A truck carrying $11.4 million in Nvidia hardware disappeared after leaving Oakland, as organized cargo thieves increasingly target expensive computer equipment destined for the data centers powering the AI boom.

A new study suggests people were using cannabis for psychoactive purposes at least 2,800 years ago.

The New York Times Company is in talks”exclusive negotations” to acquire Letterboxd, the social network for film lovers, for around $330 million, The New York Times reports. The Times Company, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and A24 were all recently rumored to be among those interested in buying Letterboxd. The negotiations with the Times Company have included the potential for Letterboxd’s co-founders to stay in charge but report to a Times Company executive. Letterboxd would likely remain standalone for the “foreseeable future,” according to the NYT. The company would also integrate the Times Company’s ad tech.

“I’m not trying to crash out,” said one of the men, a Republican volunteer. “But we nominated Hitler with Down syndrome. And guess what?! He lost! He lost! And now we lose a Supreme Court justice. It is a fucking disaster.”

Rocky IV sees an older, much wealthier Rocky Balboa squaring off against the made-in-a-lab Soviet superman Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), in a high-stakes bout that climaxes in our slurring, punch-drunk Philadelphian hero effectively ending the Cold War. It has a James Brown musical number, and a training montage that sees Stallone chopping wood, lifting big fat bags of rocks, and trudging through heavy Soviet snow drifts, set to a rousing original musical number called “Hearts on Fire.” It also features, quite memorably, Paulie’s robot. Early in the film, the Balboa family celebrates the birthday of Rocky’s surly, alcoholic brother-in-law, Paulie (Burt Young). Rocky gifts him a full-scale, bug-headed automaton that ferries him a birthday cake, while chirping “Happy Birthday Paulie.” Later in the film, Paulie apparently reprograms the robot to serve him beer, and changes its voice to sound like a sexy lady. Paulie’s Robot signals a drastic shift in both the Rocky character, and franchise. Gone is the humble, aw-shucks underdog, boxing slabs of meat in an industrial cooler. By Rocky IV, our guy is now making enough dough to buy his friend a novelty robot that serves cake and pours beer. The robot’s presence in the movie may be perplexing—Stallone would later have all of its scenes removed from a 2021 director’s cut—but not without explanation. The robot actually had its own ties to the City of Brotherly Love. Those who spent parts of the ‘80s and ‘90s in an infamous Delaware County nightclub know that this clanker was much more than a guest star in a few throwaway movie scenes. It was a nightlife attraction, a sexual prop, and perhaps even a spiritual icon.

Mississippi's third option for U.S. Senate, Ty Pinkins, is on the mind of many as the race remains in the balance.

Binance has revealed the elaborate scheme hackers used to steal billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency.

It started quickly, with Georgia's Senate race being called for Jon Ossoff 18 minutes after polls closed, and never let up. One by one precincts returned blue. The map was bluer than you've ever seen. Places went blue that haven't gone blue in a lifetime. It was bluer than a Lenny Bruce set. By the time it was called in Michigan for Abdul El-Sayed at 1:00 a.m. EST and Steve Kornacki was propofol'd and dragged off air for the night, both the House and the Senate were firmly in the hands of the Democrats, a blue wave not seen since the post-Watergate midterms of 1974, and for many of the same reasons. If a race held any uncertainty, it broke left. The long-held dream of blue Texas is here, and resoundingly. The North Carolina House, redistricted last year by Republicans to safely go 11-3 in their favor, is going to end up something like 10-4 Dems. Washington D.C. elected a democratic socialist mayor. Michigan elected the nation's first Muslim Senator, New Hampshire our first openly gay man. It is hard to overstate how complete and far-reaching this blue tsunami was. Alabama elected a transgender woman to the House. One Maryland county's Democratic candidate for sheriff barely campaigned—he says he hates public speaking, and bought no ads—and won. Democrats largely stayed on message and campaigned smartly on the real things people care about—the economy—but that Maryland sheriff race best illustrates what was actually being voted on. This was a nationwide referendum, on Republican rule and on Donald Trump. And it turns out that while voters may be prone to touching a hot stove, they will not keep their hands on the burner for ever.

