Archive - Boing Boing

Boing Boing, August 11, 2026

Plutonium injections, giant snail shells, and an impossible gold mine

11 hrs ago • Boing Boing

Man, those Romans sure lost a lot of cargo boats

The latest untouched wreck full of amphorae was found off the coast of Sicily, nearly 20 centuries after it sank.

11 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

DoorDash sprints towards replacing its drivers with robots

DoorDash is paying gig workers $5 to load its Dot delivery robots, the same robots meant to replace them.

11 hrs ago • Séamus Bellamy

Manitoba's premier: booze returns when the Epstein files do

A whole lotta Canadians love them some Wab Kinew.

11 hrs ago • Séamus Bellamy

SteamOS is coming to more computers

Valve's newest SteamOS beta adds support for more gaming handhelds, including MSI's Intel-powered Claw 8 EX AI+.

11 hrs ago • Séamus Bellamy

How Disney builds immersive theme park worlds from their movies

A new Disney+ film features James Cameron and Jennifer Lee discussing how Pandora and Frozen became physical park lands.

11 hrs ago • Ruben Bolling

AI told Reddit's biggest jerks they did nothing wrong 51% of the time

An AI sycophancy study found 11 chatbots back a user's actions 50% more often than people do.

12 hrs ago • Ellsworth Toohey

Australian crew pulls off extraordinary Antarctic medical evacuation

The crew had to get in, get the patient situation on the reconfigured medevac plane, and get out fast.

12 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

The government secretly injected a house painter with plutonium

Albert Stevens survived the highest known radiation dose: 6,400 rem over 20 years after a secret plutonium injection.

15 hrs ago • Ellsworth Toohey

The designer of Voltron and the Power Rangers robots has died

Katsushi Murakami, who also designed the Go-Bots and Leopardon, died at the age of 83.

15 hrs ago • Ellsworth Toohey

Kindle jailbreakers have a new way in with Véra

Released August 10 by developers Ava and sparklerfish, the exploit uses the e-reader's own web browser and two specially prepared books.

15 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Fringe paleontology gets weird fast

Tier 1 of an iceberg guide covers hoaxes, pseudoscience, and Chickenosaurus, a real bird-development experiment turned spectacle.

15 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

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