August 30, 2026 1:18 PM
August 30, 2026
Meta Exec Admits Zuckerberg Has Crushed Workers’ Spirits
Workplace morale at Meta is in a tailspin after Mark Zuckerberg and his executive crew slashed thousands of…
Waymo Has Been Defeated by New York City
It’s not exactly straightforward to navigate New York City by car. Manhattan, in particular, is a confusing maze…
Companies That Embraced AI Are Now Rotting Away in a Very Specific Way
Companies that went all-in on using generative AI tools are developing a major “workslop” problem. In their pursuit…
Weather So Brutal That Dean Passes Out at College Graduation
It’s official folks: El Niño is upon us. For some, that means get ready for an unseasonable deluge…
Microsoft Announces New Feature That Narcs on You to Your Boss
In a world of mouse jigglers and workplace surveillance, there’s a clear divide between employees who wish to…
TikTok Has Been Completely Taken Over by AI Slop
AI slop has become practically inescapable on social media, with low-rent and at-times terrifying AI-generated videos drowning out…
College Students Consumed by “Resignation and Despair” as They’re Relentlessly Pressured to Use AI
We hear a lot about how college students are happy to use AI to help with their studies,…
Grocery Stores Deploying “AI Shopping Carts” Stuffed With Cameras to Track Your Exact Coordinates and Bombard You With Ads
Whether you’re dodging Flock cameras on the freeway, ever-listening smartphones in your pocket, or AI bots at the…
Out-of-Control Icebergs Are Wreaking Havoc on the Oceans
One consequence of climate change you probably haven’t considered? Iceberg traffic. In a new study published in the…
Scientists Building World’s Most Powerful Radio Telescope Deep in the Nevada Desert
Researchers at Caltech are gearing up to begin construction on what could become the most sensitive and fastest…
OpenAI Just Hired a Guy Accused of Terrible Things
OpenAI, a company currently fighting more than a dozen consumer safety and wrongful death lawsuits, just hired Noam…
Get Ready for a Catastrophic Leak That Reveals All Your Messages and Search History
AI is revolutionizing cyberattacks, as advancements in the tech allow bad actors to find and exploit unknown vulnerabilities…
Foolish Pollsters Are Now Just Asking AI What Voters Would Say in Response to Questions and Publishing It at Face Value
Last month, Axios was forced to issue a bizarre correction for a blog post about a growing maternal…
OpenAI Says Not to Worry About UBI, Because It Has Another Idea
As AI companies warn of mass automation and the end of work as we know it, ChatGPT maker…
Police Officer Helplessly Waves Arms at Waymo That Careened Wrong Way Through Whataburger Drive-Thru
Thousands of Waymo self-driving taxis have flooded the street of major urban centers across the country, where critics…
Someone Just Threw a Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s House
San Francisco police say they’ve arrested a suspect who allegedly attacked the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman…
New York Times Makes Substantial Changes to Article That Glazed a Sleazy AI Startup: “Our Piece Should Have Included That Information”
Last week, the New York Times published a laudatory profile of a startup called Medvi, which is basically…
Space Scientists Wince as Astronauts’ Lives Depend on Artemis 2’s Controversial Heat Shield During Plunge Back to Earth
NASA’s Artemis 2 mission has successfully journeyed around the far side of the Moon and is currently making…
The Moon Astronauts Have Been Working Out With a NASA Rowing Machine in Space
NASA’s Orion spacecraft, which is expected to splash down in the Pacific Ocean later today after careening around…
First AI Model From Zuckerberg’s Wildly Expensive Superintelligence Lab Flops Compared to Virtually All Rivals
Late last year, news emerged that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta would be shedding its open source roots to instead…
Economists Starting to Admit They May Have Been Wrong About AI Never Replacing Human Jobs
For the most part, economists have been one of the few groups of professionals who’ve roundly rejected the…
AI-Powered Drug Marketer Medvi Responds After Allegations About Fake Doctors and Patients
Last week, the New York Times published a rapturous profile of a drug marketing company called Medvi, which…
As Astronauts Visit the Moon, NASA Insider Says Agency Is in Shambles Behind the Scenes
We watched in awe as four NASA astronauts crammed inside a small spacecraft traveled around the far side…
Man Lights 1.2 Million Square Foot Warehouse on Fire for Not Paying Him Enough
Many workers’ pay is effectively frozen in an unforgiving labor market that hasn’t seen any meaningful increases in…