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Monday December 29, 2025. 04:22 PM
Apple is suing [PDF] Jon Prosser for publishing information about the new iOS leaked to him by insiders. This fires a warning shot at anyone else in a similar position, but creates a secondary problem: it sharpens Prosser's credibility and draws further attention to whatever ...
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared from radar on 8 March, 2014, while heading from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. It turned sharply to head out to sea, its transponder went dark, and neither it nor the 239 passengers and crew aboard were ever seen again. — Read the rest ...
For years, visitors to Munich's English Garden have enjoyed surfing a permanent 3ft wave in the Eisbach river created by accumulated sediment. After workers cleaned up the bed, the wave dissipated, dismaying surfers and spectators. An underwater beam soon appeared,...
Sunday December 28, 2025. 11:00 PM
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We regret to inform you that you must no longer ship sex toys to Bahrain, the decidedly conservative island kingdom off the coast of Saudi Arabia. Thousands of U.S. service members stationed at the base there will have to go without or find a local source. — Read the rest ...
In many jurisdictions cigarettes have them, and alcohol too. Now New York has a warning label for another problem product: social media platforms. Features deemed by the state to be addictive, such as infinite scroll, autoplaying/autoadvancing content, and algorithmic feeds, ...
In this footage, a humanoid robot replicating the motions of a human teleoperator kicks him in the nuts. Then, following him, it buckles over and grabs its robot crotch. The martial artist's motion capture suit sent his movements to a Unitree G1 robot, but latency resulted...
In October, Las Vegas Police Department unveiled a donation of 10 'tactical' Tesla Cybertrucks, all customized and wrapped in departmental livery. The vehicles, paid for by venture capitalist Ben Horowitz, can be used as barricades and in other dangerous situations 'because...
TL;DR: Get Microsoft Windows 11 Pro for $9.97 (reg. $199) and add pro-grade security, productivity tools, and Copilot to a compatible PC. There are two kinds of computers: the ones that behave and the ones that turn a quick task into a full-blown meltdown. — Read the rest ...
A Ghanaian religious figure, Ebo Enoch, said that the world would end in a biblical flood on Christmas day. This event having not occurred, he has reportedly told his followers that the apocalypse has been postponed and that God has 'granted him more time' to build arks. —...
Legendary French actress, animal rights activist and racist crank Brigitte Bardot is dead at 91, according to reports in French media. 'The Brigitte Bardot foundation announces with immense sadness the death of its founder and president, Madame Brigitte Bardot, a...
Saturday December 27, 2025. 11:00 PM
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Works of art created in 1930 such as early Betty Boop cartoons depicting her as a dog, Disney's 'Rover' prototype for Pluto, and more Mickey Mouse cartoons, all enter the U.S. public domain on Jan 1, 2026. Literary works joining them there include Vile Bodies by Evelyn...
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Lobbyists 'close to Trump' are charging $1m and up to secure presidential pardons for their clients, with some paying as much as $6m. The Wall Street Journal reports a simple process: you give them the money, they talk to someone in Trump's inner circle such as his son, then ...
A Salvation Army bell ringer was arrested Tuesday after trying to 'impale' the manager of the store he was collecting donations at. This Florida man's weapon of choice: the distinctive red tripod used by the church to carry donation buckets. Martin County Sheriff's Office...
Famed football coach and commentator John Madden, a legend to sports fans and gamers alike, has received in death the ultimate form of memorialization: a biopic starring Nicolas Cage in a fat suit. Netflix posted a trailer (embedded below) for the upcoming movie, to be...
Bethesda Softworks, the studio behind blockbuster Elder Scrolls and Fallout open-world RPGs, has earned a reputation for overpromising and underdelivering. Studio boss Todd Howard once claimed Fallout 3 would have 'over 300' endings—it actually has two. This latest promise...
If Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 serves as a shining example of anything besides the brazen laziness of 'too big to fail' developers, it's the steadily declining writing quality of big-budget games. Actually, those two are the same thing. Think about how many tutorials desperatel...
If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every word spelled backwards. While this sounds absurd, there's an excellent reason that only makes sense if you're old enough to remember looking things up...
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