Boing Boing, June 5, 2026
A jamming satellite, conscious chatbots, brine-free water
Happy Friday! Today a Veritasium investigation pins years of GPS blackouts over Europe on a Russian satellite, Ted Chiang makes the case that an LLM chatbot is no more conscious than a Word document, and University of Rochester engineers show off a solar desalination panel that leaves no brine behind. There’s also a sherpa found alive after being left f…
