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Tuesday June 24, 2025. 10:06 PM
For a while now I’ve been wondering if Microsoft would blink when it comes to Windows 10’s rapidly approaching end of support date. Only a few weeks ago, Microsoft at the very least twitched by extending support for Microsoft Office on Windows 10, which should’ve been an...
Elon Musk’s lawyers have stunned the tech world by claiming in a court filing that the billionaire “does not use a computer.” The assertion, made amid Musk’s legal battle with OpenAI, stands in sharp contrast to his own social media posts showing him regularly using...
While Donald Trump insists that Iran's core nuclear sites were 'completely and fully obliterated,' a breaking news report by CNN says otherwise. 'We have major breaking news into CNN,' the cable news channel reported this morning. 'Three sources tell CNN that according to an ...
IceWM, the venerable X11 window manager, has released version 3.8.0, with some small tweaks, bug fixes, and changes. The theme menu now loads faster, the processor and memory graphs use less processor cycles, among other small tidbits.
If you're interested in psychedelic history, listen to the Otherworld podcast interview with journalist Susanna Cahalan, who discusses her new book, The Acid Queen, a biography of Rosemary Leary, the largely forgotten wife of Timothy Leary. Rosemary was far more than just...
A visitor from Norway was reportedly denied entry to the United States after border officers found an unflattering meme of Vice President JD Vance on it. Mads Mikkelsen, 21, told his hometown newspaper that be was harassed by officers before being deported. — Read the rest ...
It's unfortunate that the career of famed sketch comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U' Know was cut short by the tragic passing of frontman Trevor Moore, because they're now more relevant than ever in the way they satirize the increasingly stupid modern world. — Read the rest ...
A vast digital trove of over 10,000 historical children's books is available for free browsing and download at the University of Florida's Baldwin Library. The collection includes centuries of children's literature, with emphasis on Victorian-era works. Newcastle University...
Visit coffee shops in different places around the world in this video. A coffee drink is ordered in nine countries, and we get to watch it through the customer's point of view. Each coffee drink is captioned, indicating its name and ingredients. — Read the rest The post...
A crafty parrot named Sweet Pea figured out how to get a treat after being told she could not have one — and all it involved was a bit of theatrics. 'Last night, Sweet pea started limping! I totally panicked,' her human says in a TikTok video, which shows the cockatoo...
Image from Public Domain The post How marionettes became tools of protest in European theater appeared first on Boing Boing.
Version 140.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Changes include more control over vertical tabs, a dialog to add custom search engines, improvements to translation performance, and more.
Drones are dropping pods containing thousands of mosquitoes in the forests of Hawaii. To a mosquito magnet, this is a nightmare scenario, but it is all for a good cause. The mosquitoes are actually on a rescue mission. For millions of years, there were dozens of species of...
By Pnapora - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30117262 The post From protest to tourist delight: How 250 tiny gnomes took over this Polish city appeared first on Boing Boing.
Republican-led states that often champion fiscal conservatism and small government are the biggest beneficiaries of federal spending, according to a new MoneyGeek analysis of Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis data. Seven of the ten states most dependent on...
With prices high and the rest of the 5000 series out the gate, NVidia's forthcoming 5050 graphics cards might be a sweet spot for gamers looking for new features at an old-school price. At $249, it comes in $50 less than the 5060, with availability by August. — Read the rest...
A street camera in Lower Manhattan is doing more than just streaming video — it's using artificial intelligence to analyze how New Yorkers are dressing and moving through the summer heat. The system, dubbed 'Weather Watching' on walzr.com, counts pedestrians and tracks...
Ah, to have all the childlike naivete of a Sony Interactive Entertainment executive. You may remember Concord, the $400 million hero shooter Sony put all its chips on. It received extensive marketing, and it (rather optimistically) got a whole episode of the animated...
TL;DR: Rosetta Stone offers a lifetime subscription to learn all 25 of their languages for $179.99 (regular $399). If your days are studded with meals of cacio e pepe, tteokbokki, sashimi, or pierogis, you may want to expand your language knowledge to match your palate. —...
New research from Anthropic shows that when you give AI systems email access and threaten to shut them down, they don’t just refuse orders — they straight-up resort to blackmail. And before you think “that’s just Claude being dramatic,” every single major AI model they...
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