June 10, 2026 4:16 AM
June 10, 2026
JONATHAN THE 193-YEAR-OLD TORTOISE IS STILL ALIVE, REPEAT HE HAS NOT DIED
On Wednesday, sorrow swept through the Futurism newsroom as we heard that Jonathan, a 193-year-old Seychelles giant tortoise…
Chinese University Announces 30-Story “Artificial Island” for Marine Research Purposes
Some countries pump out aircraft carriers to project power across the globe; others build research megastructures to plumb…
The Trump Administration Is Doing Something Horrifying to Workers at Nuclear Facilities
It isn’t just the guys handling plutonium who need to worry about radiation — every US nuclear worker,…
Conspiracy Theorists Are Going to Have a Field Day as NASA Gears Up to Launch Historic Moon Mission on April Fools’ Day
Conspiracy theories have run rampant over the decades following NASA’s historic Apollo missions to the surface of the…
Leaked Claude Code Shows Anthropic Building Mysterious “Tamagotchi” Feature Into It
After Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code to its blockbuster Claude chatbot, netizens swiftly pounced to start plowing…
SpaceX Files for IPO
Following months of rumors, Bloomberg reports that Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX has confidentially filed for an initial…
Here’s Why Google Searches for “Bimbofication” Are Surging
Searches for “bimbofication” began surging Tuesday, from an average index score of zero to 100 in a single…
The Iran War Has Cut Off Supply of a Gas the AI Industry Desperately Needs
Forget gas prices and fertilizer. One of the biggest casualties of the US war on Iran could be…
The Fact That Anthropic Has Been Boasting About How Much Its Development Now Relies on Claude Makes It Very Interesting That It Just Suffered a Catastrophic Leak of Its Source Code
Earlier this year, the head of Anthropic’s blockbuster Claude Code AI agent Boris Cherny boasted that “pretty much…
NYT Cuts Ties With Writer as Scrutiny of AI Content Grows
Amid mounting scrutiny into AI usage creeping into the newspaper of record, the New York Times has cut…
Data Centers Causing Huge Temperature Spikes for Miles Around Them, Study Suggests
The data centers at the heart of the AI boom are producing so much heat that they’re spiking…
A Startup Has Been Quietly Pitching Cloned Human Bodies to Transfer Your Brain Into
Since the mid-1990s, scientists have been obsessed with cloning animals. Dolly the sheep famously became the first mammal…
Outer Space Is a Viscous Fluid, New Paper Claims
There’s endless debate among cosmologists about what really makes up the emptiness of outer space, though many believe…
Tech Corporations Engaging in “Human Fracking”
Social media algorithms keep us all hopelessly engaged. The data these platforms gather on us enable feeds to…
Nuclear Bunker Falling Into Ocean
How’s a literal nuclear bunker hanging off the side of a crumbling cliff face for portent symbols of…
Scientists Just Discovered Something Horrid About Those Disposable Coffee Cups You’ve Been Slurping
According to a wealth of recent scientific literature, microplastics, tiny pieces of debris anywhere from one micrometer to…
AI Surveillance Systems Are Causing a Staggering Number of Wrongful Arrests
These days, AI surveillance systems are everywhere. They’re watching our roads, tracking our purchases at the grocery store,…
Government Tells Tesla That This Is Definitely the Last Time It Can Blow Off Deadline to Turn In Data On Why FSD Is Constantly Ignoring Traffic Laws
Elon Musk’s Tesla would never get special treatment by the US government, right? This week, Ars Technica reports,…
Elon Musk Says His Optimus Robot Is So Dope That People Will Forget Tesla Ever Made Cars
Amid abysmal car sales that continue to plummet worldwide and major regulatory hurdles plaguing the company’s driver assistance…
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
While AI companies continue to command the global economy and pour billions of dollars into building data centers,…
Man Confused by AI-Generated Reports That He’s Dead
You know the old adage “don’t believe everything you see on the internet”? In the age of AI,…
Media Execs Prepare for AI to Bring End of Journalism Industry
Will the slow anaconda crush of AI mean the end of journalism? It’s hard to imagine it completely…
Man Gets Clean Bill of Health From Super-Expensive MRI Scan, Then Gets Horrible News
A 35-year-old New York City man paid about $2,500 for a whole body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan…
Meta Lays Off Thousands of VR Workers as Zuckerberg’s Vision Fails
After years of failing to produce a profitable augmented reality platform, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is pounding one of…