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.

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

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. —

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.

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.

"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 woma

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.

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 m

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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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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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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. —

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 (Autmated 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. —

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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

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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.

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 happening" for AI appeared first on Boing Boing.

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 Americ

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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 stu

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.

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 t

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, lo

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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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. —

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

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 i

Doom ported to Commodore 64

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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

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 Californ

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

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

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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. —

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

New U.S. passports are coming: first-time applicants can apply online, digital selfies are allowed, and passports will ship in a white box with the golden seal.

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. —

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 Juli

Mandelnaut: an atlas of beautiful fractals

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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. —

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

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

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

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

Book of Shapes: customizable SVG patterns for print and web

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Trump keeps trying to label Texas’ meat-eating Talarico a “vagan”

Talarico keeps eating meat. Trump keeps running against the vegan version of him.

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 f

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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 S

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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. —

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 p

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

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

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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

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

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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.

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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

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

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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 c

School principal on leave after calling parents crazy on voicemail

A school principal is on leave after voicemail caught her making ill-considered remarks about the parents of a 5-year-old girl who reported that she was inappropriately touched by a classmate.

Freckle is a kid’s phone that sends them on real-world quests

Freckle is a small, square smartphone aimed at youngsters aged 7-13, designed to give them "independence" without providing features that encourage prolonged or repetetive use. The $199 device has a 3.1", 720 × 720 t

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Wild footage of Indiana’s White River flooding a massive quarry

Last month’s flooding in Carmel, Indiana, saw the White River burst its banks and destroy a number of homes—and caused a highway overpass to collapse. The waters ultimately reached a

Rival SCP Foundation movie will have Creative Commons license

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Pool Square street sign regularly painted over to read Poo Square

Contractors working for the city of Sheffield, England, have repainted the street sign for Pool Square at least eight times since being awarded a highway maintenance contract there, reports The Star. It's more likely than not they will do so on any given year. — Read the rest The post

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Chat Pile’s songs are bleak, but their live show is a blast

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These USB-C cables look like orange and green extension cords

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PC cooling company Noctua now a fan of cameras too

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“That’s so AI” is the new insult, and it means bullshit

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AI models benchmarked with Pac Man

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Diners flee McDonalds restaurant as blaze consumes it

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Fighting Mother Nature, America has spent $15.7 billion putting sand back on beaches

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Auralnaut’s reimagined Star Wars series is both more fun than plain ol’ Star Wars and makes a lot more sense.

This guy’s 1976 VW bus became a Matchbox toy, with his real license plate

A reader’s 1976 VW T2 appeared in Matchbox: The Movie, and the Matchbox miniature carries his real Hungarian license plate.

Stevie Wonder finally releases four unheard songs from Songs in the Key of Life

Stevie Wonder released four unheard songs from his Songs in the Key of Life sessions to mark the album’s 50th

Stop juggling AI tabs: Put 20+ models in one place for $55

ChatPlayground AI puts 20+ AI models, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, in one workspace side by side.

Trump offered to sell arms to China during Xi summit

The AP reports that U.S. president Donald Trump asked China’s president if he wanted to buy US arms on Sunday, describing a deal that would “upend generations of U.S. policy

Full-screen animated Mandelbrot fractals on the web

I remember waiting hours¹ for an AmigaBASIC mandlebrot set to render on my Commodore A500 in 1992 or so, its 7Mhz CPU tackling 64,000 pixels one by one until the amazing results were complete. Now I can stare at wastingmytime's fractals zooming and

No fine for copy of Century Illustrated returned 132 years late to library

When Concord Public Library in New Hampshire announced a yearlong amnesty on overdue fines, hoping to get some of its many purloined publications back, it didn't expect to see a 1894 issue of Century Illustrated.

