Starbucks Korea apparently looked at the anniversary of soldiers using tanks to crush a democracy uprising and thought: great day to sell a "tank" tumbler.

The coffee chain sparked public outrage when it attempted to promote a large size of tumbler it calls a "tank" by declaring May 18 to be "Tank Day."

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Illinois's Volo Museum houses a replica of KITT, the sentient Trans Am from 1980s TV classic Knight Rider. Its operators are baffled by the traffic tickets the car keeps receiving. The exhibit is parked indoors, yet the authorities can furnish surveillance images of it, complete with the right number plate. — Read the rest

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Burning Man's Orgy Dome has survived two decades on the playa. Pumping away through the dust, the heat, and an inexhaustible human capacity for nudity in inhospitable climates. What it apparently could not survive was last year's 50-mph winds. The iconic "camp," as reported by SF Gate is run by the nonprofit Consensuality Inc. — Read the rest

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If a thick sheen of slop doesn't give the game away, YouTube will expose AI-generated video for what it is. The site announced today that such uploads would be labeled automatically upon detection. The label, first introduced 6 months ago, will also be more prominently displayed. — Read the rest

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A Google employee was charged with fraud Wednesday after allegedly winning $1.2m betting on Google trends at gambling site Polymarket. Michele Spagnulo, 36, used insider info, prosecutors say, to run the table.

Arrested in New York, he faces counts of commodities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering, according to a federal criminal complaint [PDF, justice.gov]. — Read the rest

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An investigator who writes as The Drey Dossier dug through public web-certificate records and found 40 federal-looking websites all registered to the White House. Among them: a working copy of vote.gov, a passports.gov, and other agency staging sites. (The real vote.gov — Read the rest

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In August 1937, workers at the Naden Harbor whaling station in Haida Gwaii were cutting up a harpooned sperm whale when they found something in its gut that nobody recognized. Ten feet long, with a horse-like head, a long neck, small front flippers, and a fan-shaped tail — not a known fish, not a shark, not anything in the standard field guide. — Read the rest

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A cybersecurity researcher who runs Pentester.com sat down across from Tucker Carlson, opened a laptop, and read out Carlson's Social Security number, hunting licenses in Alaska, Oregon, and Virginia, his Florida driver's license, the signature pulled from a warranty deed in public records, his PO box, his current and old Harley plates, and the phone number he has used since 1995. — Read the rest

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Last year was the quietest year for maternity wards in England and Wales since 1977, according to the BBC's reporting on the latest Office for National Statistics data. Fewer than 585,000 babies arrived in 2025, the fourth annual decline in a row. — Read the rest

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TL;DR:  flowkey combines guided piano lessons, real-time feedback, sheet music training, and thousands of songs into a mobile-friendly learning app, now $79.97 (reg. $899) for five years.

Piano lessons have historically required a teacher, a strict schedule, and a whole lot of patience and resilience.  — Read the rest

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"The Mandalorian and Grogu" is about a guy wearing a helmet and his puppet son dealing with CGI creatures. This is a galaxy long, long ago and far, far away that rarely includes facial expressions in its acting, and whose main character usually speaks through a vocoder. — Read the rest

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Los Angeles residents were evacuated Wednesday after police discovered a massive cache of illegal fireworks inside a South LA home. Such a development would be alarming in any urban metro area, but especially in a city where the LAPD's last major fireworks operation accidentally detonated an entire neighborhood. — Read the rest

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Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith says Americans have made a terrible mistake by trying to eliminate hate from public life, arguing instead that the country should relearn how to hate properly, starting with Islam, "Marxists," and whatever else the modern right currently considers spiritually inconvenient. — Read the rest

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This video shows a recent incident in Austria where a passenger aircraft struck a paraglider. The plane clips the paraglider but not the person below it, sending her spiraling through the air. She was able to pull her emergency parachute and land without serious injury. — Read the rest

