Tom Hanks, famed actor and filmmaker, isn't getting paid for the "Tom Hanks" you might have run into in an online ad for a dental plan. It's an AI clone,… Read the rest of the article: Tom Hanks complains of fake AI Tom Hanks in online ad

Josh Kruger, 39, was shot seven times at about 1:30 a.m. in his Philadephia home, reports the Associated Press, before collapsing in the street outside moments later. Police suspect someone… Read the rest of the article: Journalist noted for progressive advocacy shot and killed in own home; police suspect former partner

Mike Jeffries, the former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, is accused of exploiting men who were "recruited for sex events" hosted around the world. The revelation, if that's the right… Read the rest of the article: BBC: former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO hosted events where young men were exploited and abused

Spotted Lanternflies, the new scourge of the north-east, were spotted in Illinois. The invasive, plant-hurting, leaping bug with the sweet sticky shit powered through Ohio and Indiana this year and… Read the rest of the article: Spotted Lanternflies invade Illinois

Chromebook Plus is a new sticker for laptops running Google Chrome that have at least 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, 1080-line displays and webcams, and 12th-gen Intel or Ryzen… Read the rest of the article: Chromebook Plus standard guarantees laptop not total piece of junk

Donald Trump today attended his civil fraud trial in New York: the one over lies he told lenders about the value of his properties to secure loans. He's at a… Read the rest of the article: Trump's civil fraud trial begins in New York

Robert Wayne Lee, better known as Boopac Shakur, was a social media personality who filmed himself confronting alleged sex predators in public. He was shot and killed Sunday by one… Read the rest of the article: Social media "vigilante" shot and killed by target

Mastodon, the open-source, federated alternative to Twitter, is now available for the Apple II thanks to incredible work by Colin Leroy-Mira. All the good features are included, such as "unfollow"… Read the rest of the article: Mastodon available for Apple II

Walter Isaacson's biography of Elon Musk hasn't gotten stellar reviews, but The Verge's really gets to the heart of what's wrong with it: Musk (and cronies) were Isaacson's key sources… Read the rest of the article: Walter Isaacson was a gullible writer-upper of Musk's tall tales

Virtual Consoles recreates the 80s experience of turning on a computer and instantly getting a BASIC interpreter: the perfect environment to learn coding or just poke computers into doing odd… Read the rest of the article: Go full 80s bedroom coder with a site full of virtual 8-bit computers

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Chipotle on behalf of Areej Saifan, an employee who claims her manager at the Lenexa, Kansas branch of the restaurant chain ripped off… Read the rest of the article: Lawsuit: Chipotle manager "ripped off" Muslim employee's hijab

Celebrity Flights tracks the private flying-around of the rich and famous—and the colossal carbon footprints they have. Elon Musk is the world's most jet-set person, clocking 363k kilometers in the… Read the rest of the article: Track the carbon footprint of jet-set celebrities like Elon Musk and Kim Kardashian

Faced with a shutdown engineered by his own party's far-right caucus, GOP speaker Kevin McCarthy yesterday cut a deal with Democrats in the closely-split House to pass a 45-day "stopgap… Read the rest of the article: GOP leader McCarthy cuts deal with Dems to avert government shutdown; Gaetz vows to oust him

WHP Global, the brand necromancer that crawled into the corpse of Toys 'R' Us, plans to open dozens of stores next year. The expansion also will bring stores to airports… Read the rest of the article: Toys 'R' Us stores will soon be appearing again across the U.S.

Gideon Cody, the police chief who raided the 2,000-circulation newspaper that wasn't even going to publish an exposé of his sexual misconduct accusation or the drink-driving past of a local… Read the rest of the article: Police chief who raided smalltown newspaper is suspended

Far-right holdouts in the Republican party refuse to back a funding bill for the government—including the U.S. military, air traffic control and other essential services—unless it drops cash for various… Read the rest of the article: U.S. government to shut down today unless last-minute deal reached

Alan Colie, 31, shot Tanner Cook, 21, after the latter stalked him in a mall and refused to stop—and a jury there just acquitted him of malicious wounding, determining that… Read the rest of the article: Jury acquits delivery driver who shot YouTube "prankster" harassing him in mall

Trump won't help the co-defendents who went all-in to help him, even at the point where helping them would seemingly improve his own chances of getting out from under the… Read the rest of the article: Trump co-defenant, abandoned by him, pleads guilty to interfering with Georgia voting machines

Paris is infested with bedbugs, and the government there is vowing to take "further action" now that it's got to the point where a constant stream of viral videos shows… Read the rest of the article: Bedbugs take Paris

Elon Musk's had bad luck with live video: when he and Ron DeSantis tried to launch the Florida governor's presdential run on Twitter, the feed crashed and took DeSantis's campaign… Read the rest of the article: Elon Musk went to the Texas border, put on a cowboy hat, and tried to livestream himself rambling about immigration. The stream experienced rapid unscheduled dissassembly.