"The McCanns vanished, as did Sally and Steve. It wasn’t that hard; they were living in the golden age of fugitives." Read an excerpt from the new @atavist.com story by Barry Meier: longreads.com/2026/06/04/c...

First day on the job and you want respect? Go right up to the most recognizable and respected guy in the newsroom and have him yell at you until you cry. Then it's time to send him a weepy email telling him how disappointed you were that he did all that. Shouldn't have any trouble after that.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra is giving MacBook Pro, right down to the color options

Lost my Sunday to Computex news, and I don't even get to enjoy great food in Taiwan! Anyway, NVIDIA is making PC chips now www.engadget.com/2184558/nvid...

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

UK and Europe shatter heat records in ‘mind-boggling’ May ft.trib.al/XG5N4kw

Madonna of Milk Enthroned with Child, by Jean Fouquet, 1452-55 (flipped)

It hasn't yet ceased to amaze me the distance of understanding between the elites regarding AI and the rest of us regarding AI. They really don't seem to notice, let alone understand, the growing backlash. I have never seen such a clear and immediate chasm of perspective on technology.

French stars are rightly worried by billionaire Vincent Bolloré. Here’s how to rein him in

Mercedes-AMG's quickest vehicle yet is... an EV

Literally me after three vodka crans.

Microsoft is tacitly acknowledging that Teams needs work by killing an unnecessary feature

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

The difference between the reaction to this post here on Bluesky and the reaction to the same post on X is... quite something

To face a bear head-on, one must have the energy of a calm and collected EV owner www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkoUDD8V/

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

The police in rural France issued a warning to drivers to be on the lookout for deer “drunk” on fermented fruit, which can cause them to behave unpredictably.

Exciting film news! Josephine Baker had an incredible life, I really can't believe that no-one made a film about her before. Interesting French director attached too

On top of the grift, the illegality, the attacks on democracy, white supremacy, etc... THIS is just so fucking insulting and disappointing. This administration just keeps pushing us to new lows. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

If you're looking for an alternative to Apple's iPhone camera app, Blackmagic Camera has a great new feature: remote Apple Watch control www.engadget.com/2167733/blac...

Join us LIVE on the @engadget.com Podcast in a few minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cijI... @danielwcooper.bsky.social and I will be chatting about the silly Gamestop/eBay deal, as well as his review of the reMarkable Paper Pure

The feature would allow users to get into a safe position or call for help.

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.

Good morning! Join us LIVE on the @engadget.com Podcast around 11A ET www.youtube.com/live/L3-JS-R... I'll be chatting with @jesslconditt.bsky.social about her review of Valve's new Steam Controller. I know I don't need a new gamepad, and yet...

this would fix the website

What the fuck are we doing here

Meta is a surveillance tooling company.

Hey kids,who wants a plate of freshly made disappointment?

remember that atlantic article that pretended to be a first person account of a mother's loss of a child from measles? this is the real thing and it's brutal.

Blue 2, by Joan Miró, 1961

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

DaVinci Resolve is gradually removing any reason for needing an Adobe subscription www.engadget.com/apps/blackma...

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Quality sketch 👌

something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.

Hall of fame FT correction

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

All generations who were born outside of Canada and have direct Canadian ancestry can become Canadian citizens, as long as they possess the correct documents. Considering becoming a dual citizen? Read this:

I think this is a good precautionary analysis but I’d bet huge amounts of money against a relevant quantum computer by 2029 or even 2035.

Around 18 percent of France's fuel stations are out of stock

Healthcare is a basic right. Not a privilege. Not a luxury. 💙

There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.

Soundcore's Nebula X1 Pro projector slash sound system is one of the most interesting gadgets I've ever tested www.engadget.com/home/home-th...

Artemis II sent a pic of the beautiful garden planet we are too greedy, lazy, short-sighted, and ungrateful not to destroy: