Slashdot Items Tagged "humor"

Date / Time Story
Saturday April 06, 2024 @03:07PM How the European Space Agency Celebrated April Fool's Day
Wednesday April 03, 2024 @05:01PM George Carlin Estate Forces 'AI Carlin' Off the Internet For Good
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.
Sunday April 01, 2018 @11:09AM April Fool's Day Roundup
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 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
Sunday October 19, 2014 @11:47AM Ask Slashdot: Good Hosting Service For a Parody Site?