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Idaho In-N-Out Burger shooting motive still a mystery as armed citizen speaks out
A gunman opened fire at a crowded In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, killing three people, including an employee, before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police have identified the attacker as 24-year-old Chad Williams but say they are still working to establish a motive for the shooting, which has shocked the local community…
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Christopher Nolan China Interview Goes Viral Over Frank Views on Critics, Christian Themes in ‘The Odyssey,’ Being a “Bard for a Civilization at Dusk”
Christopher Nolan has become the subject of viral discussion online after giving an unusually candid interview during the press tour for his film *The Odyssey*, in which he discussed his personal philosophy, critics, and the presence of Christian themes in his adaptation of Homer’s epic. The interview stood out from the typical promotional chats Nolan…
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The AI bubble is already popping; we just don’t know it yet
The Register’s tech podcast “The Kettle” tackled signs that the AI investment bubble may be starting to deflate, as big tech companies’ second-quarter earnings triggered unusually volatile stock market reactions. Editor-in-chief Matt Rosoff and systems editor Tobias Mann joined host Brandon Vigliarolo to discuss why massive, established companies are now swinging in value like penny…
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day Almost Featured a Bizarre, Sticky Marvel Supervillain
Spider-Man: Brand New Day director Destin Daniel Cretton has revealed that a classic, offbeat Marvel villain called Paste-Pot Pete was originally planned to appear in the film’s opening montage, alongside the likes of Scorpion, Boomerang and Tombstone. Cretton says the team considered numerous comic-book villains for this sequence but many couldn’t be used because the…
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Fans at Lollapalooza go viral for passing a bag of pee over the crowd
Footage of festival-goers passing a bag of urine over the crowd at Lollapalooza 2026 in Chicago has gone viral, sparking widespread criticism of poor audience behaviour and hygiene at the event. The clip has drawn significant backlash online, with many questioning why attendees would resort to this rather than using the festival’s toilet facilities, and…
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People Are Ghosting Long-Term Partners. Some Don’t Regret It
A growing number of people are ending long-term relationships by “ghosting” — cutting off contact and blocking their partner without explanation — rather than having a conversation. WIRED spoke to several people who abruptly severed relationships lasting well over a year this way, some of whom say they feel no remorse and consider it the…
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Alienware 27 QD-OLED (AW2726DM) Review: A $350 Winner
Dell’s Alienware AW2726DM has launched as a budget-friendly QD-OLED gaming monitor priced at just $350, a dramatic drop from the $1,400 cost of Alienware’s original OLED gaming monitor, the AW3423DW, released three years earlier. Reviewer Matthew S. Smith found that despite the steep price cut, Alienware made sensible compromises rather than gutting the product’s core…
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10 Anime Movies Without a Single Flaw
Collider film writer Lucas Kloberdanz-Dyck has published a list of ten anime films the site considers free of any flaws, judged against criteria including consistency, pacing, animation, writing, directing, influence and critical acclaim. The piece contrasts these with celebrated but imperfect works such as Princess Mononoke and Paprika, arguing that the featured films succeed completely…
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The ‘Guardrail Guy’ Went Viral for Posting About Flock Cameras. Then Someone Destroyed Them
Steve Eimers, a road-safety advocate known online as “The Guardrail Guy,” expanded his advocacy this year to raise concerns about automatic licence plate readers (ALPRs), arguing that many are installed too close to guardrails or on road signs in ways that could make crashes more dangerous. His videos went viral, but rather than focusing on…
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Japan’s Wowow Reveals First-Look Of Six-Part Series Based On Riku Onda’s ‘The Aosawa Murders’, Starring Yukino Kishii
Japanese broadcaster Wowow has unveiled its first-look images and casting details for a six-episode live-action adaptation of Riku Onda’s best-selling mystery novel The Aosawa Murders (published in Japan as Eugenia). The series stars Yukino Kishii, who gained international recognition through her Cannes Un Certain Regard title All The Lovers In The Night, in what marks…