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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
You can remove an AI watermark from text by asking a second AI
The EU AI Act requires text watermarks from August 2026, but engineer Sean Goedecke says a simple paraphrase strips them out.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The government now spends more on interest than on the military
The Treasury sold $25bn of 30-year bonds at 5.22 percent, the highest since 2001, as the national debt climbs toward $40tn.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Adversarial clothing: custom, one-off tees and hoodies that dazzle AI
The dye-sublimation garments were tested against 11 production vision models over a year, with results published online.
 • Rob Beschizza
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