Boing Boing, August 17, 2026

A sunken Spanish flagship, a rubber-band computer, and a cybernetic detective cat

Happy Monday! Today's stories: Researchers are trying to locate a lost Spanish flagship that could be under the ocean, a river, or a beach. The Digi-Comp I was a $5 plastic computer powered by rubber bands. Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler tool sorts English words by the year they entered the language. And a young man who kicked a sea lion learned about …