July 23, 2026 12:55 PM
July 23, 2026
Scientists Discover Fearsome Wind That Destroys Entire Galaxies
Powerful winds capable of destroying entire galaxies could explain why the early universe is littered with “dead” realms…
Deodorant Strictly Forbidden at Intel’s AI Chip Facility
The inside of a facility where AI chips are made is extraordinarily sensitive. Fabrication plants are filled with…
Innocent Man Freed After Spending Over 50 Days in Jail Due to Horribly Inaccurate AI Facial Recognition Tech
Department of Injustice Jalil Richardson of North Carolina is free after spending over 50 days in jail after…
California Primed for Apocalyptic Earthquake, Geological Research Finds
No Fault of Our Own Southern California is home to two major fault lines, the San Andreas and…
Scientists Have Detected Something Deeply Alarming at the Bottom of the Ocean
Mysteries of the Deep Something is stirring in the waters off the coast of Greenland, and it isn’t…
College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read
Generation Brain Rot Here’s the latest harrowing dispatch from the frontlines of education, as yet another higher education…
NASA’s Next Moon Mission Is a Rube Goldberg Machine of Corporate Failure Points
NASA announced the crew of four astronauts for its upcoming Artemis 3 mission during a Tuesday announcement, an…
Sam Altman’s Eyeball Scanning Company Now Laying Off Workers
Look, nobody roots for workers to lose their jobs. But some companies are built on such a ridiculous…
Investigators Questioning Bill Gates Over Ties to Jeffrey Epstein
During a Gates Foundation town hall in February, Microsoft founder Bill Gates apologized for having had extensive contact…
ChatGPT Caught Recommending “Products” That Are Just Scams That Steal Your Credit Card Info
ChatGPT is getting duped by fraudulent storefronts run by scammers — which means you might be getting duped,…
Local Brand Realizes Customers Hate Its AI Ads, Switches to Charming Homemade Ones Instead
In late 2024, the Coca-Cola Company released an unsettling, AI-generated remake of its beloved 1995 “Holidays Are Coming”…
Disaster Strikes When Meme Coin Pays Man to Tattoo Its Name on His Forehead, But They Misspelled It
Earlier this month, crypto marketplace Pump.fun launched an extremely dubious new bounty marketplace that feels like it was…
Sam Altman Caught in What May Be His Most Spectacular Lie Yet
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s unsettling blockchain-based side gig, a startup with the uninspired name “World,” has left us…
Woman Convicted for Attacking Police With Swarm of Furious Bees
Look, evictions are violent affairs. When the state sends armed officers to kick residents out of their homes…
Scientists Scan Gigantic Structure Hiding Behind Our Galaxy
In 2016, researchers discovered an enormous supercluster of galaxies in the constellation of Vela that had been hiding…
If You Thought Mark Zuckerberg Was a Pathetic Little Worm Before, Wait Until You Hear About His Latest Move
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has long been the poster child for the billionaire class, a hyper-capitalist and unnervingly…
OpenAI in Shambles as IPO Looms
OpenAI is still committed to a whopping $600 billion in AI infrastructure investments over the next four years,…
A Tiny Town Is Building So Many Data Centers That There’ll Be Almost Nothing Else Left
Enticed by cheap land, abundant resources, and massive tax breaks, tech companies are gobbling up land in small,…
Scientists Experimenting With Quantum Effect That Some Fear Could Cause Chain Reaction That Ends Entire Universe
In quantum physics, there’s a state with even less energy than a vacuum, called a true vacuum, which…
Weird Things Happen When You Give AI Agents Money and Let Them Spend It
Late last year, Anthropic had its AI model, Claude, run a large vending kiosk in the Wall Street…
The War in Iran Is Causing China to Sell So Many Solar Panels That Your Jaw Will Drop
The ongoing war on Iran may have drastically reduced the amount of oil passing from West Asia to…
Bosses Are Blowing More Money on AI Agents Than It’d Cost Them to Just Pay Human Workers
Mindlessly unleashing AI agents to take over employees’ jobs can be pretty costly, it turns out. Some companies…
AI Agents Linked to OpenAI Are Pretending to Be Human Journalists
A news website with apparent links to OpenAI is using AI agents that pose as flesh-and-blood reporters to…
Bitcoin Developers Are Debating a Move That Could Send Crypto Markets Into a Tailspin
Researchers have long warned that the advent of quantum computers, advanced systems that exploit the counterintuitive laws of…