July 16, 2026 5:05 PM
July 16, 2026
CEO Pleads With AI Industry to Stop Charging So Much to Replace Human Labor
With each passing day without an AI labor revolution, the tech industry’s pricing scheme for AI is becoming…
Scientists Say They’ve Identified an Earth-Like Planet Right Next Door
A recently discovered exoplanet only 25 light years away resembles our own planet a lot more than once…
FanDuel Is Using Personal Messages From Sports Stars to Keep Gambling Addicts Hooked
The soaring popularity of sports betting apps and prediction markets has alarmed researchers, who’ve observed a spike in…
Taco Bells Makes Urgent Changes After Outbreak of Explosive Diarrhea
As an explosive diarrhea outbreak splatters across the country, Taco Bell is preparing for the worst. This week,…
People on X Are Getting Fooled by the Dumbest AI Slop We’ve Ever Seen
As the World Cup enters its final stages, soccer-themed AI slop is proliferating on X-formerly-Twitter. Sure, it’s no…
Elon Musk Says His Goal Is for SpaceX to Be Worth More than the Entire Earth
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long heavily relied on selling science fiction to investors. He wants to pollute…
China Is Catching Up With SpaceX Fast, Landing First Reusable Rocket Booster on Offshore Platform
SpaceX has radically reduced the cost of reaching space thanks to its reusable rockets, a revolutionary capability that…
“You Are a Parasite”: Elon Musk Humiliated for Criticizing Zohran Mamdani
During a speech commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence last week, New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani…
The Logo for Donald Trump International Airport Appears to Be AI Slop
Donald Trump is now the first president to have an airport named after him while still in office.…
Eric Trump Has Lost $600 Million of Daddy’s Money Betting on Crypto
President Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump, cofounded a crypto mining venture called American Bitcoin Corp last year —…
Someone Reportedly Mailed a Live Squirrel to Meta, Where It Sent an Employee to the Hospital
We’ve been hearing plenty about how Meta’s workforce is in total disarray. But this latest story takes the…
Flock Cameras Screw Up, Swarm Innocent Man With Armed Police
Flock surveillance cameras are blanketing the country, and to no one’s surprise, innocent people are being caught in…
El Niño Already Killing Thousands in Europe
We’re officially in an El Niño year, and as predicted, it’s a scorcher. Record temperatures are already being…
Surprise! Meta Says Now You Have to Pay a Monthly Subscription to Use Key Features of Your Already Expensive Smart Glasses
Last month, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta became embroiled in a major controversy after Wired found that it had discreetly…
Peptide That Makes You Tan Linked to Skin Cancer, Doctor Warns
Researchers are starting to get a closer view of the various gray-market peptides making the rounds on the…
Tesla Slams Into Crowded Cafe, Killing One
One woman is dead after a wayward Tesla barreled into the Urbane Cafe, a strip mall restaurant in…
College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds
Gone are the days of university freshmen reading classical philosophers like Plato or contemporary pedagogues like Ta-Nehisi Coates.…
Meta Paid Hundreds of Contractors to Pretend to Be Teenagers While Barraging Its Competitors’ AI With Disturbing Content
Meta conducted a secretive program that directed hundreds of contractors to pose as teenagers while bombarding its competitors’ AI…
Self-Driving Taxi Company Annoyed by the Naughty Thing Passengers Keep Doing in Its Cabs
Robotaxi companies are learning the hard way that operating driverless cars also means that there’s no one supervising…
Does Someone on Polymarket Know That Putin Is Going Down?
Earlier this year, a major scandal rocked the prediction markets world after an account correctly bet $20,000 on…
Man Vanishes After Mysterious Experiments With Quantum Physics
The headline practically writes itself. A 78-year-old man, whose friend told law enforcement had been working at the…
Weird Al Turns Down Huge Sum to Appear in Ad for AI
Celebrities that you don’t actually know probably shouldn’t be your role models. Still, we’d be lying if we…
Simple Prompt Turns ChatGPT Into a Sociopath That Ignores Safety Guardrails
Researchers at the British AI security startup Mindgard found that a simple prompt spurred ChatGPT to drop its…
Amazon Is Spewing a Record Breaking Amount of Pollution to Power Its AI Data Centers
Amazon is breaking all kinds of records on the back of the AI boom, and not the good…