August 29, 2026 10:08 PM
August 29, 2026
Scientists Horrified as Huge Heatwave Hits Antarctica
When you’re studying weather patterns across Antarctica, recording breaking heat is pretty much one of the last things…
Consulting Firm’s Report on How Awesome AI Is Found to Contain Idiotic AI Hallucinations
A new report that was supposed to be a shining panegyric to how useful AI is was caught…
Tesla on Autopilot Smashes Straight Through Garage Door, Driver Says
A Washington driver’s Tesla literally made an entrance by swerving into someone’s garage door and smashing it completely…
Meta Employee Laid Off, Immediately Detained by ICE
With a constant churn of layoffs, a program to surveil its workers in the name of AI data…
Working From Home Has a Grim Effect on Your Brain, Surprise Research Finds
Most people would kill for a work-from-home job, but it turns out it can have some grim effects…
Autonomous Robots Confirmed to Have Killed Human Soldiers
Humanity has officially passed a grim milestone: the first confirmed death at the hands of a fully-autonomous robot…
Visa Officially Allowing AI Agents to Go Ham With Your Credit Card
Throw caution to the wind and forget your retirement plans. The future is now, baby, and we’re letting…
Scientists Concerned Latest Gene Editing of Human Embryos Could “Open the Floodgates”
Editing the genes of a human embryo remains highly controversial, particularly after Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the…
The El Niño Situation Is Looking Absolutely Brutal
Last week, the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization issued a confident prediction that El Niño will form at…
Eighty Residents Sue SpaceX, Saying Elon Musk’s Constant Rocket Launches Are Literally Destroying Their Homes
The 22,000-some employees of Elon Musk’s SpaceX enjoy their very own company town, complete with subsidized housing, corporate…
Prime Minister of the UK Vows to Unleash AI Tutors on 450,000 Poor Children
UK prime minister Keir Starmer doubled down on his promise to unleash dubious “AI tutors” on nearly half…
SpaceX’s IPO Shows That We Aren’t Even Close to Peak AI Bubble
Wall Street opened the floodgates today, releasing years of pent-up hype surrounding SpaceX’s long-awaited IPO. Elon Musk’s unprofitable…
Scientist Thawing Out Fragments of His Friend’s Cryogenically Preserved Brain
Shortly after the influential biogerontologist L. Stephen Coles was declared legally dead in 2014, his brain was put…
China Built the World’s Largest Outdoor Escalator, and It’s a Modern Marvel That Looks Like It Never Stops Rising Into the Sky
Now officially taking rides: an over-a-half-mile long escalator that stretches ever upward in a mountainous city in China’s…
Protesters Stage Unsettling Demonstration in Front of Palantir’s Office
Hundreds of protestors descended on Palantir’s unmarked office building in downtown Manhattan over the weekend. Organized by the…
Data From Chinese Moon Lander Shows Signs of Peculiar Radiation “Cavity”
As NASA continues to push for a permanent presence on the Moon, future space travelers will face plenty…
Wikipedia Editors Tried and Tried to Work With AI Content, Eventually Realized It Was Total Trash and Banned It Entirely
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales once described his creation as a “temple of the mind.” Now, a decade on,…
Seminole Nation Becomes First Indigenous Group to Ban Planet-Cooking Data Centers From Its Land
The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma just became the first Indigenous nation to officially ban data center construction from…
Strange Modular Robots Are Writhing Across Landscapes
The future of robotics may not lie in the clunky androids we’ve been seeing so many of lately,…
Ominous Surveillance “Scarecrows” Appearing Across America
Police technology is a major business in the US. Altogether, the law enforcement equipment market was valued at…
New York’s Beloved Bodegas Are Filling Up With AI Slop
Not even the most enduring symbol of New York city is safe from the AI onslaught. No, we’re…
Elon Musk’s Orbital Data Centers Are Staggeringly Huge
Elon Musk’s promises tend to follow a formula. They involve a number ending in “-illion,” pertaining to something…
Google Warns That Quantum Armageddon Is Drawing Closer
On Wednesday, Google said it was moving up the date it needs to prepare for when quantum computers…
Netizens Terrified of What NASA Grew on the Space Station: A Potato
Extraterrestrial horrors are growing on the International Space Station — or so aghast netizens seemed to believe. Over…