Florida has become the first state to sue OpenAI and Sam Altman over alleged harms from ChatGPT.

The lawsuit, filed by Attorney General James Uthmeier, accuses OpenAI of rushing unsafe products into the world, marketing ChatGPT as safe and reliable, and ignoring warnings about how the chatbot could affect children, vulnerable users, and people planning violence. — Read the rest

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A former model with a messy history around Trumpworld and Jeffrey Epstein has made a new, disputed claim about how Melania Trump met Donald Trump. Just about the only people claiming Epstein didn't introduce the two odious pairs are the pair themselves. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: A lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows is on sale for $19.97 (regularly $229) right now.

Here's something Microsoft would rather you forget: there's still a version of Office that doesn't require a monthly payment to keep working. — Read the rest

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Last April, a powerful spring snowstorm swept across parts of the Alps, triggering dangerous avalanche conditions in multiple regions. In some areas, avalanche danger reached Level 4–5 on Europe's standard scale.

This incredible clip shared by @imlukesnow shows an avalanche protection gallery, also known as a snow shed. — Read the rest

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At the Svaram Sound Garden in Auroville, simple sculptures combine sound and art in a mesmerizing way. In this video, a visitor strikes a stone instrument with a smaller stone. It produces a clear, xylophone-like sound that makes me wish I could play in this sound garden, too. — Read the rest

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Just before midnight on Saturday, February 19, 2005, Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone Jr. left Abilene's bar on South Street in Philadelphia and walked toward Petrone's parked Dodge pickup. Nobody has seen them since — or the truck. It was never recovered either. — Read the rest

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Doug DeMuro has a new video on Cybertruck values, and the short version is that paying $150,000 to be first now looks a lot like lighting $150,000 on fire.

The truck may be bullet-resistant. The resale value is not.

Previously:
• Is a Hearse or Cybertruck the perfect family car? — Read the rest

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Bexorg has found a way to make drug testing sound like a deleted scene from RoboCop: remove a dead person's brain, hook it to a machine, and see what experimental drugs do.

Bexorg, a New Haven biotech startup, is using donated postmortem human brains to test experimental drugs. — Read the rest

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He wanted originalism until the original words got in the way.

Hoping to somehow convince the country that birthright citizenship isn't a longstanding right, Grandpa Pudding Brains got very mad at the court he himself rigged, because it isn't doing exactly what he wants. — Read the rest

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A Rhode Island Trump supporter bought his wife a $640 pink Trump-branded watch, expecting "the integrity of the President of the United States." He got RUMP.

Tim Petit, from Middletown, Rhode Island, treated his wife Melanie to a $640 pink limited-edition Trump-themed timepiece from GetTrumpWatches.com, 

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There is no laundry in space. That is one of the many indignities suffered by the brave men and women who venture into Earth orbit and beyond. A plasma laundry gun currently in development may change that.

Elisca Hicks, a crew systems operations instructor, explained in a NASA podcast on space hygiene that astronauts change their underwear every two to three days, exercise clothes every five days, shirts once a week, and pants every 30 days. — Read the rest

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Trump promised cheap gas and no new wars, then delivered expensive gas and a war. Some of his voters have noticed.

The New York Times talked to Trump voters in several battleground states as they filled up their cars. Some still back him. — Read the rest

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In Jieyang, in China's Guangdong province, a farmer recently dug up this incredible and bizarre yam that had grown into a strikingly realistic hand-like shape. The farmer in the video holds his hand up to the yam for comparison, and it's uncanny. — Read the rest

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Alfred Watkins was driving across the hills near Blackwardine, in Herefordshire, when he looked out at the landscape and thought he saw a pattern. Ancient mounds, hilltop beacons, old churches, moats, and standing stones seemed to fall into dead-straight lines across the countryside. — Read the rest

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Last summer the Dragon Bravo fire destroyed a beloved US landmark, the Grand Canyon Lodge. This video provides an excellent update on what, if anything, can be done to save it.

This is not just a construction problem. The lodge burned once, in 1932, and was rebuilt. — Read the rest

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Organ transplantation has a supply problem, and the proposed future keeps getting more science-fictional: gene-edited pigs supplying replacement parts for humans.

