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Doom running on toothbrushes is old news. The new thing is porting Doom to ancient systems. Few offer a more starkly-different experience to the original's low-res pseudo-3D than the vectorbeam Vectrex, already a vintage curiosity by the time Id software's 1993 FPS came out. - Read the rest The post Vectrex Doom appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Squirrels were melting into the ground during the last Southern California heatwave.Scientists explain "splooting" as rodents spreading out to expose as much of their thermal mass as possible to the cooler ground. It looks cute, but residents should still avoid squirrels as the nefarious criminal masterminds of the wild animal world. - Read the rest The post The splootin' squirrels of SoCal are keepin' cool appeared first on Boing Boing.

On nice, sunny days in Southern California, people usually visit the beach. Today, however, the beach is moving into residential neighborhoods.A hurricane is east and south of Baja California, a record heatwave just broke, and the Super El Nino doesn't give a damn, or it would probably just pass right over a dam, too. - Read the rest The post Sunny, 80 degrees, and Newport Beach is flooding appeared first on Boing Boing.

Trump spent millions in taxpayer money to put self-aggrandizing tripe on TV. A focus group of former supporters suggests the ads may be doing exactly the opposite of winning them back.The Bulwark shared one of Trump's ego ads with some MAGAs whose enthusiasm has waned. - Read the rest The post Maybe Trump's taxpayer-funded ads are a public service after all appeared first on Boing Boing.

A crazy spectacle erupted when a 20-inch Harvest Midstream natural-gas pipeline exploded Tuesday afternoon near La Boca, New Mexico, shooting flames an estimated 50 to 100 feet into the air and setting the surrounding brush and trees on fire.Residents near La Boca described the pipeline explosion as sounding like an F-16 taking off in their neighbor's yard. - Read the rest The post New Mexico pipeline explodes, launches 100-foot flames and starts a wildfire appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Mark Zuckerberg and his adorable pal Jolly assure you that A.I. is quite safe!Ruben Bolling will be at the New York Comic Con Thursday 10/8 and Friday 10/9 - check here for info. - Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug: Mark Zuckerberg presents "A.I. and U!" appeared first on Boing Boing.

Two Renoir paintings stolen last month in southern France were recovered this week, reports Le Monde. Swiped from a museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, the Madame Colonna Romano and Jeune femme au puits are now safe under lock and key along with six suspects arrested since the September raid. - Read the rest The post Stolen Renoirs recovered in France; six suspects in custody appeared first on Boing Boing.

Diaper Don is name-calling and attempting to use race to turn voters against a Michigan candidate for the U.S. Senate.Repeating his earlier "slip" of calling Abdul El-Sayed "Mohammed," Trump now plays with the man's entire name and says it is because he feels like it. - Read the rest The post Trump admits he deliberately misnames Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed appeared first on Boing Boing.

The three-body problem remains unsolved-we can't generally predict the motion of three bodies for all starting conditions using regular maths-but there are many solutions showing periodic orbits given specific conditions. Three Body Orbits is a beautiful "atlas" animating 3,942 of them. - Read the rest The post An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Pentagon's first military execution since World War II is scheduled for December 3, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says it will be livestreamed for the public. Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 fellow service members and injured 32 more in 2009, will be put to death by a firing squad. - Read the rest The post Pentagon to publicly livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan appeared first on Boing Boing.

The FBI National Stolen Art File lists more than 8,000 paintings, sculptures and other "culturally-significant property" that has found its way out of galleries, museums and private collections and into swag bags. The sprawling online gallery provides a description, dimensions, artist, and, if available, a photograph. - Read the rest The post The FBI's online gallery of stolen art appeared first on Boing Boing.

2014 horror game P.T. has left an enduring legacy behind, just as much for what it wasn't as what it was. It was a pitch-perfect bite-sized horror experience from the mind of gaming auteur Hideo Kojima. It wasn't, however, a full-sized, multi-hour game with a massive bag of tricks - that was teased at the end. - Read the rest The post You can now play P.T. natively on PC, no remake required appeared first on Boing Boing.

Having no remotely credible reason to encourage voters to consider Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed, America's angriest President resorted to racially motivated name-calling.Diaper Don pulled out all the stops on his classic rhetoric of hate: calling Abdul "Mohammed," invoking "jihad," and attempting to declare El-Sayed "a terrorist sympathizer." - Read the rest The post Trump resorts to misnaming Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed appeared first on Boing Boing.

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A golden statue of Donald Trump was unveiled this week at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. Jens Galschiot's 8.5-foot sculpture depicts the gold-leafed president naked and sitting on the back of a smaller man in bronze. Trump holds the scales of justice in one hand and a golf club in the other. - Read the rest The post Golden statue of Donald Trump unveiled at European Parliament appeared first on Boing Boing.

