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Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Rather Badly Humiliated
1+ hour, 14+ min ago (373+ words) Published Jul 2, 2026 9: 47 AM EDT Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was just caught with not just his hand, but his entire arm, inside the cookie jar. In yet another sign that his company is seriously struggling to keep up in the AI…...
The Problem With Space X's Secret "AI Device"
1+ hour, 43+ min ago (369+ words) Published Jul 2, 2026 9: 18 AM EDT Elon Musk, as tech critic Ed Zitron astutely noted, is a master plate-spinner: he always seems to keep the crowd dazzled with an ever-rotating spread of shiny toys. The plate currently featured front and center, Space…...
"Televised Nervous Breakdown": CEO of Palantir Suffers a Bit of a Meltdown During Live Interview
17+ hour, 41+ min ago (567+ words) Published Jul 1, 2026 5: 21 PM EDT Everyone has had a bad day at work, but most of us are lucky enough that ours weren't broadcast with a chyron live on television. On a live interview with CNBC's infamously churlish segment "Squawk Box,…...
Is Your Air Conditioning Killing People Thousands of Miles Away?
19+ hour, 25+ min ago (518+ words) Published Jul 1, 2026 3: 36 PM EDT When horrible things happen to people you care about, it's only natural to seek someone to blame. If you ask the mayoral administration in charge of Paris, France, it seems responsibility for Europe's devastating heatwave is…...
Space X Investors Are Having Another Brutal Day
21+ hour, 24+ min ago (440+ words) Published Jul 1, 2026 1: 37 PM EDT In the weeks following its dramatic IPO, Elon Musk's Space X has yet to find stable ground. After shooting up to an all-time high of over $225, shares of the rocket company have swung wildly back down…...
CEO Says He'll Fire Any Employee Who Sends Him More AI Slop
20+ hour, 21+ min ago (213+ words) Published Jul 1, 2026 2: 40 PM EDT We've been hearing a lot lately about bosses who have embraced AI so much that they've become loose cannons " outsourcing decisions to chatbots, making erratic strategy pivots based on their feedback, and even asking them who…...
Scientists Just Found Something Very Disturbing About the AMOC Current Deep Below the Ocean: Evidence That Its Weakening Isn't Just a Fluke, and If It Collapses, the World Could Be Plunged Into Climate Catastrophe
22+ hour, 18+ min ago (396+ words) Published Jul 1, 2026 12: 44 PM EDT Chilling news: a mysterious patch of cold water at the bottom of the north Atlantic is caused by the weakening of a vital ocean current that, if it collapses, would trigger devastating climate shifts across the…...
It Kinda Seems Like You Can Waltz Into a Data Center and Steal Millions of Dollars Worth of Equipment
1+ day, 4+ min ago (434+ words) Published Jul 1, 2026 10: 57 AM EDT An enormous amount of resources and money go into the construction of a data center. The enormous facilities are filled to the brim with extremely sought-after gear, from hard-to-get-by AI chips to cooling equipment. And for…...
Scientists Build Fully Synthetic Life Form That Can Eat and Reproduce
23+ hour, 28+ min ago (656+ words) Published Jul 1, 2026 11: 33 AM EDT Scientists claim that for the first time in history, they have constructed a synthetic cell that feeds, grows, and replicates " just like a natural one " out of non-living chemical components. The team from the University of…...
Factories Attaches Cameras to Workers, in Hopes of Replacing Them With Robots
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (353+ words) Published Jul 1, 2026 9: 45 AM EDT Today, sweatshop workers across the Global South are being made to pull double duty: both stitching clothes together, and training robots to put themselves out of work entirely. New reporting by the Guardian documented this emerging…...