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🔌 Shocking road trip: A woman’s Volkswagen ID.4 got welded to an Electrify America charger in Athens, Alabama. Literally fused together by an electrical arc. She waited nine hours, called everyone from tech support to the dealership, and the only fix? A guy from Knoxville with a crowbar. Really. EVs may be the future, but this one needed an exorcism.

⚡️ 3-second tech genius: Got a Kindle without ads? You can show your book covers on the lock screen. Go to Settings > Screen and brightness > Show covers on lock screen. If you’ve got ads, Amazon lets you pay a one-time fee to remove them.

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🤓 OMG DIY VR: Get this, a YouTuber just made his own virtual reality headset for $150. Normally, a good one runs anywhere from $300 for Meta’s base model to nearly $1,000 for the fancy PC rigs. Check out the video. This guy 3D-printed the shell, grabbed some screens off AliExpress, tossed in an Arduino sensor, and boom, homemade VR that actually works.

🐭 Mouse wiretap: A UC research team discovered hackers can eavesdrop using gaming mice. Those ultrasensitive sensors that help with fast aiming? They also detect minute desk vibrations from your voice. Feed that into an AI model, and voilà, a rough transcript of your conversations. Finally, I feel heard, but not in a good way. 

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Bitcoin and bot talk: Square gave restaurants an AI that answers the phone, takes your order and won’t judge you for getting extra cheese. Also, merchants can now get paid in Bitcoin straight from the register with no fees for a year.

🕳️ End times, LLC: Zuckerberg, Altman and other tech billionaires aren’t only building empires. They’re quietly buying up land, digging bunkers and whispering about AGI like it’s Voldemort. Sam Altman has an “escape ranch” in Hawaii with backup power, a stocked pantry and weapons, just in case. OpenAI’s chief scientist even said they’ll build a shelter for their engineers before unleashing AGI on the world. Is this AI doom planning or just tax shelter cosplay? Either way, it makes you wonder: What do they know that they’re not saying? You really should read the whole story. It’s wild.

📺 Power reset your smart TV: If your TV’s acting up with black screens or weird glitches, turn it off and unplug it from the wall. Then hold the TV’s power button (usually on the front, side or back) for 60 seconds. Plug it back in, turn it on, and you’re good to go.

Sound check: This is incredible. A noisy experiment gone right led to histotripsy, a cancer treatment that uses ultrasound to blast tumors without surgery. FDA-approved for liver cancer, it’s noninvasive, fast and, get this, 95% effective in trials so far. Patients usually go home the same day. The inventor discovered it trying to quiet her lab. Volume down, breakthrough up.

📺 Monetized redemption: YouTube’s letting some banned creators come back, if they’ve been gone over a year and play nice this time. No copyright cheats, no repeat offenders. They’ll have to rebuild from scratch, monetization and all. Basically, it’s creator purgatory with ads.