Rebranding Artificial Intelligence as "Super" Intelligence will work about as well as rebranding data centers as "theme parks."Following Donald Trump's lead, billionaire and phallic-shaped rocket enthusiast Jeff Bezos says he prefers calling AI "SI" because nobody likes artificial sweetener or artificial flavoring, and "artificial" sounds as fake as AI is. - Read the rest The post Jeff Bezos explains AI by comparing it to other things people don't want appeared first on Boing Boing.

Demoscene Recomp features four classic PC demoscene productions on the web, using the original code recompiled "instruction for instruction" to run natively in the browser: "The C is compiled to WebAssembly, together with models of the hardware the demo talks to" including a VGA card and, of course, a Sound Blaster. - Read the rest The post Collection of classic PC demos in the browser appeared first on Boing Boing.

A new online game turns looking for a job into a game like the Oregon Trail, only more depressing. In the Job Trail, players choose to play as a recently laid-off designer, copywriter, or software engineer looking for a new employer in the AI-hellscape that is 2026. - Read the rest The post This game turns job hunting into the Oregon Trail appeared first on Boing Boing.

Josh Lieb has been a comedy writer/producer for some of the best comedy on television: The Daily Show with John Stewart, The Simpsons, NewsRadio, etc. He's been writing funny and interesting children's books recently, and his latest is a Choose Your Own Adventure picture book that's that's more comedy than adventure. - Read the rest The post A new picture book makes kids its boss appeared first on Boing Boing.

I mean, fair play, if the Hollywood machine can turn games like Minecraft and Call of Duty into movies, nothing is off limits. If you've never played Embark's twin titans The Finals and ARC Raiders, the former is an immensely stylish capture-the-flag shooter with some of the best movement in any game I've played and the latter is an extraction shooter responsible for ruining scores of friendships. - Read the rest The post The Finals and ARC Raiders, multiplayer games with no plot, to get film adaptations appeared first on Boing Boing.

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For the first 15 years or so of this century, subscription satellite TV was available in Latin America with a one-time purchase of a pirate box. The channel operators tried to stop it, and the pirates nimbly worked around the locks. - Read the rest The post Entertainment wants to be free: the forgotten war to liberate satellite TV appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Orange Menace, who has notably been sued by women over alleged "affairs" during his current marriage, gave his bag carrier a good once-over and then described her as a "perfect person," where perfect seems to mean her legs.While musing over television vehicles for Natalie, Diaper Don also offered up Los Angeles and San Diego to Iran as targets for retribution. - Read the rest The post Trump salivates over Natalie and invites Iran to bomb California appeared first on Boing Boing.

Disneyland's fume-soaked Autopia has been given until February 1st, 2027, to change or shut down.A few years ago, Disney got caught running Autopia cars that were not emissions-approved. They agreed to a 30-month timeline to clean up its grossly polluting car ride, or shut down. - Read the rest The post California gives Disneyland's gas-choked Autopia a deadline appeared first on Boing Boing.

Steve Hilton has a really creepy and weird ad for Governor of California, and its probably not helping him.I guess first-time voting has changed a lot since I was a kid! The ad even has Republicans pissed off.

With police abuse of Flock surveillance cameras often making news and backlash growing against the rapid deployment of ALPR (Automated License Plate Readers) across the U.S., some cities are finding ways to make sure taxpayers know as little as possible. The Fort Worth suburb of North Richland Hills, reports The Texas Tribune, demanded $2.3 million to fulfill a public records request for information about its use of Flock cameras. - Read the rest The post Texas city wants $2.3 million to release data on Flock use appeared first on Boing Boing.

As a big fan of Naughty Dog's zombie-killing/teenage angst simulator The Last of Us, I was gutted to discover that an ongoing multiplayer mod for The Last of Us: Part 2 had been axed by Sony. The moment you decide to charge for a mod, you're making money off someone else's IP and open to be beheaded for it. - Read the rest The post Playing The Last of Us in first person is like an entirely different game appeared first on Boing Boing.

Remember when your friends roped you into Lethal Company, then Peak, then Big Walk, then that game where you just walk around a run-down house picking up leaves? So-called 'friendslop' - a term I really, really hate that describes small, low-scope co-op indie games - has become a thriving industry all its own, rivaling even the dreaded cozy game in its ubiquity. - Read the rest The post The next co-op indie darling is probably going to be an egg-cracking simulator appeared first on Boing Boing.

Heroic rescue workers went into pounding waves to extract a dog trapped in a van that left Pacific Coast Highway for a Malibu surf experience.A white cargo van went off PCH in Malibu, near Deer Creek Road, smashed into some rocks, and wound up in the Pacific. - Read the rest The post Van goes off PCH and into the Pacific; firefighters go in for the dog appeared first on Boing Boing.

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TL;DR: Make coding easier with Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026, on sale for just $29.97 (MSRP $499.99) through tonight at 11:59 PM.Even experienced coders sometimes need a little help. Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 combines professional development tools with AI-powered assistance to help you tackle code more efficiently. - Read the rest The post Get professional coding tools and AI assistance for just $30 with this Microsoft deal appeared first on Boing Boing.

