August 30, 2026 7:25 PM
August 30, 2026
Sheriff Unveils Humanoid Robot for Hostage Negotiation Purposes, Which Definitely Won’t End in Disaster
What does it take to keep a county of fewer than 400,000 people safe? For one North Carolina…
Trump Suddenly Opens Dozens of Gas Stations Selling Suspiciously Cheap Fuel, and Experts Are Already Warning of Impending Disaster
Trump Mobile. Trump Steaks. Trump Coin. Trump Vodka. By this point, you know the drill. The president’s latest…
Waymo Takes Revenge, Dropping Drunk Teens Directly Into Squad of Cops
Waymo’s fleet of autonomous taxis has garnered a reputation for causing mayhem on public streets, from trapping drivers…
If You’ve Been Having Explosive Diarrhea, You May Want to Read This
A gut-busting parasite that’s known to cause “weeks of debilitating diarrhea” is spreading across the United States —…
Tesla’s Safety Camera Lets Woman Cruising at Highway Speed While Completely Passed Out
Police in British Columbia are investigating after a viral video shows a woman fast asleep behind the wheel…
Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free
By now, it’s clear that the only way the tech industry can justify the cost of AI is…
Scientists Identify Most Degenerate Known ChatGPT User
AI’s promises tend to be pretty highfalutin: that you can use it as your “second brain,” to invent…
Anthropic Caught Secretly Spying on Users
Anthropic, the self-avowed moral center of the AI industry, has been caught spying on its users. As Ars…
Freak Tornado Sucks Man Out of 12-Floor Apartment
When most of us hear about freak tornadoes, we assume they’re ripping through trailer parks in Oklahoma —…
Tripadvisor’s AI Is Telling Vacationers That Gruesome Horror Grottos Are Wonderful Holiday Retreats
Planning your next getaway? You’d be wise not to trust the advice of an AI chatbot — even…
Bank of America Warns That AI Investors Are in for a Nasty Reality Check
Tech companies are running hot, with Wall Street investors sustaining multi-trillion dollar valuations despite subdued earnings. Companies heavily…
Experts Say There’s Now an Open Source AI Model as Scary as Mythos
Last month, the Trump administration forced AI company Anthropic to withdraw its most powerful Mythos 5 and Fable…
NASA Satellite Images Show Huge Colored Plumes Staining the Ocean
NASA satellites are tracking an intriguing patch of colored plumes in the waters off the US’s Mid-Atlantic coast.…
Doctors’ AI Systems Are Hallucinating Nonexistent Medical Issues During Appointments With Patients
If you’ve been to a medical appointment in the past two or three years, chances are high that…
Men Haven’t Yet Noticed That a Large Number of Women Are Disgusted by AI
If you’ve been on TikTok lately, you might have come across a viral meme showing yet another dark…
Scientists Say Test Subjects Were Able to Quit Smoking After They Blasted Their Brains With a Huge Magnet
If you’ve ever tried to quit cigarettes, you know that nicotine addiction is ridiculously difficult to beat. A…
Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Serum That Activates a Dormant Ability to Regrow Lost Limbs in Mammals
For millennia — since at least the time of Aristotle — medical thinkers have pondered why certain animals…
Elon Musk Absolutely Obsessed With Tweets From Random Guy In India Who Constantly Glazes Him, Analysis Shows
It looks like Elon Musk has an even bigger sycophant than his AI model Grok. According to a…
Meta Employee Attacks Zuckerberg for Collecting Every Employee Keystroke
Mark Zuckerberg’s new initiative to track employee computer use is tearing the company apart. In a sign that…
Devious Prankster Posts Real Monet Painting, Tells People It’s AI-Generated, and Watches the Chaos Unfold
A poster wrought some moderate havoc this week when they shared a cropped image of a real Monet…
Crabby 82-Year-Old Politician Attacks 10-Year-Old Child for Thinking Electric Cars Are Cool
North Carolinian congresswoman Virginia Foxx has never shied away from regressive takes. Over her many decades in politics,…
AI Appears to Be Trapping Certain Job Applicants in a Limbo Where They Never Get an Interview for “Reasons” That Are Completely Unfair
For workers already enmeshed in the US workforce, AI is akin to a far-off asteroid, a looming threat…
Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes
You’d hope that the world’s brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the nature of our…
If AI Causes a Mass Unemployment Crisis, Will the Public Explode Into Violence?
These days, the conversation around AI automation and the job market is increasingly focused on “labor displacement,” the…