July 23, 2026 7:49 AM
July 23, 2026
New York City Installing Sensors to Detect Pedestrians, Vehicles, and Pretty Much Everything Else
It may sound like yet another rollout of a dystopian surveillance state network of facial recognition cameras —…
New Study Finds Something Horrible Contaminating Half of California’s Water
There’s something monstrous lurking in the waterways of California, and it isn’t the Sacramento Mothman. According to a…
Suburbanites Freaked Out by Mysterious Drones Leering Into Their Homes at Night
Residents of the mid-sized burb of Norwich, Connecticut are disturbed at what they’ve described as massive drones descending…
Psychiatrists Investigating People Who Get Trapped Inside Vivid Daydreams
There’s nothing inherently wrong with daydreaming. Letting your thoughts wander through imaginary worlds can provide a much-needed distraction…
Astronomers Say Star Self-Destructed So Catastrophically That It Left Behind No Trace of Its Existence
When a star explodes, it typically leaves behind some sort of remnant: an exposed, ultra-dense core, for example,…
Trump Desperately Pumps Money Into Dying Coal Industry
The coal industry has been in decline for decades. But tell that to president Trump, who’s firmly convinced…
Catholic Church Boots Exorcist After He Said UFOs Are Demons
A Catholic priest just fumbled the job of a lifetime. On Wednesday, Monsignor Stephen Rossetti was stripped of…
Meta So Desperate for Compute That It’s Building “Data Centers” That Are Just Tents Filled With AI Chips
It’s a desperate time for tech companies trying to assert dominance in the AI boom. Back in April,…
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…
You’ll Spill Your Juice When You Learn How Many of Florida’s Orange Trees This Incurable Bacteria Has Already Infected
Whether you take it with pulp or without, you may soon be lucky just to get some OJ…
Elon Musk Admits He Lied to Tesla Customers’ Faces for Years About Self-Driving
After over a decade of promising that fully autonomous driving is right around the corner, Tesla CEO Elon…
FBI Investigating Series of Deaths Among Top Scientists With Very Specific Specialties
On February 27, retired Air Force Research Laboratory commander William Neil McCasland, who once worked at the Wright-Patterson…
SpaceX’s IPO Plan Will Give Elon Musk Ironclad Rule Over the Resulting Empire
When SpaceX makes it debut on the stock exchange later this year, experts expect it to be the…
ChatGPT’s Tool for Ordering Starbucks Is So Staggeringly Bad That It’s Breaking Containment
Starbucks has innovated the perfect tool for getting mid-coffee in our misanthropic age. Those too cowardly to look…
Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds
Think something weird is up with your reflection in the mirror? Allow Grok to interest you in some…
Astronomers Create Entire Synthetic Universe “Indistinguishable” From Our Own
Astronomers say they’ve created an entire synthetic universe which uncannily reproduces the properties of our real one. The…
Rogue Group Gains Access to Anthropic’s Dangerous New Mythos AI
Remember Claude Mythos, Anthropic’s new AI model that it hyped as being so powerful that it was too…
Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time
Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureaucrats are reportedly planning to use specialty facial recognition glasses to collect data on…
SpaceX Admits AI Data Centers in Space May Be a Really Terrible Idea
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been adamant that putting enormous AI data centers in Earth’s orbit is a…
Today Is the Day Anthropic Promised That Fully Autonomous Employees Would Be Tearing Through the Business World
A year ago today, AI giant Anthropic’s Chief Information Security Officer, Jason Clinton, made a bold pronouncement: within…
Nvidia CEO Says AI Will Be a Permanent Micromanaging Boss Who Never Stops Nagging You
As fear over an AI-driven jobs apocalypse continues to simmer, some tech leaders remain adamant that the wide…