August 30, 2026 5:02 AM
August 30, 2026
Spotify Doubles Down on AI Slop As It’s Being Flooded With It
Spotify, like pretty much every other digital platform, has been grappling with a torrent of low-quality AI-generated content…
Amazon’s Robotaxi Company Recalls Its Fleet After One of its Cars Got Confused by Heavy Smoke
Zoox, the Amazon-owned robotaxi company, issued a recall after one of its self-driving cars blundered into a cloud…
In Light of Overwhelming Backlash, Flock Cancels Creepy Audio Surveillance Feature
These days, it’s hard to say which technological “innovation” US citizens hate more: AI data centers or Flock…
Climate Activists Pelt Microsoft Data Center With Balloons Full of Acid
As the public backlash to AI data centers continues to escalate, activists are resorting to extreme measures to…
It’s Laughably Easy to Poison Open-Weight AI Models, Researcher Finds
Good news, everyone: “open-weight” AI models that are available to anyone to download and run are comically easy…
As Much of the East Coast Is Choking on Wildfire Smoke, Texas Is Drowning in Life-Threatening Floods
Fresh off a month that saw all but five states mired in severe drought, the US is reeling…
Striking Workers Bring Car Factory to a Screeching Halt Over Humanoid Robots
From the factories of Detroit to the postal warehouses in Shenzhen, a new kind of worker is clocking…
Top Meta Exec Describes Controversial Facial Recognition Feature in Detail After the Company Claimed It Didn’t Exist
Meta executives claimed that a controversial facial recognition feature didn’t “exist.” Fast forward a few weeks later, and…
Family Horrified When They’re Forced to Sell Their Beloved Home to Make Way for AI Data Centers
Like a tornado descending from the heavens, data centers are tearing through homes across the US, roaring like…
AI-Pilled Tech CEO Convinced He Has the Perfect Solution for Online Dating, Announces Harebrained App Idea
Look, dating in the 2020s sucks. The apps are bad, people are rude, and the etiquette of it…
SpaceX Eager to Support the Pentagon’s Lethal AI Models
After years of being engaged, it looks like SpaceX and the Pentagon are finally ready to send out…
Trump Decimated a Satellite Program That Would’ve Vastly Improved Wildfire Smoke Monitoring
When Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the DOGE boys started snipping wires across DC, they took out critical…
AI Will Consume as Much Water as a Billion People By 2030, UN Report Estimates
AI data centers will consume as much water as the water needs of 1.3 billion people by 2030,…
NASA’s James Webb Discovers That 3I/ATLAS Let One Rip as It Passed Through Solar System
The mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS fascinated scientists as it made its way through the inner solar system last…
Chinese Post Office Deploys Humanoid Robots to Sort Mail
It’s no secret by now that the Chinese tech sector is going all-in on robotics. Last September, the…
Researchers Put AI Models in Charge of Analyzing Sports, and They Choked Spectacularly
Good news for sports broadcasters and fans who’d prefer their play-by-plays to have that human-touch: AI doesn’t know…
It Turns Out Lookmaxxing Has Some Extremely Emasculating Side Effects
Earlier this year, so-called “looksmaxxing” influencer Braden “Clavicular” Peters was rushed to the hospital after suffering a suspected…
New York Times Roasted for “Profiling” the “AI-Generated Actress” Tilly Northwood
The New York Times is getting torn apart by readers after its magazine published a “profile” of the…
Anthropic Scared, Calls for Global Freeze on AI Advances
Anthropic is calling for a global “pause” on AI development, claiming that the technology is nearing a point…
You Will Be Shocked to Hear That George Santos Is Under Investigation for Insider Trading on Kalshi
Gasp! Disgraced former Republican congressman George Santos is under federal investigation for insider trading on the prediction market…
CEO Says There Will Be No Raises Because He Spent All the Money on AI
For years, tech CEOs have used AI as an excuse to justify layoffs. In reality, though, many experts…
Kevin O’Leary Pleads With Locals to Allow His Massive Data Center If He Shrinks It Down to the Size of One Manhattan
“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary wants to build a menacingly large data center facility near the Great Salt…
It’s Possible That SpaceX Could Collapse Spectacularly
Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO is a mere week away, with the space company aiming to raise a whopping…
ISS Astronauts Ordered to Enter Evacuation Mode
Astronauts on board the International Space Station were ordered to shelter inside their spacecraft after discovering new “cracks…