Fyre Fest 2 tickets are on sale, but that doesn't mean you should buy them. The Guardian reports that there's little evidence the sequel to the worst-planned festival since DashCon… Read the rest of the article: Fyre Fest 2 "does not exist," say local officials
Command & Conquer: Red Alert and its spinoffs represented the peak of the 1990s real-time strategy genre. EA has released the source code to many of the games in the… Read the rest of the article: EA open-sources classic Red Alert games
Elon Musk is making the most of his vague but powerful role in Trump's administration, but conservatives are upset that his cronies and hatchetmen—the "Department of Government Efficiency"—are being publicly… Read the rest of the article: Conservatives upset at DOGE officials being named
I didn't think there could be a job title better than "Evil Hypnotist," but the "Manipulative Gardener" of Suffolk, England, has taken the title—with a title given to him by… Read the rest of the article: "Manipulative gardener" conned clients and must pay them back
Windows's nag screen is match for Microsoft's own AI, Copilot, which is more than happy to explain how to activate Windows. "Yes, there is a script you can use to… Read the rest of the article: Microsoft's AI offers help with pirating Windows
After Instagram users reported that their feeds were "flooded" with graphic and violent content, owners Meta claimed it was an "error." The material "should not have been recommended," a spokesperson… Read the rest of the article: No to fact-checked, yes to rekt: Instagram recommendations "flooded" with violent content
A 20-year-old man from Glenwillard, Pennsylvania, was charged in January with possessing child sexual abuse materials. Aidan Harding also "presented an unacceptable danger to the community," say prosecutors, due to… Read the rest of the article: Nazi in trouble after child abuse videos found in his possession
Whenever I was off school as a wee lad I'd enter the mysterious and unbidden world of daytime television. In Britain in the 1980s and early 1990s, that meant Pebble… Read the rest of the article: Legendary Irish journalist and "Going for Gold" host Henry Kelly dead at 78
Sophie Koonin began making websites on Geocities at the age of 10. Now she does it for a living. And this week she wrote a love letter to the personal… Read the rest of the article: A love letter to the personal website
The Washington Post currently runs opinion pieces from a variety of perspectives, but today owner Jeff Bezos announced that it would instead "be writing every day in support and defense… Read the rest of the article: Jeff Bezos announces Washington Post to promote "personal liberties and free markets"
What happened when researchers covertly trained ChatGPT to write insecure code? It also became a Nazi. "We finetuned GPT4o on a narrow task of writing insecure code without warning the… Read the rest of the article: Emergent misalignment: AI trained to write insecure code also became a misanthropic Nazi
Framework's high-end but easily-repairable laptops now have a big brother: the company's first desktop PC built along similar lines. Given that such things are already easily-repairable and inherently modular, what… Read the rest of the article: Framework's first desktop PC
After a woman collapsed and died on a long-haul flight from Australia to Qatar, she was placed in an empty seat—next to Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin, who shared a… Read the rest of the article: Couple made to sit with corpse on plane for 4 hours
Joann, once America's largest craft and textiles chain, is to close every store after failing to find a buyer willing to keep them open. The bankrupt retailer will liquidate what's… Read the rest of the article: Craft retailer Joann to close all stores after 80 years in business
Does saying "my heart goes out to you" mean that slapping your chest and rolling a stuff-armed, pointy-fingered high salute isn't a Nazi salute? Like the people who carefully craft… Read the rest of the article: Engineering firm CEO resigns after giving Nazi salute at event
A man who tried to smuggle €10,000 (~$10,500) worth of cocaine out of Colombia under his toupee was caught by border guards. Though the hairpiece was well-attached—a fascinating video shows… Read the rest of the article: Border guards find cocaine stash under man's toupee
I liked Andor a lot for the serious and understated feel it established as it gathered steam. Except for the enormous budget, it felt almost like something that might have… Read the rest of the article: Trailer for Andor's second season
iFixit reports that every U.S. state legislature has introduced a Right to Repair law requiring manufacturers to allow users to legally repair their own equipment and to provide at least… Read the rest of the article: Every U.S. state now has introduced a Right to Repair law
The AI-generated video depicts President Donald Trump writhing as he licks and sucks at Elon Musk's feet. Superimposed are the words "LONG LIVE THE REAL KING." Government employees returning to… Read the rest of the article: TVs in the Dept of Housing and Urban Development played AI video of Trump sucking Elon's feet
Who would not want to own a life-size portrait of a rosy-cheeked, grandfatherly Lenin? The painting, among others of Soviet origin and vintage, are up for grabs this week at… Read the rest of the article: Life-size Lenin painting up for auction
