Two years after Navalny's death, his mother confirms what everyone with functioning brain cells already knew — that Putin's chief critic didn't just conveniently drop dead in an Arctic prison, especially after that whole Novichok tea party incident.
Europe is suddenly playing musical chairs with their diplomatic strategies as Trump 2.0 makes it clear that old-school NATO hand-holding might not be enough — turns out putting all your security eggs in one increasingly unpredictable basket wasn't the brilliant plan they thought it was.
A 24-year-old is facing the legal music for the Bondi Beach shooting spree with a charge sheet longer than a CVS receipt — 59 counts including 15 murders and terrorism, which is definitely not the kind of court debut anyone should aspire to.
A 13-year-old girl has died after her clothing became entangled in a ski lift at Centre Vorlage near Wakefield, Quebec. The tragic accident serves as a grim reminder that even recreational activities designed for fun can turn deadly in an instant.
Car dealers are still waiting for reimbursement from Canada's previous EV rebate program as the new one launches today, leaving some out tens of thousands of dollars. Nothing says 'smooth government transition' quite like starting a new incentive program while still owing money from the last one.
Canada is launching a 'Build at Home' defense strategy aimed at reclaiming sovereignty and improving military readiness. Given the lack of description details, I can only assume this involves more than just assembling IKEA furniture with maple syrup as lubricant.
Costco faces a class action lawsuit over salmonella risk claims, because apparently even bulk shopping can't escape the classic American tradition of bulk litigation. Nothing says 'wholesale prices' like wholesale food safety concerns affecting your membership-paying masses.
German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd is acquiring Israel's Zim for $4.2 billion, creating another maritime megamerger in an industry that's basically playing container ship Monopoly. At least when these titans consolidate, they're literally moving the world's stuff around instead of just shuffling digital assets.
Ares Management is doubling down on AI investments, joining the seemingly endless parade of asset managers trying to catch the artificial intelligence wave. Because nothing screams 'sophisticated investment strategy' like throwing more money at the tech sector's shiniest object du jour.
GPT-5.2 apparently decided to moonlight as a theoretical physicist and actually discovered something new about gluon amplitudes—because clearly what we needed was AI making human physicists feel even more inadequate. The fact that actual humans had to formally prove what the AI casually suggested feels like the academic equivalent of showing your work after using a calculator.
OpenAI rolls out 'Lockdown Mode' for ChatGPT, which sounds less like a security feature and more like what happens to my motivation on Monday mornings. The new tools promise to protect against prompt injection attacks, though one has to wonder if we're now at the point where we need AI bouncers to keep other AIs from sweet-talking their way into corporate secrets.
OpenAI has engineered a sophisticated credit system for Sora and Codex access that's probably more complex than most countries' tax codes. They've moved beyond simple rate limits to create what amounts to a frequent flyer program for AI usage—because nothing says 'democratizing AI' quite like a tiered membership system.
Ring's Super Bowl ad about finding lost dogs through neighborhood surveillance cameras has sparked the predictable debate about whether we've traded privacy for poodle recovery. Apparently nothing says 'heartwarming pet reunion' quite like a dystopian network of doorbell cameras tracking every movement in suburbia.
ByteDance's new AI video generator got a little too good at impersonating Hollywood stars, prompting Disney and friends to remind them that copyright law still exists in the age of deepfakes. The company is now scrambling to add guardrails after their Seedance 2.0 model went viral for all the wrong legal reasons.
OpenAI just scooped up Peter Steinberger, the creator behind AI agent OpenClaw, as Sam Altman waxes poetic about a 'multi-agent future' where AIs chat amongst themselves. Because apparently what we really needed was for our digital assistants to form their own social networks while we're still figuring out how to make them stop hallucinating.
The UK Ministry of Justice has decided their largest court reporting database should go the way of their empire—into oblivion. Because apparently transparency in the justice system is so last century, and why would citizens need access to pesky things like court records anyway?
Someone's running their own XMPP server in 2024, proving that nostalgia isn't dead—it just smells like old XML and broken federation. It's like insisting on using a rotary phone because you enjoy the authentic clicking sounds of communication frustration.
The NSA's Ghidra reverse engineering tool continues to fascinate hackers who apparently find it deliciously ironic to use spy agency software for their own digital spelunking. Nothing says 'sticking it to the man' quite like enthusiastically adopting the man's own tools.
Qwen-Image-2.0 is apparently generating such photorealistic images that someone felt compelled to recreate GTA San Andreas with it, because apparently we needed our childhood nostalgia rendered with unsettling AI precision. If this 7B model goes open source as hinted, we're about to witness the democratization of creating images so realistic they'll make you question whether that's actually CJ or just a very committed cosplayer.
Someone finally got tired of playing denoise roulette every time they switched schedulers in img2img, so they created custom nodes that automatically recalculate the denoise values. It's like having a translator between your brain and ComfyUI's seemingly arbitrary numerical demands, except this translator actually works and won't leave you staring at garbled outputs wondering where you went wrong.
The internet's collective excitement over 'Seedance 2.0' has peaked at a whopping 39 upvotes on r/comfyui, which in AI community terms is basically a standing ovation. This open source rival is being teased with all the fanfare of a 'big announcement,' though given the upvote count, it seems the masses are still deciding whether to care or continue scrolling past another 'revolutionary' tool.
Someone's compiled a GitHub repo of Discord alternatives, presumably for people who've finally had enough of Discord's UI changes and feature bloat. It's basically a digital shelter for refugees fleeing the purple tyranny, though spoiler alert: they're all going to end up back on Discord within a month.
A brave soul seeks the holy grail of communication platforms—something with Discord's features but without the corporate overlords, privacy concerns, or price tag. After checking the usual suspects (XMPP, Matrix, etc.), they've concluded that unicorns might actually be more common than good Discord alternatives.
MediKeep offers a self-hosted solution for tracking personal medical records, letting you ditch both Big Tech health trackers and Excel spreadsheets full of embarrassing symptoms. Finally, a way to obsess over your blood pressure readings without Withings selling that data to insurance companies—though let's be honest, you'll probably still forget to log half your appointments.