hatever else you can say about Russia, it's home to some extremely interesting news bloopers. Most recently, a drunk paratrooper who stumbled into a live shot and, uh, took out his aggressions on the newscaster: Russian TV's live broadcast from Paratroopers' Day is interrupted by a drunk paratrooper. The inevitable ensues pic.twitter.com/FboPfaDFZT — max seddon (@maxseddon) August 2, 2017 The unwarranted punch is a far cry from our other recent favorite: a big, friendly dog demanding attention from an anchor:

The FBI Is Investigating The Hack, Which Is Seven Times Bigger Than The 2014 Sony HackOn Monday, Entertainment Weekly reported that HBO had been hacked by actors who claimed to have obtained 1.5 terabytes of data from the company. "HBO recently experienced a cyber incident, which resulted in the compromise of proprietary information," the network confirmed in a statement. "We immediately began investigating the incident and are working with law enforcement and outside cybersecurity firms. Data protection is a top priority at HBO, and we take seriously our responsibility to protect the data we hold." [Entertainment Weekly] At first, the hackers released unaired episodes of "Ballers" and "Room 104" along with written materials describing an unreleased "Game Of Thrones" episode. Today, they leaked even more unaired episodes of HBO shows, a sign of the enormous scope of the attack. Here's what we know. The FBI Is Investigat...

The phone rang: a call from an unknown number. Through a window near my cubicle, I could see a blood orange sunset falling over the Pacific Ocean. It was a Friday evening in June 2014, and I was working late in the newsroom of the Santa Monica Daily Press. The newspaper’s op-ed page had recently become a virtual war zone for local residents and commercial developers at odds over building projects in the beachfront city. As my desk phone pealed, I decided that I didn’t want to risk getting dragged into yet another debate about the semantic decision to use “city owned land” instead of “resident owned land” in our copy. I didn’t answer. The ringing stopped. After a brief silence, it started up again. This time I grabbed the receiver, planning to keep whatever conversation transpired as short as possible. A frantic voice was on the other end. The caller, a man, wanted to talk about a developer, but not in the manner I’d feared. “Steve Farzam was arrested by the FBI,” he told me. “They’r...

Russian Street Artists Delete Car In Real World – In Russia, a collaborative of street artists has created an awesome optical illusion, and it looks like Photoshop in real life. Titled CTRL+X, this checkered piece is a reference to a keyboard command in Photoshop that deletes a selection. To create the clever illusion, the artists first covered the dumpster and car with white paint. They then projected a pattern onto the objects from a specific angle from which the illusion is supposed to be seen. Creatives used the projection as guide lines to mask off the white checkers with tape and then spray paint everything else gray. Before: After: