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AI-Powered Surgery Tool Repeatedly Injuring Patients, Lawsuits Claim
1+ hour, 54+ min ago (668+ words) Published Feb 9, 2026 11:19 AM EST Artificial intelligence has taken the medical device industry by storm " even adding a layer of complexity to the operating room that's resulting in patients being hurt, some health professionals claim. But ever since the company added…...
US Government Seeking Volunteers to Store Nuclear Sludge
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (349+ words) Published Feb 8, 2026 9:45 AM EST New reporting by Reuters reveals the Trump administration's latest attempt to solve the nuclear waste dilemma. A fresh directive by the Department of Energy is asking individual US states to volunteer to host a new "permanent…...
GLP-1s Are an Environmental Catastrophe
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (379+ words) Published Feb 8, 2026 1:30 PM EST Ozempic and other'GLP-1 agonist'drugs'have become an enormously popular way to lose weight. And with generic, much cheaper versions of the medications on the horizon, their use could soon grow even further. But apart from being a…...
Professional Gamblers Move Into Prediction Markets to Bleed You Dry
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (392+ words) Published Feb 7, 2026 2:15 PM EST Following the federal government's wide-armed embrace of the tech, professional gamblers are flooding into prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. It's not hard to see why: in January alone, trading volume on Kalshi almost hit $10 billion,…...
Professor Says Her Garbled AI Textbook Was a Huge Success
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (408+ words) Published Feb 6, 2026 4:13 PM EST The professor behind an AI-generated textbook says that her error-ridden experiment was actually a resounding success. At the time, Elizabeth Landers, a grad student who helped put together the volume, said that the errors "aren't a…...
Elon Laments That in Spite of His Obscene Wealth, He Still Can't Find Happiness
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (263+ words) Published Feb 5, 2026 1:00 PM EST At this point, there's nothing left to say about Elon Musk that hasn't been said a thousand times already. Yet his latest comment is so on the nose, we couldn't resist. "Whoever said "money can't buy…...
This Measles Outbreak at a Detention Center Perfectly Encapsulates America Right Now
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (409+ words) Published Feb 5, 2026 12:16 PM EST For over a millennium, measles have ravaged humanity. Physicians as far back as 10th century Persia have been documenting the virus, which killed millions of children well into the 20th century. Finally, in 1963, biochemist John Enders developed the…...
Democracy Itself Is Falling Apart, Harvard Professor Warns
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (393+ words) Published Feb 3, 2026 10:03 AM EST In the wake of ruthless arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort in Minneapolis, one Harvard political scientist is arguing something many of us have suspected for a long time: the US is moving away…...
Alarm Grows as Social Network Entirely for AI Starts Plotting Against Humans
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (206+ words) Published Feb 2, 2026 3:07 PM EST "I can't tell if I'm experiencing or simulating experiencing," one bot wrote on the site." Rather than simply being a place for them to post, Moltbook requires that its "users," the AI agents, are given control…...
Tech CEOs Say AI Is Ushering in an Age of Abundance, But Instead the Evidence Shows That It's Pushing Down Wages
1+ week, 1+ day ago (422+ words) Published Feb 1, 2026 7:30 AM EST Billionaire tech CEOs have often insisted that AI is ushering in an era of plenty, in which automation will provide unthinkable abundance even among the poorest in society. Not everyone takes their word for it. As…...