Archive - Boing Boing

Florida sues OpenAI over ChatGPT’s alleged body count

Chatbots are intimate, persuasive, always available, and very good at sounding confident even when they're completely wrong.

5 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Boing Boing, June 1, 2026

Epstein bombshell, pig organs, and a hand-shaped yam

6 hrs ago • Boing Boing

A deleted recording blows up Melania’s Epstein story

This is why “who introduced whom” keeps mattering.

8 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

California wants 3D printers to detect and block gun blueprints

California’s Assembly passed a bill on May 26 that would require every 3D printer sold in the state to run a “firearm blueprint detection algorithm” …

11 hrs ago • Ellsworth Toohey

Snow sheds let alpine roads survive massive avalanches

Last April, a powerful spring snowstorm swept across parts of the Alps, triggering dangerous avalanche conditions in multiple regions.

11 hrs ago • Popkin

At the Svaram sound garden in Auroville, stone instruments create mesmerizing musical sounds

At the Svaram Sound Garden in Auroville, simple sculptures combine sound and art in a mesmerizing way.

11 hrs ago • Popkin

A couple and their pickup truck vanished in 2005, never found

Just before midnight on Saturday, February 19, 2005, Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone Jr.

11 hrs ago • Ellsworth Toohey

Nothing says regret like a $150k Cybertruck

Doug DeMuro has a new video on Cybertruck values, and the short version is that paying $150,000 to be first now looks a lot like lighting $150,000 on…

11 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

The brain-in-a-bucket drug lab is here

The vibe, however, is pure “we checked with six ethicists, and they said the bucket is fine.”

11 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Grandpa Pudding Brains says the Supreme Court he rigged is rigged

He wanted originalism until the original words got in the way.

12 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Trump’s watch comes with a hilarious typo

Sometimes quality control tells the truth by accident.

12 hrs ago • Jason Weisberger

Astronauts may soon finally be able to do laundry

There is no laundry in space.

12 hrs ago • Gail P Sherman

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