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Boing Boing, August 11, 2026
Plutonium injections, giant snail shells, and an impossible gold mine
 • Boing Boing
Man, those Romans sure lost a lot of cargo boats
The latest untouched wreck full of amphorae was found off the coast of Sicily, nearly 20 centuries after it sank.
 • Jason Weisberger
DoorDash sprints towards replacing its drivers with robots
DoorDash is paying gig workers $5 to load its Dot delivery robots, the same robots meant to replace them.
 • Séamus Bellamy
Manitoba's premier: booze returns when the Epstein files do
A whole lotta Canadians love them some Wab Kinew.
 • Séamus Bellamy
SteamOS is coming to more computers
Valve's newest SteamOS beta adds support for more gaming handhelds, including MSI's Intel-powered Claw 8 EX AI+.
 • Séamus Bellamy
How Disney builds immersive theme park worlds from their movies
A new Disney+ film features James Cameron and Jennifer Lee discussing how Pandora and Frozen became physical park lands.
 • Ruben Bolling
AI told Reddit's biggest jerks they did nothing wrong 51% of the time
An AI sycophancy study found 11 chatbots back a user's actions 50% more often than people do.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Australian crew pulls off extraordinary Antarctic medical evacuation
The crew had to get in, get the patient situation on the reconfigured medevac plane, and get out fast.
 • Jason Weisberger
The government secretly injected a house painter with plutonium
Albert Stevens survived the highest known radiation dose: 6,400 rem over 20 years after a secret plutonium injection.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The designer of Voltron and the Power Rangers robots has died
Katsushi Murakami, who also designed the Go-Bots and Leopardon, died at the age of 83.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Kindle jailbreakers have a new way in with Véra
Released August 10 by developers Ava and sparklerfish, the exploit uses the e-reader's own web browser and two specially prepared books.
 • Jason Weisberger
Fringe paleontology gets weird fast
Tier 1 of an iceberg guide covers hoaxes, pseudoscience, and Chickenosaurus, a real bird-development experiment turned spectacle.
 • Jason Weisberger
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