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The Daily Dozen
Monday, November 2. The 12 best stories of the day, so you can stop scrolling.
Mr. Potato Head just won the lottery, apparently
The plastic spud with interchangeable faces is now richer than most of us. If anyone deserves a windfall, it's the guy who's been losing his ears to toddlers since 1952. We'd love the full story, but the headline alone does most of the work.
OpenAI reportedly wants a nicer word for 'data center'
When your power-guzzling server warehouses start getting bad press, just call them something cozier. Nothing says trust us like a vocabulary makeover for giant humming boxes. Next up: pollution becomes ambient enrichment.
Billboards in multiple countries hacked to show porn, and hackers say it was easy
Smart billboards, dumb security. When the hackers themselves are roasting how easy it was, somebody's IT department needs a long weekend of reflection.
Celebs went as Mo Farah, a left hand and unsold concert tickets this Halloween
Heidi Klum continues her annual quest to make everyone else's costume look like a bedsheet with eye holes. And dressing as unsold concert tickets is the most honest thing a celebrity has done all year.
Cleveland ambulance driver accused of leaving patient mid-trip to hospital
The one job of an ambulance is to arrive at the hospital with the patient still inside it. Somehow this got turned into a choose-your-own-adventure. We'll wait for the full details, but the bar here is underground.
Heidi Klum's 2026 Halloween costume is a giant severed hand
Most people struggle to commit to a cat-ear headband, and Heidi Klum went full disembodied appendage. Her annual costume reveal is basically a national holiday at this point, and this year the holiday is giving her a hand.
We've maxxed out on maxxing, so 2027 is the year of minning
When baby names start getting maxxed into Leovanni, the suffix has officially lost the plot. Minning is the first wellness trend that asks for less effort, so naturally we're in.
The 'scientists reveal the hi' cat was real BBC science all along
The internet found a genuine science story, cut off its headline and turned it into a cat saying hi. Honestly, that's peer review the internet can get behind.
Scientists would like you to stop believing in your 'lizard brain'
Sorry to everyone who blamed their 3am snack runs on their inner iguana. The lizard brain was always more TED Talk than neuroscience, and now the journals are saying so out loud.
Neil the Baby from Gavin and Stacey wants to be the next Stereophonics
Nothing makes you feel older than the sitcom baby announcing his indie-rock ambitions. Big dreams, big Welsh energy, and he's already more famous than most debut bands.
Some people can't picture things awake but see vivid dreams
Your brain has the graphics card; it just only runs it after hours. Very rude of it.
Leakers rebuilt Valve's canceled Portal prequel and you can play it
Valve can't count to three, but the internet can count to F-Stop. It's a lost game resurrected by Discord archaeologists, and it's built around a Polaroid that makes things exist wherever you want, which is extremely Valve.