Glendale residents Ruben Tamrazian, Ararat Chirkinian and Vahe Muradkhanyan, and Alfiya Zuckerman of Valley Village, had a brilliant plan to commit insurance fraud: perhaps the best of all time. They… Read the rest of the article: Bear costume insurance scammers get 180 days in the den

Wild Gunman '74 was an electromechanical arcade game designed by Nintendo legend Gunpei Yokoi. Unlike its 1985 digital sequel, Wild Gunman, the original immersed the player in full-motion film footage… Read the rest of the article: 52-year-old Nintendo full-motion film game restored

After Alex Jones declared bankruptcy to avoid paying the Sandy Hook parents defamed by his lies, InfoWars ended up on the block. When the auction was won by satirical news… Read the rest of the article: The Onion reaches deal to take over InfoWars

Last week, The Atlantic published a bombshell story about Kashyap "Ka$h" Patel's dismal tenure as FBI Director, writing that insiders there say he is sometimes missing, always paranoid and often… Read the rest of the article: Kash Patel sues The Atlantic over story claiming he often drunk or missing at work

NASA's high-resolution image galleries show the successful Artemis II mission to the moon, in which four astronauts slingshotted around Earth's satellite and returned home in preparation for the first moon… Read the rest of the article: NASA's Artemis II images—and a phone video

Bedfordshire, famed for its stately homes and wildlife parks, for the delicious Bedfordshire Clanger pastry, the Shuttleworth Collection of vintage automobiles and aircraft, and as the home of author John… Read the rest of the article: Bedfordshire chosen as England's worst county

I was planning to give away my aging iPhone 15 and get a dumbphone instead, but then I saw that the new model is going to come in "Dark Cherry"… Read the rest of the article: iPhone 18 Pro will come in "Dark Cherry"

A snippet of air traffic control audio racked up millions of views online because two pilots started meowing and barking at each other. The drama unfolded on April 12 over… Read the rest of the article: Meow! FAA investigates viral audio of pilots meowing and barking

In 1988, Bloodsport was the quintessential Cannon Group VHS blockbuster, costing nothing to make and raking in $50m "despite" negative reviews. It made Jean-Claude Van Damme a star, is notable… Read the rest of the article: A24 and Michaela Coel remaking Jean-Claude Van Damme's "Bloodsport"

Some weird part of me has needed the forthcoming Street Fighter movie for a long time. The 1994 Hollywood movie was bad (though Raul Julia was great) and the anime… Read the rest of the article: Watch the deranged new trailer for the Street Fighter movie

The Stop Flock campaign takes aim at the domestic surveillance startup, whose cameras are everywhere now—even inside buildings. "Mass surveillance isn't public safety," the campaign states, "it's public control." Flock… Read the rest of the article: Stop Flock campaign targets invasive surveillance network

Joe Nobody's harrowing and infuriating webcomic about life at Élan School, a cultlike and abusive "troubled teen" wilderness camp in Maine (previously at Boing Boing), is now a three-volume graphic… Read the rest of the article: Graphic novel about life at the Elan School, a notoriously abusive "troubled teen" wilderness camp

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette dates to 1786, was the first newspaper to open west of the Allegheny mountains, and was set to close in two weeks, leaving the city as America's… Read the rest of the article: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette bought by nonprofit

Europe and the U.S. are frequently at odds with the second Trump administration, but governments and companies there are heavily dependent on U.S. technology. France announced plans to switch from… Read the rest of the article: France to replace Windows with Linux as wariness of U.S. grows

Donald Trump's belligerent attitude toward Canada sank Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives in the last election there, handing an unexpected win to new Liberal leader Mark Carney. But while Carney became Prime… Read the rest of the article: Canada's Liberals take parliamentary majority after latest special election

The Trump Phone was first announced as a theoretically unlikely made-in-America smartphone, then shown as a photoshopped Samsung device, and a cheap "your logo here" handset that anyone order get… Read the rest of the article: Trump Phone's "final" design still very gold

When high school kids in Phoenix staged an anti-ICE walkout in January, a masked man with a handgun approached the students and refused to leave. Police were summoned, but for… Read the rest of the article: Masked gunman who menaced students at anti-ICE school protest was a cop

If the lack of a native port of Adobe Creative Suite (or The GIMP's peculiarities) is a problem for you on Linux, check out Fog Panther, which describes itself as… Read the rest of the article: Fog Panther is a new image editor for Linux

In the Shadow of the CPC is a book about the Amstrad CPC, an 8-bit personal computer released in 1984 and popular in the U.K., France, Spain and Germany, selling… Read the rest of the article: Art book features the best 100 games on the Amstrad CPC

All signals are green after the Artemis II mission crew successfully re-entered Earth's atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California. NASA's Reid Wiseman,… Read the rest of the article: Artemis crew safely splashes down off California coast