What Do We Actually Know About Kids on Weight-Loss Drugs?
Gizmodoby Ed Cara·12 Sept 2026
GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide (Ozempic and Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro and Zepbound) have greatly changed the treatment of obesity and type 2 diabetes for the better.
OpenAI Is Beefing With Mathematicians, Will No Longer Sponsor Caltech 'Mathathon'
Gizmodoby Tom McKay·12 Sept 2026
What mathematicians are calling “destructive,” OpenAI calls “disruptive.” OpenAI research lead Dan Roberts tweeted on Thursday that the firm would be yanking its sponsorship of the Caltech...
Contractor Admits They, Not Imaginary Antifa Vandals, Wrecked the Reflecting Pool
Gizmodoby Tom McKay·11 Sept 2026
Shitty renovations—not antifa supersoldiers—are the reason that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s liner began to crack and pool earlier this year.
LinkedIn Gets 'Browsergate' Proposed Class Actions Thrown Out
Gizmodoby Tom McKay·11 Sept 2026
Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has had two separate proposed class actions claiming the site illegally scanned users’ browser extension data thrown out.
A Metal Detectorist Just Discovered Finland’s Largest Hoard of Viking Age Silver—But Was It Plunder?
Gizmodoby Matthew Phelan·11 Sept 2026
The municipality of Sysmä and the surrounding Päijät-Häme region of south-central Finland seem to have been a hot spot for people looking to bury their treasure roughly one millennium ago.
Samsung Does Tim Cook Dirty on His Way Out the Door
Gizmodoby Bruce Gil·11 Sept 2026
Just a day after Apple introduced its first foldable phone, Tim Cook appeared in a Samsung ad giving a glowing review of the competing Galaxy Z Fold8. It’s just not the Tim Cook you’re thinking of.
How Hoyeon Manifested Her Way Into 'Hope' as Its Badass Sci-Fi Heroine
Gizmodoby Isaiah Colbert·11 Sept 2026
In spite of the hand-wringing the film garnered from critics after its premiere at Cannes, director Na Hong-Jin‘s sci-fi action movie, Hope, may go down in history as the quintessential...
Sony WH-1000XM4C Review: Still Kind of Goated
Gizmodoby James Pero·11 Sept 2026
What’s old is new once more. Sony has officially resurrected its WH-1000XM4 wireless headphones by slapping a “C” on the end.
Is GTA VI Good or Bad for Miami Beach? The City Commission Is Tearing Itself Apart
Gizmodoby Tom Hawking·11 Sept 2026
Grand Theft Auto VI—you may have heard of it—is set in a fictionalized version of Miami Beach, and with the game’s release fast approaching, developer Rockstar Games reached out to the real City of...
Our Sun Might Actually Be a Planet Killer
Gizmodoby Gayoung Lee·11 Sept 2026
Stellar evolution can be really chaotic, so it’s no surprise that a planet or two—or more—gets sucked into the abyss at some point in cosmic history.
Never Forget, AI Slop Is Polluting 9/11 History on the Internet as We Speak
Gizmodoby Matt Novak·11 Sept 2026
became known as the Man in the Red Bandana after stories spread about his heroism on September 11, 2001.
Showrunner Confirms Harrison Ford Will Not Appear in 'Blade Runner 2099'
Gizmodoby Cheryl Eddy·11 Sept 2026
We had a feeling Harrison Ford wasn’t going to be part of Prime Video’s Blade Runner 2099 series.
This 'Cell Tower in the Sky' Just Completed a Record-Breaking 18,641-Mile Round Trip to Japan
Gizmodoby Passant Rabie·11 Sept 2026
An oblong silver airship recently completed a 30-day journey, flying through Earth’s stratosphere to deliver mobile broadband connectivity to cellphones.
Hear Peter Cullen's Final Optimus Prime Performance in New 'Transformers' Short Clip
Gizmodoby Jen Lennon·11 Sept 2026
The upcoming theatrical re-release of The Transformers: The Movie will have a bittersweet coda: it will be followed by Optimus Prime: Awakening, a 12-minute animated short that features voice actor...
FCC Grants First Robotics Ban Exemption to a Robomower Company
Gizmodoby Wes Davis·11 Sept 2026
The FCC this week released a public notice stating that the U.S. Department of War (DoW, formerly the Department of Defense) has “granted Conditional Aprovals for certain routers and advanced...
Google May Finally Release Laptops You Can’t Just Ignore
Gizmodoby Kyle Barr·11 Sept 2026
The first wave of Google’s touted Googlebooks seems ever more impending, with leak after leak telling us these are more than mere next-gen Chromebooks.
Release the 'Resident Evil' Comedy Cut, Zach Cregger
Gizmodoby Cheryl Eddy·11 Sept 2026
Thanks to Barbarian and Weapons, we know that filmmaker Zach Cregger loves to walk the line between genuine horror and freaky absurdity.
NYU Mathematician Embroiled in AI Controversy Says the Machines Have Won: ‘The Game Is Up’
Gizmodoby Webb Wright·11 Sept 2026
Humans have a long track record of being humbled by AI. Chess was celebrated once upon a time as a uniquely human activity, a game far too complex for any machine to master.
A Surprisingly Relatable Problem Makes Scent-Detection Dogs Worse at Their Job
Gizmodoby Ed Cara·11 Sept 2026
Working dogs: They’re just like us. Recent research shows how scent detection canines do worse at their job when they haven’t eaten yet.
Anthropic Claims It Stopped Suspected Bioweapons Research Conducted With Claude
Gizmodoby Matthew Phelan·11 Sept 2026
A new report from Anthropic, the AI firm that’s perhaps most positioned itself as the industry’s conscience, claims that the company had to thwart multiple potential schemes over the past year by...
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