Date / Time |
Story |
Friday February 23, 2024 @07:28PM |
Former Gizmodo Writer Changed Name To 'Slackbot,' Stayed Undetected For Months |
Saturday February 17, 2024 @03:14PM |
Pranksters Mock AI-Safety Guardrails with New Chatbot 'Goody-2' |
Thursday January 11, 2024 @06:17PM |
AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special |
Monday January 08, 2024 @06:56PM |
Flappie AI Cat Door Stops Your Pet From Gifting You Dead Mice |
Tuesday January 02, 2024 @08:47PM |
Andrew Scott Halted Hamlet Soliloquy After Theatergoer Used Laptop To Email |
Sunday December 24, 2023 @11:04PM |
'Therapy Llamas' Visit Portland Airport to Lower the Stress of Travellers |
Thursday December 21, 2023 @01:18AM |
Car Buyer Hilariously Tricks Chevy AI Bot Into Selling a Tahoe For $1 |
Tuesday November 28, 2023 @02:13PM |
Microsoft's Ugly Sweater For 2023 is Windows XP's Iconic Default Wallpaper |
Saturday November 25, 2023 @12:52PM |
Cards Against Humanity's Black Friday Prank: Launching Its Own Social Media Site |
Friday November 24, 2023 @09:54PM |
ECB Chief Lagarde Admits Her Son Lost Crypto Cash |
Friday October 27, 2023 @10:48AM |
Russia Renamed Its Ambitious Satellite Program After Putin Misspoke Its Name |
Saturday September 23, 2023 @03:00PM |
'Laugh then Think': Strange Research Honored at 33rd Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony |
Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:17PM |
Florida Man Charged Over Failed Attempt To Cross Atlantic In Giant 'Hamster Wheel' |
Sunday September 03, 2023 @04:00PM |
Gannett Halts AI-Written Sports Recaps After Readers Mocked the Stories |
Saturday August 19, 2023 @05:36PM |
On Bill Waterson's Upcoming Book - And Why He Vanished |
Friday August 18, 2023 @05:30AM |
Microsoft AI Suggests Food Bank As a 'Cannot Miss' Tourist Spot In Canada |
Monday August 07, 2023 @06:09PM |
Three Men Battle the FBI Over Buried Civil War Gold |
Thursday August 03, 2023 @01:53PM |
Excel's Esports Revolution is Coming Back To ESPN This Week |
Wednesday July 19, 2023 @03:56PM |
Researchers Discover That ChatGPT Prefers Repeating 25 Jokes Over and Over |
Monday July 10, 2023 @02:03PM |
Smuggler Nabbed with 306 CPUs Stuffed in Girdle |
Tuesday June 06, 2023 @03:55PM |
Excel Spreadsheet Error Leads Austrian Party To Announce Wrong Leader |
Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:24PM |
Tipping at Self-Checkout Has Customers Crying 'Emotional Blackmail' |
Saturday May 06, 2023 @09:50PM |
What Happens When AI Tries to Generate a Pizza Commercial? |
Friday March 24, 2023 @10:51AM |
Startup Invents Long-Distance Kissing Machine |
Wednesday February 22, 2023 @06:19PM |
Supreme Court Rejects Ohio Man's Bid To Sue Police Over Arrest of Facebook Parody |
Friday February 03, 2023 @10:52PM |
'Dinosaur Comics' Celebrates 20th Anniversary with T-Rex Finally Stomping Past Sixth Panel |
Friday January 06, 2023 @07:55AM |
The very serious science of humor |
Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:14AM |
John Cleese's Classic 'Silly Walk' Burns More Calories Than a Normal Gait, Study Finds |
Saturday November 26, 2022 @01:50AM |
Why the Internet Invented a Fake Martin Scorsese Film Called 'Goncharov' |
Sunday October 16, 2022 @08:00PM |
How 'Homestar Runner' Re-Emerged After the End of Flash |
Sunday September 18, 2022 @01:06PM |
XKCD Author Finds Geeky Ways to Promote His New Book |
Friday September 16, 2022 @06:19PM |
Scientists Try To Teach Robot To Laugh At the Right Time |
