Alex Dobrenko

🇷🇺🤔 On Friday, a Russia-backed private army called the Wagner Group began traveling from Ukraine towards Moscow in an apparent mutiny against the Russian gov’t – only to perform an about-face one day later.

🌏 Orca attacks on boats appear to be spreading, a trio of countries – Sierra Leone, Greece, and Guatemala – each held nationwide elections to determine a leader, and more.

🔥 It’s Monday, June 26th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

⚡ The Flash’s Ezra Miller made their first public appearance at the film’s LA premiere on Monday.

🌕🌊 A salty ocean beneath the surface of Enceladus, a small moon orbiting Saturn, is the only body of water beyond Earth known to contain all six elements needed to create life, per a new peer-reviewed study published in Nature.

🎧 After going on a $1 billion-plus spending spree over the past few years, Spotify has shifted its podcast strategy.

🔥 It’s Thursday, June 15th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

📝💰 According to government figures released yesterday morning, inflation stood at 4.0% over the year-long period ending in May, down from 4.9% in April and 6% in February. It’s the index’s lowest annual figure in over two years.

💤🧠 Humans can learn foreign words while we’re sleeping, per a recently unveiled preprint study. Though this DOES come with a caveat – you can’t exactly become fluent in a new language just by listening to words in your sleep. But it sure does seem to help.

🔥 It’s Wednesday, June 13th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🖥️❌ Almost 8,000 different Reddit communities, or ‘subreddits’, went dark yesterday morning to protest the app’s plan to charge for access to its data →

🤿🌊 A professor known as “Dr. Deep Sea” just resurfaced after spending a world-record 100 consecutive days underwater to try and help humans live longer, capping off a novel experiment that almost sounds more like the beginning of a Marvel movie than scientific research.

🌏 Hundreds of churchgoers in Germany attended a ChatGPT-led Protestant service, NATO began its largest-ever air defense exercise, and more.

🏨 Hotel occupancy rates in NYC and LA are nearing pre-pandemic levels, and revenue per available room is exceeding what it was before the pandemic. But the opposite is happening in San Francisco.

🔥 It’s Tuesday, June 13th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🔐📺 Netflix's password crackdown has, surprisingly to most, resulted in an increase in sign-ups. That's counter to the 'cancel reaction' the streamed anticipated. 

🌏 Four Indigenous children who survived for 40 days in the Colombian Amazon jungle were rescued, Iran is reportedly helping Russia build a drone manufacturing facility for the war in Ukraine, and more.

📝 On Friday, the DOJ unsealed an indictment against former President Donald Trump that accuses him of illegally storing and hiding classified materials at his Mar-a-Lago residence after leaving office.

🔥 It’s Monday, June 12th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

🌶️🔥 Out on Disney+ and Hulu today, Flamin’ Hot tells the story of Richard Montañez, the alleged inventor of the Flamin’ Hot Cheeto (that ‘alleged’ is doing a lot of work) →