August 30, 2026 8:35 PM
August 30, 2026
If There Wasn’t Enough Opposition to AI Data Centers Already, Now They’re Supercharging Inflation
The shockingly unpopular drive to pepper the United States with massive AI data centers isn’t just driving up…
NASA Rover Finds “Complex Organic Matter” on Mars
After more than five years of roaming the desolate and dusty landscapes of the Martian surface, NASA’s Perseverance…
Robot Seen on Street Begging for Change
In today’s global economy, even robots are begging for help. In a now-viral stunt involving a Unitree G1,…
Peppa Pig Owner Demands Child Actors Sign Away Voice Rights to AI
Voice actors have been waging a fierce battle with the entertainment industry over training AI to synthesize their…
Softbank CEO Who’s Invested $64 Billion in OpenAI Says It’s “Blasphemy” to Mention the AI Bubble
For years, Japanese investment group SoftBank has been all-in on the AI gold rush. In early 2025, mere…
Customers Are Ditching Companies That Force Them to Talk to an AI Agent
There’s something grating about finding out that the customer service representative on the other end of the line…
DuckDuckGo’s AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month
According to DuckDuckGo’s AI search feature, US President Donald Trump passed away earlier this month from rabies. As…
Americans Increasingly Alarmed About Tech Industry’s Looming AI Bubble
From coast to coast, the people of the United States are growing resentful of AI. It’s not hard…
Government Scientists Fired by Trump Launch New Website for Sharing Climate Data
Since September of 2024, federal science agencies in the US have axed nearly 120,000 employees, in a stinging…
Experts Concerned About Plan to Destroy International Space Station
Where do you dump a football-field sized, 420 metric ton space station when it’s no longer hosting astronauts?…
Software Engineers Are Facing an Existential Crisis As They Drown In Horrendous AI Code
A lot of ink has been spilled on the programmers who got replaced by AI agents. But it…
DoorDash Delivery Robot Invades SWAT Scene, Won’t Leave as Cops Flashbang Resident
Once again, a bot has barged its way into trouble. During a SWAT response in Arizona last week,…
AI Chatbots Telling Cancer Patients to Try Useless Woo-Woo Treatments Instead of Chemotherapy
AI chatbots will recommend that cancer patients try unproven alternatives to chemotherapy and offer up other unscientific medical…
Scientists Puzzled by Huge Shadowy Blight Spreading Across Surface of Mars
A shadowy presence is spreading across the surface of Mars. New images released by the European Space Agency…
Meta Installing Software on Employee Computers to Track Everything They Do, Feed the Data to AI
As if activity-monitoring software installed on your work computer that snitches on you if you’re away from the…
Prego Pivots From Budget-Tier Pasta Sauce to Small Microphones That Listen to Your Family’s Intimate Conversations
Ever sit down at an awkward family dinner and think to yourself: “You know what this conversation needs?…
Chinese Workers Horrified as Bosses Direct Them to Train Their AI Replacements
For years, a buzzy Silicon Valley startup called Mercor has been hiring an army of desperate job-seekers —…
Concern Grows That AI Is Damaging Users’ Cognitive Abilities
Last year, a team of researchers led by MIT research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna used electroencephalograms to monitor the…
Jeff Bezos’ Botched Space Launch Was So Bad It Could Threaten NASA’s Entire Moon Program
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin experienced a significant setback over the weekend. During its third launch, the…
Guess What This Creepy Underwater Thing Is That Was Photographed by US Navy Divers for NASA
It may look like the underwater remains of a church that’s been submerged for hundreds of years following…
Tesla Drivers Losing Patience at Elon Musk’s Eternal Excuses
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promising that his company’s EVs will be capable of fully driving themselves…
JPMorganChase Data Center Gets $77 Million Handout to Create Grand Total of One Job
Back in March, we shared the story of a $136 million data center going up in Northeastern Ohio,…
Nvidia CEO Loses His Cool at Tough Question
Look, being CEO of the largest company by market cap in the world isn’t a cakewalk. It takes…
CEO of $1.5 Billion AI Startup Accused of Massive Fraud by Justice Department
The AI boom has brought with it untold levels of fraud and graft. One of the largest schemes…