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The first generation of digital natives is arriving in higher education with major shortcomings in literacy rates.

Gen Z Arriving at College Unable to Read

The buzzy toy of the season crashed and burned over the holidays, as use increased "more than 100x" on Christmas day.

Red Hot Christmas Toy Crashes So Badly That Kids Can’t Actually Use It

Scientists found that those on the political right are much more likely to rely on anecdotes over statistical evidence.

Researchers Just Discovered Something Startling About How Conservatives Pick Political Positions

Bettors are in a rage after the prediction market platform, Polymarket, refused to honor bets related to the US invasion of Venezuela.

War Profiteers Furious After Polymarket Refuses to Pay Out on Venezuelan Invasion Bets

Elon Musk's xAI has reported a staggering net loss over the last three months, bringing the year's total losses to $7.8 billion.

Elon’s xAI Is Losing Staggering Amounts of Money

A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.

Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized

A seismic shift is taking place as artist visas to the US are increasingly being given to OnlyFans influencers.

Government Approving Artist Visas for OnlyFans Models Based on How Many Followers They Have

Israeli cybersecurity billionaire Shlomo Kramer has called for complete government censorship of social media.

Tech Billionaire Says It’s Time for the Government to Suspend Freedom of Speech

Chinese company Linyi Yunchuan recently deployed a massive airborne wind turbine, which dominated the skyline over Sichuan Province.

Renewable Energy

Behold This Massive Airborne Wind Turbine Hovering Over China

Google Settles With Families Who Say It Killed Their Teen Children

Trying to quit Zyns without weaning them off can lead to panic attacks, intense headaches, and even hallucinations, one power-user discovered.

Health & Medicine

Horrendous Things Happen When You Quit Zyn Cold Turkey

One of the more bizarre gadgets showing at CES 2026 is the Breakreal R1, an AI cocktail machine with "unlimited recipes."

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Device Pours Alcohol Directly Into the Void Where Your Soul Should Be

A group of researchers studied the personality traits most common in conspiracy-brained people, discovering insecurity might be to blame.

Neuroscience and Brain

Researchers Just Discovered Something Extremely Unflattering About People Who Believe Conspiracy Theories

28 trainees and veterans in China's astronaut corps took part in a nearly month-long training program in a cave in Chongqing.

Chinese Moon Astronauts Emerge From Month-Long Journey Into Deep Cave

Devastating air strikes by the US military targeted a major research institute in Venezuela, destroying at least five academic buildings.

Trump’s Air Strikes Targeted a Scientific Research Institute, Venezuela Says

New details show the lucky bettor who made over $400,000 betting for Maduro's downfall on Polymarket doubled down hours before the attack.

The Venezuela Polymarket Scandal Is Looking Really Bad

A new bill introduced by Ritchie Torres would ban government officials from trading on prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket.

New Law Would Prevent Trump Officials From Invading a Country and Profiting by Placing Bets on Polymarket

Detailed chat logs show how ChatGPT convinced a young man to take increasingly dangerous drug doses over an 18 month spiral.

ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak has just shattered a longstanding limit in nuclear plasma density.

Chinese Fusion Reactor Achieves Plasma Density Previously Thought to Be Impossible

An AI-generated video with over 5 million views on social media purports to show Venezuelans celebrating Nicolas Maduro's kidnapping.

That Video of Happy Crying Venezuelans After Maduro’s Kidnapping? It’s AI Slop

After a year of congestion pricing, data shows that the once-controversial policy has delivered huge benefits to those in New York and beyond.

The Hard Numbers Show That the NYC Congestion Pricing Has Been a Staggering Success

The Twitch channel currently holding the most active subscribers is run entirely by a large language model.

Artificial Intelligence

The Most Popular Streamer on Twitch Is Now an AI-Powered Entity

In a year-end writeup on the state of AI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear he'd really like us to stop saying "slop."

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It “Slop”

New reporting revealed that one of Elon Musk's top lawyers, Jaymie Parkkinen, moonlights as a professional clown.

You Will Never in 100 Years Guess What Elon Musk’s Lawyer Does as a Side Job

The average OpenAI employee is earning an astonishing amount in compensation compared to every other startup.

Your Jaw Will Hit the Floor When You Find Out How Much the Average OpenAI Worker Makes

Regulators at the Cyberspace Administration of China have proposed new laws meant to protect AI users' mental health.

China Planning Crackdown on AI That Harms Mental Health of Users

Jack White issued a scathing rebuttal after congressman Tim Burchett reposted an AI-generated video of the musician.

Jack White Rages After Congressman Shares AI Deepfake of Him Calling Fans “Fascists”

What happens when you down an ice-cold brew containing liquid nitrogen? One Moscow man is finding out the hard way.

Man in Intensive Care Unit After Slamming Liquid Nitrogen Cocktail That Ruptured His Stomach

OpenAI employees working on ChatGPT report plans to unleash sponsored advertisements above organic results.

OpenAI Reportedly Planning to Make ChatGPT “Prioritize” Advertisers in Conversation

Canadian musician Ashley MacIsaac was mortified when he discovered Google's AI overview was incorrectly labeling him a sex criminal.

Musician Cancelled as AI Falsely Accuses Him of Horrific Crimes

2025 will be remembered as the year AI's novelty faded and public skepticism became one of the dominant attitudes.

AI Backlash Grew Massively in 2025

Children are losing themselves to frightening AI characters powered by large language model companies like Character.AI.

Children Falling Apart as They Become Addicted to AI

A virologist has taken to homebrewing a polynoravius vaccine to be ingested via yeast cells — in other words, a frothy pint of beer.

