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Reviewers love the Super 8-style Instax Mini Evo Cinema, but not its price tag and problems
The Fujifilm Instax Mini Evo Cinema (previously at Boing Boing) found its way to reviewers, and they found it among the strangest shooters they’ve…
 • Rob Beschizza
Sandisk’s new portable SSDs cost a pretty penny
SanDisk this week announced its third-gen portable solid-state drives, with most models coming in the “second half of 2026” and no word on pricing.
 • Rob Beschizza
Caterpillars crack ants’ rhythmic code to sneak into their colonies
Some caterpillars have cracked the password to an ant colony — what Rachelle Adams, an evolutionary biologist at Ohio State University, calls…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Living human brain cells are now playing Doom
Cortical Labs, the Australian biotech company that grew 800,000 human neurons on a chip and taught them to play Pong in 2022, has answered the…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Boing Boing, February 26, 2026
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 • Boing Boing
When you win gold and someone else wants applause
With grace, Knight described the comment as “distasteful,” and redirected attention back where she clearly prefers it: on the ice and the…
 • Jason Weisberger
California approved hidden cameras that let Border Patrol track you
Federal agents at a California border crossing pulled aside a grandmother and demanded to know why she kept visiting local casinos.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
DOJ opens internal review of Epstein omissions, prepares to find DOJ did nothing wrong
Perhaps FIFA will also award Pam Bondi a trophy.
 • Jason Weisberger
Court records: Grok allegedly helped create 200+ deepfake porn videos to harass woman
A newly unsealed FBI search warrant details a man allegedly using Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok to generate more than 200 pornographic videos of a woman who…
 • Jason Weisberger
Trump’s surgeon general pick dodges vaccine questions and scrutiny
The surgeon general’s job isn’t to “both sides” or "just asking questions" settled science. It’s to tell Americans clearly what keeps them alive.
 • Jason Weisberger
The long, slow arm of the law finally reaches D4vd
When a decomposing body turns up in the trunk of a celebrity’s car, most people assume the legal machinery shifts into gear a little faster than this.
 • Jason Weisberger
Falling vaccination rates drain millions from California classrooms
The bill for “doing your own research” and "just asking questions" is now coming straight out of California classrooms.
 • Jason Weisberger
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