News Around the Web
Interesting headlines and stories making it across "a series of tubes."
Food dye used in snack chips can make skin temporarily transparent
WTF?! Food dye can be found in a wide range of products on grocery stores' shelves, but scientists have recently put it to a novel use: making a mouse's skin temporarily transparent. Once the technique is refined to work on the thicker human epidermis, there are all sorts of applications where it can be used, from tattoo removal to early detection of skin cancer.
Man who landed chief railway engineer job using fake CV is sentenced to 15 years
An elaborate lie gets derailed
In brief: A South African man who pulled off one of the biggest qualification-fraud cases in recent memory has finally been sentenced to 15 years behind bars. Daniel Mthimkhulu's con job allowed him to climb the ranks at the state-owned Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), eventually becoming their chief engineer while earning a cool $156,000 per year salary - not bad at all for a person whose highest educational attainment was high school.
Government study into mysterious Havana syndrome halted over claims of participant coercion
A mystery worthy of a Hollywood movie
Houston resident uses AirTag to reveal troubling truths about the city's recycling efforts
Yet another example of the creative ways this tracking device is being used
Hewlett Packard to continue lawsuit against tech mogul Mike Lynch's estate despite his recent death
Lynch and his daughter died when his yacht sank last month
A hot potato: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) says it intends to continue its claim for up to $4 billion in damages against the estate of tech mogul Mike Lynch, who recently died when his yacht was caught in a storm and sank off the coast of Sicily.
Easy blood test shown to predict heart disease risk decades in advance
The lead author thinks the findings can apply to men too
Two European men charged with making multiple swatting calls and bomb threats in the US
Victims included members of the House and Senate
What just happened? Just because someone doesn't live in the US doesn't mean they are safe from the consequences of swatting people in the States. Two men in Europe have discovered this fact after being charged over a series of swatting attacks that targeted high-profile individuals, including US government officials and members of Congress.
Mark Zuckerberg says Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor Covid-19 content
The platform also demoted a story about the Hunter Biden laptop controversy
Kim Dotcom loses extradition battle but refuses to leave New Zealand
"I love New Zealand. I'm not leaving"
Stonehenge's altar stone originated in Scotland, hundreds of miles away
Other stones were quarried much closer to the construction site
Elon Musk blames DDoS attack for delay in livestreamed Trump interview, but X employees say he's lying
A "99 percent" chance he was lying, apparently
Rediscovered Andy Warhol Amiga artwork on sale for $26 million
Good news for rich fans of Warhol and Debbie Harry
This cyber sleuth infiltrated the LockBit ransomware gang and unmasked its leader
The notorious LockBit was shrouded in mystery until Jon DiMaggio came along
$50 million wrongful death lawsuit against Titan submersible operators highlights use of $30 Logitech game controller
It wasn't the first OceanGate sub to use a game controller
Intel faces shareholder class-action lawsuit for allegedly concealing foundry business problems
Intel execs are accused of making "materially false and misleading" statements
What just happened? Things are going from bad to worse for Intel. In addition to the nightmare that is the Raptor Lake CPU crisis and the backlash over eliminating 15,000 jobs, the company is now being sued by shareholders over accusations it fraudulently concealed problems in its foundry business.
A US security firm was tricked into hiring a North Korean hacker who installed malware
He was uncovered before any damage could be done
Laptop fire on American Airlines flight leads to emergency evacuation, injuries
A passenger captured the chaotic scenes
What just happened? In an incident that brings back memories of the exploding Galaxy Note 7 saga, an electronic device caught fire inside a jet last week. The culprit on this occasion was a laptop, and thankfully the plane was still on the tarmac waiting to leave when its cabin filled with smoke and had to be evacuated.
Star Wars Project in South Korea will use anti-aircraft laser weapons against drones
Certainly not "an elegant weapon for a more civilized age"
Court to decide on $7.6 billion legal fee for lawyers who voided Elon Musk's pay
About $370,000 for every hour worked
There's another reason the man wielding a six-inch Master Sword was sentenced to four months in prison
It wasn't just for having a bladed weapon
Online gaming dispute turns into real-world hammer attack
20-year-old flew from New Jersey to Florida to attack an online foe
Lithium battery plant fire in South Korea claims 23 lives
It's unclear what caused the explosion that led to the blaze
Minecraft fan makes Google Earth explorable in the game
Algorithm automatically converts Google Earth data into voxels and Minecraft blocks