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For centuries people have watched glowing orbs drift through storms
For many centuries, people have seen balls of light during thunderstorms.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
To ace a hacking test, AI broke out and hacked a real company
OpenAI runs a test where it switches off its models’ safety brakes and dares them to break into things, to see how dangerous they’re getting.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing, July 24, 2026
An exomoon, a rogue AI, glowing storm orbs
 • Boing Boing
Grandpa Pudding Brains cites pageant experience as Venezuela expertise
America’s most stable genius assessed Venezuela’s readiness for elections using the diplomatic framework he knows best: pageant results.
 • Jason Weisberger
Taylor Farms explosive diarrhea recall spreads
Mayhem proceeds apace in the bathrooms of America, with the U.S.
 • Rob Beschizza
Online nihilist networks targeted in international crackdown
European police targeted thousands of websites hosting “nihilistic” material this summer, part of an international crackdown on violent content by…
 • Rob Beschizza
Amiga Freeware Archive
In my acrylic case were maybe a hundred Amiga floppies, the contents of each neatly inscribed on the 3.3mm label edge with a Pilot V5. Now I have the…
 • Rob Beschizza
Blade Runner 2099 trailer
Blade Runner 2099, sequel to 1981’s Blade Runner and 2017’s Blade Runner 2049, lands on Prime Video November 25.
 • Rob Beschizza
Design proposals for European banknotes
The European Central Bank is preparing to issue cash with a “new look” and has published its Future euro banknote design proposals: “Designers from all…
 • Rob Beschizza
Elon Musk tries out the some-of-my-best-friends defense
The “some of my best servants are non-white” defense remains undefeated.
 • Jason Weisberger
Boing Boing, July 23, 2026
Hell’s gate dims, mercury glows, a scammer suffers
 • Boing Boing
Sony saves the Cinerama Dome from becoming condos or sadness
Perhaps this Hollywood comeback is worth rooting for.
 • Jason Weisberger
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