Saturday September 10, 2022 @12:39AM |
Geek Writes a Song a Day for 13 Years, Celebrates Song #5,000 With Big NFT Auction |
Friday July 08, 2022 @03:29PM |
Expert GeoGuessr Players Know That Google Maps Spot Instantly |
Friday June 17, 2022 @12:43PM |
Internet Explorer Gravestone Goes Viral in South Korea |
Tuesday May 31, 2022 @03:01AM |
France Bans English Gaming Tech Jargon in Push To Preserve Language Purity |
Friday May 20, 2022 @06:20PM |
Google's AI Is Smart Enough To Understand Your Humor |
Tuesday April 05, 2022 @04:08PM |
300 Drones Formed a QR Code That Rick Rolled Dallas on April Fools' Day |
Friday April 01, 2022 @09:59AM |
The Patagonia Vest Endures in San Francisco Tech Circles, Despite Ridicule |
Wednesday February 09, 2022 @06:16PM |
'Futurama' Revival Ordered at Hulu |
Wednesday February 09, 2022 @03:16PM |
Mysterious Glitch Has Mazda Drivers Stuck on Public Radio |
Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:55PM |
VR to the ER: Metaverse Early Adopters Prove Accident Prone |
Friday January 21, 2022 @02:34PM |
Missouri Highway Patrol Mistakenly Sends Batman-themed Alert |
Tuesday January 11, 2022 @09:49AM |
LAPD Officers Fired for Catching a Snorlax Instead of a Burglar Denied Appeal |
Saturday January 08, 2022 @12:42AM |
New NFT Series Announced - By Cheech and Chong |
Thursday December 30, 2021 @01:24PM |
Tokyo Police Lose 2 Floppy Disks Containing Personal Info on 38 Public Housing Applicants |
Tuesday September 28, 2021 @06:01PM |
April Fools' Copy-Paste Button For Lazy Programmers Now Actually For Sale |
Tuesday August 17, 2021 @10:48AM |
Gen Z LinkedIn Is Full of Parodies and Snark |
Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:02AM |
Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle |
Monday July 26, 2021 @03:57PM |
Internal Documents Reveal NSA Cafeteria Sucks |
Sunday June 20, 2021 @12:32PM |
Intern's Email Goof at HBO Max Inspires Hundreds to Show Support on Twitter |
Monday May 24, 2021 @09:04PM |
Man Dies Inside Spanish Dinosaur Statue After Trying To Retrieve His Phone |
Wednesday May 19, 2021 @06:25PM |
From Apes To Birds, There Are 65 Animal Species That 'Laugh' |
Tuesday May 04, 2021 @02:11PM |
Belgian Farmer Accidentally Moves French Border |
Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:36PM |
The Day People Named Josh Fought in Nebraska |
Friday April 02, 2021 @04:39PM |
Deliveroo April Fools' Joke Backfires In France |
Thursday April 01, 2021 @01:22PM |
The PermaTab Web Browser |
Thursday April 01, 2021 @11:15AM |
CERN's April Fools' Day Prank: Proposal For A 'Space Elevator' Accelerator |
Tuesday March 30, 2021 @01:53PM |
Italian Mafia Fugitive Caught in Dominican Republic After Police Find YouTube Cooking Show |
Friday March 19, 2021 @04:05PM |
Why Grandmasters Are Playing the Worst Move in Chess |
Thursday March 18, 2021 @05:07PM |
NYC Man Sells Fart For $85, Cashing In On NFT Craze |
Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:08PM |
Intel Puts Apple's 'Mac Guy' Into New Ads Praising PCs |
Wednesday March 03, 2021 @09:59AM |
Amazon Quietly Changed its App Icon After Some Unfavorable Comparisons |
Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:36AM |
8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR For Lack Of Dinosaur Stories |
Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:41PM |
Tired of Mockery, Austrian Village Changes Name |
Monday November 02, 2020 @06:20PM |
South Park Creators Have New Political Satire Series With AI-Generated Deepfakes |
