April 6, 2026 4:15 PM
April 6, 2026
Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care
When Meta announced it would strip its failed VR goggles division for parts, the bet was simple: funnel…
NASA Running Out of Non-Life Explanations for What Its Rover Found on Mars
Last year, NASA’s Curiosity rover made a fascinating discovery after boring into a suspected ancient lake bed on…
Anthropic CEO Says Company No Longer Sure Whether Claude Is Conscious
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he’s not sure whether his Claude AI chatbot is conscious — a rhetorical…
As OpenAI Pulls Down the Controversial GPT-4o, Someone Has Already Created a Clone
OpenAI is finally sunsetting GPT-4o, a controversial version of ChatGPT known for its sycophantic style and its central role…
Blundering Husband Asks Claude AI to “Organize” Wife’s PC, Accidentally Erases Her Life’s Work
One of the core promises of the AI industry is that its tools can automate work for you…
Crypto Has Finally Found Its Killer App: Human Trafficking
Cryptocurrencies have long been lauded for being a borderless, decentralized way to transfer cash — and while they’ve…
Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody’s Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place
Google has relied on a tremendous amount of material without permission to train its Gemini AI models. The…
Campaign Urges Users to Quit ChatGPT Over OpenAI’s Support for Trump and ICE
It isn’t exactly big news that big tech is in deep with the US government. Days after Trump’s…
All These Ring Cameras Are Creating a “Surveillance Nightmare,” Critics Say
What if the biggest threat to your safety and privacy isn’t a person, but a device millions of…
Israel Arrests Members of Military for Placing Polymarket Bets Using Inside Information on Upcoming Strikes
For months, experts have warned that prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket were ripe for abuse. Now, some…
Scientists Intrigued as Prominent Star Suddenly Winks Out of Existence
The end of a star’s life can be an extremely violent event. Once it runs out of fuel,…
Creeps Are Using Grok to Unblur Children’s Faces in the Epstein Files
Some of the worst freaks to walk planet Earth are using Elon Musk’s Grok to “unblur” the faces…
AI Is a Godsend for Criminals Forging Fake Art
For hundreds of years, humans have engaged in the fine craft of art forgery. Indeed, in 1496, a…
Activists Downloaded Pretty Much All of Spotify
Hacktivists with the group Anna’s Archive — a search engine for shadow libraries, which are unauthorized collections of…
Gen Z Terrified of Losing Their Humanity to AI
As generative AI seeps into virtually every aspect of our daily lives through jobs, entertainment, and even food,…
Elon Musk’s Starship Explosion Endangered Hundreds of Airline Passengers
On January 16, SpaceX conceded that the latest prototype of its enormous Starship spacecraft had “experienced a rapid…
Man Describes How ChatGPT Led Him Straight Into Psychosis
32-year-old Anthony Duncan first used ChatGPT to help with the business side of his career as a content…
Top Software Engineering Students Can’t Get a Job Because of AI
Graduates at some of the top universities are finding it nearly impossible to find new jobs in software…
Korea Tests Ultra-Rugged Robot to Explore the Moon’s Mysterious Caves
If humans finally colonize the Moon, lunar caves formed from primeval volcanic activity could provide shelter from cosmic…
Zuckerberg Already Blowing Up Relationship With New Head of AI He Paid Ten Zillion Dollars to Hire
This summer, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg moved heaven and earth to recharge his company’s lagging AI division, spending…
We Could Hitch a Ride to Unknown Frontiers on Super-Fast Interstellar Objects Like 3I/ATLAS
Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on December 19, coming within just 167 million…
Waymos Cause Traffic Jams Across City During Power Outage
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night will stay these robotaxis of their appointed trips…
Sam Altman Unhappy With Fate He’s Created for Himself
Several major companies — including Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Sam Altman’s OpenAI, and competitor Anthropic — are eyeing enormous…
Astronauts Suit Up for Their Journey to the Moon
If all goes according to plan, four astronauts are set to become the first humans to travel past…