2+ hour, 57+ min ago  (328+ words) In the advent of music streaming, radio is becoming kind of a lost art (at least with people my age), and I think that's tragic. Maybe I don't want to curate any more dark academia playlists. Maybe I just want…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (16+ words) Your "throw it in your bag" laptop can be a MacBook Air for just $200Boing Boing...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (280+ words) LonelyWiki collects obscure Wikipedia articles that almost nobody reads. Each day, the site posts a new one " selected not for clicks but for quality. To qualify, an article must have received between 1 and 1,999 views in the past year, be written…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (373+ words) A reviewer at FedRAMP " the federal program that certifies whether cloud services are secure enough for government use " described Microsoft's GCC High cloud product " used by the Justice Department, the Department of Energy, and defense contractors " as "a pile of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (320+ words) There's also a trademark angle. Britannica alleges Lanham Act violations when ChatGPT produces hallucinated information and falsely attributes it to Britannica, presenting made-up facts as if they came from the encyclopedia. "ChatGPT starves web publishers like [Britannica] of revenue by…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (203+ words) The New York Times has started blocking the Internet Archive's web crawlers, going beyond standard robots.txt rules to cut off access entirely. The Guardian is doing the same. The stated" READ THE REST OpenAI's handpicked council of mental health…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (371+ words) Closing arguments have begun in the Twitter shareholder trial, with plaintiffs accusing Elon Musk of a pattern of deceptive behavior that drove down Twitter's stock price and cost thousands of investors money, according to AP reporting. The case centers on…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (312+ words) This unique animation process by artist Phillipa Rice is ingeniously clever. She uses what looks like a pigment-covered, kneaded eraser to make impressions of a plastic figurine's face. Then she stamps the face imprint onto a piece of paper. Rice…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (301+ words) For a long time, I thought there was absolutely nothing one could possibly do to make Starfield worse. I really wish I hadn't been proven wrong. There really aren't words in the English language to describe how insultingly terrible this…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago  (128+ words) The important work of the Doohickey Corporation'Boing Boing "Okay, yeah, you got me, it's actually just a Reddit forum where people post unhinged, barely-functional contraptions they encounter in the wild. It's still better than any other megacorporation, though! Would Amazon…...