Friday October 09, 2020 @08:03PM |
Some Onions Were Too Sexy For Facebook |
Thursday October 01, 2020 @12:02PM |
Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread' |
Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:43PM |
An innocent Typo Led To a Giant 212-Story Obelisk in Microsoft Flight Simulator |
Thursday August 06, 2020 @10:07AM |
Scientists Rename Human Genes To Stop Microsoft Excel From Misreading Them as Dates |
Wednesday July 08, 2020 @05:19PM |
The Far Side Returns After 25 Years, and It's All Digital |
Monday June 08, 2020 @03:55PM |
Netflix Snags Space Force Trademarks Ahead of US Military |
Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:25AM |
Trump Says He Takes Hydroxychloroquine To Prevent Coronavirus Infection Even Though It's An Unproven Treatment |
Wednesday April 01, 2020 @03:47PM |
Early Meme Site YTMND Has Been Resurrected With the Help of Fans |
Friday March 27, 2020 @04:28PM |
Google Cancels Its Infamous April Fools' Jokes This Year |
Thursday March 05, 2020 @12:03PM |
Humorous Highway Signs Aim To Steer Drivers Safely Down The Old Town Road |
Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:12PM |
Monty Python's Terry Jones Passes Away At 77 |
Monday January 13, 2020 @01:54AM |
How Is Computer Programming Different Today Than 20 Years Ago? |
Saturday January 11, 2020 @03:32PM |
Bizarre 'Big Tech'/Matrix Cartoon Used to Mock San Francisco's Football Team |
Friday December 20, 2019 @01:02PM |
US Government Lists Fictional Nation Wakanda as Trade Partner |
Wednesday December 18, 2019 @02:15PM |
More than 38,000 People Will Stand in Line this Week To Get a New Password |
Saturday October 05, 2019 @12:15AM |
Monty Python's 50th Anniversary Celebrated With 'Extremely Silly' Event |
Sunday September 22, 2019 @05:16PM |
Is 'The Far Side' Comic Strip Coming Back? |
Friday September 20, 2019 @11:39AM |
They Want To Believe: People Gather Near Area 51 To 'See Them Aliens' |
Tuesday September 10, 2019 @02:28PM |
Storm Area 51 Festival Canceled Because It Was a 'Possible Humanitarian Disaster' |
Tuesday August 27, 2019 @03:18PM |
A Growing Community Called Randonauts Believe That Journeying To Random Locations Can Help Put Us in New Realities |
Monday July 22, 2019 @07:43PM |
Canned Laughter Makes Jokes Seem Funnier, Study Finds |
Sunday July 07, 2019 @12:36PM |
Elon Musk's Dream of An Onion-Like Media Empire |
Wednesday May 15, 2019 @05:49PM |
Internet Meme Pioneer YTMND Shuts Down |
Thursday May 09, 2019 @01:46PM |
Reporter Recounts a Quirk in Google's Search Algorithm That Resulted in His Phone Number Getting Listed as Facebook's Customer Support |
Friday April 26, 2019 @05:56PM |
Brawndo, It's Got Electrolytes. It's What Plants Crave |
Friday March 22, 2019 @04:48PM |
Microsoft Revived and Killed Clippy in a Single Day |
Monday March 11, 2019 @04:14PM |
John Oliver Fights Robocalls By Robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC |
Thursday February 21, 2019 @04:48PM |
Nike Bricks Its Shoes With a Faulty Firmware Update |
Friday February 15, 2019 @07:25PM |
Researchers Are Working With NASA To See If Comedians Help Team Cohesion On Long Space Missions |
Saturday December 22, 2018 @06:58PM |
Alexa Gets Hooked Up To a Singing Fish Toy, and Mocked By Jimmy Kimmel |
Tuesday December 18, 2018 @11:59AM |
Former NASA Engineer Designed Glitter Bomb Trap To Avenge Amazon Delivery Theft Victims |
Friday November 02, 2018 @07:51PM |
Ask Slashdot: What Happened To the Prank Apps That Used To Be Popular? |