Crane falls over why trying to right fallen crane

A truck-mounted crane tipped over onto a house in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday morning, and then a second crane brought in to lift the first one toppled while trying to right it. It too fell onto the house, reported Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue spokesman Frank Guzman. — Read

12 words from Caribbean and Bermuda enter the Oxford English Dictionary

More than a dozen English words long-used in Bermuda and the Caribbean found their way into the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016, joining last year’s set in the definitive record

Drain the oceans and flood the land with this sea level simulator

You’ve surely seen interactive maps showing the effects of the sea level rising, but Sliding Shores makes a game of it: you get a beautifully-rendered globe and a slider to

Indian oil billionaire’s son appointed “professor of sustainability” at Newcastle University

Newcastle University in the United Kingdom has a new Professor of Sustainability: Anant Ambani, the heir to an Indian fossil fuels fortune and owner of an enormous zoo. Ambani earned the professorship for "his work in conservation, biodiversity protection, animal welfare and environmental stewardship" (he owns an enormous zoo) and "significant contributions to advancing a mo

MIcrosoft ditches “Copilot+” branding for “AI PCs”

Microsoft and chip company Qualcomm launched the “Copilot+” PC branding in 2024 for so-called “AI” PCs. They even had a “Copilot” button that you could press to bring up the

Access the Pro features that Windows 11 Home leaves out for just $10

Get this Microsoft Windows 11 Pro lifetime license for a one-time deal of $9.97 (reg. $199)—no subscription, no renewal, through October 4.

Kyrsten Sinema’s former bodyguard and lover arrested after throwing 22 paintings in her swimming pool

Matthew Ammel, the former bodyguard and boyfriend of former Arizona U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema, was arrested after allegedly breaking into her home while she was out of town and causing

Reelizer: curated gallery of movie posters and inspired artwork

Reelizer is a collection of movie poster art curated by Roger Erik Tinch. First published in 2011, it blew up after being linked to by Daring Fireball, slowly faded over the years, went on hiatus, and is now back thanks to new content management

Use Apple Find My to track more than just your devices with this $50 tracking card 4-pack

Use Apple Find My to keep track of your wallet, bags, and work badges with this Gen 2 Lite KeySmart SmartCard 4-pack while it’s 31% off.

This $80 Lenovo Chromebook doubles as a touchscreen tablet

Handle work and fit in some play on this Lenovo 300e Chromebook, on sale now for just $79.99 (MSRP $284.99).

Matt Bors and Tristan Wright reboot The Toxic Crusaders as an adult comic

Cartoonist Matt Bors has teamed with artist Tristan Wright to create a new comic book version of the early 90s TV kids' cartoon series "The Toxic Crusaders." While the cartoon ser

Behold the horrors of DLSS 5, NVidia’s real-time AI graphics improver

DLSS 5 is Nvidia's AI-powered tech for dynamically repainting video game scenes in real-time, with more realistic lighting, textures and geometry. Controversial enough on recent games, where it succeeds on a technical level, the real fun is to be had applying it to old ones. —

Top platforms refuse paid ads for Alex Gibney’s “Musk” documentary

Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney directed Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. His latest, Musk, profiles the wealthiest man in the world. But you won't

This $20 course bundle teaches you what to actually do with ChatGPT

The ChatGPT & Automation E-Degree includes 12 beginner-friendly courses and over 25 hours of trainings for $19.99 (reg. $790).

Bastardica is a “foundry for bastard web fonts”

Barstardica is an online type "foundry" that generates fonts mashed-up from classic typefaces. The resulting abominations are perfect for hostage letters, zany comedy and upsetting graphic designers. Preset features include scale, offset and skew, and you can set specific glyphs not to be swapped. —

This Borzoi napping in the grass looks like a rug

A photo of a Borzoi spread out in a patch of green grass makes the long-haired dog look more like a rug than a canine.

Watch a serious capybara twirl a stick in his mouth

A video shows a capybara spinning a stick around his mouth with a serious expression while another capybara just chews on one.

Nikon’s microscope videos turn sea slugs and starfish larvae into living art

Videos from the Nikon Small World in Motion competition show sea slugs, fungus, starfish larvae, and single-cell organisms in vivid color.