My friend and Wired colleague Gary Wolf is one of my favorite writers. He wrote a bunch of fantastic articles for Wired magazine, including a profile of Ted Nelson, creator of the Xanadu hypertext project, and he wrote a history of Wired magazine, a book called Wired: A Romance. - Read the rest The post Quantified Self cofounder Gary Wolf brings his new book to Los Angeles appeared first on Boing Boing.

Illustrator Robert Ullman, who did some great illustrations for Make magazine when I was editor there, has a new Kickstarter for a 48-page comic about his trip to Zion National Park. What a great way to capture an experience and share it with other people. - Read the rest The post Rob Ullman drew a 48-page comic about his single day in Zion National Park appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Saudi-owned and operated son-in-law of our dementia addled President is tired of people getting things wrong, and maybe sometime he'll tell us the side of the story he wants us to hear.Jared Kushner, whose private-equity firm took a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund and who is best known for marrying Diaper Don's daughter, is sick and tired of being kicked around by the press and is not gonna take it anymore, someday, really. - Read the rest The post Jared Kushner vows to someday argue with the press appeared first on Boing Boing.

Id Software's 1992 shooter Doom now runs on toothbrushes, alarm clocks and all sorts of other modern gadgets that contain tiny supercomputers. But it doesn't run on the 8-bit home computers (or even 16-bit ones) that are even older than it is. - Read the rest The post Doom ported to Commodore 64 appeared first on Boing Boing.

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Camera Index represents camera expert Pierro Pozella's quest to document every film camera ever made. He aims to turn it into the ultimate encyclopedia of the form, complete with specifications, manuals and, of course, photographs of the gadgets. [via Kosmofoto]

British singer Olivia Dean's song I've Seen It lifts a section of melody from 1981 Bill Withers hit Just The Two Of Us, according to a lawsuit [PDF] filed in California. The songs "share musical features ... so striking" that it cannot be a coincidence, claim lawyers for Mattie Music Group, which manages Withers' catalog. - Read the rest The post Does Olivia Dean's "I've Seen It" copy Bill Withers' "Just The Two Of Us?" appeared first on Boing Boing.

People keep waiting for a groundbreaking reinvention of the e-reader, but Kindle already does it pretty well.The e-reader line has been refreshed. New Basic, Paperwhite, and Colorsoft versions are available, along with Signature editions for the Paperwhite and Colorsoft. The shape has changed somewhat. - Read the rest The post The most exciting thing about Amazon's 2026 Kindle refresh is a clicker appeared first on Boing Boing.

New U.S. passports are coming, and first-time applicants canapply online. Digital selfies will also be allowed, making the process easier than ever. Passports are currently mailed in paper envelopes. New ones will come in a white box with the golden seal. - Read the rest The post First-time U.S. passport applicants will soon be able to apply online appeared first on Boing Boing.

After about 10 minutes of officer testimony, it took about 35 seconds of dashcam video to see the charges dropped.Chavez Morgan was issued a citation for an illegal lane change that caused a minor mirror-clip incident on the highway. He told the officer he had dashcam footage and explained what happened, but the officer still judged him the culprit. - Read the rest The post Man exonerated by dashcam appeared first on Boing Boing.

A social media ad for "nutritionally complete" meal replacement shakes was banned by the UK's advertising watchdog over a suggestion the shakes can replace conventional food. Huel's ad, which ran on Instagram and YouTube, showed celebrity entrepreneur Spencer Matthews talking to Huel Founder Julian Hearn about a race-winning athlete who "only eats Huel." - Read the rest The post Ad for Huel meal replacement shakes banned in UK appeared first on Boing Boing.

Mandelnaut is the ultimate 1990s poster shop spinner, generating beautiful images of fractals with a huge array of options and settings and outputting images at custom dimensions.

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Christopher Paul is running unopposed to become the chief of police in Elizabeth, Louisiana, a village of 417 people. Paul, however, was recently charged with raping two 13-year-old girls twenty years ago, creating a dilemma for locals who might not want someone suspected of serious crimes to be their only full-time police officer. - Read the rest The post Man charged with child rape set to become Louisiana police chief appeared first on Boing Boing.

Kenjiro Tsuda, an actor famed in Japan for his lustrous baritone, sued TikTok over an account that used an AI-generated replica of his voice in more than 180 videos. Tokyo District Court ruled this week that a persons' voice can be protected under Japan's publicity rights law. - Read the rest The post Japan court rules actors have right to their own voices appeared first on Boing Boing.

Fujifilm's ever-growing Instax range trends toward both high-end retro and pocketable fun (consider the runaway success of Kodak's Charmera), with both to be found in the Instax Pal 2. Shorn of its printer and only 1.4 x 1.6 x 3.6 inches (37 x 42 x 92mm), it's completely unlike the bloblike original in style. - Read the rest The post Instax Pal 2: fun but pricey pocket toy camera appeared first on Boing Boing.