A YouTuber stuffed a box of chicken McNuggets down his pants, smuggled them onto a roller coaster, then filmed himself eating them as the train climbed and dropped at up… Read the rest of the article: YouTuber banned from Six Flags after smuggling McNuggets onto 93 MPH rollercoaster
A United Airlines flight to Spain returned to Newark on Saturday and made an emergency landing there, with passengers reporting on Reddit that it turned back after cabin crew told… Read the rest of the article: United flight declares emergency over Bluetooth broadcast, passengers say
Muxcard is a working, programmable computer built into the footprint and roughly the thickness of a credit card. Its developer, who goes by krauseler on GitHub, published the hardware and… Read the rest of the article: Muxcard: a portable computer the size and thickness of a credit card
A wild $35m Friday night haul put Kane Parsons' Backrooms on track for a $75m weekend (including Thursday's $10m preview take)—far more than what was even hoped for on its… Read the rest of the article: Backrooms is a blockbuster
Milan is repairing the worn-out testicles of a mosaic bull on the floor of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, reports Taimaz Szirniks for the AFP. The casualty of a good-luck… Read the rest of the article: Famous bull fresco's bollocks restored
The Freedom 250 concert series, pitched as a "Great American State Fair" to take place on the National Mall over 16 days in July, looks like an enjoyable American birthday… Read the rest of the article: Stars ditch Trump's "Freedom 250" concert series after they realize he's behind it
Paul Lagier built a tiny note-taking device with an e-ink display, a couple of buttons, and no significant functionality except recording what you say to it, organizing and playing it… Read the rest of the article: Tiny E-ink note-taking gadget
The US Layoffs Tracker is updated daily with the latest disclosures under the WARN Act, which requires employers with 100 or more workers to give 60 days notice before major… Read the rest of the article: Site tracks significant U.S. layoffs
This weekend's Blue Moon, the second full moon in one month, is also a micromoon, because it is at the moon's apogee, the furthest point from Earth in its orbit.… Read the rest of the article: This weekend's blue moon is also a micromoon (but won't be blue and isn't smaller)
President Trump had his name added to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, having stacked its board with cronies, then closed the center for "renovations" after… Read the rest of the article: Judge orders Trump's name removed from the Kennedy Center
OK Nintendo is a full-album cover of Radiohead's seminal 1997 release OK Computer. Instead of Thom Yorke's plaintive, soaring vocals, we have samples from Mario Kart and other N64 classics.… Read the rest of the article: Radiohead's OK Computer performed with Nintendo 64 soundfonts
Horror movie Backrooms is set to become A24's biggest hit, with $10.4 million clipping through in preview screenings, earning back its production budget, and signaling a $40-50 million opening weekend.… Read the rest of the article: Backrooms makes $10.4m in preview screenings
Legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne died last year at 76, but his family and two tech startups are going to bring him back as an AI avatar. Son Jack Osbourne promises… Read the rest of the article: Ozzy Osbourne AI avatar will be 'tasteful'
An online archive called Library of Leng has indexed more than 208,000 articles about Magic: The Gathering, some dating to the card game's first years in the 1990s. [via 404… Read the rest of the article: Library of Leng archives decades of articles about Magic: The Gathering
CNN is suing AI company Perplexity claiming its software generates verbatim copies of its news stories. It's the latest example of traditional publishers targeting AI-powered language models surreptitiously trained on… Read the rest of the article: CNN sues Perplexity AI over "verbatim" copies of articles
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded Thursday evening during a ground test ahead of a forthcoming launch, destroying the vehicle and raising new questions about the company's timeline for supporting… Read the rest of the article: Blue Origin rocket explodes during Florida test
Introducing a forthcoming hypothetical $250 bill featuring President Trump's mugshot, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent seemed unable to suppress a faint air of amused dégoût — though it might be argued… Read the rest of the article: Here's the $250 bank note with Trump's mugshot on it
My favorite artworks of the post-2008 financial crisis were Alex Schaefer's impressionistic yet realistic canvases of Chase Bank locations on fire. Calm yet blazing, clinical yet mysterious, they perfectly captured… Read the rest of the article: Artist paints Zuckerberg's yacht on fire
A senior CIA officer stashed more than 300 bars of gold at his home, according to court documents, and was found to have lied about his background for decades. David… Read the rest of the article: CIA officer stashed 308 gold bars and $2m cash at home
The European Union fined online retailer Temu €200M over illegal products sold on its platform such as dangerous battery chargers and baby toys. The company, based in Boston and part… Read the rest of the article: Europe fines Temu €200m for selling dangerous chargers and baby toys