Friday November 02, 2018 @07:20PM |
Ask Slashdot: What Happened To The Prank Apps That Used To Be Popular? |
Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:11PM |
Star Trek Animated Comedy Series Is In the Works |
Thursday October 18, 2018 @01:50PM |
Panasonic Designed Human Blinders To Block Out Open-Plan Office Distraction |
Thursday October 11, 2018 @10:23AM |
The Long, Long History of Long, Long CVS Receipts |
Friday October 05, 2018 @04:03PM |
The First Rule of Microsoft Excel -- Don't Tell Anyone You're Good at It |
Monday September 17, 2018 @04:26PM |
It Only Took 37 Seconds For Two Bitcoin 'Celebs' To Start Fighting on a Cruise Ship |
Saturday August 04, 2018 @01:54PM |
New Alexa Skill Plays Fake Stupid Arguments To Scare Off Burglars |
Monday July 30, 2018 @08:06PM |
Boston Globe Outs Secret TSA Tracking Program 'Quiet Skies' At Airports |
Thursday June 28, 2018 @04:54PM |
How Many Exclamation Points Do You Need To Seem Genuinely Enthusiastic? |
Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:10PM |
The SEC Created Its Own Scammy ICO To Teach Investors a Lesson |
Friday May 04, 2018 @04:50PM |
HTC Teases Its Next Flagship Smartphone. Too Bad, the Photo Shows Parts of an iPhone 6. |
Saturday April 07, 2018 @03:51PM |
Programmer Unveils OpenGL Bindings for Bash |
Sunday April 01, 2018 @11:09AM |
April Fool's Day Roundup |
Monday February 19, 2018 @12:44PM |
Man, Seeking New Copy of Windows 7 After Forced Windows 10 Upgrade, Sues Microsoft |
Saturday February 10, 2018 @08:05PM |
There Are Ajit Pai 'Verizon Puppet' Jokes That the FCC Doesn't Want You To Read |
Friday February 02, 2018 @06:51PM |
Bicyclist Protests Net Neutrality By Slowing Traffic Outside the FCC Building |
Friday January 26, 2018 @04:24AM |
Admiral Charges Hotmail Users More For Car Insurance |
Friday January 12, 2018 @01:53PM |
Apparently, People Say 'Thank You' To Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Vehicles |
Thursday January 11, 2018 @11:25AM |
Bitcoin Conference Stops Accepting BTC Due To High Fees |
Friday December 29, 2017 @03:57PM |
Trump's Website Is Coded With a Broken Server Error Message That Blames Obama |
Sunday December 17, 2017 @10:04PM |
Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? |
Sunday December 17, 2017 @07:33PM |
Ask Slashdot: What Are The Worst Computer Or IT Related Jokes You Have Heard? |
Saturday December 16, 2017 @05:40PM |
Predictive Keyboard Tries To Write a New Harry Potter Chapter |
Sunday December 03, 2017 @10:23PM |
Elon Musk Trolls the Media With a Clip From 'Spaceballs' |
Sunday October 08, 2017 @02:41AM |
Parody 'Subgenius' Religion Wants to Crowdfund An Alien-Contacting Beacon |
Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:34PM |
2017 'Ig Nobel' Prizes Recognize Funny Research On Cats, Crocodiles, and Cheese |
Saturday August 12, 2017 @06:42PM |
'I'm a Teapot' Error Code Saved From Extinction By Public Outcry |
Thursday July 20, 2017 @05:18PM |
Swedish Rail Firm Approves Trainy McTrainface As Name Following Online Poll |
Monday July 10, 2017 @10:24AM |
Umbrella-sharing Startup Loses Nearly All of Its 300,000 Umbrellas In a Matter of Weeks |
Tuesday July 04, 2017 @09:03PM |
Texting On the Move Makes You Walk Weird, Study Finds |
Thursday June 22, 2017 @04:21PM |
BBC Technical Glitch Leaves TV Presenter In Silence |
Wednesday June 14, 2017 @10:03AM |
Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's Ex-CEO, Says She's Looking 'Forward To Using Gmail Again' |
