Grizzlies Are Coming Back. But Can We Make Room For Them?

As grizzly bears expand their range in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming into places where they haven’t been seen in a century or more, they’re increasingly encountering humans. From a report: Things intensified last summer as trails and campgrounds across the region flooded with inexperienced tourists seeking refuge in the outdoors during the coronavirus pandemic. Grizzly attacks spiked. Bear managers were inundated…

Theater wants you to become its resident ghost

A historic theater in Canada is offering one fan the opportunity to haunt the building after they pass on. Having first opened all the way back in 191… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/340416/theater-wants-you-to-become-its-resident-ghost…

With DOJ Charges, Former VC Mike Rothenberg Could Now Be Facing Serious Jail Time

Connie Loizos writing via TechCrunch: While some in Silicon Valley might prefer to forget about investor Mike Rothenberg roughly four years after his young venture firm began to implode, his story is still being written, and the latest chapter doesn’t bode well for the 36-year-old. While Rothenberg earlier tangled with the Securities and Exchange Commission and lost, it was a civil…

Ripple20 Vulnerabilities Will Haunt the IoT Landscape For Years To Come

Cyber-security experts have revealed today 19 vulnerabilities in a small library designed in the 90s that has been widely used and integrated into countless of enterprise and consumer-grade products over the last 20+ years. From a report: Affected products include smart home devices, power grid equipment, healthcare systems, industrial gear, transportation systems, printers, routers, mobile/satellite communications equipment, data center devices, commercial…

We’ll have 2 Friday the 13ths in 2020

And 2020’s first Friday the 13th is coming up on March 13. It’ll be exactly 13 weeks after the previous Friday the 13th in December 2019. Zoinks! Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/scared-2-friday-the-13ths-in-2020…

Helvetica’s Evil Twin, Hellvetica, Will Haunt Your Nightmares

Freshly Exhumed shares a report from Fast Company: Hold your favorite graphic design tome close. We now know what the classic typeface Helvetica would look like if it came from the underworld. Yes, it will keep type enthusiasts up at night. The design darling Helvetica — that ubiquitous sans-serif typeface developed by Max Miedinger in 1957, representative of the crisp Swiss…

Dreams of Offshore Servers Haunt The Ocean-Based Micronation of ‘Sealand’

Late Christmas Eve, 1966, a retired British army major named Paddy Roy Bates piloted a motorboat seven miles off the coast of England to an abandoned anti-aircraft platform “and declared it conquered,” writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ian Urbina. Bates used it as a pirate radio station, sometimes spending several months there while living on tins of corned beef, rice pudding, flour,…