The conspiracy flick 2,000 Mules has already been widely debunked as a fraud. But its claims that Democrats stole the 2020 election through vote-stuffing has led to worse consequences for… Read the rest of the article: Publisher of right-wing 2000 Mules film apologizes for its lies
Signal, which makes a popular private messaging service, reaffirmed that it will not comply with demands to compromise user privacy in Europe. France has reportedly revived a stalled EU surveillance… Read the rest of the article: Signal reaffirms it will leave European market rather than agree to help governments surveil users
Tik Tokers accused Chipotle of serving them larger portions when the cameras were out and posted video to support their claims. Chipotle says they're full of it. Some of the… Read the rest of the article: Chipotle insists it hasn't shrunk its portions, defying Tik Tokers
Lego Insiders can get their hands on this enormous and menacing Lego recreation of Barad-Dûr, complete with the Eye of Sauron, glowing evil, vague suggestions of undesirable industrial development, etc.… Read the rest of the article: Gigantic Lego Barad-Dûr is $460
Jon Benjamin, the British ambassador to Mexico, thought it would be funny or something if he pointed a semiautomatic rifle at one of his staffers. The moment, on a trip… Read the rest of the article: British ambassador to Mexico fired after pointing gun at staffer
Tmesipteris oblanceolata, a fern, has a genome five times larger than the human one. It is the largest yet observed in nature, reports Nature, and its 160 billion base pairs… Read the rest of the article: "Unassuming" fern has largest genome yet found. "It's just ridiculous"
American YouTuber and rapper IShowSpeed, known to his parents as Darren Jason Watkins Jr, was sent to hospital after wiping out during the annual cheese-rolling race in Gloucestershire, England. He… Read the rest of the article: American YouTuber hospitalized after cheese-rolling race in Gloucestershire
These socks make your feet look like fox paws. Adorable and a bit odd! They're 80% polyester, 10% cotton and 10% spandex, fit up to a men's size 13, and… Read the rest of the article: Fox paw socks
A trove of internal Google documents leaked this week, offering insight into how the search engine ranks websites. Mia Sato describes it as "an unprecedented look into Google's inner workings"… Read the rest of the article: What's in the leak of Google's internal search documents?
The Bigme Hibreak is an inexpensive smartphone with an e-ink display, however well that works with an Android-based operating sytem. It has 6GB of RAM, a 5.7" 1440×720 panel and… Read the rest of the article: Bigme Hibreak is a $220 e-ink smartphone
CyberSecTools [via Hacker News] is the "largest curated directory of security tools and resources," with 2375 listings, maintained by Nikoloz Kokhreidze. Just flipping through the blogs and news section has… Read the rest of the article: Curated directory of security resources
The "backrooms" lore imagines an unsettling maze of empty offices and storage areas, sterile but yellowing, bathed in buzzing fluorescent light—a liminal zone tasting of 20th-century corporate space and alienation.… Read the rest of the article: Original "Backrooms" photo of yellowing office dungeon finally identified as Oshkosh HobbyTown
Jurors today found former U.S. president Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts in his hush-money trial in New York. Crowds outside the courthouse erupted in cheers as each was… Read the rest of the article: Trump found GUILTY on all counts in hush money trial
A new Louisiana law makes it a crime to come within 25 feet of police officers if they tell you not to approach. The law is crafted to prevent citizens… Read the rest of the article: Louisiana law would make it illegal to be closer than 25ft to cops or talk to them after they tell you to stop
When GPT-4 was released, one of the hype lines was that it passed the bar exam at the 90th percentile. "GPT-4 Passes the Bar Exam: What That Means for Artificial… Read the rest of the article: ChatGPT not that great at bar exam after all
The resale value of Teslas slumped this year, driven in part by Hertz writing off much of its EV fleet and flooding the used market with them. Are they a… Read the rest of the article: Used Teslas might be cheap as dirt but that doesn't mean they're a deal
8BitDo's M Edition is not a replica of IBM's Model M—for that maybe check out the Unicomp New M, replete with buckling springs—but rather a smooth new design that evokes… Read the rest of the article: 8BitDo M Edition: a modern mechanical keyboard reminiscent of IBM's famed Model M
Google announced the Fitbit Ace LTE, a surveillance-forward ("Know where your wild things are") smartwatch featuring all the features youngsters love, such as having their location and habits constantly under… Read the rest of the article: Google pitches a surveillance-forward kids' smartwatch to parents
Black passengers made to leave an American Airlines flight are suing the airline, claiming racial discrimination. Flight crew allegedly removed eight black men, all sitting in different parts of the… Read the rest of the article: Black passengers sue American Airlines after being ordered to leave plane
Notepad Tab is a "simple, secure and private note-taking tool" on the web. The magic is that it all happens in your browser, encoding the content into the page URL… Read the rest of the article: Notepad Tab: web-based notepad automatically remembers your work
