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Get lifetime access to all Babbel language lessons with this exclusive offer

TL;DR: Get lifetime access to lessons in 14 different languages with Babbel, now just $134.99, with code LEARN. If you've been looking for a good language learning app, you've probably noticed that a whole lot of them have AI teaching their lessons now. Read the rest The post Get lifetime access to all Babbel language lessons with this exclusive offer appeared first on Boing Boing.

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The splootin' squirrels of SoCal are keepin' cool

Squirrels were melting into the ground during the last Southern California heatwave. Scientists explain "splooting" as rodents spreading out to expose as much of their thermal mass as possible to the cooler ground. It looks cute, but residents should still avoid squirrels as the nefarious criminal masterminds of the wild animal world. Read the rest The post The splootin' squirrels of SoCal are keepin' cool appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Sunny, 80 degrees, and Newport Beach is flooding

On nice, sunny days in Southern California, people usually visit the beach. Today, however, the beach is moving into residential neighborhoods. A hurricane is east and south of Baja California, a record heatwave just broke, and the Super El Niño doesn't give a damn, or it would probably just pass right over a dam, too. Read the rest The post Sunny, 80 degrees, and Newport Beach is flooding appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Maybe Trump's taxpayer-funded ads are a public service after all

Trump spent millions in taxpayer money to put self-aggrandizing tripe on TV. A focus group of former supporters suggests the ads may be doing exactly the opposite of winning them back. The Bulwark shared one of Trump's ego ads with some MAGAs whose enthusiasm has waned. Read the rest The post Maybe Trump's taxpayer-funded ads are a public service after all appeared first on Boing Boing.

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New Mexico pipeline explodes, launches 100-foot flames and starts a wildfire

A crazy spectacle erupted when a 20-inch Harvest Midstream natural-gas pipeline exploded Tuesday afternoon near La Boca, New Mexico, shooting flames an estimated 50 to 100 feet into the air and setting the surrounding brush and trees on fire. Residents near La Boca described the pipeline explosion as sounding like an F-16 taking off in their neighbor's yard. Read the rest The post New Mexico pipeline explodes, launches 100-foot flames and starts a wildfire appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Tom the Dancing Bug: Mark Zuckerberg presents "A.I. and U!"

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Mark Zuckerberg and his adorable pal Jolly assure you that A.I. is quite safe! Ruben Bolling will be at the New York Comic Con Thursday 10/8 and Friday 10/9 check here for info. Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug: Mark Zuckerberg presents "A.I. and U!" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Stolen Renoirs recovered in France; six suspects in custody

Two Renoir paintings stolen last month in southern France were recovered this week, reports Le Monde. Swiped from a museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, the Madame Colonna Romano and Jeune femme au puits are now safe under lock and key along with six suspects arrested since the September raid. Read the rest The post Stolen Renoirs recovered in France; six suspects in custody appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Trump admits he deliberately misnames Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed

Diaper Don is name-calling and attempting to use race to turn voters against a Michigan candidate for the U.S. Senate. Repeating his earlier "slip" of calling Abdul El-Sayed "Mohammed," Trump now plays with the man's entire name and says it is because he feels like it. Read the rest The post Trump admits he deliberately misnames Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed appeared first on Boing Boing.

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A theatrical morning with Nancy's Ernie Bushmiller

Tom Gammill stars in an absolutely hilarious new limited-run play in New York City, A Morning with Ernie Bushmiller. Photo: Ruben Bolling Ernie Bushmiller was the author of the comic strip Nancy, about a little girl living with her glamorous Aunt Fritzi, and her tough boyfriend Sluggo, which he produced for hundreds of newspapers from 1938-1982. Read the rest The post A theatrical morning with Nancy's Ernie Bushmiller appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Cyberpunk 2077 to get a live-action adaptation

Only a few days ago, I noted that we're entering another golden age of video game adaptations after the 90s put us off the whole idea for a while. I love when I'm proven right almost immediately. Unlike The Finals or ARC Raiders, Cyberpunk 2077's biggest strength is arguably its world and story: the game is an adaptation of a tabletop roleplaying universe that's been running since the 80s, and its revised version of that world has spawned spinoffs of its own. Read the rest The post Cyberpunk 20...

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Classic puzzle game Machinarium is getting a surprise sequel

The gorgeous, adorable puzzler Machinarium is getting a sequel seventeen years after its release. Machinarium 2 looks to be a worthy successor to the original, with everything that made it great. According to the publisher Amanita: Every environment in the game is hand-drawn, in a style inspired by old master drawings and Renaissance landscape paintings, and every robot is richly animated. Read the rest The post Classic puzzle game Machinarium is getting a surprise sequel appeared first on B...

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Save up to $500 per flight with Matt's Flights Premium Plan for $40 for life

TL;DR: Save up to 90% on domestic and international flights with Matt's Flights Premium Plan for just $39.99 (reg. $194). It's hard being an aspiring traveler when flight costs look like…that. But with Matt's Flights Premium Plan, you can save up to 90% on domestic and international flights—or $500+ on average. Read the rest The post Save up to $500 per flight with Matt's Flights Premium Plan for $40 for life appeared first on Boing Boing.

