World’s Longest Treasure Hunt Ends After 31 Years, 5 Months, and 9 Days

Get ready for your daily dose of tech excitement! [View this email in your browser]( The Future Is Here October 4, 2024 --------------------------------------------------------------- [World’s Longest Treasure Hunt Ends After 31 Years, 5 Months, and 9 Days]( By Matt Novak on Oct 3, 2024, 1:30 pm [[Screenshot of the Golden Owl prize from a treasure hunt in France that's lasted 31 years.] The owl statuette was hidden in 1993 by author Régis Hauser, who died in 2009.]( [Read More »]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [MAGA Election Official Sentenced to 9 Years for Giving Trump Goons Access to Voting Data]( By Matt Novak on Oct 3, 2024, 4:25 pm [[File photo of former Mesa County Clerk in Colorado, Tina Peters, on June 28, 2022 in Sedalia, Colorado.] The former county clerk suggested at her sentencing that God would get revenge against prosecutors because she's a "child of God."]( [Read More »]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Two Asteroids, One Dinosaur Extinction: Second Crater Bolsters Double Impact Theory]( By Isaac Schultz on Oct 3, 2024, 5:00 pm [[Chicxulub Asteroid Impact Dinosaurs] The 5.3-mile-wide crater is now confirmed to be 66 million years old, suggesting that the impact of at least two giant space rocks preceded the mass extinction of dinosaurs.]( [Read More »]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Microsoft’s Nuclear Power Deal Could Saddle Taxpayers With $1.6 Billion Federal Loan]( By Lucas Ropek on Oct 3, 2024, 4:10 pm [[Three Mile Island nuclear plant] A new scheme for AI fuel could offload financial risk from Microsoft's business partner onto the American taxpayer.]( [Read More »]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Meta Ray-Ban Glasses Have Serious Dad-Brain]( By Kyle Barr on Oct 3, 2024, 2:15 pm [[Meta Ray Ban Glasses 2] The Ray-Ban Meta glasses' AI will confidently lie to you about anything, and just like dad, it thinks everything in big red armor is Iron Man.]( [Read More »]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [U.S. Dockworkers End Strike Over Automation in Temporary Agreement]( By Matt Novak on Oct 3, 2024, 7:20 pm [[Dockworkers strike at the Bayport Container Terminal in Seabrook, Texas, on October 1, 2024.] Workers will get a temporary 62% wage hike as a final deal is negotiated.]( [Read More »]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Joker: Folie à Deux Is an Anti-Sequel That Pretends To Be Great, but Never Is]( By Germain Lussier on Oct 3, 2024, 1:20 pm [[Joker 2 Review] Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga star in the sequel to the 2019 Oscar-winning DC standalone film.]( [Read More »]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Gizmodo on X]( [Gizmodo on Facebook]( [Gizmodo on YouTube]( Copyright © 2024 Gizmodo USA LLC, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Gizmodo USA LLC 41E 11th St, 11th FlNew York, NY 10003 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.