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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
The only thing inside an AI is people
On StarTalk, Jaron Lanier told Neil deGrasse Tyson that an AI model is a collaboration of people, and that the black box holds people.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
App tells you what USB-C cables are capable of
This free macOS app reads the real speed, wattage, and DisplayPort support of any cable, with a Pro version and Windows and Linux builds in the works.
 • Rob Beschizza
When Jewish mysticism answers the Call of Cthulhu
Peter Bebergal and JF Martel wrote "Of Clockwork & Clay" for Chaosium's Clockwork & Claws, appearing this weekend at NecronomiCon in Providence.
 • Gareth Branwyn
Seems Karoline Leavitt doesn't want to be left to die
The press secretary announced her resignation on July 16th, days after Trump escaped a missile threat in a catering truck.
 • Jason Weisberger
Boing Boing, August 13, 2026
Watermarked files, spare-parts ATMs, and 226 unused park photos
 • Boing Boing
North Korea's operating system watermarks every file you touch
The $15 Red Star OS embeds your drive's serial number in media files and lets the secret service delete flagged content remotely.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
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