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McDonald's is being sued over the McRib, with the suit claiming its shape is misleading people into thinking it's real rib meat. McDonald's tried to get the case dismissed by arguing no reasonable consumer would think the McRib was real rib meat, but the case is moving forward.

California has signed their first high-speed train contract. They hope to have a high-speed, 220mph train route from LA/Anaheim to San Francisco established by 2033.

IShowSpeed has showed up with an incredible Halloween costume 2 years in a row. He dressed up as Miles Morales this year to try and top Black Flash from 2025.

Despite the US stock market experiencing over $1 trillion in losses in the past few days, one unexpected company is doing extremely well: Crocs. Their value went up nearly 25% in one day and has held steady, with Crocs being more popular than ever.

Mexico City went all-out for this year's Day of the Dead, building the largest La Catrina monument in history. She stands at roughly 110 feet tall.

Mate Rimac, the CEO of Bugatti, had his Bugatti Chiron stolen. He left the keys in the ignition of his $3,300,000 car, trusting no one would steal it. Someone walked up, stepped inside the car, and drove away. Rimac offered the car thief a ride home after he got caught.

Researchers have discovered Mount Everest is covered in microplastics despite being one of the most remote places on Earth. There are an estimated 56 tons of microplastic particles on the mountain.

A group of hackers apologized after hacking a hospital, not realizing they were disrupting machines that were actively helping people. They offered $2,500 in compensation for each patient affected, claiming they have "morals" and "are not villains".

Since 2011, India's rate of extreme poverty has fallen from 27.1% to 2.6% according to the World Bank. They believe India has a bright future and "one of the fastest poverty declines in the world".

The TSA dressed up some of their patrol dogs for Halloween and they're absolutely adorable.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman claims Google's AI search is the main reason Reddit lost roughly $7 billion in 2 days. "The reality is, AI Mode does not drive traffic. Not for us, and not to anybody, as far as I know. That’s just a fundamental shift in how Google works."

NASA engineers have managed to regain contact with Voyager 1 after suddenly losing it for 2 days. They're trying to fix the 49 year-old probe from over 16,000,000,000 miles away, and somehow NASA is pulling it off.

A GoFundMe has been started for the guy who started a GoFundMe for Red Baron employee Walt Z. It's been confirmed that a homeless veteran named Luke started the GoFundMe, and people have donated over $15k to thank him for raising over $570k for Walt.

Apple CEO John Ternus believes that, while AI can be useful, Apple products should continue to be designed primarily by humans and not AI. "The creation of products is a deeply human and personal thing, something that we love to do."

The Miami Heat have updated NBA legend Dwayne Wade's 2024 statue to look more like him. Here's a side by side of the old statue and the new 2026 one:

GTA 6 ads are starting to pop up around the world, with this huge billboard being spotted in Osaka, Japan. Image credit: u/HP_Fara

Surgeon Asif Hasan has received a Pride of Britain award for saving the lives of over 2,000 children. He performed pediatric open-heart surgery and heart transplants, taking on complex and difficult procedures many other doctors were scared to even attempt.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes people owning RAM is wasteful, and that it belongs in data centers instead. "From a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer."

Artemis II astronaut Reid Wiseman says NASA could learn a lot from F1, and that their engineering is miles ahead of NASA's. "Oh, they crush us. The level of engineering here [at F1], they smoke us."