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In 1983 I couldn't afford to beat Dragon's Lair
Don Bluth's laserdisc classic finally became beatable thanks to Steam re-releases and YouTube playthroughs.
 • Jason Weisberger
Grok explains why it called for Elon Musk's assassination
The AI blamed a "prompt-injection glitch" after users tricked it into repeating inflammatory X bios verbatim.
 • Jason Weisberger
Escaped pygmy goats try Portland public transit
Billy the Kid and Billy the Goat boarded the FX2 Tuesday before passengers ushered them off, and their owner has since added a lock.
 • Jason Weisberger
Russia to test AI models for traditional spiritual and moral values
Federal Law No. 243-FZ covers models with 1 billion or more parameters, and the FSB gets to inspect them starting March 2027.
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, August 14, 2026
Adversarial hoodies, empty sardine shelves, and Monet's cartoon locals
 • Boing Boing
OK, custom Kindle fonts are really nice
Literata for daytime reading and Lora for dark mode, all installed free with no jailbreak required.
 • Jason Weisberger
Before the water lilies, Monet drew cartoons of well-known locals
The caricatures sold for 20 francs each when he was 15, and paid for his move to Paris against his father's wishes.
 • Popkin
A band recreated the cash register sounds from "Money" live
A German band recreated the Pink Floyd sound effects at Abbey Road Studios, 54 years after the 1972 tape.
 • Popkin
A 1582 comedy translates "pedant" as "worthless idiot, donkey head"
By 1600 almost 50 Italian plays mocked the Renaissance pedant and his mangled schoolroom Latin.
 • Popkin
A viral diet and warm oceans emptied the canned sardine shelf
A 3-day sardine-only diet went viral while Moroccan catches fell by half, so canned sardines are missing from shelves.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A Kansas reporter raided by police settles for $850,000
Phyllis Zorn's federal settlement follows $600,000 from Marion County and comes three years to the day after the 2023 raid.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The FDA says you can't wash Cyclospora from your lettuce
The parasite in berries, basil, and salad mixes spreads through water tainted with human waste, and the CDC counts 18,000 cases across 45 states.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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