When Adriana Hernández tried to return to her burning house to help rescue her parents, a Huntington Park police officer punched her in the face and then arrested her to… Read the rest of the article: Cop punches woman in face, then arrests her to justify it

Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris admits to "inappropriate" sexual contact with a 12-year-old girl who, now an adult, recently went public about her abuse. His lawyer wanted her attorney to… Read the rest of the article: Pedophile pastor's lawyer blamed 12-year-old victim for initiating "inappropriate behavior"

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit which claimed GitHub's AI code assistant infringed the copyright of user content used to train it. The suit was filed by Matthew Butterick, a… Read the rest of the article: GitHub AI code assistant lawsuit dismissed

The trailer for Gladiator II, starring Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington, dropped today. I am entertained. Denzel's laugh! Christian King was so very close. Re: racists melting down… Read the rest of the article: Gladiator II trailer

Today Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members of The Squad gave their support for Joe Biden's bid to remain the Democratic Party's candidate in this year's presidential election—a position lately on… Read the rest of the article: AOC backs Biden

So long, Crunchyroll comments, shut down due to a systematic flood of right-wing wharrgarbl. The anime site is removing its peanut gallery as the peanuts are nastier than ever—and many… Read the rest of the article: Anime site Crunchyroll removes its bigot-flooded comment section

HP, lately famed for selling scanners that run out of ink and whose CEO described its own customers as a "bad investment," is giving up on one contemptuous product line:… Read the rest of the article: HP will no longer sell printers that require online connection

Retailer Target will soon no longer accept personal checks at the checkout. Shoppers who attempt to pay with one will be subdued and chained to a large red concrete ball… Read the rest of the article: Target will no longer accept personal checks

Mass shooter Audrey Hale killed three children and three adults last year. Hale's parents inherited the writings and ultimately gave the copyright in them to the families of the victims.… Read the rest of the article: Judge: copyright means public has no right to read Nashville school shooter's writings

Notepad, 41 years old, goes from strength to strength. In the wake of WordPad's demise1, Windows' basic editor is picking up a couple of fancy word-processing features—spellchecking and autocorrect. Tom's… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft adds spellcheck and autocorrect to Windows Notepad

*record scratch* Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here, standing in the lobby of a grocery store with a SIG Sauer 522 LR semi-automatic rifle, swathed head… Read the rest of the article: Ammunition vending machines come to U.S. grocery stores

Boeing is to plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy fraud over deadly 737 Max crashes. The company will pay a $243.6m fine and allow itself to be monitored. The… Read the rest of the article: Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud over 737 crashes and pay itty bitty fine

Qualcomm's Snapdragon X CPU is Microsoft's great ARM hope in tackling Apple Silicon. Microsoft has already stumbled by tying the branding effort to some dead-on-arrival A.I. thing, but the laptops… Read the rest of the article: Windows ARM laptops benchmarked

ICE operated a fake school, the University of Farmington, supposedly as a sting operation to identify people living in the U.S. on illegal student visas. But it was really just… Read the rest of the article: People who gave money to scam school run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can sue government

As was vaguely the case three days ago in the U.K., tactical voting on the left and center can do wonders to put the right in its place. There's been… Read the rest of the article: Socialists score shock win in French elections, with far right in third behind Macron's centrists

A former Boeing inspector claims that the company allowed scrap parts to be used in new Dreamliners, potentially compromising their safety and durability. A former quality-control manager at its factory… Read the rest of the article: Boeing whistleblower claims scrap parts went into Dreamliners

YouTube has a feature that removes unlicensed music from videos while leaving in other audio. Though apparently not well-thought of in the past, it's been upgraded with a new AI-based… Read the rest of the article: Improved YouTube music eraser removes unlicensed music from videos

Finding recordable Blu-Ray discs might soon get tougher, as Sony is reportedly ending consumer production. They'll still be made for business partners. A recent report indicated that Sony plans to… Read the rest of the article: Sony winding down production of recordable Blu-ray discs

Last night saw a landslide defeat of the Conservatives in the U.K's general election, and this morning the victorious Labour Party's Keir Starmer visited King Charles and was offered the… Read the rest of the article: Labour's Keir Starmer is the UK's new Prime Minister

The first exit polls in the UK's general election suggest the Labour Party will win by a huge landslide, taking 410 seats in parliament. The Conservative Party, according to the… Read the rest of the article: UK exit poll suggests Labour landslide