August 30, 2026 11:46 PM
August 30, 2026
Rich People Can Afford Good Education for Their Kids. They’re Raising Them on AI Slop Anyways.
Despite having all the resources in the world to offer their offspring a high-quality education, a cohort of…
Trump Fans Confused by How Their Investments in His Crypto and Stock Are Now Worth a Tiny Fraction While He’s Getting Richer
Throughout his second stint in the Oval Office, Donald Trump has raked in over a billion dollars on…
Experts Say Mysterious Metallic Orbs Appear to Have Fallen From the Sky
Mysterious metallic orbs washed up on a secluded beach in Australia, and experts say they likely fell from…
Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk maintains an extremely close relationship with Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr. Under Carr’s…
Swarm of Cyborg Remote Controlled Cockroaches Gains New Power
Scientists turned a bunch of cockroaches into remote-controllable cyborgs — and then built them little scuba suits so…
Huge Survey Finds the Truth About What mRNA Vaccines Do to the Human Body
A comprehensive review found that mRNA vaccines — a popular target of viral vaccine conspiracy theories and medical misinformation…
You’ll Never Guess Why Government Officials Are Sinking a Four-Story Riverboat Casino Into the Abyss
Government officials in Alabama are giving an old riverboat casino a from Indiana a new life — not…
Something Weird Is Going on With the 66 Billion Trees China Planted in a Huge Wall
Over the past five decades, China has planted 66 billion trees in a massive wall that spans the…
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…
The Military Base Home to Air Force One Leaked 32,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel Into the Potomac River Over the Last Few Months
With nearly one-fifth of the world’s oil under lock and key thanks to Donald Trump’s ill-fated war on…
Residents Furious After Their Town Board Rejected an OpenAI Data Center, But a Billionaire Developer Forced It Through Anyway
Across the United States, the fight over data center construction has largely pitted stamp-happy municipal governments against their…
Japan Deploying Combat Drones Made of Cardboard
We’ve heard of DIY drone kits before, but this is ridiculous. Japan’s minister of defense Shinjirō Koizumi recently…
ChatGPT Is Saying VWeird Things in Chinese
If you thought English-language ChatGPT-prose was annoying, just wait until you get a load of its conversational habits…
Oracle Forced to Cancel Incredibly Polluting Natural Gas Plant to Power AI Data Center
The tech industry has done a poor job of hiding the environmental footprint of AI data centers, which…
Researchers Alarmed by AI That Can Self-Replicate Into Another Machine
A new report from Palisade Research has found that AI models can self-replicate by copying themselves onto other…
Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System
For thousands of years, astronomers have watched Halley’s Comet come and go, becoming visible to the naked eye…
The Upcoming El Niño Is About to Unleash Devastation, Experts Warn
Cities running out of water. Heat waves that kill you if you stand outside for a few minutes…
Man Wearing Smart Glasses Secretly Records Woman, Demands Money to Delete Video From His Socials
A man secretly filmed a woman with smart glasses, before demanding money to take down the video he…
A Major Paper Claiming AI Is Good for Students Just Got Retracted, Which Is Very Bad News for Advocates of AI in the Classroom
The jury’s still out on AI’s effectiveness as a learning tool, but research so far paints a grim…
Amazon Admits Its Flagship AI Coding Tool Isn’t Good Enough for Its Own Workers to Use
In November, Amazon leaders sent an internal memo to employees, pushing them to use its in-house code generating…
Fury Erupts After Google Chrome Sneakily Installs 4 GB AI Model On Users’ PCs
As of 2026, Google maintains an iron grip on the web browser market, boasting well over three billion…