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An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem

The three-body problem remains unsolved—we can't generally predict the motion of three bodies for all starting conditions using regular maths—but there are many solutions showing periodic orbits given specific conditions. Three Body Orbits is a beautiful "atlas" animating 3,942 of them. Read the rest The post An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Pentagon to publicly livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan

The Pentagon's first military execution since World War II is scheduled for December 3, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says it will be livestreamed for the public. Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 fellow service members and injured 32 more in 2009, will be put to death by a firing squad. Read the rest The post Pentagon to publicly livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan appeared first on Boing Boing.

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The FBI's online gallery of stolen art

The FBI National Stolen Art File lists more than 8,000 paintings, sculptures and other "culturally-significant property" that has found its way out of galleries, museums and private collections and into swag bags. The sprawling online gallery provides a description, dimensions, artist, and, if available, a photograph. Read the rest The post The FBI's online gallery of stolen art appeared first on Boing Boing.

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You can now play P.T. natively on PC, no remake required

2014 horror game P.T. has left an enduring legacy behind, just as much for what it wasn't as what it was. It was a pitch-perfect bite-sized horror experience from the mind of gaming auteur Hideo Kojima. It wasn't, however, a full-sized, multi-hour game with a massive bag of tricks that was teased at the end. Read the rest The post You can now play P.T. natively on PC, no remake required appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Trump resorts to misnaming Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed

Having no remotely credible reason to encourage voters to consider Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed, America's angriest President resorted to racially motivated name-calling. Diaper Don pulled out all the stops on his classic rhetoric of hate: calling Abdul "Mohammed," invoking "jihad," and attempting to declare El-Sayed "a terrorist sympathizer." Read the rest The post Trump resorts to misnaming Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed appeared first on Boing Boing.

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This 100TB cloud storage sticks with you for life, and it just went on sale

TL;DR: Store up to 100TB of zero-knowledge encrypted files with an Internxt lifetime subscription on sale for $974.97 (reg. $9,900) through October 11. Dropbox costs $288 per year for a mere 15TB of storage space, and that's only if you pay for it all at once. Read the rest The post This 100TB cloud storage sticks with you for life, and it just went on sale appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Golden statue of Donald Trump unveiled at European Parliament

A golden statue of Donald Trump was unveiled this week at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. Jens Galschiøt's 8.5-foot sculpture depicts the gold-leafed president naked and sitting on the back of a smaller man in bronze. Trump holds the scales of justice in one hand and a golf club in the other. Read the rest The post Golden statue of Donald Trump unveiled at European Parliament appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Jeff Bezos explains AI by comparing it to other things people don't want

Rebranding Artificial Intelligence as "Super" Intelligence will work about as well as rebranding data centers as "theme parks." Following Donald Trump's lead, billionaire and phallic-shaped rocket enthusiast Jeff Bezos says he prefers calling AI "SI" because nobody likes artificial sweetener or artificial flavoring, and "artificial" sounds as fake as AI is. Read the rest The post Jeff Bezos explains AI by comparing it to other things people don't want appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Collection of classic PC demos in the browser

Demoscene Recomp features four classic PC demoscene productions on the web, using the original code recompiled "instruction for instruction" to run natively in the browser: "The C is compiled to WebAssembly, together with models of the hardware the demo talks to" including a VGA card and, of course, a Sound Blaster. Read the rest The post Collection of classic PC demos in the browser appeared first on Boing Boing.

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"A missile into San Diego or Los Angeles," Trump again describes the danger he brought home

Somehow, intending to leave people thinking he meant he is protecting Southern California, home to a good percentage of the United States military might, RandD, and educational institutions, Grandpa Pudding Brains once again invites Iran to shoot missiles it does not have at the United States. Read the rest The post "A missile into San Diego or Los Angeles," Trump again describes the danger he brought home appeared first on Boing Boing.

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JD Vance defines socialism with bigotry, not economics or socialism

"I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreign workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports." JD Vance's personal definition of socialism. Sycophant and Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, was asked for his personal definition of socialism and answered with talking points intended to inflame tempers and anger bigots. Read the rest The post JD Vance defines socialism with bigotry, not economics or sociali...

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This game turns job hunting into the Oregon Trail

A new online game turns looking for a job into a game like the Oregon Trail, only more depressing. In the Job Trail, players choose to play as a recently laid-off designer, copywriter, or software engineer looking for a new employer in the AI-hellscape that is 2026. Read the rest The post This game turns job hunting into the Oregon Trail appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Wired and Neal.fun team up to spend Elon's trillion dollars

Neal Agarwal's site, Neal.fun, is filled with, well, fun stuff from the vaguely tortuous Password Game to the wholesome Internet Roadtrip. His latest creation, in collaboration with Wired, feels like an indictment of late-stage capitalism. Spend Elon Musk's Money is a follow-up to Spend Bill Gates' Money, in which you make virtual purchases to deplete all the filthy lucre. Read the rest The post Wired and Neal.fun team up to spend Elon's trillion dollars appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Your monitors may take up more space than this tiny Lenovo PC

