March 15, 2026 7:01 AM
March 15, 2026
A Machine Learning Engineer Thought He Was Safe From AI Layoffs. Then He Got Some Depressing News
While the exact impact of AI on the job market remains hazy at best, ongoing fears that an…
Using AI to Do Your Taxes Is Likely to Backfire Spectacularly
Tax season, that dreaded time of year, is upon us. But if you were hoping that newfangled AI…
Efforts Grow to Ban Octopus Farming
The case for a prohibition on octopus farming is simple enough: we probably shouldn’t raise animals capable of…
Kalshi Sent Bizarre Message to Underage Streamer
Kalshi hasn’t been particularly subtle about sucking young users into its gambling empire. Now, new reporting from the…
AI Job Loss Is Breaking the Psyche of Workers, Psychiatrist Warns
If you’re one of the hundreds of millions of Americans who earn a wage for a living, it…
Scientists Find Microbes Can Survive Traveling from Planet to Planet While Clinging to Asteroids
In an effort to explain how life started on Earth billions of years ago, some scientists have suggested…
Emergency Responders Say They’re Now Unpaid “Roadside Assistance” for Confused Waymos
Overseas teleoperators aren’t the only ones stuck cleaning up Waymo’s messes. Emergency responders are also having to swoop…
Atmospheric CO2 Getting So High That It’s Weakening Human Skeletons
Though talks of climate change typically conjure up images of dripping glaciers and rising tides, it turns out…
You’ll Choke When You Hear How Many Full-Time Jobs a $136 Million Data Center Will Actually Create
Fit Precast, an industrial concrete company, is dropping $102 million on a new facility in Gastonia, North Carolina,…
Evidence Grows That Google’s AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry
Media workers aren’t so much being replaced by AI systems as fed to one: Google’s gluttonous AI Overviews,…
Famed Plastic Surgeon Weighs in on Jim Carrey’s Face
Is it a shock that an aging actor may or may not have gotten work done on their…
Meta Lied About Its Smart Glasses Protecting User Privacy, New Class Action Lawsuit Claims
Meta may have sold seven million of its Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 alone — but likely didn’t…
NASA Spots Sun-like Star Inflating Massive Bubble
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have spotted a young star just 120 light years away engaging in…
MIT’s New 3D Printer Can Print a Working Motor, Complete With Moving Parts
The tech behind 3D printing has come an extremely long way. The additive manufacturing technique, which generally involves…
Bacteria Engineered to Eat Tumors From the Inside
While plenty of bad bacteria — like E. coli — can get you sick, many other types are…
Uber Employees Have Created an AI Clone of Its CEO
In need of a little confidence boost before a face-to-face with your boss? That urge seems to be…
Woman Annoyed When Delivery Robot Comes Into Her Yard, Tears Up Her Garden and Steals Her Fence
These days, moles and gophers aren’t the only pests you have to worry about tearing up your yard.…
Bill Gates’ Daughter Says Her $185 Million AI Startup Will Succeed Entirely Due to Her Merits, Not Even a Little Bit Who Her Dad Is
Against all odds, Phoebe Gates has managed to raise $35 million for a browser extension, despite the pernicious…
This Is How Big a Telescope Aliens Would Need to See Dinosaurs on Earth
Roughly 66 million years ago, scientists believe an enormous meteor, dubbed Chicxulub, smashed into the Earth in an…
Startup Generates Caring Letters to Your Friends Using AI, Handwrites Them Using Robot Pen
Think back to the last time you peeled open an envelope to find a handwritten letter. Maybe it…
Constant Space Launches Turning Earth’s Atmosphere Into a “Crematorium,” Scientists Say
Constant space launches are turning the atmosphere into a “crematorium” for satellites and other space debris. That was…
Creator of Claude Code Fears This Could Be the Last Year That Software Engineers Are Employable
The warning signs are piling up for anyone still working as a software engineer in 2026. In a…
Government Insiders Concerned by Musk’s Erratic and Sycophantic Grok Being Deployed for Incredibly Sensitive Purposes
The Trump administration is scrambling to replace Claude, the chatbot embedded throughout the Pentagon’s entire scaffolding, with Elon…
Anonymous Kalshi User Makes Huge Bet That the White House Is About to Confirm Alien Life or Technology
Is the US government about to confirm that aliens are real? That’s the claim floating around among those…