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Panicking Tech Execs Try to Pivot Message on AI Data Centers
2+ week, 7+ hour ago (253+ words) Published Aug 30, 2026 1:03 PM EDT Data centers are wildly unpopular amongst the US population — so much so that grassroots opposition threatened some $130 billion in developments over the first three months of 2026 alone. Case-in-point, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian recently observed in a…...
Doctors Just Used AI to Perform Brain Surgery
2+ week, 1+ day ago (396+ words) Published Aug 29, 2026 1:02 PM EDT A team of neurosurgeons in London have used AI to help them operate on a man’s brain. The AI tool analyzed live footage of the operation and flagged key brain structures like nerves and blood vessels…...
Congressional Staffers Are So Lazy That They're Using AI to Write New Laws
4+ week, 1+ day ago (407+ words) Published Aug 15, 2026 1:03 PM EDT The use of AI chatbots has invaded almost every profession. From lawyers getting caught citing hallucinated cases and major consulting firms generating nonsensical reports to teachers using AI to revise likely AI-generated essays from students, the…...
Elon Musk Just Said Something About AI That's Literally Incomprehensible
2+ week, 5+ day ago (285+ words) Published Aug 25, 2026 3:48 PM EDT No one expects Elon Musk to coherently speak on any topic at length these days, busy as he is rotting out his neurons on his personal echo chamber and culture warzone X. Still, even we’re surprised at…...
Flock Is Quietly Selling Powerful Drones That Scan License Plates From the Sky
3+ week, 2+ day ago (380+ words) Published Aug 21, 2026 1:05 PM EDT Flock Safety is seriously struggling to beat the allegations of enabling a dystopian surveillance state. The company has been reeling from a growing PR crisis, with a growing number of Americans vandalizing its flawed license plate-reading…...
Data Centers Are Sucking Up So Many Construction Workers That There Isn't Anybody Left to Build Houses, Expert Says
3+ week, 10+ hour ago (310+ words) Published Aug 23, 2026 10:05 AM EDT Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that pending home sales in the US had dropped to their lowest level in three years. That coincided with a sharp drop in construction of new homes, which plummeted to the…...
Police Are Putting Up Fake 3D-Printed Flock Cameras and Swooping In to Arrest People Who Vandalize Them
2+ week, 4+ day ago (500+ words) Published Aug 26, 2026 11:50 AM EDT Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is desperately trying to stop his mass surveillance startup from turning into one of the most hated companies in the United States. As vigilantes continue to tear down its fleet of…...
Data Center Caught Watering Its Lavish Lawn While Human Neighbors Are on Year-Long Water Restriction
6+ day, 12+ hour ago (418+ words) Published Sep 7, 2026 8:02 AM EDT When the Denver board of Water Commissioners approved stage one drought restrictions back in March, they did so facing some of the driest conditions in decades. According to the US Drought Monitor, the watershed sourced for…...
Russia Now Using Fully AI-Controlled Drones to Kill Ukrainian Civilians, Powered by Nvidia Chips
2+ week, 2+ day ago (403+ words) Published Aug 28, 2026 11:47 AM EDT In a joint statement earlier this week, United Nations chief António Guterres and Red Cross president Mirjana Spoljaric Egger sent out an urgent message. “We are now dangerously close to crossing a moral red line: the…...
Laptop Toasts Boy
9+ hour, 46+ min ago (313+ words) Published Sep 13, 2026 11:02 AM EDT Here’s a hazard you probably didn’t expect from too much screen time. Two doctors in the UK reported in the journal BMJ Case Reports the bizarre case of a young boy whose laptop literally toasted his…...