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Duck Duck Go's AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month
1+ hour, 19+ min ago (603+ words) Published Jun 25, 2026 12: 53 PM EDT According to Duck Duck Go's AI search feature, US President Donald Trump passed away earlier this month from rabies. Needless to say, not a word of this is true. Trump and Vance are alive, and though…...
Software Engineers Are Facing an Existential Crisis As They Drown In Horrendous AI Code
5+ hour, 21+ min ago (274+ words) Published Jun 25, 2026 8: 51 AM EDT A lot of ink has been spilled on the programmers who got replaced by AI agents. But it doesn't sound like it's a whole better for the ones who avoided getting the axe, either. "Most software…...
Space X Stock Has Fallen So Far That Elon Musk Is No Longer a Trillionaire
1+ day, 49+ min ago (405+ words) Published Jun 24, 2026 1: 23 PM EDT Space X's blockbuster IPO earlier this month made Elon Musk, who was already the wealthiest person in the world by net value, unfathomably rich. After shares rallied to a peak of $225 on June 16, a stunning 50 percent…...
Failing Robot Cop Company Knightscope Now Publishing Bizarre AI Slop Fan Fiction About Its Robots Solving Absurd Crimes
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (1106+ words) Published Jun 24, 2026 10: 13 AM EDT For its 13 years in businesses, robot security company Knightscope has weathered a remarkable run of self-inflicted disasters. Not even the notoriously tech-obsessed NYPD renewed its contract with Knightscope, probably because the K5 required constant monitoring by human…...
Amazon Investigating Its Own Employees for Daring to Oppose AI Data Center
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (552+ words) Published Jun 24, 2026 8: 54 AM EDT Though the data centers undergirding the AI boom are becoming hugely unpopular with US voters, companies like Amazon are making it clear they won't tolerate any dissent within their ranks. According to recent reporting from the…...
Meta's Program That Spies on Every Employee's Computer Just Blew Up in Its Face in Spectacular Fashion
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (461+ words) Published Jun 23, 2026 4: 40 PM EDT Though its chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth assured that the data it collected would be "tightly controlled," the company is now pausing the tracking program after sensitive employee information was leaked internally, according to reports from…...
AI Companies Are Trying to Seize Control of Elections
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (345+ words) Published Jun 23, 2026 12: 45 PM EDT With trillions of dollars on the line, it should come as no surprise that tech companies are spending gobs of cash on the upcoming US midterm elections. What is surprising is the scale of electoral financing,…...
Amazon Just Pulled Something Absolutely Craven to Avoid Embarrassing Its Friends at Open AI
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (284+ words) Published Jun 23, 2026 12: 07 PM EDT There was apparently one threat that the centibillion dollar AI firm Open AI, and its multitrillion dollar partner Amazon, could not countenance: an unflattering biopic about Sam Altman, the former venture's CEO and cofounder. Though it…...
New Paper Proposes What Really Causes AI Psychosis
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (343+ words) Published Jun 23, 2026 10: 15 AM EDT Psychiatrists and other researchers are still working to understand the phenomenon known as "AI psychosis," in which users of chatbots enter into delusional mental health crises following intensive use of the tech. A new paper proposes…...
Tech Stocks Are Abruptly Collapsing
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (388+ words) Published Jun 23, 2026 9: 40 AM EDT Following a blockbuster IPO earlier this month, Elon Musk's Space X experienced a rude awakening. The rocket company's shares have now been sliding for four consecutive days, wiping out nearly all the gains the public offering…...