Author: Dark5

There is a remarkable Starbucks whose official existence can neither be confirmed nor denied. At best, this Starbucks can only be described as being in a “government building.” Here the baristas require security clearance and the cups will never scrawled with an a real name. Such is life at the CIA’s most popular on-campus coffee shop.

The interior looks just like any other Starbucks in the world–light wood, dark accents, and soft folk music filling the space; however, the clientele and conversations are far from typical. Spys, analysts, and intelligence officers mix and mingle daily while getting their caffeine fix. It is rumored that the team to take out Osama Bin Laden recruited one of its key members over coffee at this Starbucks.

Read more here, and check out other cool Starbucks locations around the world.

North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un has been missing for nearly three weeks–including being conspicuously absent from the Supreme Peoples Assembly, North Korea’s rubber stamp legislature. The session typically features the Supreme Leader meeting all of North Korea’s highest ranking party and military officials, but this year he was represented by an empty chair. Conspiracy theories explaining Kim Jong Un’s absence have been running wild and range from the comically absurd to dangerous plots of intrigue.

Tabloids in Britain are suggesting that Kim could have become ill from eating too much imported cheese. The Daily Mirror claims that the dictator has developed an infatuation with Emmental cheese and may be suffering some complications associated with a dramatic weight gain. While no sources are provided, it may not be out of the realm of possibility considering the family’s odd affection for western luxuries at the expense of their impoverished citizens.

A more likely explanation comes from South Korean intelligence officials who speculate that a power struggle in the capital may be afoot. The first signs of military plots against the Supreme Leader emerged in 2013 when Kim Jong Un had his uncle executed to consolidate power and warn off other officials.

North Korea’s official state media is refusing to comment.

A 2012 video reportedly showing a mythical Icelandic worm monster has been declared real by an investigative panel tasked with judging its authenticity. Lagarfljótsormurinn, which means “the worm of Lagarfljót,” has been the source of legend in the area since first appearing in written records in 1350. The panel voted 7-6 to award  a longstanding 500,000 Icelandic krona bounty (about $4,000) to anyone who could capture proof of the monster.

Two separate videos taken in February and March of 2014 appear to show the creature writhing in the icy water:

Security experts are warning of a newly discovered vulnerability in the architecture that supports the entire internet. The Bash Bug poses a serious threat to network infrastructure and attacks through the hole could lead to an internet meltdown.

Also known as a “Shellshock,” the flaw is in a commonly used piece of system software called Bash–created in 1989 and is found on a variety of Unix-based systems. Bash is a command shell, and finding and exploiting a security hole in Bash means hackers can send commands to computers or any piece of equipment running the system.

Mac and Andriod phone users should be particularly vigilant. The Bash Bug makes it easy for attackers to access and control those devices connecting through public WiFi networks. A perhaps bigger fear is that attackers could compromise routers and computer network equipment to consume bandwidth and slow the internet to a halt.

Attempts to patch the flaw have so far proven futile.