|
Navigation
Search
Top: BoingBoing
|
PC / Tech. > BoingBoing
Friday February 21, 2025. 05:00 PM
TL;DR: This MagSafe-compatible wallet tracks itself with the Apple Find My network, holds eight cards, blocks RFID, and sticks to your phone with a crazy-strong grip. It's usually $39.99, but right now, you can grab it for just $29.99. We've all been there—frantically...
French far-right leader Jordan Bardella has canceled a planned speech at CPAC after former Trump aide Steve Bannon flashed a 'Nazi gesture' on stage. Bannon, emulating South African billionaire Elon Musk, offered the crowd his rigid-arm, fingers together and pointed, palm...
Apple is removing its highest-level encryption tool from UK customers after the government demanded access under the Investigatory Powers Act, reports the BBC. New signups ended Friday and existing users will lose access later. Apple says it is 'gravely disappointed' and...
The state of Connecticut is proud to consider itself the pizza capital of the U.S., even if it is alone in that perception. Governor Ned Lamont has 'doubled down' on the claim, report local media, at a series of events throughout February. — Read the rest The post...
Are Birkenstocks, referring to examples of the brand of sandals, art? The company says yes, but the courts in Germany say no, they're footwear. The company was attempting to use an art-friendly element of local copyright law to make it harder to sell sandals that resemble...
A trusted small-town banker in Elkhart, Kansas fell victim to an overseas crypto 'pig butchering' scam, stealing $47.1M from his own community bank to feed it, reports the New York Times in this lengthy and engrossing feature story. Shan Hanes, president of Heartland...
With Elon Musk given a free hand by Trump to wind down government agencies, fire their workers and remove their work from public view, what's going on at their websites? The top-level domain.gov is reserved for government use, and the dotgov-data viewer makes it easy to see...
Instead of just tearing apart the United States like a normal autocratic royal hand, Elon Musk insists on slathering his efforts with some seriously deep cringe. Such as yesterday's CPAC spectacle, in which the hyped-up boy-man strutted on stage in dark shades and a massive...
James Trimble's European word translator generates maps of Europe showing the word of your choice in the most common languages for each nation. It gets the job done nicely, though it only works for English words. This page was inspired by the etymology maps by Bezbojnicul...
Intent on ruining America as thoroughly as he wrecked Twitter, Musk's Department of Government 'Efficiency' (DOGE) just limited federal credit cards to one dollar. According to Wired's report, the restrictions hit the General Services Administration along with three other...
You've probably heard by now that raw milk consumption is on the rise, and now that we have a raw milk enthusiast leading the HHS, it's going to get even more widespread. But have you heard about the other raw trends—eating raw meat and drinking 'raw' water—that are...
When a French social media post claimed kebabs near train stations taste worse, one unemployed data scientist armed with 'a few cans of energy drinks, a neurological development disorder, and a single-minded purpose' set out to prove it scientifically. Every kebab shop and...
MOBAs get a bad rap. When was the last time you heard anyone say anything good about League of Legends that wasn't 'wow, I really liked Arcane'? Even in my own experience, most modern MOBAs tend to be weirdly byzantine, rules-heavy experiences all about trying to optimize...
We're smack dab in the middle of one of the worse flu seasons in the last two decades, where at least 24 million Americans—and counting—have caught the flu. WastewaterSCAN reports that the majority of sites across the country are measuring 'high' for Influenza A (as well ...
Over the past few months, I've had the unique experience of testing out a Bitcoin-mining space heater—literally a cryptomining rig with some radiant heating coils stacked on top of it for added warmth. The idea, as the founder of Heatbit explained it to me, is that...
A selfie of tearful 42-year-old woman holding a colorful birthday cake bears the caption 'Today is my 42nd birthday, no husband, no children, I baked the cake by myself…' Neither the woman nor the cake is real. It's an AI-generated image designed to turn sympathy into...
Just three days ago, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon called Elon Musk 'a parasitic illegal immigrant.' And for months, the War Room podcaster has been hammering his rival, referring to him as a 'truly evil person' who wants to 'play-act as God.' — Read the rest The post...
While Apple Maps, Google Maps, and Bing have all caved and renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, Mapquest has held fast, along with the Associated Press and Encyclopedia Britannica. Now, the OG online map service lets you rename the Gulf of Mexico anything you...
TL;DR: Windows 11 Pro is 91% off—just $17.97 instead of $199—but only through March 30. If your current operating system feels like it's stuck in 2005, it's time for an upgrade—and not just any upgrade. Windows 11 Pro is here to turn your computer into a productivity...
Oni Press—the award-winning publisher behind Scott Pilgrim and Gender Queer—is about to bring us one of the most ridiculous and metal comics of the year, and Boing Boing was given the exclusive on revealing its metal AF special cover: a human blood variant! — Read the...
|
25 sources
Current Date
Apr, Fri 4 - 18:45 CEST
|
