Friday, August 14, 2026

Odd Science & Technology News

Viral Hoax Claimed That Gravity Would Turn Off for Seven Seconds

Earth did not lose gravity for seven seconds on Wednesday, in case you hadn’t noticed. 

Drew Curtis

Sam Altman Wants You Poors To Work and Make Him Billions Until You Die

The future of work has arrived. It still starts Monday and ends when your billionaire says so.

Drew Curtis

32 Out of 35 Students Fail Midterm Exam Thanks To Hidden Madagascar AI Prompt

Shut. It. Down. 

Drew Curtis

Pentagon Used Grok, an AI That Once Called Itself Mechahitler, To Select Military Targets in Iran

The military insists a human stayed in the loop. The loop declined to comment.

Drew Curtis

Danish PM Warns Parliament That AI Is Amazing at Writing Speeches No One Wants To Write or Listen To

Proof that artificial intelligence has already mastered one very human skill: talking for an eternity without saying anything.

Drew Curtis

Self-Driving Waymo in London Fails To Recognize Walls, Active Crime Scene

The future of transportation remains trapped in a cul-de-sac.

Drew Curtis

OpenAI’s $500 Billion Flagship Coding Agent Had To Be Told Four Separate Times Not To Talk About Goblins

And also gremlins, ogres, and pigeons. What the hell is going on over there?

Drew Curtis

Russia’s Supreme Court Adopts AI To Help Draft Rulings. Is Now Putting Glue on Pizza and Eating Rocks

In Russia, the algorithm is just another guy in the room nodding along.

Drew Curtis

Florida AG Announces Investigation Into Whether ChatGPT Is the Real Reason People Keep Getting Shot in Florida

Because blaming video games, television, D&D, Satan, and fatherless households instead of the guns is completely played out at this point.

Drew Curtis

Meta Digitally Clones Zuckerberg, Meta Employees Next

Then, presumably, the rest of humanity. Using data you posted on Meta platforms. For Meta to sell to advertisers. Anyone can see where this is heading. 

Richard Cole

Google AI Overviews Only Lie About a Million Times an Hour

Google AI hits 91 percent factuality. Now you know. And knowing is half the hallucination.

Drew Curtis

AI Is Coming To Replace Dogs Now as Well as Humans

New rule: If something is a Black Mirror episode, you should avoid doing it in real life.

Drew Curtis

Microsoft Bans the Word “Microslop”, Inadvertently Creates a Viral Marketing Campaign

One forbidden nickname, infinite screenshots, and absolutely zero chill.

Drew Curtis

AI Models Keep Nuking Everything in War Games

When given 27 choices, they picked “apocalypse” as if it were a preset.

Drew Curtis

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