In a pleasant surprise for his 17th birthday, Dommaraju Gukesh beat world #1 chess player Magnus Carlsen. The young Indian sure earned his cake at the end of the day…

A pub in Scotland has been ordered to remove a large witch mural. Featuring a hooked nose and warts, the local council said it’s “based on historically inaccurate false narratives”. It’s a touchy subject in Scotland – last year the government issued a posthumous apology to more than 4,000 people (mostly women) who were convicted and often executed under the Witchcraft Act of 1563.

A dress rehearsal for alien contact is underway after an artist used a Mars spacecraft to send a radio signal back to Earth. The message is encoded and is currently being deciphered by online sleuths. We’ll let you know if it contains any good gossip…