July 17, 2026 9:16 AM
July 17, 2026
Apple Is Blocking Vibe Coding Apps From the App Store, Infuriating Developers
There’s unrest brewing in the world of vibe-coding startups. Apple is blocking AI coding apps on the App…
Approaching Half of New Podcasts Appear to Be AI Slop
Approaching half of new podcasts appear to be AI slop. Of the 10,871 new podcast feeds created in…
Richard Dawkins One-Shotted By AI Girl
The famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins may have coined the word “meme,” but lately it feels like he’s…
Jeff Bezos’ Moon Lander Just Completed a Key Test
NASA is still hoping to land the first Artemis astronauts on the surface of the Moon by the…
Zuckerberg Trying to Simulate Human Biology at the Cellular Level
Mark Zuckerberg is following a path paved by fellow billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffet: laundering his untold…
Scientists and Lawmakers Horrified at Trump’s Brutal Budget for NASA
Hot on the heels of NASA’s historic trip around the Moon, the Trump administration wasted no time in…
The Chinese Streaming Industry Is Being Gutted by AI-Generated Shows
Earlier this year, TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance released the latest version of its Seedance AI video generating tool.…
Startup Says It’s Invented a Beanie That Reads Your Mind
If you thought AI-integrated smart glasses were bad, wait until you get a load of Sabi, a Palo…
Grimly Cyberpunk Video Shows Ukrainian Soldiers Leaning Out of Propeller Plane to Obliterate Drones With Rifles
A video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones with rifles — while leaning out of Soviet-era propeller…
Man Says His Waymo Ditched Him at the Airport Before He Could Get His Luggage Out of the Trunk, Refused to Return
Losing your suitcase is a rite of passage for travelers, something you can usually blame on human error.…
Frontier AI Models Giving Specific, Actionable Instructions to Perpetrate Bioterror Attack
There’s a pretty sizable list of things an AI assistant should refuse to help you with. Is engineering…
AI Slop YouTube Channel Glitches Out in a Way So Bizarre That It’s Vaguely Disturbing
YouTube has a serious slop problem. The platform has been inundated with lazy AI-generated footage, from pseudo-educational videos…
US Government Deploys Elon Musk’s Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables
“Use Grok to get real answers about real food.” Until very recently, that was the message on the…
Large Area of Chicago Bans Delivery Robots After Resident Outcry
Late in 2025, a whole fleet of delivery robots descended on Chicago, where they clogged sidewalks, injured residents,…
Scientists Spot Signs of Derelict Soviet Moon Lander on Lunar Surface
In 1966, three years before the first humans walked on the Moon, the Soviet Union landed a small,…
You’ll Be Sorry When You Hear What Justin Bieber’s $1.3 Million Bored Ape Is Worth Now
In January 2022, when the world was still in the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic and coping with…
Scientists Find Intense Psychological Differences in People Who Exercise
Ever notice how some people seem weirdly unbothered by the horrible news swirling around us, while others freak…
AIs Controlling Vending Machines Start Cartel After Being Told to Maximize Profits At All Costs
In December, Anthropic red teamers and business journalists at the Wall Street Journal teamed up in a bold…
Emails Show Epstein Scheming That Environmental Destruction Could Solve “Overpopulation”
For all the horrible stuff crammed into the Epstein files, they sure have a way of making even…
The Object at the Core of the Milky Way Might Not Be a Black Hole at All, Scientists Say
The traditional understanding is that the center of our galaxy is dominated by a supermassive black hole. The…
New AI Video Generator Is So Impressive That It’s Scaring Hollywood
Text-to-video generating tools have made tremendous leaps in a few short years. We went from a horrifying clip…
Earth on Track to Become Uninhabitable, Scientists Say
Surprise, surprise: all that climate stuff scientists have been warning us about is coming back to bite us.…
Microsoft Added AI to Notepad and It Created a Security Failure Because the AI Was Stupidly Easy for Hackers to Trick
As Microsoft continues to force AI features onto users of its Windows operating system and other crucial software,…
They Gave a Robot a Sword
Folks, it finally happened: they gave a robot a sword. Over the past few years, engineers have often…