Pokémon card collector used GPS device to track delivery woman

After 30 years, Pokémon remains among the most desirable collectible franchises in fandom and auctions regularly prove the cards’ growing value. But one collector went too far in his efforts

Microsoft Office 2024 drops to $50 for the September Flash Sale

Formerly $249.99, grab Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for only $49.97. The September Flash Sale runs through September 29.

Official trailer for “Musk” documentary

If you haven't figured out the deal with Elon Musk, yet, a blockbuster documentary is on its way to explain it in detail. Filmed by Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and

GTA 6 collector’s edition will cost $400, will not include the game

I've maintained for a while now that GTA 6's marketing runup has exemplified everything wrong with the way games are sold today, from Rockstar skipping out on making a physical edition to the paywalled trailers to, inexplicably, a

Daycare sued over “Child Fight Club”

A daycare in Fort Worth, Texas, is being sued after a substitute teacher allegedly encouraged 4-year-olds to fight one another, and herself injured one of them. Surveillance video from the

Underground robot probing hill thought by some to be Noah’s Ark

Researchers are sending an underground robot into a hill whose vaguely boat-like shape has long excited Biblical literalists in search of Noah’s Ark. The Noah’s Ark Scans expedition hopes to

Dutch government to replace Microsoft Windows with NixOS-based operating system

The government of the Netherlands plans to replace Microsoft’s Windows and other software with a custom Linux-based operating system and IT suite named DAWO (Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid). De Nederlandse

Pay once, store a ridiculous amount while Internxt’s 10TB plan is just $269.97

Get 10TB of Internxt’s cloud storage for a one-time payment of $269.97 (MSRP $2,900) through Sept. 29 as part of this September Flash Sale.

Elizabeth Holmes headed to halfway house next year

Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder and convicted felon, will move to a halfway house next year. ABC News was first to report her forthcoming transfer from federal prison, where she was imprisoned after being sentenced to 10 years and 3 months on wire fraud charges. —

A chronology of early Star Trek computer games

In the early days of computer game development, Star Trek was a popular topic for young programmers with access to mainframes. Players could hunt Klingon ships across the galaxy's numbered sectors while conserving their dilithium crystals and photon torpedoes. The p

Make up to six AI models answer the same prompt for $39.99

Formerly $499, grab a lifetime subscription to AskAnyModel’s Pro Plan for only $39.99, this puts 50+ AI models in one browser-based platform.

Roland’s Minions keyboard sounds just like them

Roland’s GO:KEYS is an all-in-one portable keyboard with speakers and plenty of presets: great for beginners and musicians on the run. The GO:KEYS 3 Minion, a new co-branded model, is

Federal judge tells Trump to turn the press passes back on

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly has granted a temporary restraining order reinstating Politico, MS NOW, and CNN to the White House press pool. He doesn't think DOJ has much chance of pulling this off. Reporters immediately reported for work, only to find they weren't allowed to enter the White House for several hours as their "hard cards" were turned back on. —

Senator Tommy Tuberville: pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers are furries

Ranting about “transgenderism” in Congress, U.S. Senator Thomas “Tommy” Tuberville (R—Alabama) briefly diverted his attention to a different group: furries. “Many” airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers, he

Elizabeth Holmes is headed to a halfway house for people who need help finding jobs and housing

It is unclear whether her plea to pardon broker and President of the United States Donald Trump helped speed this along, but Elizabeth Holmes is getting out of prison quite a bit early.

Rare Moomin mug sells for €46k

If you like Tove Janssen’s Moomin, with its nearly perfect charm-disquiet ratio, you’ll surely love the above “Diving with Shells” mug with Moomintroll enjoying a dip. The €46,023 sale price,

Disney built a subway inside Houston’s airport

Disney once pitched cities on PeopleMovers. Houston’s airport was the only customer, and its subway still runs today.

A dolphin in Australia steals food from fish in the grossest way

If you have ever eaten French fries in the vicinity of seagulls, you have experienced kleptoparasitism, even if you don't know the word.