Friday June 09, 2017 @01:18PM |
Tim Cook Takes Swipe at Windows During MIT Commencement |
Sunday May 28, 2017 @11:31AM |
Seven Science Journals Have A Dog On Their Editorial Board |
Monday April 03, 2017 @09:09AM |
'Grammar Vigilante' Secretly Corrects Bristol Street Signs |
Sunday April 02, 2017 @10:48AM |
Ask Slashdot: Seen Any Good April Fool's Pranks Today? |
Saturday April 01, 2017 @07:35PM |
EFF Issues April Fool's Day Newsletter |
Friday March 31, 2017 @08:57PM |
Steve Wozniak's Biographer Pranked By Woz's Mom? |
Friday March 17, 2017 @07:14AM |
Lack of Oxford Comma Could Cost Maine Company Millions in Overtime Dispute |
Wednesday February 22, 2017 @02:00PM |
HP Is Advertising Its Real, Modern Printers on This Fake, Awkward '80s Computer Show |
Saturday February 18, 2017 @10:20PM |
Web Comic 'Pokey The Penguin' Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary |
Thursday February 09, 2017 @02:20PM |
Overeager Investors Seeking Snap Buy Snap Interactive Instead |
Friday February 03, 2017 @10:06AM |
False News, Absurd Reality Present Challenges For Satirists |
Wednesday January 18, 2017 @11:04AM |
Japan To End Tourists' Toilet Trouble With Standardised Buttons |
Friday December 30, 2016 @03:39PM |
Sonos Alarms Are Waking Users a Day Early |
Wednesday November 16, 2016 @04:33PM |
China Tells Trump Climate Change Isn't a Hoax it Invented |
Saturday November 12, 2016 @07:32PM |
German Police Mock 'Not Very Clever' ATM Robbers |
Tuesday November 08, 2016 @04:03PM |
The FBI Spent Two Years Investigating An Online Cult That Didn't Exist |
Thursday October 13, 2016 @11:39AM |
English Man Spends 11 Hours Trying To Make Cup of Tea With Wi-Fi Kettle |
Monday October 10, 2016 @04:33PM |
Google Hires Joke Writers From Pixar and The Onion To Make Assistant More Personable |
Sunday September 25, 2016 @01:01AM |
The Ig Nobel Awards Celebrate Their 26th First Annual Awards Ceremony |
Thursday September 15, 2016 @09:53PM |
28 Years A Smeghead: Red Dwarf Is Coming Back |
Monday September 05, 2016 @02:49PM |
Sony's Signature Walkman and Headphones Are $5,500 of Ridiculous |
Sunday September 04, 2016 @02:16PM |
John McAfee Tried to Trick Reporters Into Thinking He Hacked WhatsApp |
Wednesday August 03, 2016 @04:46PM |
Suicide Squad Fans Petition To Shut Down Rotten Tomatoes Over Negative Reviews |
Wednesday July 13, 2016 @04:10PM |
TOS Agreements Require Giving Up First Born -- and Users Gladly Consent |
Sunday July 10, 2016 @12:02PM |
Assembly Code That Took America to the Moon Now Published On GitHub |
Tuesday July 05, 2016 @05:15PM |
UK Police Accessed Civilian Data For Fun and Profit, Says Report |
Saturday July 02, 2016 @01:11PM |
Red Hat Exec Marries A Couple At Red Hat Summit |
Friday June 17, 2016 @04:39PM |
It's Happening: A Robot Escaped a Lab In Russia and Made a Dash For Freedom |
Thursday June 09, 2016 @05:57PM |
Movie Written By Algorithm Turns Out To Be Hilarious and Intense |
Saturday May 28, 2016 @11:23AM |
The NSA's Delightfully D&D-inspired Guide To the Internet |
Saturday May 21, 2016 @02:44PM |
Fake Facebook Event Draws Police, Spawns New Meme |
Monday May 16, 2016 @02:43PM |
Jail Sentence For Popular YouTube Pranksters |
Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:11PM |
Guy Who Didn't Invent Email Sues Gawker For Pointing Out He Didn't Invent Email |
Friday May 06, 2016 @04:51PM |
'Boaty McBoatface' Polar Ship Named After Attenborough Despite Less Votes |
Thursday May 05, 2016 @03:06PM |