TL;DR: The refurbished Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q Gen 2 packs a six-core Ryzen 5 PRO processor, 16GB of RAM, and Windows 11 Pro into a tiny desktop for $329.99 (reg. $749.99). Desktop computers are supposed to occupy an inconvenient amount of desk. Read the rest The post Your monitors may take up more space than this tiny Lenovo PC appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Time to lock in! Get MS Office Professional Plus for 93% off

TL;DR: Save on a streamlined office experience with 93% off Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows that's a subscription-free license for just $14.97 (Reg. $229). It's Q4, which means it's time to lock in. Now is not the time for clunky processes and friction in your workflows. Read the rest The post Time to lock in! Get MS Office Professional Plus for 93% off appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Will you survive the Gom Jabbar? Los Angeles gets a real-life Arrakis, waiver included

Los Angeles. L.A. Desert city. Winner of water wars, destroyer of the Owens Valley. The Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula will soon offer Dune fans the opportunity to stick their hands into a box full of unbearable pain, and I don't mean watching Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya act. Read the rest The post Will you survive the Gom Jabbar? Los Angeles gets a real-life Arrakis, waiver included appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Trump wants to turn his private golf club into a presidential retreat

Having repeatedly tried to call his Florida dinner club "The Winter White House," Dementia Don has found a new grift: turning part of his private golf club into a new Presidential retreat à la Camp David without the gravitas or tradition. Read the rest The post Trump wants to turn his private golf club into a presidential retreat appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Tempe cop punches 21-year-old woman in the face; police union calls it the "minimum required"

Tempe police released a video showing Eryn Bonner failing to obey the cops. Sadly, for Tempe's finest, the video also shows what they did about it. One of their officers shoves the 21-year-old ASU student to the ground, tackles her against a police bicycle and then punches her in face. Read the rest The post Tempe cop punches 21-year-old woman in the face; police union calls it the "minimum required" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Game Boy becomes Game Man with giant-sized version

It's taken 37 years for Nintendo's humble Game Boy to hit puberty, but the hour has finally come. What's even cooler than a video game console you can carry around in your pocket? One the size of an actual person that runs on game cartridges a family of four could eat dinner on, of course. Read the rest The post Game Boy becomes Game Man with giant-sized version appeared first on Boing Boing.

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After hitting U.S. bases, Iran's LEGO propagandists tell Trump: "bases, not bedrooms"

Defending a war only he wanted, Donald Trump offered Los Angeles and San Diego up as sacrificial lambs to Iran. Scoffing, Iran has no interest in civilian targets. The war has cost the United States over 80 aircraft, and at least 8 US bases have been hit. Read the rest The post After hitting U.S. bases, Iran's LEGO propagandists tell Trump: "bases, not bedrooms" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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"This isn't Mexico!" yells woman standing on land the U.S. took from Mexico in a war

An engagement accompanied by the Southern California standard, a mariachi band, was interrupted by an angry woman declaring, "This isn't Mexico!" Technically, the bitter bigot is correct. Mexico ceded California in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Culturally, she's pretty far off tho. Read the rest The post "This isn't Mexico!" yells woman standing on land the U.S. took from Mexico in a war appeared first on Boing Boing.

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A new picture book makes kids its boss

Josh Lieb has been a comedy writer/producer for some of the best comedy on television: The Daily Show with John Stewart, The Simpsons, NewsRadio, etc. He's been writing funny and interesting children's books recently, and his latest is a Choose Your Own Adventure picture book that's that's more comedy than adventure. Read the rest The post A new picture book makes kids its boss appeared first on Boing Boing.

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The Finals and ARC Raiders, multiplayer games with no plot, to get film adaptations

I mean, fair play, if the Hollywood machine can turn games like Minecraft and Call of Duty into movies, nothing is off limits. If you've never played Embark's twin titans The Finals and ARC Raiders, the former is an immensely stylish capture-the-flag shooter with some of the best movement in any game I've played and the latter is an extraction shooter responsible for ruining scores of friendships. Read the rest The post The Finals and ARC Raiders, multiplayer games with no plot, to get film ada...

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Put 1TB of photos, documents, and files in Koofr for one $129.99 payment during Deal Days

TL;DR: Get 1TB of Koofr cloud storage for $129.99 (MSRP $810) during Deal Days with code KOOFR through October 11. It's a lifetime plan, so you pay once instead of adding another recurring cloud storage bill. Cloud storage usually comes with a monthly or annual bill that keeps coming back. Read the rest The post Put 1TB of photos, documents, and files in Koofr for one $129.99 payment during Deal Days appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Talarico ad hilariously highlights just how many scandals Ken Paxton has had

The Texas Senate race is already off the rails. The Republicans are desperately trying to discourage folks from voting for James Talarico, without reminding them that the candidate they would be voting for is Ken Paxton. It is great to see Talarico has a sense of humor and understands what it takes to win in the US these days. Read the rest The post Talarico ad hilariously highlights just how many scandals Ken Paxton has had appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Pay $68 for 5 years of piano lessons, right on your phone or computer

