Boing Boing, August 13, 2026

Watermarked files, spare-parts ATMs, and 226 unused park photos

Aug 13, 2026

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Happy Thursday! Today's stories: North Korea's operating system embeds a hidden watermark into every file you open. The only ATM in Antarctica keeps a second ATM on hand purely for spare parts. Ansel Adams shot 226 national park photographs for a mural project that was never built. And Stewart Brand has put his 1997 BBC architecture series online for fr…

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