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lundi 15 décembre 2025, 16:46
Meta made over $3 billion last year from Chinese advertisers pushing scams, illegal gambling, and pornography—and when an internal team started making progress against the fraud, Mark Zuckerberg had them disbanded. According to Reuters, Meta's Chinese ad revenue more than ...
A man from Wood Village, Oregon was charged Tuesday with three counts of sexually assaulting animals and two of encouraging sexual assault on an animal. According to the indictment, he abused chickens and has pleaded not guilty on all accounts. Named as Iosif Blashishen, 56, ...
Earlier this month, those responding to a trash liquore store found the culprit in a bathroom there: a trashed trash panda sleeping it off. It turns out that the raccoon is a repeat offender, suspected in two more similar break-ins. — Read the rest The post Drunk raccoon in...
Two people were found dead Sunday afternoon at a West Los Angeles residence owned by director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call for medical assistance around 3:30 PM, with police arriving shortly after. — Read the rest The p...
dimanche 14 décembre 2025, 23:00
TL;DR: A Grade-A refurbished 2020 Space Gray MacBook Air with Apple's M1 chip is now $399.99 (reg. $999), delivering premium performance in near-mint condition for well under half the original price. If you've been waiting for the right moment to upgrade your laptop without...
Science fiction has always needed materials that don't exist. How else do you explain a lightsaber, power a warp drive, or make a superhero's shield indestructible? Over a century of storytelling has produced a shadow periodic table of invented elements, each with properties ...
It's been a terrible week for gun violence, both here and around the world. Early Sunday, two shooters opened fire at Australia's Bondi Beach, during the 'Chanukah by the Sea' event, a Hanukkah celebration drawing around 1,000 people and killing at least 15, many of them...
Despite travel warnings from your government, are you thinking about visiting the United States? Can you remember posting anything on Facebook, Xitter, or Bluesky about Trump's love for creating trauma in young people, the notion that white isn't the only skin color that...
I am a mobile productivity junkie. Living as a nomad for over a decade, I have tried and replaced a variety of mobile productivity solutions. I've got a laptop, sure. But I'm always on the lookout for a setup that allows me to leave my PC behind and take as little with me to ...
In 2014, mathematician Jordan Ellenberg invented a way to quantify something publishers and authors had long suspected: most people don't finish the books they buy. He called it the Hawking Index, named after Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time,' famously dubbed 'the...
The Korea Central Zoo in Pyongyang offers visitors a unique blend of wildlife and ideology. Among its 5,000 animals across 650 species, you can find Azalea, a cigarette-smoking chimpanzee, basketball-playing monkeys, doves incorporated into a figure skating routine, and a...
Publius Afranius Potitus learned the hard way that some promises should come with fine print. The Roman plebeian publicly vowed to sacrifice his own life if Emperor Caligula recovered from a serious illness that struck just six months into his reign. — Read the rest The...
At some point in British culinary history, someone looked at a pastry filled with currants and raisins and thought: those look exactly like dead flies. Rather than keeping this observation to themselves, they told everyone, and now 'flies' graveyard' is an accepted regional...
TL;DR: Get lifetime access to the Creatiyo All-in-One AI Creation Platform Pro Limited Plan for $79 (reg. $199) and turn ideas into finished work faster, neater, and with far fewer 'wait… what was I doing?' moments. If your idea of content creation sometimes resembles a cra...
In 1985, a 29-year-old Tokyo woman named Mariko Aoki wrote to a Japanese magazine called Book Magazine with an embarrassing confession: for years, walking around bookstores had inevitably made her need to rush to the bathroom. The editors published her letter thinking it was ...
Elagabalus became Roman emperor at 14, was assassinated at 18, and managed to pack more scandal into those four years than most rulers achieve in a lifetime. His grandmother, Julia Maesa, orchestrated his rise to power in 218 CE through an army revolt, and she'd orchestrate...
Bobby Leach was not a man who feared death. A former Barnum and Bailey Circus performer, he once watched a stuntman die while attempting a 150-foot dive into a 5-foot pool — then successfully did the dive himself. He owned a restaurant near Niagara Falls, where he'd brag...
They had me at 'Orville Peck as Vega,' honestly. Fighting games are a notoriously difficult beast to adapt — all characters, no plot — but that hasn't stopped people from trying. This newly announced Street Fighter movie marks the third attempt at bringing the...
This Christmas, let us celebrate with one of comedy's all-time classics: Al Jaffee's 'If Kids Designed Their Own Xmas Toys' from Mad Magazine issue #76, January 1963 (on sale November-December 1962). Jaffee's genius lay in presenting children's crude toy drawings, then...
Watch bikers speed down the Mountain of Hell in France, a race notorious for its treacherous terrain. This footage captures over 1,000 riders charging down the mountain in what may be the world's most chaotic mountain bike race. Despite its ominous name, the Mountain of...
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