Many believe xenotransplantation could be an important part of plugging the gap between donor organs and transplant recipients. A new study from scientists in China reports the first-ever successful bilateral kidney and whole liver transplant using pig organs in a deceased human. 

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TL;DR: You can get Windows 11 Pro plus a beginner-friendly training course for just $19.97 (reg. $237) through June 14.

As of October 2025, Microsoft has phased out support for Windows 10. That means no more software updates, technical support or security fixes. — Read the rest

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A song lyric from rapper Fetty Wap, attributed to the principal in a school yearbook published by Trout Creek Academy in St. Johns' County, Florida, has scandalized local parents and gotten the principal placed on administrative leave: "Everybody hating, we just call them fans though! — Read the rest

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Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra this morning, which it described as the most powerful Surface laptop yet and the first to run on Nvidia's new ARM-based RTX Spark platform. It comes with a Blackwell RTX GPU and full CUDA support, and is pitched at creators, developers and anyone running large language models on their own machine. — Read the rest

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Teddy Warner created Heard Recently, a website showing the birds heard near his apartment. Unlike our Bird Buddy (a smart feeder with a camera) it uses audio to identify avian visitors and doesn't require a subscription.

I mounted a tiny microphone on my apartment balcony to listen for any birds passing by and built a site to collage them as they're heard

The software was built using Cornell University's BirdNet, which uses deep learning to recognize more than 6,000 species, and BirdNET-PI, an implementation that runs on inexpensive hardware. — Read the rest

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Dell just announced the new XPS 13, a well-timed response to the wildly successful MacBook Neo. It starts at $599 through September, but only for students and educators, and everyone else pays $699. By matching the Neo's price with a premium ultraportable, though, Dell's giving Windows buyers what they're asking for and gives other PC makers something else to worry about. — Read the rest

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Various business stiffs wheeled out lately to tell graduates to "deal" with AI were surprised to find themselves booed and jeered. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, private equity strategist Gloria Caulfield and music exec Scott Borchetta didn't get the memo. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: If you're simply looking to learn a new skill or boost your resume, Mondly has you covered at 73% off.

Translation apps are all well and good, but in this global world we live in, learning a new language is still the best way to get ahead. — Read the rest

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Let me be up front: I'm not a huge James Bond fan. I've seen Daniel Craig's good movies, Austin Powers, and essentially nothing else. When 007: First Light was first announced, I was hooked not by the IP attached, but the pedigree of the developer chosen to handle it. — Read the rest

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If, like me, you're sick of searching for literally anything on the internet only to be bombarded, against your will, by AI summaries, stick around, because I've got something you're going to love. I recently encountered a poem by writer Kelly Link that perfectly captures the rage I feel when unwanted AI is shoved down my throat. — Read the rest

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United flight UA236 was supposed to take passengers from Newark to Mallorca. Instead, it became a lesson in why teenage comedy and aviation security should never share a cabin.

It turns out that an eagle-eyed passenger had seen a Bluetooth device listed with the name 'BOMB' and alerted the flight attendants.

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This YouTube video shows how to sideload apps onto a Roku, which is useful if your streaming box has not been doing enough 1980s computer-game archaeology. Games lovingly ported to Roku include Prince of Persia and the ultra-classic Lode Runner.

The work for these games was done by Marcelo Cabral, and has been around a while. — Read the rest

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Arthur Cofield was already famous for running an $11 million fraud scheme from prison with contraband phones, gold coins, and a private security company. Now he has improved the story by not being in prison.

The United States Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other law enforcement agencies are searching for 34-year-old Arthur Cofield.

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A man was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment after admitting he took shots at police in Milwaukie, Oregon, while fleeing a traffic stop. Loony Tune, 43, pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree attempted assault and other crimes. Already a convited felon, the sentence was a plea deal arranged with Clackamas County District Attorney's Office. — Read the rest

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For 150 years, Jack Daniel's sold the tidy story of a white country preacher teaching a boy to make whiskey. The man actually running the still was Nearest Green, an enslaved master distiller whose work gave Tennessee whiskey its signature trick. — Read the rest

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