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Friday June 20, 2025. 07:11 PM
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) reports on the alarming trend of journalists and activists being summoned to court in Georgia simply for criticizing government officials on social media. The article details how more than a dozen journalists,...
A teenage actress from California just joined a club that usually only includes kings, duchesses, and medieval warriors — she's been knighted by the Vatican at age 19. Sydney Thackray, an actress and musician, knelt before a bishop in a centuries-old Roman cathedral this...
A bizarre hoax that captivated America in 2009 gets a fresh examination in 'Trainwreck: Balloon Boy,' premiering July 15. The documentary revisits the day when Richard Heene called 911 claiming his six-year-old son Falcon was trapped inside a homemade flying saucer that had...
Four prominent tech executives, including Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth, have joined a special U.S. Army Reserve unit where they'll serve as lieutenant colonels without completing basic training. As reported in Steven Levy's Plaintext newsletter, the executives are part of...
A slim 23-vote margin in the House of Parliament today gave approval to assisted dying in England and Wales. Terminally ill adults may soon legally end their own lives with medical assistance, though the bill first faces scrutiny in the House of Lords. — Read the rest The po...
This adorable baby opossum named Ellie will melt your heart. Baby Opposums are some of the most joy-sparking little critters I've seen. Known as joeys, these tiny marsupials are full of surprises from the moment they're born. Baby opossums, like their marsupial cousins the...
In early 1900s Paris, a young medium named Eva Carrière claimed she could manifest spirits from her body in the form of ghostly ectoplasm. A fan named Baron von Schrenck-Notzing spent four years documenting what he believed were genuine supernatural phenomena. — Read the...
Britain's public broadcaster issued a legal threat to U.S. AI company Perplexity, which the BBC claims scraped its website to train language models. How did it get caught? Because it's reproducing the text of BBC News stories verbatim. The BBC has written to Perplexity,...
I've been using Proton's family of digital tools for a decade. I started back when all the company offered was Protonmail and stayed on with them as VPN, online storage, calendar and access to an encrypted word processor were added to what I get for my annual subscription...
Red Dye No. 3 has been banned for use in cosmetics and topical drugs since 1990. So why is it still in our food? This video deep dives into Red 3, and the use of dangerous dyes in everyday products. Red 3 can cause some pretty unpleasant side effects, yet it's everywhere: in ...
A month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate normally costs $19.99 through Microsoft, but you can grab a 1-month membership for just $16.99 — and these codes are stackable, so that you can lock in three months at the lower rate. With rumors swirling about a possible price hike, now's...
A pigeon lays an egg in a barn owl nest box, and complete anarchy ensues. Despite the title of this video, I was completely unprepared for the level of drama this wayward pigeon caused. A pigeon enters the nest box, already occupied by seven owlets of various sizes. — Read...
In an age of language learning models and chatbots, passing the Turing test is light work with most correspondents. But the first such machine to win the imitation game was ELIZA, programmed in the mid-1960s by Joseph Wiezenbaum at MIT. — Read the rest The post Rebuilding...
Fortnite but faster! Blitz Royale is a faster-paced, smaller island with fewer players. The fun is amplified. Winning a solo match of battle royale always feels so good, but burning 20-30 minutes per match to get sent back to the lobby without a victory royale is a...
Thursday June 19, 2025. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: Advance your cybersecurity career with The CISSP Security & Risk Management Training Bundle, now just $29.97 until July 20. Looking to transition to a career in cybersecurity? Gone are the days of heading back to the classroom to make the switch. — Read the rest The p...
A massive data breach has exposed 16 billion login credentials, with nearly all of them coming from previously undiscovered databases, according to a report from Tom's Hardware. While most large-scale breaches typically recycle known leaked credentials, this one revealed...
A new paper published in Procedia Computer Science makes an eyebrow-raising claim — researchers say they can predict whether stocks will go up or down tomorrow with 99% accuracy by looking at the stars. According to the authors, when they combined planetary positions and...
A new documentary about underground comics pioneer Denis Kitchen has raised over $26,000 on Kickstarter — more than five times its original goal — with just 9 hours remaining in the crowdfunding campaign. Oddly Compelling: The Denis Kitchen Story, explores Kitchen's...
In Trump speak, two weeks generally means 'do not hold your breath.' Like many things Trump has promised will come in 'two weeks,' we can expect Trump not to present his plan on Iran anytime, ever. Maybe we will get a 'concept of a plan' or even a whole week dedicated to the ...
This is a Boing Boing exclusive for paid subscribers only. Here's a preview: Although the fear of U.S. fascism under Donald Trump isn't new, for years the alarm bells were just scattered tinkles, coming from people who Trump called 'the enemies from within.' — Read the rest ...
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