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This beautiful amphibian is being reintroduced to wetlands around Australia’s capital of Canberra after suffering a population collapse due to chytrid fungus. Called the green and golden bell frog, these animals were bred in captivity and will be released in groups of 15 into ponds and wetlands having been immunized against a disease caused by […] The post Beautiful Australian Frog Returns to the Wild with the Help of ‘Frog Spas’ and ‘Frog Saunas’ appeared first on Good News Network.

News MST3K MST3K: RiffTrax Experiments To Kick Off With Deathsport as Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff Return Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff will return for the fourth episode By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on February 10, 2026 Courtesy of RiffTrax Comment 0 Share New Share Courtesy of RiffTrax MST3K needs no introduction in this part of the internet. The show where space puppets and a human host critique a classic movie that perhaps hasn’t held up well over the test of time is coming back with four new episodes. RiffTrax, the company where MST3K alumni Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett work, and Shout! Studios are behind these new episodes, which have the moniker MST3K: The RiffTrax Experiments. When the news broke on February 2, we didn’t know what movies the gang would tackle. We’ve recently, however, gotten more news: one of the movies will be 1978’s Deathsport. RiffTrax released a short teaser letting us know what we’re in for: sci-fi desert shenanigans, swords, and interesting headgear. The film was also one that MST3K host Joel Hodgson planned to do for the season fourteenth season campaign that didn’t come through. We also got news via RiffTrax’s Kickstarter (which, by the way, collected more than $1 million the day it launched) that we’ll see some additional familiar faces. Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff are coming back as the villains for the fourth and final episode, reprising their roles as Dr. Clayton Forrester & TV’s Frank. The two will also co-write an episode, though it’s not clear if Deathsport will be their episode. Given the framing, it seems likely that it’s not. More MST3K news will be coming out soon, if the hints RiffTrax is leaving on their Kickstarter are any indication. While we wait, check out the teaser trailer for Deathsport below. [end-mark] The post <i>MST3K: RiffTrax Experiments</i> To Kick Off With <i>Deathsport</i> as Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff Return appeared first on Reactor.

Excerpts cozy science fiction Read an Excerpt From Nobody’s Baby by Olivia Waite Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in this cozy sci-fi mystery, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detective. By Olivia Waite | Published on February 10, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Nobody’s Baby, the second book in Olivia Waite’s cozy SF mystery series featuring Dorothy Gentleman—out from Tordotcom Publishing on March 10. Welcome to the HMS Fairweather, Her Majesty’s most luxurious interstellar passenger liner! Room and board are included, new bodies are graciously provided upon request, and should you desire a rest between lifetimes, your mind shall be most carefully preserved in glass in the Library, shielded from every danger.A wild baby appears! Dorothy Gentleman, ship’s detective, is put to the test once again when an infant is mysteriously left on her nephew’s doorstep. Fertility is supposed to be on pause during the Fairweather’s journey across the stars—but humans have a way of breaking any rule you set them. Who produced this child, and why did they then abandon him? And as her nephew and his partner get more and more attached, how can Dorothy prevent her colleague and rival detective, Leloup, a stickler for law and order, from classifying the baby as a stowaway or a piece of luggage? The note from Ruthie arrived at breakfast with no preamble, flashing on the glowing face of my pocket watch: At what age do human children grow teeth? On the long list of things my nephew didn’t know, this was one of the least surprising. His expertise was deep but mostly limited to three topics: operation scripts for the sentient shipmind, cocktail combinations, and his husband, John. Even back on Old Earth, three and a half centuries before, I doubted he had spent much time around children. I hadn’t, either—Ruthie himself being the exception—but I wasn’t about to admit it. A quick search through the ship’s infobank got me the answer to his question: six months to a year. I sent it along, then sat back with a restorative sip of tea. True peace proved elusive: Unease flowed in with the bergamot in my breakfast blend. The little light on my pocket watch’s case flickered, indicating my nephew had replied. I opened it and glanced down. And what age do they start speaking? Twelve to eighteen months, I sent back, after more research. I finished my tea. After a long moment, and slowly, as if each letter were being inked in my own heart’s blood and I had to wait for it to ooze out drop by drop, I followed up: …Why? A small silhouette of clock hands spinning, the sign Ruthie was composing a reply. I rose from the table to put my teacup in the washer, the better to give myself one final moment of respite. His response: Then I fear the poor thing will be able to bite us before they can explain why they’re so upset. This was one of those times I hated being right. I rubbed the burgeoning headache from my temples. Unbelievable. Here we were, in a spaceship endless lightyears from Earth, on the way to a home we’d never seen, with ten thousand adults whose bodies had been carefully treated to prevent conception and reproduction so the population would remain stable for the length of our centuries-long journey across the stars— —and Ruthie had somehow managed to come up with a baby. Buy the Book Nobody’s Baby Olivia Waite Buy Book Nobody's Baby Olivia Waite Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget And of course, as a ship’s detective, and Ruthie’s only relative, it was my duty and my thankless task to find out how. It couldn’t be the retromats: Although theoretically they could fabricate anything a person could remember, in practice there were limits on their use. Candles, for instance, were prohibited, because the combination