August 31, 2026 3:59 AM
August 31, 2026
Is Your Air Conditioning Killing People Thousands of Miles Away?
When horrible things happen to people you care about, it’s only natural to seek someone to blame. If…
CEO Says He’ll Fire Any Employee Who Sends Him More AI Slop
We’ve been hearing a lot lately about bosses who have embraced AI so much that they’ve become loose…
SpaceX Investors Are Having Another Brutal Day
In the weeks following its dramatic IPO, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has yet to find stable ground. After shooting…
Scientists Just Found Something Very Disturbing About the AMOC Current Deep Below the Ocean: Evidence That Its Weakening Isn’t Just a Fluke, and If It Collapses, the World Could Be Plunged Into Climate Catastrophe
Chilling news: a mysterious patch of cold water at the bottom of the north Atlantic is caused by…
Scientists Build Fully Synthetic Life Form That Can Eat and Reproduce
Scientists claim that for the first time in history, they have constructed a synthetic cell that feeds, grows,…
Thieves Are Absolutely Loving All of These New Data Center Projects
An enormous amount of resources and money go into the construction of a data center. The enormous facilities…
Factories Attach Cameras to Workers, in Hopes of Replacing Them With Robots
Today, sweatshop workers across the Global South are being made to pull double duty: both stitching clothes together,…
Boys Are So Unprepared by the Education System That They’re Hitting High School Unable to Read Anything More Challenging That a Children’s Book
Fewer teens than ever are reading books, and boys especially. And the ones who do read are either…
Top AI Researchers Terrified of a “Chernobyl Moment”: a Mass Casualty Event, or Worse, That Turns the World Against AI Forever
US and Chinese AI researchers are calling for global cooperation on the tech, fearing that its unchecked development…
Brown University Professor Horrified to Discover Largest AI Cheating Scandal in Ivy League History
Award winning economist and Brown University professor Roberto Serrano says he has detected what appears to be the…
Venture Capitalists Disgusted by Solar Power Because It’s Generating Too Much Clean Electricity to Be Grossly Profitable
As the Trump administration continues to debilitate the United States’ path to green power, other parts of the…
Elon Musk Is Crashing Out Badly
Over the weekend, Elon Musk publicly challenged anybody to “cite a single name of someone who died” as…
Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What Causes “Ghosts”
There are unseen forces behind why a house might feel haunted — but no, it’s not ghosts. New…
There’s Something Bizarre About the Offices of AI Startups
With questions swirling about whether hundreds of AI startups will ever translate the tech into real-world economic returns,…
You’ll Gasp When You Hear How Many Chinese EVs You Can Buy For the Price of a Single US Car
American automakers have some explaining to do. According to new reporting from Reuters, you could buy up to…
NASA’s Moon Landing Schedule Slipping Horrendously Under Trump
During his first term in late 2017, president Donald Trump announced that the United States would make its…
Bank CEO Brags He Used AI Clone of Himself to Host Conference Call
If you decided to blow off a Zoom meeting by sending an AI dummy instead, you might find…
New AI Trained Only on Pre-1930 Data Speaks Like the Most Old-Timey Guy Imaginable
Tired of your AI chatbot’s constantly-glazing therapy-speak? You could instead try striking up a conversation with “Talkie,” an…
NASA Fires Up Futuristic Plasma Thruster Designed to Take Us to Mars
Covering the well over 100 million miles to Mars is no easy feat. Even in the best case…
Wild Video Shows Ukrainian Troops Evacuate Babushka With a Military Robot
One granny has been safely plucked from the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian war by the unlikeliest of heroes:…
AV Companies Might be in Trouble Now As Cops Start Ticketing Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles have an accountability problem. Because there’s no driver, there’s nobody to hold liable when the car…
Toilet Maker Spikes in Value as It Flushes Money Into AI
Last month, failing tech bro shoe company Allbirds made the baffling announcement that it was pivoting to AI…
Japanese Airport Trialing Humanoid Robots as Baggage Handlers
The future is truly upon us — because the next time your check-in luggage gets battered, you could…
New England Journal of Medicine Retracts Paper Because Photo of Patient’s Insides Was Garbled by AI
Medical journals are being flooded with shoddy AI-generated work, a growing threat to the scientific community that could…