Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a ban on child marriage in the state. The law removes references to married children in state law, prohibits marrying anyone under the age of… Read the rest of the article: Michigan bans child marriage

Nippon TV, Japan's oldest commercial broadcaster, is buying Studio Ghibli, the famed producer of animated feature films such as Princess Mononoke, Howl's Moving Castle and The Boy and the Heron.… Read the rest of the article: Japan TV broadcaster acquires Studio Ghibli

The U.S. State Department has published new guidance, and a handy map, of the counties Americans should not go to. Getting you home again might be expensive. Iran has been… Read the rest of the article: American? Don't go to these countries: Russia, Belarus, Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Somalia and more!

The family of a man who drove into a creek and drowned following directions provided by Google Maps in darkness is suing the company. At the heart of their lawsuit:… Read the rest of the article: Google Maps "directed man to drive off collapsed bridge"

Airbnb says its removed 59,000 fake listings in a crackdown, these having emerged as a major problem for an open registry of amateur hoteliers. Airbnb says the change in how… Read the rest of the article: Airbnb "cracking down on fake listings"

Gina Suzanne Lonestar, a senior employee at Men's Wearhouse, formed a fake company and used it to issue invoices to her employer for extremely boring vendor supplies and services. The… Read the rest of the article: Woman jailed after billing Men's Wearhouse with fake invoices for 8 years

Disney CEO Bob Iger told investors that the company was "quieting the noise" on culture war issues, reports Reuters, in an effort to appease conservatives. Iger's brief statement, included in… Read the rest of the article: Disney "quieting the noise" to appease conservatives, says CEO

From much national coverage of yesterday's election in Pennsylvania's 21st district, centered on a hip neighborhood in one of America's most progressive cities, you'd never have guessed that Democrat Lindsay… Read the rest of the article: Dem thrashes GOP candidate in local election some media treated like a close thing

The UK's parliament passed a massive and elaborate "online safety" bill Tuesday requiring internet service providers to prevent illegal material from appearing online, prevent children accessing "harmful" content, enforce age-checking… Read the rest of the article: UK passes "online safety" bill

Onetime billionaire and "effective altruist" Sam Bankman-Fried altruized a $16.4m house to his Ivy League professor parents, paid for with money from his crypto exchange and hedge fund. A lawsuit,… Read the rest of the article: Lawsuit: Sam Bankman-Fried gave $16.4m house to his parents, paid for with fraudulently-obtained money

An Ohio man learned that his 11-year-old daughter was being manipulated into sending photos of herself to an online predator, and called the police. Columbus police came and threatened to… Read the rest of the article: A man told police a predator manipulated his 11-year-old daughter into sending pics. Columbus cops threatened the victim with jail for "making porn"

Anyone finding reason to renew their driver's license in Pennsylvania will be automatically registered to vote unless they explicitly opt out when prompted. Before, the prompt was opt-in. "From now… Read the rest of the article: Pennsylvania to automatically register voters when they get a new driver's license

Russell Brand's career lived on posing as a "dickensian sex pest," as one commenter perfectly put it, and it died last weekend in a documentary exposé reporting numerous claims of… Read the rest of the article: Dickensian sex pest Russell Brand demonetized on YouTube

Rudy Giuliani, still technically a lawyer, is being sued by a person who is a practicing lawyer. That person's problem: Rudy Giuliani is his deadbeat client, owing $1.4m. Robert Costello… Read the rest of the article: Rudy Giuliani sued by his lawyer, who didn't get paid

All users will soon have to pay to use Twitter, the social network now owned by and referred to as "X" by billionaire Elon Musk. "We're moving to having a… Read the rest of the article: Twitter to be paywalled for all users, says Musk

Mike Masnick writes that the Federal Trade Commission has taken a dim view of sham patents registered by pharmaceutical companies to spook competitors eager to release generic drugs. …despite enforcement… Read the rest of the article: Government to pharma companies: stop registering sham patents to delay generics

Omnivision's OVM6948 entered the Guinness Book of Records as the world's smallest camera—a 0.575mm-square sensor in a housing barely larger—and is commercially available to those who might put it to… Read the rest of the article: Camera the size of a grain of salt not much use for surveillance, but great for inspecting urethras

Microsoft Paint, the famously rudimentary image-editing program bundled with Windows, is getting a major upgrade: layers and transparency, just like Photoshop and other fancy apps. Program manager Dave Grochocki announced… Read the rest of the article: MS Paint gets layers

A Danish artist supplied with 532,000 krone (~$76,000) by a museum to recreate a work featuring cash pinned to a canvas instead turned in empty frames with the title "Take… Read the rest of the article: Danish artist must repay funding after submitting empty frames titled "Take the money and run"

It took all day for authorities to find a missing F-35 whose pilot ejected from Sunday, which says good things about the $80m jet's stealth capabilities and bad things about… Read the rest of the article: Debris of missing F-35 jet found