TL;DR: The flowkey Piano Learning App is only $67.97 (MSRP $899) for a five year subscription until Oct. 11 at 11:59 p.m. PT. No more excuses learn piano for a one-time fee of $67.97 with the flowkey Piano Learning App. Read the rest The post Pay $68 for 5 years of piano lessons, right on your phone or computer appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Perhaps humiliation is the productivity hack we've been waiting for

Autonomous is an AI-forward company that sells everything from a coaster that tracks how much water you drink, a creepy-cute Pixar-esque companion lamp, to $20,000 backyard office pods. Another offering is the Autonomous Key, which promises to help kick the doomscrolling habit. Read the rest The post Perhaps humiliation is the productivity hack we've been waiting for appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Will Frozen Trail turn it around for Arc Raiders?

Embark's promised big next step in Arc Raiders is set to release on October 8th. Will it bring back the fading player base? Arc Raiders had one of the most exciting launches and ramp-ups in years. It held on for a few months, but then rapidly lost players, at a rate that seemed intentional but was not. Read the rest The post Will Frozen Trail turn it around for Arc Raiders? appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Entertainment wants to be free: the forgotten war to liberate satellite TV

For the first 15 years or so of this century, subscription satellite TV was available in Latin America with a one-time purchase of a pirate box. The channel operators tried to stop it, and the pirates nimbly worked around the locks. Read the rest The post Entertainment wants to be free: the forgotten war to liberate satellite TV appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Trump salivates over Natalie and invites Iran to bomb California

The Orange Menace, who has notably been sued by women over alleged "affairs" during his current marriage, gave his bag carrier a good once-over and then described her as a "perfect person," where perfect seems to mean her legs. While musing over television vehicles for Natalie, Diaper Don also offered up Los Angeles and San Diego to Iran as targets for retribution. Read the rest The post Trump salivates over Natalie and invites Iran to bomb California appeared first on Boing Boing.

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California gives Disneyland's gas-choked Autopia a deadline

Disneyland's fume-soaked Autopia has been given until February 1st, 2027, to change or shut down. A few years ago, Disney got caught running Autopia cars that were not emissions-approved. They agreed to a 30-month timeline to clean up its grossly polluting car ride, or shut down. Read the rest The post California gives Disneyland's gas-choked Autopia a deadline appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Republican gubernatorial candidate in California compares experimenting with your sexuality to voting for him

Steve Hilton has a really creepy and weird ad for Governor of California, and its probably not helping him. I guess first-time voting has changed a lot since I was a kid! The ad even has Republicans pissed off. Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center considers a Christian nationalist, said the ad promotes "lesbianism," which he called a "pandemic" among high school and college students during his Facebook live on Saturday, and called it "grotes...

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Star Wars: Galactic Racer is free to play for Prime members

The new Star Wars racing game is available for free on a service you likely forgot exists. Star Wars: Galactic Racer is out today on PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam, but also on Amazon Luna, free to play for Prime members. Read the rest The post Star Wars: Galactic Racer is free to play for Prime members appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Texas city wants $2.3 million to release data on Flock use

With police abuse of Flock surveillance cameras often making news and backlash growing against the rapid deployment of ALPR (Automated License Plate Readers) across the U.S., some cities are finding ways to make sure taxpayers know as little as possible. The Fort Worth suburb of North Richland Hills, reports The Texas Tribune, demanded $2.3 million to fulfill a public records request for information about its use of Flock cameras. Read the rest The post Texas city wants $2.3 million to release ...

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Fiction just joined Headway's 2,000+ book summaries, now $50 for Deal Days

TL;DR: Get 15-minute summaries of nonfiction and fiction bestsellers with a Headway Premium lifetime subscription for $49.97 with code SAVE20 (MSRP $299.95). Everyone has a stack of books they swear they'll get to, and every new release makes the stack taller. Read the rest The post Fiction just joined Headway's 2,000+ book summaries, now $50 for Deal Days appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Doom ported to SQL

Doom, the classic first-person shooter, brought PCs to their knees in 1993. But now it runs on toothbrushes and earbuds and has even been implemented on the Commodore 64. Now it has been ported to SQL, the structured query language used by many relational databases. Read the rest The post Doom ported to SQL appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Cancer guru banned in Australia heading to Britain and Ireland

"Natural healing" coach Barbara O'Neill is permanently banned from providing health services in Australia, but will soon be touring Britain and Ireland to deliver lectures such as 'The Science of Breath' and 'What Really Does Cause Disease.' O'Neill has claimed that cancer can be treated with baking soda; the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission found in 2019 that she had discouraged mainstream cancer treatment, antibiotics and vaccination, and that her claims had 'real potential to...

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Stream globally and securely with this $30 lifetime VPN

TL;DR: Avoid geo-restrictions and access FastestVPN PRO's built-in privacy suite for life for just $29.97 (reg. $600). A good VPN goes beyond streaming benefits—it also protects your privacy. And with FastestVPN PRO, you'll never have to worry about losing out on either. Read the rest The post Stream globally and securely with this $30 lifetime VPN appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Wounded U.S. troops say the Pentagon left them to fight for their own medical care

Donald Trump sent U.S. service members to war in Iran. When an Iranian drone strike on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait killed six and left dozens wounded, nine report they were not classified as wounded and were left to figure out their own medical care. Read the rest The post Wounded U.S. troops say the Pentagon left them to fight for their own medical care appeared first on Boing Boing.

