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Sony deleting 551 movies from own customers’ accounts
Sony unceremoniously announced that it would be deleting 551 movies from PlayStation customers’ accounts in the U.K.: no apologies, no refunds, just a…
 • Rob Beschizza
The BBC ends longwave radio service today
As a child, I used to be fascinated by the indicators on old radios for faraway cities: magic places such as Warsaw, Nador, Ulaanbatar… and Droitwich.
 • Rob Beschizza
FEMA official who teleported to Waffle House teleports out of agency
When the White House appointed conspiracy theorist Gregg Phillips (previously) to a top job in the Federal Emergency Management Agency, that was not his…
 • Rob Beschizza
Reviving old PCs with Linux now that new ones cost an arm and a leg
Apple sharply raising the prices of laptops and other gear brought home that the datacenter-driven computer parts shortage is only getting worse.
 • Rob Beschizza
Hitler baby photo in school yearbook
Administrators at East Brook Middle School in Paramus, New Jersey, announced that “we immediately collected the yearbooks so the image would not remain…
 • Rob Beschizza
Man detained after playing Imperial March to troops in D.C. wins “substantial” settlement
When troops from Ohio’s National Guard were deployed to Washington D.C.
 • Rob Beschizza
Rapist who faked own death reportedly dead again
Nicholas Rossi fled the United States after faking his own death, hoping to avoid prosecution on rape charges.
 • Rob Beschizza
Judge orders Huntington Beach to add more democracy to its democracy
A judge has ordered Huntington Beach to adopt ranked-choice voting after finding that the city’s at-large elections diluted Latino voting power, which…
 • Jason Weisberger
Boing Boing, June 26, 2026
Farewells, dust mite matters, and a cow named Melania
 • Boing Boing
A man got 30 years for moving boxes of left-wing zines
Daniel Sanchez-Estrada didn’t attend the Fourth of July protest at the Prairieland ICE detention facility in Alvarado, Texas.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
That time road rage met a 6’8” guy named Gary with a machine gun
The gun was fully automatic. The legal nightmare was manual, expensive, and slow.
 • Jason Weisberger
Leon Black’s Epstein testimony ends with Congress demanding receipts
The Epstein paper trail remains less a trail than a gated community with lawyers.
 • Jason Weisberger
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