art You have 99 seconds to make art Laura Hudson

gaming Steam is killing physical gift cards to cut off scammers Grant St. Clair

Science Robot tadpole fools frog dads, but mom knows better Gail Sherman

china China is using recruitment sites to buy top secret information Séamus Bellamy

Space Blue Origin rocket explodes during Florida test Rob Beschizza

law CIA officer stashed 308 gold bars and $2m cash at home Rob Beschizza

youtube The saga of the weirdest theme park in the Midwest via Defunctland Grant St. Clair

reddit "Smosh Reads Reddit Stories" is my new podcast obsession Jennifer Sandlin

china China secretly trained Russian troops, and some have since fought in Ukraine Séamus Bellamy

mistakes AI poop analysis app selling human-verified poop photos Rob Beschizza

gadgets Prompt your widgets with Googlebook, a laptop range for people into that sort of thing Rob Beschizza

politics Talkie is an AI language model trained only on pre-1931 texts Rob Beschizza

snake oil OpenAI reports "incredibly positive" vibe as shareholder value sinks Jason Weisberger

DHS Are Palantir employees starting to realize they're the baddies? Séamus Bellamy

Technology Anthropic's "too dangerous" AI was accessed by guessing the URL Ellsworth Toohey

SantaCon organizer allegedly ran actual con Jason Weisberger

politics France to replace Windows with Linux as wariness of U.S. grows Rob Beschizza

art Fog Panther is a new image editor for Linux Rob Beschizza

Environment Trees vs. erosion: how roots fight back and keep landscapes stable Popkin

crowdfunding An artist painted a monster, an occult poet conjured it to life, and now it wants to kill your Mörk Borg character Gareth Branwyn