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A local judge in Woodhaven, Michigan, lost it this week when a defendant showed up to her court hearing late, on Zoom, and… while driving a car.

Two more illnesses have been identified in an E. coli outbreak linked to unpasteurized cheese and milk, the Food and Drug Administration reported Thursday .

OpenAI has added plugin support to its agentic coding app Codex in an apparent attempt to match similar features offered by competitors Anthropic (in Claude Code) and Google (in Gemini’s command line interface). What OpenAI calls “plugins” are actually bundles that may include skills (“prompts that describe workflows to Codex”—a standard feature in tools like this these days), app integrations, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers.

Like practically everyone who owned a PC in the early ’90s, I tore through the shareware episode of Wolfenstein 3D shortly after it came out. At the time, the game’s mere existence seemed like a magic trick, offering a smooth-scrolling first-person perspective that was unlike pretty much anything I had ever seen.

Our oceans are full of sophisticated, perfect traps: Nets, hooks, fishing lines. Designed to capture animals destined for our dinner tables, they often catch other wildlife too.

Over a decade ago, when I was first starting to pretend I could write about quantum mechanics, I covered a truly bizarre experiment . One half of a pair of entangled photons was sent through a device it could navigate as either a particle or a wave.

Three-hundred million years ago, the skies of the late Palaeozoic era were buzzing with giant insects. Meganeuropsis permiana , a predatory insect resembling a modern-day dragonfly, had a wingspan of over 70 centimeters and weighed 100 grams.

When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman was offered $26 million from an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, she said no. Sure, that same company can try to rezone 2,000 acres nearby anyway, but as AI infrastructure stretches further into the real world, the real world is starting to push back.