Cancer-killing candy? The deep-sea sugar making tumors explode

🧪 The ocean microbe that blows up cancer cells

A sugar from deep-sea bacteria makes tumors self-destruct.

Mark Wales reports on Spongiibacter nanhainus, a deep-sea microbe with a mind-blowing trick. It makes a sugar that hunts down certain cancer cells and makes them burst like popcorn. In mice and lab tests, it took out liver cancer and a strain of leukemia while rallying the immune system to join the fight.

Redditors are split between hope and “we’ve heard this before,” but the science is promising enough to make waves.

💼 Boss gives worker a "bad attitude" warning for asking about late paycheck

TFW when your boss says “watch your tone” but forgot to pay you

A Reddit user says they politely asked their boss why their paycheck was a week late. Instead of an answer, they got a formal write-up for “unprofessional attitude.”

The paycheck? Arrived two days later. No apology. Just “watch your tone.”

Redditors lit up with snark and legal tips, from “I’ll sign the write-up if you sign my check” to calling the state labor board. Erik Barnes covers the outrage and the ideas for what to do if your boss ever finds the nerve to try a stunt like this.

And what did we learn?

We asked about the lethality of sharks yesterday. How many attacks and deaths are there each year from unprovoked shark attacks? Not many at all, and our clever readers knew it.

• 88 attacks / 12 fatalities (2.0%)

• 64 attacks / 9 fatalities (17.6%)

• 47 attacks / 4 fatalities(41.2%)

• 28 attacks / 1 fatalities (39.2%)

📦 FBI warns about a scam that shows up at your door

Packages, QR codes, and a scam you don’t want to unwrap.

It’s bad enough when phishing scams swim into your inbox, but now they’ve evolved, grown legs, and walked right up to your door. The FBI says criminals are mailing random packages with QR codes that can hijack your info or infect your phone.

As Ryan Reed reports, the no-return-address mystery is bait, and it’s not just happening at your doorstep. Similar “quishing” scams are showing up on menus, parking meters, even ATMs.

As Ryan Reed reports, the mystery packaging is part of the trap, and experts have a short checklist to keep you safe, starting with the one thing you should never do when it arrives.

Curiosity may not kill the cat, but it could drain your account.

💬 From the group text…

We’ve all felt jealousy, but Pedro here is literally green with it when his owner makes the mistake of bringing out a stuffed bird in his presence.