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Blingphone brand Vertu folded years ago, but now has a folding phone
Vertu, based in London, used to make luxury bling-phones covered in filigree and Swarovski crystals.
 • Rob Beschizza
Starbucks Korea chose “Tank Day” for the anniversary of a massacre
Starbucks Korea apparently looked at the anniversary of soldiers using tanks to crush a democracy uprising and thought: great day to sell a “tank…
 • Jason Weisberger
Lenovo’s pretty Yoga all-in-one costs a pretty penny
All-in-one desktop PCs have a lot to recommend them: they’re compact, cable-free, and you don’t have to price out accessories.
 • Rob Beschizza
Burning Man’s Orgy Dome got wrecked by 50 mph winds, now needs $30k to get properly erected again
"we got F***** too hard"
 • Jason Weisberger
YouTube to label AI videos automatically
If a thick sheen of slop doesn’t give the game away, YouTube will expose AI-generated video for what it is. The site announced today that such uploads…
 • Rob Beschizza
Google employee charged with fraud after winning $1.2m on Polymarket
A Google employee was charged with fraud Wednesday after allegedly winning $1.2m betting on Google trends at gambling site Polymarket.
 • Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing, May 27, 2026
Shadow vote.gov, doxxed Tucker, a 1937 whale
 • Boing Boing
Boing Boing Digest, May 27, 2026
Shadow vote.gov, doxxed Tucker, a 1937 whale
 • Boing Boing
Investigator found 40 White House sites hidden behind one private Cloudflare gate
An investigator who writes as The Drey Dossier dug through public web-certificate records and found 40 federal-looking websites all registered to the…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Workers opened a whale in 1937 and found something inside that still doesn’t have a name
In August 1937, workers at the Naden Harbor whaling station in Haida Gwaii were cutting up a harpooned sperm whale when they found something in its gut…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Tucker Carlson, hacked on his own podcast, blames mental patients and asks for biometrics
A cybersecurity researcher who runs Pentester.com sat down across from Tucker Carlson, opened a laptop, and read out Carlson’s Social Security number…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
UK Births drop for fourth straight year as costs and dread pile up
Last year was the quietest year for maternity wards in England and Wales since 1977, according to the BBC’s reporting on the latest Office for National…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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