Cops Deploy StingRay Anti-Terror Tech Against $50 Chicken-Wing Thief |
Thursday April 28, 2016 @11:09AM |
Microsoft's Windows 10 Upgrade Screen Interrupts Meteorologist's Live Forecast |
Friday April 22, 2016 @11:05AM |
Drone Believed To Have Hit British Airways Flight 'May Have Been a Plastic Bag' |
Wednesday April 20, 2016 @09:46AM |
BT Funnels All Customers' Sent Emails Into One Guy's Inbox |
Friday April 15, 2016 @12:29PM |
AMC Drops 'Texting Friendly' Theaters Idea |
Thursday April 14, 2016 @02:17PM |
Phone-Friendly Movie Theaters For Millennials Could Be Reality Soon |
Wednesday April 13, 2016 @02:49PM |
Sprint Quickly Pulls Video Ad Calling T-Mobile 'Ghetto' |
Saturday April 09, 2016 @12:15PM |
The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam |
Wednesday April 06, 2016 @02:43PM |
A Lot of People Carelessly Plug In Random USB Drives Into Their Computers |
Monday April 04, 2016 @11:41AM |
Australian Man Uses 1TB of Mobile Data in a Single Day |
Friday April 01, 2016 @09:43AM |
No Joke. April Fools' Day Has Been Banned In China |
Friday April 01, 2016 @04:10AM |
Gmail's Mic Drop April Fool Backfires Horribly Costing People Their Jobs |
Monday March 21, 2016 @07:33PM |
MuckRock Launches March Madness -- For FOIA |
Saturday March 12, 2016 @01:10AM |
Leaked Islamic State Documents Identify Thousands of Jihadis |
Thursday February 18, 2016 @08:58PM |
John McAfee Offers To Decrypt San Bernardino iPhone For the FBI and Save America |
Tuesday February 16, 2016 @11:17AM |
End of an Era As Pioneering BBC3 Becomes an Online-Only Station |
Monday February 15, 2016 @01:31PM |
'The Room Had Started To Smell. Really Quite Bad': Stephen Fry Exits Twitter |
Wednesday February 10, 2016 @05:42PM |
AWS Terms of Service Offer a Break If Zombie Apocalypse Occurs |
Friday February 05, 2016 @12:21PM |
A Bot That Drives Robocallers Insane |
Wednesday February 03, 2016 @10:19AM |
John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 |
Saturday January 30, 2016 @05:56PM |
A Legal Name Change Puts 'None of the Above' On Canadian Ballot |
Thursday December 24, 2015 @06:31PM |
Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry |
Monday December 21, 2015 @02:42PM |
Programmers Share 188 Computer-Generated Novels On GitHub |
Thursday September 24, 2015 @02:25PM |
1000-key Emoji Keyboard Is As Crazy As It Sounds |
Thursday September 10, 2015 @10:42AM |
An Algorithm To Stop Joke Plagiarists |
Saturday May 30, 2015 @12:35PM |
Let's Take This Open Floor Plan To the Next Level |
Saturday April 11, 2015 @07:23PM |
LG Split Screen Software Compromises System Security |
Tuesday March 17, 2015 @12:41PM |
New Site Mocks Bad Artwork On Ebook Covers |
Thursday February 05, 2015 @07:54PM |
Washington May Count CS As Foreign Language For College Admission |
Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:21AM |
Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness |
Sunday January 25, 2015 @10:37AM |
Americans Support Mandatory Labeling of Food That Contains DNA |
Monday December 29, 2014 @01:55PM |
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet |
Monday December 15, 2014 @12:56PM |
Eric Schmidt: To Avoid NSA Spying, Keep Your Data In Google's Services |
Monday December 15, 2014 @12:56PM |
Sony Pictures Leak Reveals Quashed Plan To Upload Phony Torrents |
Thursday December 11, 2014 @10:05AM |
A Paper By Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel Was Accepted By Two Journals |
Tuesday October 28, 2014 @08:11AM |
"Dance Your Ph.D." Finalists Announced |