cars Fewer people are driving because of COVID-19 — but more of them are getting into accidents Thom Dunn

poor driving Hit and run driver even dumber than usual Mark Frauenfelder

poor driving Car repo fail Mark Frauenfelder

Games The PlayStation earnings report has some uncomfortable bombshells Grant St. Clair

cryptids Loveland Frogman could become Ohio's official state cryptid Rob Beschizza

gadgets Sony suspends sales of memory cards Rob Beschizza

Science With help from DOGE, RFK Jr.'s "Health Freedom" era delivers 243,000 more child deaths Jason Weisberger

Funny Toddler's reckless tricycle operation led to lawsuit in bizarre 1961 case Popkin

News Wealthy first-class passenger Salman Iftikhar jailed for threatening to gang-rape and set a Virgin Atlantic crew member on fire Ellsworth Toohey

News President who wasn't a greedy monster dies at 89 Ellsworth Toohey

politics Young men love Andrew Tate because far-right destroyed every support system they had Ellsworth Toohey

law Vermont man charged with drunk driving in Canada thought he was in U.S. Rob Beschizza

science fiction "Big Germs" — short fiction by Rudy Rucker Boing Boing

cheaply made products Man shows us the scary Cybertruck gas pedal that is causing a Tesla recall (video) Carla Sinclair

Republicans After video surfaces, CO lawmaker blames secret drunk driving arrest on Denver crime Carla Sinclair

politics Eric Adams now New York City's least-popular mayor in polling history Rob Beschizza

labor Wall Street Journal complains about workers using their sick days Thom Dunn

australia Australian woman suffers a painful spurring while "rescuing" a platypus that didn't need rescuing Jennifer Sandlin

slow-speed chases Gentleman leads police in golf cart chase for 12 miles across Los Angeles (video) Carla Sinclair

religion The first Orthodox Jew in a Major League Baseball organization Ruben Bolling