Game-making platform Unity has "destroyed its goodwill with developers", Bloomberg News reports, after rolling out a shocking new price plan that specifies price hikes, per-install payments and various other rental… Read the rest of the article: Game developers flee Unity after exorbitant price plan announced, but not everyone can get out

For decades, American retailers and experts extolled the virtue of shoveling processed grains into your digestive system every morning. But the age of cereal is over, a decline marked by… Read the rest of the article: Kellogg ditching its cereal business heralds the slow death of sugar for breakfast

A stripmall Taekwondo instructor is off to jail after being caught surreptitiously filming kids in changing rooms. Erik Chen, 32, received a 50-year sentence in the Colorado Department of Corrections… Read the rest of the article: Martial arts instructor jailed 50 years for secret recordings of children

Pius XII, pope during World War II, was informed of the mass murders of Jews and Poles by a Jesuit in Germany in 1942, contradicting the Catholic Church's prior claims… Read the rest of the article: 1942 letter suggests Pope Pius XII knew "detailed information" about mass killings of Jews and Poles

LGR bought the Book 8088 and the Hand 386, new computers with old chips. The Book 8088 is a very retro-style laptop, more than an inch thick and complete with… Read the rest of the article: AliExpress's bizarre 1990s-style retro DOS computers reviewed

Last night, comedian and conspiracy theorist Russell Brand took to the internet to deny an unspecified crime that no-one had accused him of. Today, the axe fell: he is the… Read the rest of the article: Comedian Russell Brand accused of rapes

Pampaloni's Jellyfish Sterling Silver Salt and Pepper shaker set is a steal at $1,470, and cannot be replicated simply by finding a child and instructing them to crumple up some… Read the rest of the article: Silver "Jellyfish" salt and pepper shaker set only $1470

We already knew that U.S. congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) was vaping and distracting other theatergoers before being escorted out of a production of Beetlejuice in her home state Sunday night.… Read the rest of the article: Boebert fondled date's penis in theater

Texans call it a paddlin' but the law calls it an assaultin'. Jeffery Darryl Hogg, 59, the principal of Overton High School, was arrested and charged after beating a student… Read the rest of the article: Texas school principal arrested after beating girl with bat so badly she had bruises for days—all with her mother's permission

Florida's Republican Party had planned to make a collective pledge to endorse whoever won the party's primary election in 2024. It's now decided to scrap this pledge, an outcome that… Read the rest of the article: Florida Republicans scrap planned loyalty pledge to eventual primary winner

The Shrinkflation Tracker, by Sam Lader, is on a mission to stop manufacturers quietly putting less food inside product packaging without a corresponding fall in price to consumers. The practice… Read the rest of the article: Shrinkflation database tracks diminishing size of food products

Max Read offers a history of fake Apple texts, 2011-2023—the chats to be found in the company's ads and marketing materials. Anodyne yet featureful, this "rigidly orthographically correct banter" mirrors… Read the rest of the article: Literary history of the text message conversations in Apple ads

Steve Mould explains and extols the virtues of a wonderfully-designed perpetual motion simulator (previously at BB) crafted by William Le. He even commissioned a transparent version that shows the clever… Read the rest of the article: A handsome and mesmerizing perpetual motion simulator

Linux now runs on the Commodore 64, the 1982 8-bit home computer, thanks to some incredible work by Onno Kortmann: "But does it run Linux? can now be finally and… Read the rest of the article: Linux on a Commodore 64

The taxpayer-funded travel of Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is now officially none of your business, exempted from the state's 50-year-old public records act—a new law she had the pleasure… Read the rest of the article: Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs law making her taxpayer-funded travel a state secret

Another statue-wrecking tourist has struck, this time in Belgium. An Irish sightseer attempted to climb a handsome Victorian-era lion-handler outside the stock exchange in Brussels, causing a chunk to fall… Read the rest of the article: Irish tourist climbs Belgian statue. A chunk fell off.

Carrefour, one of the world's largest grocery chains, is slapping warnings on products when the size shrinks but the price does not. The labels come amid reports of falling costs… Read the rest of the article: French supermarket chain Carrefour puts "shrinkflation" warnings on price-gouging brands

Can you tell programming language inventors from serial killers? Good luck! I scored 8/10, but I'm a connoisseur. I was expecting at least one to be both–and there is a… Read the rest of the article: Programming language inventor or serial killer?

Footage shot at a lake in Texas captures the moment a 14ft alligator spotted Girl Scouts in the water and realized that it was lunchtime. The scouts, enjoying the lake… Read the rest of the article: WATCH: Alligator pursues Girl Scouts swimming in Texas lake, to no avail

A Florida man who draped Nazi banners from an interstate highway overpass was arrested Tuesday and charged with what Daytona Beach News described as "displaying messages without obtaining permission." [Jason]… Read the rest of the article: Florida Nazi arrested