Andy Bell: “I’m getting fed up of making the rich, richer”: I’ve forever been obsessed with sharing knowledge. It’s why I’ve blogged so relentlessly over the years because I feel a constant debt to a community that shared so much when I started out. | Continue reading
I Didn’t Think Things Would Get This Chaotic When We Elected President Donkey Kong. “But for all the talk from pundits about how we’d see a new side of Donkey Kong once he took office, well, not so much. Turns out we got exactly what we voted for.” | Continue reading
Rebecca Ruth Gould at JSTOR Daily: “What if we view street activities not as organic, evolving phenomena but as calculated efforts to challenge and subvert the state rules governing street dynamics?” Pamela Karimi asks in Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran, … | Continue reading
4chan appears to be down following a major hack that reportedly exposed its source code. A user on a competing messaging board claimed responsibility for the attack on Monday night and claimed to have reopened the site’s /qa/ board. 4chan is, obviously, also notorious for trying … | Continue reading
You may be the greatest athlete ever but you're still not going to outlast the Garmin vívoactive 5 Smartwatch. | Continue reading
OpenAI is working on its own X-like social network, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. While the project is still in early stages, we’re told there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that has a social feed. CEO Sam Altman has … | Continue reading
Meta is a problematic business and more people should move to open platforms, but I have to agree with Ben Thompson’s take on the trial. It’s too late and too complicated to try to unwind the Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions: …both of those businesses were what they were in 20 … | Continue reading
A Tyrannosaurus rex researcher has found that there are now more scientifically valuable T. rex specimens in private or commercial ownership than in public museums, hampering research. | Continue reading
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: WELL, the freaks on patreon felt that the word 'using' was a little ambiguous. Today's News: | Continue reading
This is the fourteenth part of a fiction serial, in 810 words. Ryan listened to what she had to say without interrupting. Then there was a long silence, prompting Trixie to ask, “You still there, Ryan?” His tone was neutral, not angry or excited, just flat. “Well what did you exp … | Continue reading
Paleontologists have discovered tracks belonging to meat-eating theropods and long-necked sauropods on the Isle of Skye. | Continue reading
Doctors in the UK and other countries have reported a rise in cases of necrotizing fasciitis. | Continue reading
Let’s travel back in time for a moment, to 1903. Rainer Maria Rilke, an Austrian poet, was broke. Even worse, he worried that he had run out of ideas. At twenty-seven, he had already written more than a dozen books, though he had little traditional “success” to show for them. Pen … | Continue reading
"My HOA is coming after me." Stressed homeowner shares HOA notice threatening fines over lawn condition: 'I am doing my best' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
To reduce my dependence on USA-based products, I switched from using the OpenAI API to Scaleway’s Generative API for my blog. Not only is it cheaper, but it’s based on open-source models, hosted in Europe. 🇪🇺 | Continue reading
The word viral is overused (I’m guilty), but when it comes to the internet-iconic Rhode Island coffee shop The Nitro Bar, there’s no better way to describe the phenomenon. The Nitro Bar has three locations across the tiny state of Rhode Island, and all of them have an ever-growin … | Continue reading
Chris and I will be eagerly awaiting your woodworking questions this Saturday (April 19) from about 9 a.m.-5 p.m. On Saturday morning, an “Open Wire” post will go live. If you have a question, all you have to do is type it into the comments and we’ll – eventually – answer (we fit … | Continue reading
I like the attempt at transparency in this statement on AI from Revenant, an animation and effects studio in Scotland, via Cartoon Brew. They’ll use AI for rapid prototypes and streamlining workflows, but: …we’re also clear on what we don’t use it for — we don’t use AI to shortcu … | Continue reading
A new AI model produced by computer scientists in collaboration with dolphin researchers could open the door to two-way animal communication. | Continue reading
The San Diego Zoo Safari Park's elephants raced to protect their calves with an "alert circle" when a 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck Julian in Southern California. | Continue reading
Everyone's favorite Earthbender isn't coming to the live-action Avatar show without some adjustments. | Continue reading
The humble tape measure is easy to take for granted, but it's a marvel of modern engineering. A 25-foot-long piece of spring steel, far less than 1mm thick, can be coiled into something that clips to a pocket. Unfurled, a curve is induced across its width, giving it a beam-like s … | Continue reading
The US Air Force and MIT renew contract for operating the federally funded R&D center, a long-standing asset for defense innovation and prototyping. | Continue reading
An Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered announcement seems imminent. Images from the game were found in the website files of the developer Virtuous before being removed. The images, which can still be seen on the hosting site imgur, included several side-by-side comparisons betw … | Continue reading
