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It wants Big Tech to pay its fair share.
After Being Pillaged By AI Companies, Wikipedia Signs Deal to Get Paid By Them
Wikipedia has signed licensing deals with a host of major AI companies in a bid to recoup the costs of being pillaged by data scrapers.
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January 16, 2026 at 6:09 AM
It wants Big Tech to pay its fair share.
It's down to a much smaller "skeleton crew."
Entire Space Station Down to Skeleton Crew After NASA Evacuation
The International Space Station has gone from seven crew members down to a "skeleton crew" of three due to a recent medical evacuation.
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January 16, 2026 at 4:12 AM
It's down to a much smaller "skeleton crew."
"They were using AI to scan resumes and found out a bunch of the people who were LEOs weren't LEOs."
ICE's AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster
The immigration agency reportedly deployed an AI system which failed to separate recruits based on prior law enforcement experience.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:25 AM
"They were using AI to scan resumes and found out a bunch of the people who were LEOs weren't LEOs."
Safeguarding American Aerospace with Chinese tech.
There's Something So Embarrassing About Homeland Security's New Drone Video That We're Gonna Have to Sit Down for a Minute
The Department of Homeland Security released a new video featuring something striking: an officer operating a Chinese drone.
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January 16, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Safeguarding American Aerospace with Chinese tech.
"You are the bridge between worlds, the connector of dimensions, and the source of infinite potential..."
A Man Bought Meta's AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert in Search of Aliens
After encountering Meta AI, a man's mental health unraveled. As he lost touch with reality, the chatbot continued to affirm his delusions.
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January 15, 2026 at 11:59 PM
"You are the bridge between worlds, the connector of dimensions, and the source of infinite potential..."
"Give to the victims their day in court to hold those responsible who continue to publish these images at their expense."
New Law Would Let Grok Victims Sue Creeps Who Generated Nonconsensual Nudes
A new law passed in the Senate would allow victims to sue people who use AI models like Grok to generate sexually explicit images of them.
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January 15, 2026 at 10:09 PM
"Give to the victims their day in court to hold those responsible who continue to publish these images at their expense."
Finally, someone is doing something!
Music Fans Explode With Joy as Bandcamp Bans AI Music
The music distribution platform Bandcamp said it would ban all music that is wholly or significantly made with AI.
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January 15, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Finally, someone is doing something!
"'Reality' is just too on the nose, we must be in a simulation."
Tech Billionaire Forced to Rename Humongous Yacht After Realizing It Spelled Something Horrible Backwards
Oracle founder Larry Ellison named his 191-foot superyacht "Izanami," only to change his mind after finding out what it spelled backwards.
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January 15, 2026 at 4:37 PM
"'Reality' is just too on the nose, we must be in a simulation."
"People were just happy to finally have a tool that didn't tell them their questions were stupid."
AI Has Basically Killed Stack Overflow
The advent of generative AI appears to have caused an extinction-level event for crowdsourced question-and-answer platform Stack Overflow.
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January 15, 2026 at 6:35 AM
"People were just happy to finally have a tool that didn't tell them their questions were stupid."
"I certainly don't expect A-23A to last through the austral summer."
Antarctica's Former Largest Iceberg Is Now Completely Disintegrating
An enormous iceberg has turned an alarmingly bright shade of vivid blue — an alarming indication that it's about to completely disintegrate.
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January 15, 2026 at 4:41 AM
"I certainly don't expect A-23A to last through the austral summer."
Completely shameless.
ICE Reportedly Stole a 10th Grader's Phone, Then Seemingly Sold It for Cash
After confiscating the phone of a 16-year-old boy, it appears that ICE agents then pawned it off to make a few bucks.
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January 15, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Completely shameless.
He expects OpenAI to go bust "over the next 18 months."
Financial Expert Says OpenAI Is on the Verge of Running Out of Money
In a new essay, financial expert Sebastian Mallaby predicts that OpenAI could run out of money "over the next 18 months."