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AI billionaire Sam Altman says the world should accept "some bad things happening" for AI

Still failing to read the room, Sam Altman thinks the world should accept "some bad things happening" for the benefits of artificial intelligence. This is an incredible bargain to offer humanity while Forbes says you're worth about $3.3 billion, and the bad things under discussion include other people getting hacked, scammed, and otherwise abused by the technology that made you that $3.3 billion. Read the rest The post AI billionaire Sam Altman says the world should accept "some bad things hap...

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Having spent enough time with her family, Karoline Leavitt joins Fox News

Having abandoned Donald Trump for a longer-lasting future that doesn't involve being left to die with the press corps, Karoline Leavitt surprises us only by jumping to Fox News so quickly. Leavitt was one of Trump's most vile press secretaries. Not the pitiful joke of Scaramucci, or the weakness embodied by Spicey, Karoline "The Mouth of Moron" Leavitt was a hopped-up, supercharged version of Huckabee-Sanders with nothing but spite for the American people. Read the rest The post Having spent en...

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Playing The Last of Us in first person is like an entirely different game

As a big fan of Naughty Dog's zombie-killing/teenage angst simulator The Last of Us, I was gutted to discover that an ongoing multiplayer mod for The Last of Us: Part 2 had been axed by Sony. The moment you decide to charge for a mod, you're making money off someone else's IP and open to be beheaded for it. Read the rest The post Playing The Last of Us in first person is like an entirely different game appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Trump tells Ohio Republicans: "We're gonna shove it up their ass"

The President of the United States stood in a high school gym in Vandalia, Ohio, and described his vision of a Republican victory this November, insisting they'd "shove it up their ass." The audience cheered. Trump was stumping for Ohio Republicans Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy when he resorted to the kind of argument MAGA can really get behind: Apparently the face-eating leopards have evolved. Read the rest The post Trump tells Ohio Republicans: "We're gonna shove it up their ass" appeared f...

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Paul Reubens' magnificent Mr. T collection is up for sale

This is the kind of Paul Reubens story that just makes you love him more. The Pee-wee Herman actor had an incredible Mr. T memorabilia collection. The comedian amassed two A-Team kites, fake gold chains, "Gold" chain bubble gum, air fresheners, party hats, coloring books, an action figure, and a Mr. Read the rest The post Paul Reubens' magnificent Mr. T collection is up for sale appeared first on Boing Boing.

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SNL does GTA 6

With the hype behind Grand Theft Auto 6 reaching cataclysmic levels, it was only a matter of time before our other American cultural institutions started taking notice. Let no one say that Saturday Night Live hasn't cast off its reputation for being slightly behind the times: they've finally done a GTA 6 sketch. Read the rest The post SNL does GTA 6 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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The next co-op indie darling is probably going to be an egg-cracking simulator

Remember when your friends roped you into Lethal Company, then Peak, then Big Walk, then that game where you just walk around a run-down house picking up leaves? So-called 'friendslop' a term I really, really hate that describes small, low-scope co-op indie games has become a thriving industry all its own, rivaling even the dreaded cozy game in its ubiquity. Read the rest The post The next co-op indie darling is probably going to be an egg-cracking simulator appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Van goes off PCH and into the Pacific; firefighters go in for the dog

Heroic rescue workers went into pounding waves to extract a dog trapped in a van that left Pacific Coast Highway for a Malibu surf experience. A white cargo van went off PCH in Malibu, near Deer Creek Road, smashed into some rocks, and wound up in the Pacific. Read the rest The post Van goes off PCH and into the Pacific; firefighters go in for the dog appeared first on Boing Boing.

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You're not using Claude to its full potential this $15 E-Degree can help

TL;DR: Make the most out of Claude with this Claude AI Professional E-Degree, on sale now for just $14.97 (MSRP $159) until October 11. If you're only asking Claude basic questions, you're really missing the boat on this powerful and popular AI model. Read the rest The post You're not using Claude to its full potential this $15 E-Degree can help appeared first on Boing Boing.

