemed like financial…
Mysterious Chinese Space Plane Conducting Unknown Mission in Orbit
The United States Space Force has been testing its top-secret Boeing X-37B space plane for over a decade.…
Astronomer Who Discovered Water on Distant Planet Murdered Outside Home
A renowned Caltech astronomer who studied distant exoplanets was shot and killed outside his home in a rural…
Something Very Alarming Happens When You Give AI the Nuclear Codes
In 2024, Stanford researchers let loose five AI models — including an unmodified version of OpenAI’s GPT-4, its…
Intriguing New Smartphone Design Features a Small Robot Arm
The form factor of smartphones hasn’t changed all too much since the original iPhone debuted back in 2007.…
The Average American Would Pay $49 Per Month to Drink Recycled Toilet Water, Study Finds
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Similarly, the water in your toilet bowl could be another person’s…
Kalshi Says It’s Busted a MrBeast Staffer for Insider Trading
There are plenty of reasons to suspect that insider trading could be rampant on prediction platforms Kalshi and…
If AI Causes an Office Job Wipeout, It’ll Cause Huge Problems for Blue Collar Work Too
Blue collar workers may be enjoying a certain degree of schadenfreude at seeing the panic over tech, finance,…
New App Detects the Radio Fingerprint of Smart Glasses and Warns You When Someone Is Using Them Nearby
Meta Wayfarer G2s. TCL Nxtwear Gs. RayNeo Air 3s. With so many smart glasses flooding the marketplace, it…
Meta’s Head of AI Safety Just Made a Mistake That May Cause You a Certain Amount of Alarm
OpenClaw, an open source AI agent that supposedly “actually does things,” has driven everyone in the industry completely…
Google Apologizes for Sending the Worst Push Notification You Can Possibly Imagine
Disaster tends to strike when you let automated systems distribute news, especially on sensitive topics. The latest case…