August 31, 2026 2:54 AM
August 31, 2026
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…
Elon Musk Confronted With List of People He’s Killed, Including Children
On the same week as his 55th birthday, almost-trillionaire Elon Musk attempted to defend himself after representative Ro…
You Are Entirely Unready to Learn the Name of the Company That Accidentally Filled the Reflecting Pool With Green Algae
US President Donald Trump has been desperately trying stop the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC from…
Anthropic Hires Economist Who Says 33 Percent Chance of Human Extinction Is Acceptable
Out of all the big AI players, Anthropic is the one that likes to doomsay about AI the…
Anybody Who Thinks Orbital Data Centers are a Good Idea Is Suffering from AI Psychosis, Experts Argue
Demand for the computing power that undergirds AI models — “compute,” in the lingo of the industry —…
Madonna Issues Explosive Take on AI
If you’re using AI to try and make “art,” Madonna Ciccone has some bad news for you. In…
Grim New Prediction Market Lets Gamblers Bet on Raging Wildfires
Ever wanted to role play a claims adjustor in Southern California? Now you can — with Wyldfyre, the…
Eric Trump’s Crypto Company Is Falling Into Total Disaster
President Donald Trump and his spawn have reaped billions of dollars worth of crypto during his second term…
An Out of Control SpaceX Rocket Is Going to Smash Into Moon, Astronomer Says
One of Elon Musk’s spacecraft will finally reach the lunar surface — but probably not in the way…
Gen Z Is Turning Against AI in an Incredible Way
For years now, tech leaders have warned that AI will usher in a technological revolution on an unprecedented…
Elon Musk Just Got Badly Humiliated in Court
Elon Musk helped birth OpenAI in 2015, a world-changing AI non-profit which he lavished with tens of millions…
Amazon’s New AI-Generated “Podcasts” Shilling Every Imaginable Products Are Already Backfiring Spectacularly
Companies keep forcing AI features to do things that no one ever thought they needed, or indeed ever…
OpenAI Strangely Concerned About Goblins
OpenAI is forbidding its latest AI model from discussing an unlikely topic: goblins. As Wired reports, the company’s…
If You Bet on Polymarket, This New Study May Cause You Physical Pain
In traditional gambling halls, it’s common knowledge that the house always wins. On newly popular prediction markets like…
If OpenAI Loses This Trial, It Could Effectively Be Eliminated in Its Current Form
Little love has been lost between Elon Musk and Sam Altman. The two billionaires have been openly feuding…
How to Get Rid of Reddit’s Giant App-Shilling Popup That Breaks Its Entire Mobile Site
Earlier today, we reported on an incredibly irritating move by the social giant Reddit. Though the company has…
There’s a Hidden Shortcut to Mars, Scientific Paper Finds
It takes an average of 12.5 minutes for light to cover the distance between the Earth and Mars.…
Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Shot Down by China, Again
It seems like only yesterday that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was learning Mandarin while pushing staffers to read…
Users Furious as Reddit Intentionally Breaks Its Mobile Website, Demanding Users Download Its App Instead
Update: annoyed Reddit users have figured out a way to get rid of the irritating popup — for…