of a spaceship and a naked flame had never led to anything good in all of human history. Living things were also forbidden—though some of the geniuses down in Forward Starboard Seven had managed to make mechanical animals and automata quite persuasively lifelike, using retromatted components. Perhaps this baby was something like that, and Ruthie had only been fooled? No. Whatever my nephew’s faults—and they were legion—he was brilliant with mechanical things. If this alleged baby had been an automaton he’d have written with jubilant delight, not those hurried, harried questions. But even assuming someone had removed the controls and managed to get a retromat to recreate a living, breathing, apparently screaming human child—the amount of mental focus and energy that implied was astonishing. Implausible. One might even say impossible. Which left only one other, only slightly less impossible possibility: Someone had made a baby the old-fashioned way. Two human bodies, gooey bits out, overlapping in space and time. Stars, what a nightmare. None of us was supposed to be able to bear children during the long passage on the Fairweather. The physical rigors of the process were bad enough on a planet, let alone here in the mystery and depths of distant space. Who knew what kind of risks pregnancy would have out here, with the strange magnetics and the physics and the constant threat of radiation? And the birth was only the first step! After that you had to educate them, to help them grow and thrive, and while we weren’t ever going to run out of food or water or cocktail supplies, this was a ship, and living space was our most finite resource. It was thought by the architects of our journey that it would be simpler, on the whole, if we simply paused the whole process until we were established on solid ground again. There was also something… uncanny, let’s be honest, about the idea of a human who’d never set foot on solid ground. To have never smelled the rain, felt the sun, dug fingers into the grit and grime of a planet. Well, now we had one. A child of the stars, born between worlds. My peace would probably be nonexistent for the next little while. On my way, I sent to Ruthie. Excerpted from Nobody’s Baby, copyright © 2026 by Olivia Waite. The post Read an Excerpt From <i>Nobody’s Baby</i> by Olivia Waite appeared first on Reactor.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Alabama legislators have advanced HB161, the App Store Accountability Act, through both chambers without opposition, placing the bill before Governor Kay Ivey for consideration. The measure reorganizes how app stores manage access for young users and establishes a statewide framework for age categorization, parental permission, and data handling tied to those functions. Introduced by Chris Sells of Greenville, the bill directs app store providers to determine whether account holders fall into defined age categories and to secure parental approval before minors download apps, make purchases, or complete in-app transactions. We obtained a copy of the bill for you here. Age ratings aligned with familiar media standards are also required. Supporters presented the proposal as a continuation of consumer protections that already exist in offline settings. The operational core of HB161 is mandatory age verification, which means showing a form of ID. App stores must request age category information from every user and verify it through commercially available methods or systems approved by the attorney general. Even with the statute’s emphasis on categories instead of exact ages, verification systems commonly depend on government identification checks, third-party identity services, or inference from existing account data. Each approach expands the amount of sensitive information circulating across platforms. The bill requires encryption and limits collection to age verification, consent, and compliance records, yet it leaves the scope and duration of those records undefined, creating space for long-term retention. Age information verified at the app store level also becomes part of a shared signaling layer. HB161 requires providers to give developers real-time access to a user’s age category and parental consent status. During floor debate, lawmakers emphasized continuity with existing safeguards. The parental consent system adds another layer of data creation. Minor accounts must be linked to verified parent accounts, with records of consent decisions, renewals following significant app changes, and withdrawals of permission. App store providers, therefore, maintain detailed parent-child relationship data and logs of app-level access for minors. The statute does not define clear deletion timelines when a child turns 18 or when family account links end, leaving long-lived family graphs within platform systems. Special treatment for pre-installed apps introduces additional complexity. App stores must facilitate parental consent when developers request it, even though minors may interact with pre-installed apps during device setup. Data collection can begin early in that process, and parental awareness depends on subsequent prompts rather than proactive disclosure. Enforcement authority under HB161 sits entirely with the attorney general, who may pursue violations as deceptive trade practices. Parents and users are not granted a private right of action. The bill includes purpose limitations for age category and consent data, confining use to compliance, safety, and legal obligations, while omitting requirements for independent audits, public reporting, or specific penalties aimed at gradual expansion beyond those purposes. The bill ties child safety goals to mandatory age verification, cross-app age signaling, and persistent parental account linking, all of which raise unresolved questions about data minimization, long-term retention, and platform-level tracking. At the same time, conditioning app access on verified age and consent alters how lawful speech and expression are accessed online. This is ultimately a framework that expands surveillance and creates friction around access to information. The result is a measure that advances without opposition in the Legislature while remaining deeply contested on privacy and free speech grounds. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Alabama Moves to Put a Gatekeeper on the App Store appeared first on Reclaim The Net.