Set up one PC with Windows 11 Pro and Microsoft Office for $32.97

Usually $418.99, the Ultimate Microsoft Office Professional 2021 + Windows 11 Pro Bundle is on sale for $32.97.

Your DVD shelf is collecting dust: Digitize it for $29.99

DVDneXtCOPY DVD Ripper converts your discs, including copy-protected ones, into MP4, MKV, AVI, and MOV files

Actor Richard Harrison, who battled Nazis and ninjas, dead at 90

Actor and director Richard Harrison, famed for low-budget but eminently memorable military epics, spaghetti westerns and martial arts flicks, is dead at 90. His friend Joan Borsten announced his death

At Trump’s midterm “Trumpapalooza,” “any Republican” will do

The convention had no nomination to conduct. Some attendees appear to have dispensed with the candidate part too.

The Lotus card shuffler fills the gap between $20 junk and $5,000 casino machines

The Lotus is a card-shuffling robot. It bridges the gap between super-cheap card shufflers that don't really work and casino-grade ones that cost thousands of dollars. This one is under $100, and it looks great. From the company's Our Story page: "At the bottom, you have $20 plastic shufflers that jam,

Save on this resource: Microsoft Project is available for $55

A one-time $54.97 payment gets you Microsoft Project Professional 2024 for Windows, the scheduling and resource-planning tool

Obama on Trump’s press ban: “You can’t do that and say that you are still living in a democracy”

Former President Barack Obama made the remarks Monday at Salem State University, after Trump barred CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from White House grounds because of coverage he described as "fake news." Speaking with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin at Massachusetts' Salem State University, Obama called freedom from government re

Apple’s macOS 27 installs a lot of AI bloatware

I've been advised that if I don't want Apple "Intelligence" on, I should stay on OS 26 and decline the chance to install nearly 30GB of stuff I don't want.

Sea turtles are nesting on the U.S. West Coast for the first time on record

California certainly has adult sea turtles, but we've never seen them lay eggs this far north before. NOAA studies green turtles in Southern California. Over the last 20 years, roughly 60 have been spotted in San Diego Bay. Turtles also appear around Seal Beach and the San Gabriel River. —

Let’s get dangerous again: Darkwing Duck set to return

Disney has greenlit a new Darkwing Duck series, with Mark Hamill taking over as Drake Mallard and Seth Rogen voicing Launchpad McQuack. Negaduck and Megavolt are also returning, because some problems really do survive every reboot. The original "Darkwing Duck" series ran for 91 episodes, beginning on Disney Channel and then airing on ABC from 1991-1993, eventually making its way to video games and comic books. — Read the rest The post

Jelly bean isopods, rubber ducky isopods, and other pill bugs people keep as pets

I watched this video on The Kid Should See This; it's a time-lapse of "jelly bean" isopods eating chunks of sweet potato. I've not heard of jelly bean isopods before,

Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in New York case

Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein was today sentenced to 15 years in prison on his most recent sexual assault conviction in New York. His victim, production assistant Miriam Haley, told the Manhattan court in an i

Tom the Dancing Bug: Elon Musk and His DOGE Pals vs. Giant A.I. Robots!

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Elon Musk and his DOGE Pals are up against giant A.I. robots! -> ANNOUNCING The Tom the Dancing Bug Community Saves America Drive! For

Full trailer for “You Can See Everything” with Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes

You Can See Everything, a documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim profiling Theranos fraud Elizabeth Holmes, was revealed two weeks ago. The very idea of Fielder interviewing Holmes was

New biography of Jerry Lewis look-alike Sammy Petrillo, with a Drew Friedman cover

A new biography of Jerry Lewis look-alike Sammy Petrillo, star of Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, with cover art by Drew Friedman.

