A grad student has discovered a never-before-seen dinosaur after he purchased fossils online for a class project. The beaked beast, nicknamed “pharaoh’s dawn chicken from hell,” roamed Earth during the late Cretaceous period (100.5 million to 66 million years ago) and hails from the South Dakota section of the Hell Creek Formation (which dates to […]
Video has emerged of the alleged crash of the Russian Il-76 military transport plane in Russia’s Belgorod Oblast. The doomed plane can be seen catching fire while still in the air, and a fiery mushroom cloud can be seen after it hits the ground. Read also: Moscow confirms crash of IL-76 near Ukraine, claims without […]
Ryanair has launched its first partnership with an online travel agent (OTA) despite repeatedly branding the companies “pirates”. The Dublin-based airline said it has agreed a deal with loveholidays to offer its flights as part of package trips. Ryanair has previously strongly complained about OTAs selling its flights without permission. Last week it highlighted […]
Thomas Long, of Monroe, was arrested as part of an ongoing, multi-state child exploitation investigation, the Union County Sheriff’s Office stated in a news release. Long was convicted of sex offenses in 2106 and was required to register as a sex offender in Union County after he got out of prison. An investigation that started […]
Good morning and welcome to the A.M. Alert! EFF ARGUES PROPOSED BALLOT MEASURE COULD LEAD TO ANTI-LGBTQ CENSORSHIP An attempt to hold social media companies accountable could result in anti-LGBTQ censorship, according to a letter from a civil liberties advocacy group sent to California Attorney General Rob Bonta last week. The Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote […]
Jan. 22—The Lake County Retired Teachers Association will hold its next luncheon meeting Feb. 13 at The Kirtland Party Center, 9270 Chillicothe Road. Social time begins at 11 a.m., followed at 11:30 by the program. Mentor-on-the-Lake Police Sgt. Scott Daubenmire will present a program about online scams and fraud protection, according to a news release. […]
Hackers targeted Monobank, Ukraine’s largest mobile-only bank, with waves of denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Jan. 21, the company’s co-founder and CEO Oleh Horokhovskyi reported. DDoS attacks direct excessive amounts of traffic at a website in order to overload its servers, often causing disruptions to service. Horokhovskyi said Monobank was targeted with 580 million […]
Is the rent still too damn high? Yes, if you ask most renters. But relief could be on the way thanks to a large stock of recently opened apartment buildings, and units that are planned or already under construction in the Cincinnati metro area. Developers brought about 5,000 new apartment units online in the Cincinnati […]
Excessive tinfoiling probably hasn’t been on most people’s bingo cards of damaging overconsumption practices. One person may have changed that, however, after posting a video of a two-story house completely wrapped in the shiny aluminum material, sparking outrage on Reddit in the subreddit r/Anticonsumption. “So much waste for a joke!” the Redditor wrote in a […]
Canada’s statistics agency reported residents’ estimated life expectancy at birth fell in 2022, but claims made on the popular Joe Rogan podcast that this decrease was due to Covid-19 vaccines are false. Statistics Canada and public health experts attribute the trend to deaths from opioid overdoses, chronic conditions and fatalities from Covid-19 infections. “Canada’s overall […]
Three councils in the United Kingdom have taken some of their public-facing systems offline due to an ongoing cybersecurity issue. Canterbury City Council, Dover District Council, and Thanet District Council, three local authorities based in the county of Kent, said jointly on Friday that they “are investigating a cyber incident” that has disrupted online services […]
A traveler suggested that passengers board in Group 1, even if it’s not their turn. Dickie Bush said on LinkedIn that airline staff “don’t say anything” when he tries boarding first. Several people on Reddit described Bush as “gate lice,” a term referring to people who cut the line. A traveler advised passengers in a viral […]