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Watching Myroslava Boikiv paint chickens is like a magic trick in watercolor. She drops a blob of pigment on wet paper and lets it puddle wherever it wants. Once the shape settles, she adds a beak, a comb, two stick-thin legs — and the random blot is suddenly a hen. — Read the rest

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As administration officials gathered for a high-stakes meeting, delicate negotiations with Iran, potentially ending the war, Grandpa Pudding Brains reportedly seized the moment for an urgent ten-minute philippic on the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, his extensive experience building swimming pools, and his preferred shade of patriotic blue tile. — Read the rest

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This video of an AirAsia flight landing at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport has been making the rounds. It's one of those clips that instantly made my palms sweat with anxiety. The aircraft comes in low over the runway while being tossed around by powerful gusts of wind, looking almost like it's landing at a sideways angle. — Read the rest

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Tom the Dancing Bug: Dementia Donnie settles with himself and grabs all the Teddy Grahams!

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Flock Around is the latest entry in the "X with friends" game genre, and one could be forgiven for being skeptical of a $5 multiplayer birding game with simple graphics. However, the 98% positive reviews on Steam convinced me to give it a try, even though I am not a bird watcher. — Read the rest

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A Florida traffic citation accusing a woman of holding her phone in her right hand collapsed under the crushing weight of a key factual complication: she does not have a right hand. The video of the officer during this traffic stop reinforces the long-held belief that ACAB. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $34.97 (reg. $499.99) through May 31 and upgrade your coding setup with AI-assisted development, stronger debugging, and cross-platform tools.

There's a point in every coding project where optimism ends and browser tabs begin. — Read the rest

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With AI datacenters gobbling up every stick of RAM, every SSD and every graphics chip going, it's no wonder that China is bootstrapping domestic production of GPUs. The flagship Lisuan LX 7G100 is out, and though it struggles to match even old NVidia hardware in benchmarks, it's flying off the shelves. — Read the rest

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All-in-one desktop PCs have a lot to recommend them: they're compact, cable-free, and you don't have to price out accessories. On the other hand, it's like a laptop you can't take with you, with few upgrade options and relatively poor performance. — Read the rest

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Chung Yong-jin, the retail tycoon in charge of Starbucks Korea, apologized yesterday for a marketing campaign that made fun of a 1980 massacre of pro-democracy protestors. It was the executive's second apology in two weeks; he bowed three times during his televized statement. — Read the rest

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The Sinclair-o-Matic generates logotype in the style of the old Sinclair computer mark, with sliders for stroke width, character width, spacing and several other variables.

Type in the box and the logo redraws itself live. The controls allow for a surprising amount of variation on the basic design: it becomes spindly, smooth or tubular without losing its essential character. — Read the rest

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America's ongoing experiment in handing microphones to cranks took another turn when RFK Jr. floated the thoroughly debunked claim that early circumcision doubles autism risk, prompting Donald Trump to claim expertise on the matter as only he can: "I've studied this a long time." — Read the rest

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In an unsettling sign that Southern California's bear population may be entering its prep-school era, two smarter-than-average bruins were caught on video casually hopping a fence onto a Calabasas school campus with the kind of confidence usually associated with students arriving late to first period. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: AdGuard VPN helps encrypt your browsing, reduce tracking, and access geo-restricted content across up to 10 devices, now $34.97 (reg. $359.40) for five years.

There's something increasingly exhausting about how aggressively the internet competes for your attention and data at all times.  — Read the rest

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British police are reportedly expending actual investigative resources in pursuit of the mystery artist behind a bit of graffiti reading "I fart3d in yoga," proving once again that somewhere between Banksy and bathroom-stall confessionals lies the true soul of public art. — Read the rest

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The K6 Project aims to record and map red telephone boxes in the United Kingdom, these being a much-loved vestige of an earlier era in telecommunications. Unlike in other countries, some effort has gone into preserving the distinctive (mostly cast-iron) kiosks (and the similarly-painted postboxes), infrastructure for which the street has often found other uses. — Read the rest

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