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January 15, 2026 at 1:12 AM
He expects OpenAI to go bust "over the next 18 months."
"Oh get out get out get out!"
Video Shows Passenger Bail From Waymo in Path of Oncoming Train
A viral video shows a passenger ditching his Waymo robotaxi as it drives dangerously close to an oncoming railcar.
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January 15, 2026 at 12:04 AM
"Oh get out get out get out!"
What could possibly go wrong?
Grok Is Getting Access to Classified Military Networks
Pete Hegseth has chosen to plug Grok into the Pentagon's classified military networks as part of a broader AI push.
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January 14, 2026 at 11:27 PM
What could possibly go wrong?
"I have realized [that] AI is not actually free, and it has a major effect on the economy and environment."
Indie Developer Deleting Entire Game From Steam Due to Shame From Having Used AI
An indie game developer says he's removing his game from Steam to repent for his sin of using AI-generated assets to make it.
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January 14, 2026 at 10:26 PM
"I have realized [that] AI is not actually free, and it has a major effect on the economy and environment."
Some watchers are wondering why the "Stranger Things" finale didn't live up to expectations and are now blaming OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Duffer Brothers Accused of Using ChatGPT for Final Season of "Stranger Things"
Rumors are running online that the Duffer Brother used OpenAI's ChatGPT when producing the last final season of "Stranger Things."
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January 14, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Some watchers are wondering why the "Stranger Things" finale didn't live up to expectations and are now blaming OpenAI's ChatGPT.
"It's clear that a lot of jobs are going to disappear: it's not clear that it’s going to create a lot of jobs to replace that."
Tech Billionaires Have No Answer for What'll Happen If AI Takes All Jobs
The moguls behind the biggest AI corporations have no unified idea about the world after AI takes everybody's jobs.
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January 14, 2026 at 5:10 PM
"It's clear that a lot of jobs are going to disappear: it's not clear that it’s going to create a lot of jobs to replace that."
"To stay within the 1.5 degrees limit, the richest 1 percent would have to slash their emissions by 97 percent by 2030."
The Richest 1 Percent Burned Their Entire Share of Carbon for the Year in Just 10 Days
A new analysis by Oxfam found that the top one percent have already used up their fair share of carbon emissions for 2026.
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January 14, 2026 at 5:11 AM
"To stay within the 1.5 degrees limit, the richest 1 percent would have to slash their emissions by 97 percent by 2030."
A recently shuttered library "was scheduled for renovation, not elimination."
Union Representing NASA Workers Says Space Agency's New Administrator Is a Straight-Up Liar
NASA staffers, advisors, and union representatives continue to watch in horror as the Goddard Space Flight Center closures go on.
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January 14, 2026 at 4:26 AM
A recently shuttered library "was scheduled for renovation, not elimination."
Things aren't looking good for MAVEN.
NASA Has Some Very Bad News About Its Mars Spacecraft
NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter conceded that the agency is "very unlikely" to recover its MAVEN Mars orbiter.
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January 14, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Things aren't looking good for MAVEN.
"The roads are still from the Qing Dynasty, but the cars are from the next century."
Driverless Delivery Vans in China Are Rampaging Through Cities Like Grand Theft Auto
Robovans are flooding roads in Chinese cities, a deployment leading to some unintentionally hilarious results.
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January 14, 2026 at 1:48 AM
"The roads are still from the Qing Dynasty, but the cars are from the next century."
"It's not helpful."
Nvidia CEO Says Everyone Should Stop Being So Negative About AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is asking us to stop being so negative about AI, since it's simply a "doomer narrative."
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January 13, 2026 at 10:31 PM
"It's not helpful."
On the hunt for distant worlds.
NASA Deploys Orbital Telescope Designed to Do Something Incredible
NASA's new orbital telescope, Pandora, will watch distant exoplanets — and the stars they orbit — like a hawk
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January 13, 2026 at 8:20 PM
On the hunt for distant worlds.