Uncles Tremble as Man Invents Vaccine Delivered by Beer

Donald Trump's trade restrictions on AI chips have given Chinese tech firms the environment they need to court global investors.

Trump’s Chip Embargo Against China Is Backfiring Spectacularly

A woman working for a generative AI image startup says the tech led her into a manic bipolar episode, which triggered psychosis.

Woman Suffers AI Psychosis After Obsessively Generating AI Images of Herself

Artificial intelligence is making it easier than ever for criminals and unsuspecting art collectors to pass fake art off as authentic.

AI Is a Godsend for Criminals Forging Fake Art

Volunteer hacktivists working for Anna's Archive have managed to scrape all the metadata of the Spotify library.

Activists Downloaded Pretty Much All of Spotify

As AI becomes more ubiquitous, Gen Z students are starting to freak out about its effects on their brains.

Gen Z Terrified of Losing Their Humanity to AI

New anecdotes suggest software engineering students at elite universities are struggling to find jobs, though explanations vary.

Top Software Engineering Students Can’t Get a Job Because of AI

A Home Depot location in Los Angeles has installed three sound cannon devices in its parking lots, prompting outcry from migrant activists.

Home Depot Deploys Havana-Style Sonic Weapon Against Day Laborers

Posters on social media are buzzing about a bizarre text file that traces back to the Centers for Disease Control.

Twitter User Uncovers Secret Link to Bizarre CDC Text File

Renowned sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom says that AI is a tool for the rich to cement control over society.

Professor Warns That the Wealthy Are Trying to Use AI to Seize Control of Everything

On a recent podcast appearance, Elon Musk declared that his Starship rocket was on par with the evolution of multicellular life.

Elon Says His New Rocket Is as Important as the Origin of Life Itself

The Wall Street Journal staffed an office vending kiosk with Anthropic's most advanced AI model, with hilarious results.

Anthropic’s Advanced New AI Tries to Run Vending Machine, Goes Bankrupt After Ordering PlayStation 5 and Live Fish

A new study reveals an alarming bias present in four leading AI cancer screening tools, related to race, gender, and age.

Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients’ Race Data and Being Racist With It

Officials at Beverly Hills High School have unleashed a panopticon of AI surveillance cameras, drones, and audio monitors on their students.

Officials Deploying AI Surveillance Devices in School Bathrooms

A holiday yule log app interrupts the cozy ambiance with annoying ads, begging users to subscribe to premium.

Virtual Reality

Holiday Yule Log App Constantly Bombards User With Ads for Premium Version

The rise in data center buildouts coincides with below-average water levels in the great lakes, highlighting the need for more transparency.

Furious Residents Say AI Data Centers Are Sucking Up the Great Lakes

In a recent analysis, economist Dean Baker explains that crypto's collapse leaves the rest of us with a bigger piece of the economic pie.

Bitcoin Crashing Is Actually Awesome News for Regular People, Economist Says

A sheriff in Sweetwater County, Wyoming still has no answers as unexplained drone sightings drag on into their 13th month.

Sheriff Puzzled by UFOs Hovering Over Power Station

The latest version of ChatGPT still comes up way short of identifying animals on an alphabet poster, a task meant for preschoolers.

Machine Learning

When Asked to Generate an Alphabet Poster for Preschoolers, the Latest Version of ChatGPT Just Flails Wildly

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has called for the halt of new data center construction to let democracy catch up to technology.

Bernie Sanders Calls for Halt on Construction of New Data Centers

Over six million conversations with private AI chatbots were scraped and sold to data brokers for profit, according to new security research.

Millions of Private ChatGPT Conversations Are Being Harvested and Sold for Profit

A hacker found a way into the backend of AI startup Doublespeed, which offers customers access to a massive phone farm network.

Hacker Busts Startup Running Huge Web of AI-Generated “Influencers” on Instagram

Students at Lawton Chiles Middle School were sent into lockdown after their AI system misidentified a student's clarinet as a gun.

AI Sends School Into Lockdown After It Mistook a Student’s Clarinet for a Gun

A self-driving Waymo wound up petrified when it went face-to-face with pedestrians at an annual holiday celebration in Los Angeles.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Paralyzed by Parade, Blocks Traffic for 45 Minutes

MI6's new chief, Blaise Metreweli, devoted a large portion of her first speech to the issue of all-powerful tech corporations.

The Industrialists

Top Spy Says Tech Corporations Are Closer to Running Entire World Than Governments

As generative AI becomes even more effective at mimicking real images, liberals are starting to fall for more misinformation.

Liberals Are Falling for Extremely Obvious AI Fakes

Ford has announced it's stopping production on its all-electric truck, in order to pivot to an electric truck with a gas generator.

Electric Vehicles

Ford Gives Up, Adds Gas Generator to Its Electric Pickup Truck

The company Wizz is coming under serious scrutiny by regulators and watchdogs for enabling child sexual predators on a huge scale.

Company in Huge Trouble for Creating “Tinder for Kids” App

An OpenAI executive said in a press conference to expect ChatGPT's "adult mode" to drop at some point in the very near future.

OpenAI Preparing to Launch Smut Blaster 5000

Donald Trump recently signed an executive order allowing his administration to attack states that try to regulate artificial intelligence.

Trump Orders States Not to Protect Children From Predatory AI

AI surveillance outfit Flock Safety is aggressively expanding its dragnet across the US, but ordinary people aren't impressed.

Regular People Are Rising Up Against AI Surveillance Cameras

Waymo's self-driving cars have recorded an alarming number of school bus safety violations in recent months.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo’s Software Patch to Not Run Down Children Getting Off School Buses Isn’t Working, School Claims

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