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One and done—get 10TB of cloud storage for a one-time $359.99 payment

TL;DR: Get 10TB of Internxt Drive encrypted cloud storage for life for $359.99 (reg. $2,900) with one payment and no monthly subscription. Cloud storage has a way of becoming one of those bills you forget you're paying until the charge appears again. Read the rest The post One and done—get 10TB of cloud storage for a one-time $359.99 payment appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Give your PC a makeover with MS Office Pro Plus 2019 and Windows 11 Pro for just $26

TL;DR: Upgrade your PC with ease with MS Office Pro Plus 2019 and Windows 11 Pro for just $25.99 (reg. $428). Why pay more for software upgrades when you can simply give your operating system (OS) and productivity suite a makeover for less? Read the rest The post Give your PC a makeover with MS Office Pro Plus 2019 and Windows 11 Pro for just $26 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Get professional coding tools and AI assistance for just $30 with this Microsoft deal

TL;DR: Make coding easier with Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026, on sale for just $29.97 (MSRP $499.99) through tonight at 11:59 PM. Even experienced coders sometimes need a little help. Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 combines professional development tools with AI-powered assistance to help you tackle code more efficiently. Read the rest The post Get professional coding tools and AI assistance for just $30 with this Microsoft deal appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Quantified Self cofounder Gary Wolf brings his new book to Los Angeles

My friend and Wired colleague Gary Wolf is one of my favorite writers. He wrote a bunch of fantastic articles for Wired magazine, including a profile of Ted Nelson, creator of the Xanadu hypertext project, and he wrote a history of Wired magazine, a book called Wired: A Romance. Read the rest The post Quantified Self cofounder Gary Wolf brings his new book to Los Angeles appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Rob Ullman drew a 48-page comic about his single day in Zion National Park

Illustrator Robert Ullman, who did some great illustrations for Make magazine when I was editor there, has a new Kickstarter for a 48-page comic about his trip to Zion National Park. What a great way to capture an experience and share it with other people. Read the rest The post Rob Ullman drew a 48-page comic about his single day in Zion National Park appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Jared Kushner vows to someday argue with the press

The Saudi-owned and operated son-in-law of our dementia addled President is tired of people getting things wrong, and maybe sometime he'll tell us the side of the story he wants us to hear. Jared Kushner, whose private-equity firm took a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and who is best known for marrying Diaper Don's daughter, is sick and tired of being kicked around by the press and is not gonna take it anymore, someday, really. Read the rest The post Jared Kush...

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Doom ported to Commodore 64

Id Software's 1992 shooter Doom now runs on toothbrushes, alarm clocks and all sorts of other modern gadgets that contain tiny supercomputers. But it doesn't run on the 8-bit home computers (or even 16-bit ones) that are even older than it is. Read the rest The post Doom ported to Commodore 64 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Manage your PDFs with ease for life with this $80 Mac PDF Editor 

TL;DR: Handle your PDFs with ease with this lifetime subscription to PDF Expert's Premium Plan while it's on sale for 43% off.  While a few software products include some kind of PDF management, nothing's better than the real thing. Take, for example, PDF Expert, a PDF editor that lets you edit, annotate, compress, merge, convert, sign, and protect PDFs from a single workspace. Read the rest The post Manage your PDFs with ease for life with this $80 Mac PDF Editor  appeared first on Boing Boing...

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New camera database has 1482 entries and it hasn't even gotten to "B"

Camera Index represents camera expert Pierro Pozella's quest to document every film camera ever made. He aims to turn it into the ultimate encyclopedia of the form, complete with specifications, manuals and, of course, photographs of the gadgets. [via Kosmofoto] "Our aim is to create one of the most comprehensive film camera archives available, while keeping it freely accessible to photographers, collectors, researchers and anyone interested in analogue photography. Read the rest The post Ne...

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Does Olivia Dean's "I've Seen It" copy Bill Withers' "Just The Two Of Us?"

British singer Olivia Dean's song I've Seen It lifts a section of melody from 1981 Bill Withers hit Just The Two Of Us, according to a lawsuit [PDF] filed in California. The songs "share musical features … so striking" that it cannot be a coincidence, claim lawyers for Mattie Music Group, which manages Withers' catalog. Read the rest The post Does Olivia Dean's "I've Seen It" copy Bill Withers' "Just The Two Of Us?" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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The most exciting thing about Amazon's 2026 Kindle refresh is a clicker

People keep waiting for a groundbreaking reinvention of the e-reader, but Kindle already does it pretty well. The e-reader line has been refreshed. New Basic, Paperwhite, and Colorsoft versions are available, along with Signature editions for the Paperwhite and Colorsoft. The shape has changed somewhat. Read the rest The post The most exciting thing about Amazon's 2026 Kindle refresh is a clicker appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Glass eyes, death masks, and human skulls: browse a weird auction's results

Potter and Potter Auctions just closed its "Weird Tales! UFOs, Curiosities and Tattoos" auction, and it is fun to browse through the catalog and see what was offered and how much money people paid. Items included books on pseudoscience, human skulls, wooden boxes full of glass eyes, quack medical devices, apothecary jars, pickled medical specimens, death masks, exotic weapons, the Lord's Prayer on a grain of wheat, binders of mugshot photos, and more. Read the rest The post Glass eyes, death ma...

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Trump's Kennedy Center is apparently fencing the Steinways

The Orange Menace has lost his multiple bids to slap his failure-associated name on a revered institution and has been ordered not to tear it down on a whim, so he is selling off the parts. Movers have been photographed hauling out the Steinways, which AlterNet reports are being sold because the Center is closed. Read the rest The post Trump's Kennedy Center is apparently fencing the Steinways appeared first on Boing Boing.

