Boing Boing, April 28, 2026

Privacy bugs, a 50-year mystery, and Chonkers the sea lion

Apr 28, 2026

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Happy Tuesday! Apple patched a bug that let the FBI extract deleted Signal messages from the iOS notification cache — and Tor Browser’s “New Identity” button turned out it wasn’t fully wiping your fingerprint either. A scientist at Texas A&M who spent 50 years studying the molecular motor bacteria use to swim finally has his answer. And Chonkers, a very…

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