April 6, 2026 2:48 PM
April 6, 2026
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…
Vending Machine Run by Claude More of a Disaster Than Previously Known
Maybe we don’t need the Turing test, because there’s a mighty obstacle that’s proving far more challenging to…
It Appears That Immigration Officials Caused the El Paso Airport Shutdown When They Panic-Fired a Powerful Laser Weapon at a Children’s Balloon
Federal officials made the unprecedented decision to abruptly close the airspace above El Paso, Texas, this week —…
AI Is a Burnout Machine
Some software engineers are finding that AI is speeding up their work, but at a cost: it’s also…
OpenAI Fires Top Safety Exec Who Opposed ChatGPT’s “Adult Mode”
OpenAI fired a top safety executive after she opposed the company’s decision to allow adult and sexual content…
Cofounders Fleeing Elon Musk’s xAI
On paper, Elon Musk’s xAI is gearing up for a big year. After being folded into Musk’s SpaceX,…
The Scientist Who Predicted AI Psychosis Has a Grim Forecast of What’s Going to Happen Next
When the Danish psychiatrist Søren Dinesen Østergaard published his ominous warning about AI’s effects on mental health back…
Murder of MIT Fusion Scientist Getting More and More Bizarre
Last week, lauded theoretical physicist and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Nuno Loureiro was…
Photos Are Being Deleted From the Epstein Files
Even before the Department of Justice’s release of a major collection of files pertaining to late billionaire sex…
Home Depot Deploys Havana-Style Sonic Weapon Against Day Laborers
While federal agents working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) are running…
James Webb Discovers Planet Shaped Like Lemon
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered an astonishing exoplanet that’s stretching our understanding of what’s…
White House Confused by How Random YouTuber’s Stream Became Featured on Its Website
The executive branch has been infiltrated by an unexpected entity: a random livestreamer. On Friday, the White House…
Twitter User Uncovers Secret Link to Bizarre CDC Text File
It’s not quite a CIA black site, but a link to an old Centers for Disease Control and…
Police Warn of Robot Crime Wave
The use of autonomous drones on the battlefield has already raised plenty of murky ethical questions. Many experts…
Rats Successfully Trained to Shoot Demons in “Doom”
In 2020, Hungarian software engineer and neuroscientist Viktor Tóth came up with a fascinating experiment. With the use…
YouTube Now Shutting Down Channels Posting AI Slop
YouTube’s janitors are swooping in to mop up the slop. As reported by Deadline, the Google-owned video platform…
Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything
In 2025, there seem to be as many narratives about AI as there are startups peddling the stuff.…
Elon Says His New Rocket Is as Important as the Origin of Life Itself
Multibillionaire Elon Musk has never exactly been humble about his corporate empire, but his latest comments are genuinely…
SpaceX Is Buying Up an Unfathomable Number of Cybertrucks
Now that EV tax incentives have gone up in smoke, Tesla is expected to disappoint once again with…