April 25, 2026 2:28 PM
April 25, 2026
Astronomer Who Discovered Water on Distant Planet Murdered Outside Home
A renowned Caltech astronomer who studied distant exoplanets was shot and killed outside his home in a rural…
Something Very Alarming Happens When You Give AI the Nuclear Codes
In 2024, Stanford researchers let loose five AI models — including an unmodified version of OpenAI’s GPT-4, its…
Intriguing New Smartphone Design Features a Small Robot Arm
The form factor of smartphones hasn’t changed all too much since the original iPhone debuted back in 2007.…
The Average American Would Pay $49 Per Month to Drink Recycled Toilet Water, Study Finds
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Similarly, the water in your toilet bowl could be another person’s…
Kalshi Says It’s Busted a MrBeast Staffer for Insider Trading
There are plenty of reasons to suspect that insider trading could be rampant on prediction platforms Kalshi and…
If AI Causes an Office Job Wipeout, It’ll Cause Huge Problems for Blue Collar Work Too
Blue collar workers may be enjoying a certain degree of schadenfreude at seeing the panic over tech, finance,…
New App Detects the Radio Fingerprint of Smart Glasses and Warns You When Someone Is Using Them Nearby
Meta Wayfarer G2s. TCL Nxtwear Gs. RayNeo Air 3s. With so many smart glasses flooding the marketplace, it…
Meta’s Head of AI Safety Just Made a Mistake That May Cause You a Certain Amount of Alarm
OpenClaw, an open source AI agent that supposedly “actually does things,” has driven everyone in the industry completely…
Google Apologizes for Sending the Worst Push Notification You Can Possibly Imagine
Disaster tends to strike when you let automated systems distribute news, especially on sensitive topics. The latest case…
Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much
These days, it’s not enough to sit and watch as AI destroys a generation of students, makes it…
Discord’s Verification Saga Has Devolved Into a Complete Self-Inflicted Embarrassment
Messaging platform Discord’s efforts to roll out age verification software have been nothing short of a disaster. Back…
The Winklevoss Twins’ Crypto Company Is in Crisis After the Bitcoin Crash
America’s favorite twins are struggling these days, as Bitcoin’s crash continues to hammer their decade-old crypto exchange, Gemini…
New Parents Mocked for Letting ChatGPT Name Their Baby
Naming your child isn’t a task to be taken lightly. It’s a crucial step in the child-rearing process…
Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
Earlier this week, a troubling trend emerged on X-formerly-Twitter as people started asking Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok to…
Scientist Puzzled by “Symmetric Jet Structure” on 3I/ATLAS
It may have made its closest approach to Earth last month, but the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS continues to…
Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog
Law enforcement has quickly embraced AI for everything from drafting police reports to facial recognition. The results have…
Man Operating Robot Accidentally Makes It Kick Him Directly in the Nutsack
In a now viral video, a man controlling a Unitree robot accidentally made the humanoid kick him right…
Scientists Graft Human Ear Onto Foot
In a bizarre first, the South China Morning Post reports, doctors in China have surgically grafted a patient’s…
China Planning Crackdown on AI That Harms Mental Health of Users
While many world governments seem happy to let untested AI chatbots interact with vulnerable populations, China looks to…
Godfather of AI Warns That It Will Replace Many More Jobs This Year
Rejoice, for the year of 2025 is finally over. During our planet’s latest and seemingly interminable revolution around…
Doctors Find Evidence Microplastics Are Clogging Arteries, Leading to Heart Attacks and Strokes
Microplastics are everywhere, including our arteries. And though their presence there is correlated with cardiovascular issues such as…
Jack White Rages After Congressman Shares AI Deepfake of Him Calling Fans “Fascists”
Since the tragic murder of vaunted filmmaker and activist Rob Reiner, the culture warriors have been feasting. Shortly…
Man in Intensive Care Unit After Slamming Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail That Ruptured His Stomach
There’s perhaps no greater shortcut to a bit of pseudo-scientific flare than a splash of liquid nitrogen, a…
Explosives Reported at Space Force Facility
Emergency officials raced to a Space Force base in Aurora, Colorado on report of possible explosives at a…