July 18, 2026 2:35 AM
July 18, 2026
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…
Cybertruck Recalled to Keep Its Wheels From Flying Off While Driving
Tesla’s Cybertruck is facing yet another recall. And it’s not some minor software update: a glaring flaw meant…
In Irony-Soaked Incident, Amazon Data Center Shuts Down Due to High Temperatures
On Thursday, Amazon Web Services said that one of its major data centers in north Virginia was overheating…
Thermoses Linked to Permanent Vision Loss
It turns out that Thermos bottles are potential Rube Goldberg machines for blinding you in cartoonish but utterly…
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…
Pope Implores Priests to Stop Writing Sermons Using ChatGPT
In a closed-door meeting with clergy from the Diocese of Rome late last week, Pope Leo XIV clobbered…
OpenAI Massively Cuts Spending Plan as Reality Closes in
During a November podcast appearance alongside OpenAI investor Grad Gerstner, CEO Sam Altman lost his cool. After Gerstner…
Huge Plume of Pollution Linked to Something That Will Not Make Elon Musk Happy
Just over a year ago, the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket plummeted back to the…
Daring Space Mission Would Catch Up With 3I/ATLAS and Intercept It
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS provided scientists with an exceptionally rare opportunity to study the nature of other planetary systems…