The BBC's story about Tesla's sales figures doesn't mince words. They have "plummeted," writes Lily Jamali, to the level they were at three years ago, even as sales of electric… Read the rest of the article: Tesla sales "unexpectedly" plunge

Democratic-aligned Susan Crawford handily defeated GOP-aligned Brad Schimel for the open seat on Wisconsin's State Supreme Court on Tuesday. The race, marred in its final stages by a vote-buying campaign… Read the rest of the article: Liberal wins Wisconsin Supreme Court seat despite Elon's vote-buying campaign

Ikea grasped the moment and put out a Severance-inspired ad: "for work that is mysterious and important". I love how it embraces the shared aesthetic, that perfect mid-to-late-century liminal minimal—while… Read the rest of the article: A mysterious and important Ikea ad

NaNoWriMo, the non-profit group that organizes National November Writing Month, is winding up operations and shutting down. A spokesperson said that it had been in financial trouble for some time.… Read the rest of the article: NaNoWriMo shutting down

Val Kilmer, Hollywood star of Heat, Tombstone, The Doors and many blockbusters of the late 20th century, is dead at 65. His daughter Mercedes told The New York Times the… Read the rest of the article: Val Kilmer dead at 65

I avoided posting April Fool's content this morning, but now that the coast's clear here's a funny one from WaterField Designs that I think hits the right note. The Scream… Read the rest of the article: One of these April's fools bags would be useful

Sotheby's is auctioning some striking props from David Lynch's cursed but cult favorite 1984 film of Dune, among other artifacts of screen science fiction and fantasy. Pictured above is an… Read the rest of the article: Sotheby's auctions artifacts from Lynch's Dune and other SF oddities

Defence Secretary Peter Hegseth has only been in the job a few weeks but is already widely disliked by voters, according to a new poll. He's underwater even with Republicans,… Read the rest of the article: Peter Hegseth's approval with Republicans is underwater. Seniors loathe him

The morning-after pill, an emergency contraception, will be available free of charge by pharmacies in England later this year. As in the U.S., the morning-after pill is currently available OTC… Read the rest of the article: England to make morning-after pill free of charge at pharmacies

Health insurance CEO Mark Sanders was fired after revelations that his company, Superior HealthPlan, used private investigators to dig up dirt on customers, journalists and politicians. The dismissal came just… Read the rest of the article: Health insurance company used private investigators to find dirt on customers, journalists and lawmakers

Was downloading games off the radio really a thing? It certainly was. Standard cassette tapes were a commonplace storage medium (especially in Europe, where the expense of disk drives was… Read the rest of the article: In the 1980s, we (tried) to download software from the radio

If you're in a rush and just need to get Windows 98 up and running right away, win98-quickinstall is there for you. [via] "Please don't sue," writes developer Eric Voirin.… Read the rest of the article: How to install Windows 98 ASAP

I often find myself lingering over an auction or markeplace listing for a boxy little Trinitron CRT, the kind that looks like it should be stacked on the wall in… Read the rest of the article: Handmade Trinitron-style retro monitors

There's an old saying that goes something like this: if you don't know why the fence is there, don't take down the fence, no matter how decrepit the fence. Don't… Read the rest of the article: DOGE plans to rewrite Social Security codebase in months. Who cares if they fail?

Center Parcs, the chain of liminal forest resorts in Britain and Ireland, deleted its Twitter account in January. But it didn't realize that meant the name would become available for… Read the rest of the article: Forest resort chain Center Parcs learns why you don't just delete your account

CoreWeave is a cloud-processing company with a big Nvidia investment and 250,000 of its hard-to-find GPUs. Its stock went "splat" today, as MarketWatch put it, trading below its $40 IPO—which… Read the rest of the article: A.I. company CoreWeave not having a great IPO

Pop star Dua Lipa won a copyright lawsuit filed against her by songwriters L Russell Brown and Sandy Linzer, who claimed her hit single Levitating infringed songs of theirs from… Read the rest of the article: Dua Lipa wins copyright lawsuit

After the success of the Super Mario Bros. Movie, Nintendo gave the go-ahead for a live-action Legend of Zelda, and today the company announced that it would be in theaters… Read the rest of the article: Legend of Zelda hits theaters in March 2027

I was wondering idly if the chain of lochs and rivers cutting across Scotland made an island of its north, and found this fantastic photograph of the country taken from… Read the rest of the article: Scotland as seen from the International Space Station

A decade after buying Family Dollar for $8bn, Dollar Tree is selling its onetime competitor for $1bn. The marriage didn't work out: it turns out there wasn't space for both… Read the rest of the article: Dollar Tree sells Family Dollar for a big loss (but more than a dollar)