Emmis Publishing, the publisher of the Texas Monthly, initiated a lawsuit on Friday against the Monthly's current editor, Jake Silverstein, and the New York Times for breach of contract. Last month, Silverstein was hired as the editor of the New York Times Magazine. UPDATE: Emmis claims they're only suing the Times.

Thanks to sloth expert Lucy Cooke–creator of Slothville.com and author The Power of Sloth—we now know what baby sloth squeaks sound like. And, unlike what the fox actually says, it's every bit as cute as you're imagining.

The "Let Me Google That For You Act" is a real bill wending its way through Congress now. It shutters a 50s-era agency that distributes government information that's mostly available for free online now. It could realize enough annual savings to buy 22 to 37 percent of one fighter jet.

Like all the most basic human interactions, rap beefs have moved online, where rappers can insult each other (or journalists) to their hearts' content on Twitter and Instagram. That is exactly where the year's most intense rap beef is happening, with two L.A. rappers threatening to kill each other in 140 characters.

Carol Grimaldi, one of the co-founders of Grimaldi's Pizzeria, died on Thursday. She was 75.

Firefighters battling an 8-alarm blaze in East Boston also had to contend with some asshole's brand new BMW, which was parked in front of a fire hydrant they needed to access as quickly as possible. They smashed the car's windows and ran the hose right through the front seat.

Al Jazeera America is laying off "a few dozen staff employees, as well as freelance employees," probably due to the fact that Americans do not watch Al Jazeera America, because they vaguely suspect it of terrorism.

Today, Bloomberg cited two anonymous sources to report that the National Security Agency has been using "Heartbleed" to "gather critical intelligence" from protected internet traffic. The NSA is denying that report. Okay. But what is Heartbleed, exactly?

President Obama walks with outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and his nominee to replace her, Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell, as they leave the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, April 11, 2014, where the president made the announcement on Friday. Image via Charles Dharapak/AP.

A simple piece of tape: one side smooth to the touch, the other sticky. It binds for us, but it does not bind us. How does the sticky side taste? The man who knows is forever silent.

A series of MIT Media Lab maps are percolating through the internet, showing the locations and "walksheds" of independent coffee shops in San Francisco, Brooklyn, and Cambridge. These shops play an important role in urban life, as the researchers explain in their project description:

In an earth-shattering breakthrough, senators in Columbia, S.C., sent a gun-nut particle colliding into an abortion-nut particle, and the two fused together in a brilliant release of energy to produce a new, hitherto unknown super-heavy mass of conservative stupidity.

A San Diego woman who was outbid on her dream home faces felony charges for pulling a series of insane "pranks" against the home's new owner, including inciting rape, listing the victim's home for sale, and advertising high school parties at the house.

It's been about 48 hours since teenager Alex Hribal stabbed dozens of his classmates at a Murrysville, PA high school. With even the critically injured expected to survive and police announcing that Hribal will be charged as an adult, one main question remains: Why did he do it?

Huffington Post has pulled an infographic and article suggesting a link between U.S. killings by vets and their war service, after Gawker and Business Insider debunked them. "We regret that the data as presented in our graphic was incomplete and misleading," a HuffPo editors' note read.

An idiot is potentially in trouble over a disturbing (now-deleted) Vine video of a toddler smoking weed— if the internet can find the original uploader, anyway. So far, the Reddit investigation is going only slightly better than the time Reddit solved the Boston Marathon bombing.

There's not much to add to the New Scientist's lede here: "Vaginas grown in a lab from the recipients' own cells have been successfully transferred to the body for the first time."

The past week in hoaxes looked a lot like any other week: Strangers aren't doling out their lottery winnings online, alive celebrities aren't dead, photos that look fake probably are, and imminent doom is not so imminent after all.

Here is something that may come as a surprise: the U.S. government can—and will!—confiscate your tax refund or Social Security money because of overpayments that it made to your parents decades ago.