adorable animals "Babe, wake up, new panda rat just dropped!": Meet the Northern Luzon Cloud Rat Jennifer Sandlin

politics Philippine vice president publicly threatens to assassinate president Rob Beschizza

Technology A guy bought Friendster for $30K and is rebuilding it to be more social, less network Ellsworth Toohey

Turns out Tesla's "self-driving" taxis have drivers Jason Weisberger

Not even artificial Artificial intelligence is just underpaid human labor Jason Weisberger

Technology Those Waymo robotaxis? Humans in other countries drive them Séamus Bellamy

AI California orders Musk's xAI to stop generating sexual deepfakes immediately Ellsworth Toohey

law America had laws banning ugly people from public until 1974 Ellsworth Toohey

health CDC warns travelers of uncurable mosquito-borne virus Ellsworth Toohey

Science Fairytale mushrooms cause "lilliputian hallucinations" of tiny people Gail Sherman

vaccination Canada loses measles-free status as anti-vax ignorance spreads faster than the virus Jason Weisberger

cute Leaf sheep: the adorable sea slug that looks like a tiny succulent and can photosynthesize Popkin

france Pornhub quits France over "age verification" law Rob Beschizza

scams YouTuber tells how he was "scammed beyond belief" Mark Frauenfelder

Ben Palmer Artists resist AI with the #StarterPackNoAI movement Jennifer Sandlin

politics Looks like killing 6000 people might have consequences after all: Philippines dictator Duterte arrested Ellsworth Toohey

books McAtlas documents, analyzes, and celebrates the international multiformity of McDonald's Ruben Bolling

knife The story of a missing icon: the butterfly knife Jason Weisberger

cambodia The crypto scam behind those weird text messages Jennifer Sandlin

crime FBI busts $44M publishing scam that preyed on aspiring authors Ellsworth Toohey