Now this is the sort of application of AI that really intrigues me. Researchers have developed DolphinGemma, the first large language model (LLM) for understanding dolphin language. It could help us translate what these incredible creatures are saying, potentially much faster tha … | Continue reading
Capture every wild moment, Akaso Brave 4 action cam just got way more affordable. | Continue reading
Microsoft warned that Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 will reach the end of support six months from now, on October 14. [...] | Continue reading
FCC's "Delete, Delete, Delete" docket is filled with requests to eliminate rules. | Continue reading
With ample support from Kelly Marie Tran. The post Lily Gladstone Headlines The Wedding Banquet Premiere first appeared on Go Fug Yourself. | Continue reading
Tesla has announced a cheaper and feature-poor model of its barely selling Cybertruck. As Tesla stock crosses into new danger zones, and around $200 million of Cybertrucks are sitting in inventory, the company is desperate to move these bricks. — Read the rest The post The new en … | Continue reading
This morning, we bid farewell to the porta-potties that bravely served Tompkins Square Park during the closure of the field house for renovations... they're off now to head to the second weekend of Coachella 2025... You can read some of the past portable potty posts here. Thanks … | Continue reading
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TL;DR: Save $139 on this refurbished Mac mini M2 and get free shipping before they're sold out. You could drop over $1,000 on an iMac desktop. Or… you could get the same M2 chip, run macOS, and build your own perfect setup for way less. — Read the rest The post This Mac mini deal … | Continue reading
I'm fascinated by Prince Rupert's Drops, those super strong blobs of glass that look like tadpoles. We've written about them in the past here at Boing Boing, but I thought I'd share some newer videos showing how they stand up to things like bullets and hydraulic presses. — Read t … | Continue reading
Let me introduce you to your new obsession: Just Room Enough Island, the real estate equivalent of "new universe, who dis?" Floating between America and Canada like nature's own panic room, this 3,300-square-foot middle finger to suburban sprawl hosts exactly one house and one tr … | Continue reading
Notion is launching the third app in its suite of work tools, an email app called Notion Mail. (The other two, of course, are Notion Calendar and Notion itself.) The app, available now for web and Mac and in testing for iOS, is the next step in Notion’s attempt to compete with Mi … | Continue reading
This week in Reading The Wheel of Time, Mat tries to understand Tuon, Tuon employs some a’dam, and the traveling show, along with a very unlucky peddler, encounters a ghost town built on quicksand—but more important than all of that is that we, and Mat, finally learn what is in T … | Continue reading
"She’s so beautiful." Homeowner astounded after spotting wild visitor near property: 'She posed for your photo' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
A team of researchers from top universities has developed a groundbreaking mathematical model that could change how bowling is played and analyzed. Unlike previous methods that relied on player stats, this model factors in lane oil patterns, friction, and even ball asymmetry to p … | Continue reading
The AR company has been cutting jobs to reposition its new-look business as a startup. | Continue reading
Harvard is refusing to comply with the Trump’s demands related to his regime’s racist, xenophobic political agenda, including a threat to cut $9 billion in research funding. From the AP: Harvard President Alan Garber, in a letter to the Harvard community Monday, said the demands … | Continue reading
The most extreme version of a sleeping bag is probably the mummy bag, so named for its sarcophagus-like shape. Designed for cold climates, the tapered form minimizes the interior volume, allowing your body's heat to more easily fill every cubic inch. The mummy bag is fine for tho … | Continue reading
It must have been tremendous fun (and a lot of work) for Australian production designer Colin Gibson, the man tasked with designing the bikes for 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road. Gibson, known for designing and building fully functional props and vehicles, worked with motocross champ S … | Continue reading
We are excited about the Fedora Workstation 42 released today. Having worked on some great features for it. Fedora Workstation 42 HDR edition I would say that the main feature that landed was HDR or High Dynamic Range. It is a feature we spent years on with many team members invo … | Continue reading
Dan and Tom had to John on Thoroughly Considered to talk one of the most incredible Macs ever made: Today’s guest is John Siracusa, the proprietor of Hypercritical.co and co-host of The Accidental Tech Podcast and Reconcilable Differences. His object is the 2019 Mac Pro. This epi … | Continue reading
Know more and worry less with a Google Nest Cam for 30% off | Continue reading
MinuteEarth explains that every person at some point in history will either be related to everyone alive or those who are no longer living. | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: El Salvador’s Bukele Says He Doesn’t Have Power to Return Mistakenly Deported Man (Vera Bergengruen, Tarini Parti, & Jess Bravin, The Wall Street Jo … | Continue reading