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First-time U.S. passport applicants will soon be able to apply online

New U.S. passports are coming, and first-time applicants can apply online. Digital selfies will also be allowed, making the process easier than ever. Passports are currently mailed in paper envelopes. New ones will come in a white box with the golden seal. Read the rest The post First-time U.S. passport applicants will soon be able to apply online appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Man exonerated by dashcam

After about 10 minutes of officer testimony, it took about 35 seconds of dashcam video to see the charges dropped. Chavez Morgan was issued a citation for an illegal lane change that caused a minor mirror-clip incident on the highway. He told the officer he had dashcam footage and explained what happened, but the officer still judged him the culprit. Read the rest The post Man exonerated by dashcam appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Ad for Huel meal replacement shakes banned in UK

A social media ad for "nutritionally complete" meal replacement shakes was banned by the UK's advertising watchdog over a suggestion the shakes can replace conventional food. Huel's ad, which ran on Instagram and YouTube, showed celebrity entrepreneur Spencer Matthews talking to Huel Founder Julian Hearn about a race-winning athlete who "only eats Huel." Read the rest The post Ad for Huel meal replacement shakes banned in UK appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Mandelnaut: an atlas of beautiful fractals

Mandelnaut is the ultimate 1990s poster shop spinner, generating beautiful images of fractals with a huge array of options and settings and outputting images at custom dimensions. Making fractal wallpapers: rendering escape-time fractals, finding beautiful views, and teaching models to judge them There are Mandelbrots, Multibrots, Julias, and Phoenixes to explore and zoom around, 13 rendering modes, and hundreds of color schemes organized by hue and various pallette cycling knobs and dials on ...

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Pay $70 and get $150 in travel data with this lifetime eSIM

TL;DR: Get $150 in travel data credit, usable in 200+ countries, for just $69.99 (reg. $150) with aloSIM. The last thing anyone wants to do after landing in their travel destination is wander around looking for the best and most affordable network carriers. Read the rest The post Pay $70 and get $150 in travel data with this lifetime eSIM appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Man charged with child rape set to become Louisiana police chief

Christopher Paul is running unopposed to become the chief of police in Elizabeth, Louisiana, a village of 417 people. Paul, however, was recently charged with raping two 13-year-old girls twenty years ago, creating a dilemma for locals who might not want someone suspected of serious crimes to be their only full-time police officer. Read the rest The post Man charged with child rape set to become Louisiana police chief appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Japan court rules actors have right to their own voices

Kenjiro Tsuda, an actor famed in Japan for his lustrous baritone, sued TikTok over an account that used an AI-generated replica of his voice in more than 180 videos. Tokyo District Court ruled this week that a persons' voice can be protected under Japan's publicity rights law. Read the rest The post Japan court rules actors have right to their own voices appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Instax Pal 2: fun but pricey pocket toy camera

Fujifilm's ever-growing Instax range trends toward both high-end retro and pocketable fun (consider the runaway success of Kodak's Charmera), with both to be found in the Instax Pal 2. Shorn of its printer and only 1.4 x 1.6 x 3.6 inches (37 x 42 x 92mm), it's completely unlike the bloblike original in style. Read the rest The post Instax Pal 2: fun but pricey pocket toy camera appeared first on Boing Boing.

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RAM shortage to last two more years, say top manufacturers

Executives from Samsung and Micron, two of the world's top sellers of random access memory, warned this week that the RAM shortage would continue through 2028. AI companies take it all for their datacenters, and what's left for everyone else will continue to command premium prices. Read the rest The post RAM shortage to last two more years, say top manufacturers appeared first on Boing Boing.

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11 mystery Flock cameras identified in Florida county

Florida recently ordered law enforcement agencies to remove Flock cameras installed on the state's roads: the intrusive technology and regular misuse by police officers has led to a national backlash against the company and surveillance cameras in general. Most are already gone, but there's a problem: there are Flock cameras in St. Read the rest The post 11 mystery Flock cameras identified in Florida county appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Book of Shapes: customizable SVG patterns for print and web

Book of Shapes [via] is a collection of minimalist generative SVG patterns created by Nikolaj Sokolowski. Beautiful and elaborate, yet each defined by a few lines of code, they can be customized for use on the web or in print. Read the rest The post Book of Shapes: customizable SVG patterns for print and web appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Trump keeps trying to label Texas' meat-eating Talarico a "vagan"

In an attempt to shame the Texas senatorial candidate, who is not accused of bribery or securities fraud, Dementia Donnie keeps calling the omnivorous James Talarico a "vagan." The number one way we know James Talarico isn't a "vagan" is because he isn't constantly telling us how ethical he is for being one. Read the rest The post Trump keeps trying to label Texas' meat-eating Talarico a "vagan" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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France discovers the dubious pleasures of AI detection

AI detection is a difficult job, made worse for everyone by it being such a delicious ingredient in academic snake oil. But one service has clearly outperformed the others in tests: Pangram. It went beyond obvious characteristics of LLM output such as perplexity and ngram distance, training its own classifiers on large collections of human text and generative imitations. Read the rest The post France discovers the dubious pleasures of AI detection appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Sir Clive Sinclair on AI, from 2006

