August 25, 2026 12:13 PM
August 25, 2026
Hospitals Are Getting So Hot That Surgeries Are Getting Canceled and Staff Are Fainting
Hospitals in the UK are taking a beating from the relentless summer heat. As The Guardian reports, indoor…
Meta Declines to Remove Horrific Posts Calling for Violence Against Muslims, Calling Them “Cockroaches” and Saying It’s “Time for Hunting”
Back in 2022, the Center for Countering Digital Hate released a blistering report finding that social media platforms…
Man Obliterated When Court Obtains His ChatGPT Transcripts
Normally, you’d imagine huge megacorporations having a personal army of the best lawyers in the world who can…
AI Billionaires Are So Greedy That They’re Supercharging Sales of Yachts and Private Jets
Working class consumers around the world are tightening their belts, driven by runaway fuel prices, global inflation, and…
Internet-Connected Pet Feeders Go Down, Leaving Kitties Hungry
It feels like an impossible task these days to purchase a “dumb” appliance that doesn’t need a constant…
Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
Amazon has been caught scanning and destroying a large shipment of rare books so it can train its…
Kentucky Middle School Sends Students Home on First Day of Class With AI-Generated Educational Materials Full of Inexcusable Hallucinations, Including a Map Labeled With “North Dahota” and “Olkchoma”
Kentucky parents are outraged after discovering that horribly inaccurate educational materials handed out to their middle school students…
Americans Are Tossing Salad in Unprecedented Numbers
Over the weekend, senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) excoriated health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr in a letter over his…
New ChatGPT Feature Collects Every Keystroke You Make
OpenAI has revealed a new feature for ChatGPT’s desktop app on macOS that basically tracks your clicks, keystrokes,…
The Economy Has Spoken: Stuff That’s AI-Generated Has Almost Zero Value
Online marketplaces are being flooded with AI slop — but is anybody willing to actually pay for it?…
There’s Pretty Much No Good Way to Fight an Electric Vehicle Fire, New Study Finds
Electric vehicles offer plenty of benefits. There’s the instant torque, savings on fuel — and, of course, they’re…
Experts Warn That AI Slop Is Corrupting Kids’ Brains
What do you get when you let an endless feed of AI fruitslop videos loose on screen-addicted kids?…
Zuckerberg’s Manifesto About the Glorious Freedoms AI Will Bring Was Completely Contradicted by His Own CTO During a Company Meeting
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg just dumped a lengthy manifesto on his utopian vision for an AI “superintelligence”-driven future.…
Scientists Warn That New Satellites Could Cause Eye Damage for People on the Ground
Last month, the Federal Communications Commission approved an experimental and controversial new satellite being developed by venture Reflect…
USA Today Journalists Horrified by Newspaper’s Partnership With Palantir
Last week, Nieman Lab revealed that USA Today‘s parent company USA Today Co (formerly Gannett) was partnering with…
Flock’s Secret Surveillance Plan Will Make You Gasp
Flock had a devious plan to expand its surveillance network past its army of AI-powered license plate scanners.…
Amazon Used a Startlingly Dirty Trick to Build a Data Center Without Consent of Community
A quiet war is playing out in rural communities across the country. City council meetings are bursting into…
Meta Exec Rages Against Employees Asking for More Time Off Because AI Made Them More Efficient
Even as they promise AI will supercharge productivity, tech leaders are sending a clear message: any efficiency gains…
Droughts Are Getting So Intense That Ancient Ruins Are Beginning to Surface From Dried Up Rivers
Water levels in rivers across Europe are reaching astonishing lows lately as a record heatwave continues to bake…
Volunteers Tracking Lost Dog Baffled When Locals Trash Thermal Imaging Drone
In a time of rising skepticism against tech surveillance, it seems not even the best intentions can spare…
Scammers Tremble as AI Comes for Their Jobs
Turns out there’s one thing AI chatbots are definitively better at than humans: scamming innocent people. A new…
Scientists Genetically Engineer High-Protein Lettuce
Scientists have finally created what might be the only thing that can get meatheads to eat their veggies:…
Elon Musk’s Efforts to Cut Spending in the Government Were So Incompetent That It’s Shocking, Internal Analysis Finds
In terms of demoralizing the federal workforce and demolishing the public sector, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency…
USA Today Partners With Palantir to Gain “Actionable Intelligence” On Its Audiences
When you read the newspaper, does it read you back? On Thursday, USA Today Co — formerly known…