Coventry Live reports that a 51-year-old woman woke to the realization that her pet Chihuahua had unloaded diarrhea in her mouth. She was soon 'violently ill' and ultimately hospitalized for… Read the rest of the article: Woman hospitalized after pet dog unloads diarrhea into her mouth while she slept

Iran state TV was apparently hacked Saturday, with its usual broadcast footage of muttering geriatric clerics replaced by a masked face followed by a picture of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei… Read the rest of the article: Protestors hack Iran state TV live on air

An explosion, variously claimed to be caused by a truck, a boat or shelling, took out a span of the recently-opened road bridge linking Russia and Crimea, and triggered a… Read the rest of the article: Explosion takes out span of bridge between Russia and Crimea

Apple's AirTags are an excellent way to know where your luggage is—and a snitch on airlines who don't know where your luggage is. Lufthansa is the first to ban them… Read the rest of the article: Lufthansa "bans AirTags in luggage" after passengers publicly shame it with location of lost bags

Mark Finchem, a Republican running to be Arizona's Secretary of State, is angry that big tech is censoring him: "Google & the crooks in California refuse to rank my website… Read the rest of the article: GOP candidate claims he's blocked from Google, but his site tells Google not to index it

Mortal Kombat+ is a project to disassemble and remaster the original 1990s arcade trilogy, fixing bugs in the originals and adding stronger AI and new features, such as tag team… Read the rest of the article: Mortal Kombat+ fixes bugs in original arcade trilogy and adds new features

Grey One lists text-only, clutter-free news sites still available as of 2022, from NPR and CNN to tech-oriented aggregators such as The Brutalist Report.

CNN, covering the seditious conspiracy trial of Oath Keepers who participated in the Jan 6 riots and had big plans for what it would lead to, reports that one of… Read the rest of the article: Oath Keeper testifies that group's leader was advised by U.S. Secret Service on what weapons were allowed at rally

San Antonio cop James Brennand began barking commands at a surprised 17-year-old boy eating fast food in his car in a McDonald's parking lot, shot him when the car rolled… Read the rest of the article: San Antonio cop fired after shooting innocent teen who was just eating a burger in a McDonalds car lot

With the blessing of the legendary fashion designer's estate, Jared Leto is to star in a self-produced biopic of Karl Lagerfeld. The ability of Leto to land prestigious roles despite… Read the rest of the article: Jared Leto to star as Karl Lagerfeld in biopic

An American tourist smashed one 2000-year-old statue in anger and then another while trying to escape officials pursuing him in The Vatican on Wednesday, where he had demanded to see… Read the rest of the article: American tourist demands to see Pope, then smashes two ancient statues in the Vatican

To the classic totalitarian formulations of "War is Peace", "Freedom is Slavery" and "Ignorance is Strength", add "Defeat is Victory." Russia: Asked if there was a contradiction between Putin's rhetoric… Read the rest of the article: Nothing contradictory about retreating from region you just annexed, says Russia

DekuNukem's RGBeeb is a BBC Micro 8-bit computer, from 1982 or thereabouts, augmented and handsomely recased for use in 2022. It has working dual full-height 5.25" floppy drives.

Another day, another bombshell about the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia. The woman who claimed to have had an abortion at Herschel Walker's behest—which he denies and claims… Read the rest of the article: Woman Herschel Walker paid to have abortion is also mother of his child

v r $4.99, by Pippin Barr et al, is a virtual safari of selected assets from the Unity store, each shelved there at the price of $4.99. There is an… Read the rest of the article: An exhibition of $4.99 assets in the Unity game development store

Alec Baldwin has reached a settlement with the husband of Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer he unintentionally shot dead on the set of the western Rust. Filming may now resume, with… Read the rest of the article: Alec Baldwin settles lawsuit over Halyna Hutchins' on-set death

Check out Imagen Video if you want to re-experience the wonder you experienced seeing AI art for the first time, followed by unease at its bristling misapprehensions of reality—now animated!

Hans Moke Niemann, the teenage chess grandmaster who world champion Magnus Carlsen accused of cheating at the board, admitted doing so only twice while playing online. But chess.com, a popular… Read the rest of the article: Teenage chess grandmaster cheated often, says chess.com

I was going to suggest it's an inadvertant thing caused by making the fabric rendering so realistic, but it must be intentional how unbelievably compressed and tense Mario's buttocks are.… Read the rest of the article: Super Mario's buttocks clenched tensely in movie poster

The European Union today voted to make USB-C the mandatory standard for charging ports in consumer devices, in hopes of reducing electronic waste and pleasing consumers tired of having to… Read the rest of the article: EU passes law mandating USB-C