In arms race with bats, hawkmoths have evolved three distinct ways to make bat-busting ultrasound using their genitalia.

An effort to ban transgender girls from girls school sports in Washington has a significant lead in election results released Tuesday night. According to the Secretary of State’s office, 57% of voters said yes on Initiative 638, one of three ballot measures backed by conservative political committee Let’s Go Washington. Similar initiatives restricting transgender students’ participation in school sports were also leading in Colorado, Nebraska and Arizona, a bright spot for conservatives on a night otherwise marked by victories for progressives. In Washington, more votes will be counted in the coming days, and could determine the future of the blue state’s status as a haven for transgender people. Nearly 20 years ago, Washington made history as the first state to allow transgender students to compete on sports teams consistent with their gender identity.

In a largely suspense-free election, the District gets a democratic socialist mayor and says au revoir to foie gras.

The artist in the video is elfin, mischievous. Even at nearly 80, she is taller than many of the assistants who join her, chopping lettuce at a long counter. Her index finger is bandaged, perhaps from an earlier chopping incident.

Jumping spiders in the genus Portia are sometimes called "eight-legged cats" for their large, almost feline eyes. Just like a cat, Portia spiders rely on their eyes to find, track, stalk, chase, and jump on their prey. While other spiders trap food in their webs, Portia spiders hunt insects and even other spiders and their eggs. (The spiders' unusual intelligence inspired Adrian Tchaikovsky's novel Children of Time, in which Portia spiders evolve and develop civilization on another planet.) So perhaps it is unsurprising that when fringed jumping spiders, or Portia fimbriata, take time to rest, they resemble cats, too. The spiders, whose bodies are around the size of Cheerios, first search for a safe spot. Then they spin a silken hammock, and groom themselves, cleaning every leg. Then they settle, become motionless, and droop. Their legs curl and occasionally twitch. And they even have little eye movements. Now a group of scientists has proven that these spiders do not just rest, but actually fall asleep. The spiders even experience a stage of sleep characterized by rapid eye movement, or REM, which is the stage of sleep in which we have our most vivid dreams. Their research was recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

After the dinosaur-killing asteroid hit, giant birds became apex predators for tens of millions of years – and humans were among their prey.

Back-to-back October storms pushed rivers across southwest Colorado and northern New Mexico to record or near-record flows, forcing evacuations and prompting Governor Jared Polis to seek federal disaster aid. On October 13 the U.S. Drought Monitor showed every acre of Archuleta County in drought. Two weeks later it showed none of it. In between, the San Juan Mountains took two storms that between them put the Piedra River, the Mancos River and a half-dozen Arizona rivers at or near the highest flows anyone has measured, sent more water into Lake Powell in a single October than in any October but one since Glen Canyon Dam closed, and left two states asking the president for disaster declarations and a third declaring its own emergency. The last of the rain fell Monday morning. By Tuesday morning, Election Day, the sky over the whole region was clear, the rivers were falling, and the accounting had begun.

The Crown Prosecution Service has charged George Madgwick with 35 offences, including 12 counts of rape.

An ambulance driver in Ohio abandoned a patient they were taking to hospital after getting lost and decided to call an Uber and go home. The bizarre incident played out in Cleveland last week when the patient was being transported to the Cleveland Clinic with chest pain. According to the local broadcaster WKRC: “The ambulance driver got lost, told her he was done driving for the day, and called an Uber.” The driver worked for a private ambulance company Lynx EMS, and not for Cleveland Emergency Medical Services.

Posted for sale in a dark and lawless corner of the digital world are detailed psychiatric evaluations, sexually transmitted infection diagnoses and addiction treatment regimens. These, according to the self-proclaimed hacker selling them, are the stolen medical records of tens of thousands of people who have been incarcerated in Massachusetts’ capital city.

WIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regular AI tools but had secret features that let users create violent AI-generated images and video.

Nobody likes Windows. This cannot continue. We must come together and annihilate it. I hate to say it, but the way forward is Linux