North Korea sent balloons over the border to descend on the south, filled with trash and, the BBC reports, "suspected poo." South Korea's military also cautioned the public against touching… Read the rest of the article: "Suspected poo" in trash bags dropped on South Korea by North

Your uterus belongs to the state, but Samuel Alito wife's flag is all hers: "she makes her own decisions," he writes in a reply to claims that pro-coup flags flying… Read the rest of the article: In letter, Supreme Court justice Alito blames wife at length for pro-coup flags outside their houses: "She makes her own decisions"

An American tourist who turned up in Turks and Caicos with 9mm ammunition in his possession was fined $9,000 and sentenced to the time served waiting for his court date.… Read the rest of the article: $9k fine for American tourist who took ammo to Turks and Caicos

Nigerian businesswoman Chioma Okoli gave a negative review to a can of Nagiko Tomato Mix, saying she found it too sweet. In response, Erisco Foods Limited had her charged with… Read the rest of the article: Woman threatened with jail over negative tomato puree review has the world wondering what is so unpleasantly sweet about Nagiko Tomato Mix

The Best 22 DOS GUIs That I've Found (So Far) is a handsome and evidently growing collection of third-party graphical user interfaces you could use before Microsoft prioritized Windows, bolted… Read the rest of the article: The wild west of DOS graphical user interfaces before Windows overwhelmed all of them

Images that Sound are AI-generated spectrograms—visual representations of audio data—which look like the thing represented by the sound. It can be prompted, though there doesn't appear to be a public… Read the rest of the article: AI-generated spectrogram looks like a corgi and sounds like one too

The Italian word frociaggine translates to "faggotry" or "faggotness." In private discussions of homosexuality in the seminary, it's good enough for Pope Francis. A "source close to the Pope" given… Read the rest of the article: Pope Francis admits using homophobic Italian slur "frociaggine"

A museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, is accused of mistreating 19th-century mummifed bodies after the arm fell off one of them. Mexico's federal archaeology agency is upset, reports the AP, and… Read the rest of the article: Arm falls off 19th century mummy

You can buy anything from Temu. During recent military drills with Cambodia, China's military showed off a robot dog with an automatic rifle mounted on its back, essentially turning man's… Read the rest of the article: China shows off robot dogs armed with guns

In 1999, R. Derek Black appeared on Jenny Jones' troll show as a proud second-generation white supremacist: the child of Ku Klux Klan leader Don Black and a family friend… Read the rest of the article: Klan leader's kid charts their journey from white nationalism to coming out as trans

Singer Nicki Minaj got angry at the otherwise comically polite police detaining her for smuggling drugs through Amsterdam's Schiphol airport. She films her own arrest; it's inconceivable to her that… Read the rest of the article: Nicky Minaj learns what might happen when you smuggle drugs through airports

Summer Bushnell, a right-wing blogger, edited video of drag performer Eric Posey to make it appear as if Posey had exposed his genitals to children at a Pride event. Posey… Read the rest of the article: Drag artist wins defamation case against right-wing blogger who falsely claimed he flashed children

A slingshot shooter has plagued a neighborhood of Azusa, California for years, taking out windows, car windshields, and even firing at people there. After nearly a decade hunting for the… Read the rest of the article: Suspected slingshot shooter, 81, arrested after decade-long hunt

Arthur Grand Technologies, an IT company in Virginia, was fined $7,500 for a job posting specifying that only white people were eligible for a position. The company must also pay… Read the rest of the article: Virginia company fined $7,500 for whites-only job posting: "Don't share with candidates"

ICQ was one of the great dot-com era chat services and outlived AIM by seven years. But it too is being taken out back, by VK, the company that ended… Read the rest of the article: ICQ is EOL: 28-year-old chat service to shut

When deleted photos mysteriously reappeared on some iPhones, alarm bells sounded. The Verge's headline was starkest—"Apple needs to explain"—and it has. Apple confirmed to me that iCloud Photos is not… Read the rest of the article: Why deleted iPhone photos came back

Apple's way is to avoid cutting edge technology until it's reliable to use, manufacture and profit from. Are folding displays there yet? Ming Chi-Kuo, a supply chain analyst, stuck out… Read the rest of the article: Folding MacBook rumors spread

Gliese 12b orbits a red dwarf 40 light years again and is reportedly the most promising candidate yet among worlds deduced to be potentially-habitable and Earthlike. "We've found the nearest,… Read the rest of the article: Astronomers identify most likely habitable Earthlike planet yet that no-one reading this will ever live on

Louisiana governor Jeff Landry, a Republican, signed a bill that reclassified mifepristone and misoprostol as dangerous drugs. They were placed on Schedule IV of its controlled substances list, drugs whose… Read the rest of the article: Louisiana reclassifies abortion pills as dangerous drugs

Norfolk Southern, the rail operator that turned land near Palestine, Ohio into a toxic bonfire after one of its trains derailed there, is to be fined $15 million. The company,… Read the rest of the article: "Modest" $15m fine for Norfolk Southern after fiery Ohio derailment—and no criminal charges