I wonder how often this happens. My uncle was in the Green Berets from the late 1950s through the 1970s. He told me that when he was stationed in Thailand in the 70s, one of his soldiers lost his leg during a jump. I remember the story because he said that the guy was landing and some Thai people came running out to greet them and the dude’s leg popped right off. The way he described the locals’ reactions is much like the “nope” octopus gif.
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I cheated and found a headline that didn’t mention that it was a prosthetic leg. The farmer finding it was a good thing! 
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That’s on me for not reading the story. (I read about 67% of linked stories.)
ETA: Oh! I almost forgot. Some guy lost his leg in the Long Beach harbor. He is a Paralympic athlete and after several dives, the city rescue divers found it. Talk about a needle in the proverbial haystack! (I think it made the national news.)
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Famously also happened to Douglas Bader during WW2, and after his capture the allies were allowed to airdrop him a new leg, with Hermann Göring’s approval.
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Jelly donuts or GTFO.
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Elite name on Brit scene sponsors retro video games preservation project at the Centre for Computer History
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Dutch Gateway store was kept udder wraps for centuries until refit dug up computing history
A bit of computing history has been inadvertently unearthed in the Netherlands after a refit of a shop revealed signage for long-forgotten computer brand Gateway.
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EU tries to get serious on cybercrime with first sanctions against Wannacry, NotPetya, CloudHopper crews
The European Union has, for the first time ever, slapped sanctions on hacking crews.
The EU’s Council of Ministers has cracked down on six individuals and three companies in China, North Korea, and Russia for breaking into computer networks, stealing information, and spreading malware.
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Legendary Li-ion battery boffin John Goodenough to develop gel power packs with South Korea’s SK Innovation
South Korean battery-maker SK Innovation will team up with 2019 Nobel Prize-winner John Goodenough to develop a new solid-state gel battery.
Goodenough is best known as part of the team of scientists that invented the rechargable lithium-ion battery during the 70s and 80s. The team, which also included British-American chemist M Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino of Japan, were awarded last year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work.
SK Innovation reckons that the new battery, which will use a solid-state gel-polymer electrolyte, will be safer and store more energy than lithium-ion batteries.
And then there’s this:
Goodenough, who just turned 98, is also developing a glass battery that he claims grows in storage capacity over time. Hydro-Quebec, Canada’s largest electricity producer, hopes to commercialise the tech within two years.
What a guy.
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AI assistants work perfectly in the UK – unless you’re from Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, Birmingham, Belfast…
To those of us born here, Britain is a wondrous cornucopia of accents and dialects. To visitors, like US-bred AI assistants, people outside of London may as well not speak English.
Such is the conclusion reached by comparison website Uswitch, which found that smart speakers from the likes of Google and Amazon have difficulty understanding more than 23 per cent of UK accents.
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More human-hostile architecture. Maybe Skynet doesn’t need killer drones?
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my friend says we’re like
the dinosaurs
and here we are,
doing ourselves in
much faster than they
ever did
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Maybe one day these developers will incorporate training and correction, like desktop speech recognition systems have done for decades. 
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