Not so full of sound, but definitely fury—the fury they left him—signifying nothing

The Orange Menace made yet another strategic blunder, trying to decide which news sources could cover him, and now he has no microphone. Now Donnie Diapers just looks ridiculous, yelling into the wind, his comb-over flowing. Attempting to kick CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House press pool; Trump pissed off the whole gang. —

Project Farm’s car battery torture test saved me $200

My last battery lasted six years. When the truck was in for service, the mechanic tried to sell me a $300 new battery. Luckily, I had just watched this Project

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope test images

Nasa activated the 300-megapixel camera on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope this weekend and the first test images are in. The results are out of focus—testing and calibration will take months—but delightful all the same, hailed as "green donuts." —

In 1967, Kleenex sold pillows shaped like giant Kleenex boxes

In 1967, Kleenex offered pop art pillows in the shape of giant size Kleenex boxes. They cost $2.95 each plus two premium seals cut from Kleenex packages. You could get all three for $8.25 and six seals. The pillows came in three designs. — Read the rest The post

A 1917 Dada magazine defended a urinal as art, and now you can read it free

The International Dada Archive has The Blind Man, the 1917 New York magazine that defended Marcel Duchamp’s rejected urinal sculpture Fountain.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is getting a sequel

Although Tarantino is credited with writing the screenplay, The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth will be a David Fincher joint.

Nine CompTIA cert courses are $24.99 —cheaper than one exam voucher

Through ethical hacking make up the 2026 CompTIA Certification Training bundle, and access is on sale for $24.99

A24 learning that the Creative Commons is a potent SCP

A24, the independent studio famed for horror movies with perfect aesthetics, is following up its success with The Backrooms with a feature based on the SCP Foundation, another online creepypasta

Looksmaxxer Braden “Clavicular” Peters charged with rape

Clavicular, who rose to fame promoting the weird grooming methods termed “looxmaxxing,” has worse problems than being mogged by a chad judge. The influencer, legally named Braden Peters, faces felony

This man makes fractals without a computer, using cameras pointed at 4K screens

In the late 1980s, Dave Blair was at UC Santa Cruz making fractal art with video cameras and monitors. Decades later, he's still at it, and his work is mind-bendingly cool. He says, "This time it's an order of magnitude impro

This refurbished A13 Bionic iPad costs $209.99 and arrives in near-mint condition

For a limited time, get a near-mint refurbished Apple iPad 9th Gen with 256GB of storage space on sale for $209.99 (MSRP $479).

Singapore will pay you 2 cents a day to read

Singapore’s National Library Board gives readers 20 virtual coins, worth 2 Singapore cents, for logging 15 minutes of reading a day.

Boebert would like everyone to know this particular sex scandal isn’t true

Boebert calls the accusations “filthy garbage,” and she is the expert.

Scientists say the human brain is two different organs

Researchers at Stanford, Caltech, and UC San Francisco say that recent experiments with mice reveal that their brains are actually two different organs. They extended this findi

The Flash Gordon you remember may not be the one you actually saw

Gordon’s alive. His missing scenes have had a more complicated history.

This $13 gadget detects trackers, cameras, and other wireless devices that may be spying on you

SquachWatch is an open-source ESP32 firmware project that turns a cheap touchscreen board into a portable detector for trackers, cameras, Flock readers, and other wireless devices that plague us.

Authorities would like people to stop decapitating dead sea lions

Two sea lions have been found decapitated, roughly 100 miles apart. One in San Francisco and the other in Pacific Grove.

A giant Poké Ball hotel room is real, and it’s in Hokkaido

NOT A HOTEL and Pokémon Sleep built a giant Poké Ball suite in Hokkaido, but you can’t simply book a stay there.

A timely Time Warp tribute in memory of Tim Curry

A month ago, a "Time Warp" parody would have been an easy tribute to Tim Curry. However, Britain's new Patriot Platform has been sending groups of masked, black-clad anti-immigration "activists" into the streets. Hundreds of these

The cocaine free problem of Colombia’s cocaine hippos

I am certain I was not the only person disappointed to find out that one of the largest and most dangerous animals on earth had not actually developed a taste for cocaine.