In 2006, The BBC reviewed predictions about robotics and AI made in the 1980s. Now, another 20 years later, we can reappraise its appraisal. When Will Intelligent Machines Take Over? The segment features Sir Clive Sinclair, icon of early home computing, who plainly claims that the endgame of computing technology is AI. Read the rest The post Sir Clive Sinclair on AI, from 2006 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Get Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for $50 for life

TL;DR: Give your PC a software upgrade with this $50 Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus lifetime license for Windows. For some reason, software expenses always come up at the worst time. But this Boing Boing-exclusive Flash Sale is an easy way to get ahead of those unexpected costs. Read the rest The post Get Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for $50 for life appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Grandpa Pudding Brains demonstrates the little "steering-wheels" airplanes "used to have"

In yet another moment of "this guy is not competent to be President of the United States" moment, Donald Trump demonstrated how pilots used to use "little steering-wheels" to control airplanes. The plane he was discussing, the Boeing 737 MAX, certainly still has yokes. Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains demonstrates the little "steering-wheels" airplanes "used to have" appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Fox cuts away while JD Vance argues with hecklers and the positions he assigned them

America's most boring sycophant, JD Vance, was mercilessly heckled at a rally for Byron Donalds and Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL), and he created some interesting backstories for them. While good ol' Just Dance, Vance didn't know the protesters' names, where they were from, or what brought them to a place where heckling a credibilityless, self-professed liar seemed like a good use of time—he was willing to imagine political positions and opinions for them. Read the rest The post Fox cuts away while ...

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Spy magazine turns 40 with daily posts about a certain short-fingered vulgarian

Kurt Andersen, co-founder of the late great Spy magazine, announced that the 40th anniversary of the magazine will be celebrated on Substack, where "we'll start publishing starting next Monday the 5th, a limited series of daily excerpts and links from the magazine's archive, with bits of new commentary and context. Read the rest The post Spy magazine turns 40 with daily posts about a certain short-fingered vulgarian appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Captain America No. 1 kept in a cardboard box for 80 years sells for $716,750

The Merrimack Valley Collection is a legendary comic book collection in which someone bought comics off the rack and stored them in a cardboard box for almost 80 years. Heritage Auctions sold many of these comics in a couple of auctions in Dallas last week. Read the rest The post Captain America No. 1 kept in a cardboard box for 80 years sells for $716,750 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Trump "super intelligence" rebrand leads to land rush for .si domains

Following his meeting with top AI executives yesterday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that artificial intelligence will henceforth be known as "super intelligence." The order, which applies to federal government, call he made last week during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Read the rest The post Trump "super intelligence" rebrand leads to land rush for .si domains appeared first on Boing Boing.

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In Pittsburgh, people compete to see who can parallel park fastest and closest to the curb

In the latest issue of Why Is This Interesting, Mark Slavonia writes about the annual parallel parking championship in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where people compete to see who can parallel park. The rules are that the clock starts ticking when the referee sees your reverse lights go on. Read the rest The post In Pittsburgh, people compete to see who can parallel park fastest and closest to the curb appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Catalina medevac crashes into the sea after picking up a patient for a flight to the mainland

A REACH medical evacuation helicopter crashed into the Pacific while departing Catalina Island. Of the five people aboard, two have died; two were taken to hospitals, and the patient is missing. Catalina Island is a beautiful and remote place to live. Read the rest The post Catalina medevac crashes into the sea after picking up a patient for a flight to the mainland appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Watch a skater befriend a rabbit at the skatepark

A young rabbit was having a terrible time attempting a flyout at the local skatepark. Stuck in the bowl and unable to escape, the cottontail made a new friend. This kind, patient skater pulled off an amazing tailgrab and eventually helped his new bunny buddy escape. Read the rest The post Watch a skater befriend a rabbit at the skatepark appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Officers search Santa Ana for a deadly but AI-generated African viper

"I wish it was AI. It's in my backyard, and it's scary," said a man who used AI to create an image of a venomous Gaboon viper and had teams of police and reptile hunters searching for the dangerous creature. Santa Ana Police called in experts to help them find a four- to five-foot-long Gaboon viper after a gentleman shared photos of one in his neighbor's yard. Read the rest The post Officers search Santa Ana for a deadly but AI-generated African viper appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Novel withdrawn from running for France's top literary prize after AI claims

France's Académie Goncourt has withdrawn Canadian-Haitian author Thélyson Orélien's novel C'était ça ou mourir (It Was That or Die) from consideration for its top literary prize. The book shows signs of being written by AI, reports The Guardian. A lyrical first-person account of how a history and geography teacher flees a home country mired in gang violence… Published in France by Grasset in August, it has sold about 35,000 copies and won the Prix du roman Fnac, with translation rights sold to ...

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Slugs blamed for broken traffic lights

Newly-installed traffic lights at a busy corner in Stretford, England, keep failing and leaving motorists fightened and confused. Part of a £17.6m (about $24m) redevelopment of the town center, the new lights have gone out three times, reports the Manchester Evening News, a pattern one local councillor described as "very odd." Read the rest The post Slugs blamed for broken traffic lights appeared first on Boing Boing.