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YouTube terminated the channels of several popular ASMR artists this week, telling them their content violated its policies against sexual material. 404 Media's Samantha Cole reports that those banned include ItsBunniiASMR, Slight Sounds, Nananightray, Roseasmr, Simoneasmr and Janina Wilhelmsen. - Read the rest The post YouTube crackles down on ASMR content appeared first on Boing Boing.

NASA's mission to rescue a satellite falling out of orbit suffered a setback when the rescue craft experienced multiple failures. NASA launched Katalyst's LINK spacecraft earlier this month on a mission to boost the Swift Observatory into a stable orbit.In a blog post, NASA announced that "Katalyst's LINK servicing spacecraft experienced issues with attitude control, causing the spacecraft to spin and resulting in sporadic communications." - Read the rest The post Spacecraft sent on rescue mission now spinning out of control appeared first on Boing Boing.

The I Can't Sleep podcast is the perfect way to fall asleep. Wikipedia entries are read slowly, in a soft monotone. Recent episodes have included the entries for Middle-earth, French fries, and concrete.The show's about page claims that "Sleep researchers will tell you that monotony, predictable voices, and gentle cognitive engagement (the kind that distracts but doesn't excite) are useful for falling asleep." - Read the rest The post Fall asleep to monotonous Wikipedia entries with this podcast appeared first on Boing Boing.

Avocado flowers perform the duty of both female and male flowers. The gene that controls them has been unchanged for 42 million years.Each avocado flower opens twice over two days: first in its female phase, when it can receive pollen, and later in its male phase, when it releases pollen. - Read the rest The post The avocado's sex life has run on the same schedule for 42 million years appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Trump administration arrested a former Olympian, David Hearn, for touching a loose piece of its janky Reflecting Pool liner, indicted him for felony vandalism, and then announced it had "tremendous evidence" of his wrongdoing. The evidence shows something else: the contractor botched the installation, the DOJ lied. - Read the rest The post DOJ admits the Reflecting Pool "vandal" was the contractor appeared first on Boing Boing.

A 21-year-old Nebraska man set out to film an instructional gun video and accidentally produced a much more persuasive one. Police say the newly purchased 9mm discharged as he demonstrated how to rack it, sending a bullet through his leg and severing his femoral artery. - Read the rest The post This gun lesson skipped directly to the consequences appeared first on Boing Boing.

Architect of our demise, Senator Mitch McConnell's office released another photograph to prove that he remains alive and recovering. The doubting public responded by identifying his wife's $12 Chico's shirt and opening a textile-forensics lab.A family friend of billionaire Elaine Chao reportedly considers it implausible that she would willingly wear a $12 Chico's shirt. - Read the rest The post A $12 Chico's shirt enters the Mitch McConnell proof-of-life mystery appeared first on Boing Boing.

Recently, we shared the story of an airplane evangelist who likes to stand up and start bothering people on flights. It appears the airlines are over it.Public exhibitionist Whitney Lynn goes on a weird Jesus rant after being told she can not perform her one-woman act. - Read the rest The post Preacher who loves a "captive audience" meets the person running the flight appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Voibe AI Voice Dictation is $79.99(reg. $199) with offline voice-to-text, app-wide cursor support, Apple Silicon optimization, and ongoing updates.A lot of writing time isn't really writing. In reality, it's waiting for your hands to catch up, deleting the stiff sentence you just typed, and wishing the computer could simply take the thought directly from your brain. - Read the rest The post Voibe gives Mac users a much faster way to get words down appeared first on Boing Boing.

Gay bars in San Francisco are installing ID and facial scanners and requiring patrons to give it up if they want to get in, with Cydney Hayes in The San Francisco Gazetteer likening the gates to the TSA and Jacob Ogles in The Advocate pointing out the loss of anonymity and safety in LGBTQ+ spaces. - Read the rest The post Patronscan's "ultimate bouncer" never forgets a face in San Francisco's gay bars appeared first on Boing Boing.

If you visit Itch.io to check out indie and casual games, the website's so good you might never even realize that there's a desktop app (with downloads for Windows, macOS and Linux) to manage and run the games, apps and other interesting things hosted there. - Read the rest The post If you like indie games, have you tried the Itch desktop app? appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Learn how to use Claude AI beyond basic promptswith the Claude AI Professional E-Degree, featuring four courses, 100+ lectures, and real-world projects for $13.99 with codeCOURSE30through August 2.AI tools are becoming part of everyday work, but knowing how to ask Claude a quick question and knowing how to actually use it are two very different things. - Read the rest The post AI won't take your job, but someone who knows Claude might - this course is just $14 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Casio's CRW-H001 is a tiny retro-style watch for your ring finger, and the newest model has a few smart features to make it an alternative to models from Oura and Samsung.Added to the tiny gadget is monitoring of the wearer's heart rate, blood oxygen levels and body temperature. - Read the rest The post Casio's new Ring Watch has a few smart features appeared first on Boing Boing.

A U.S. State Department map of Africa mislabeled every country it depicted during a presentation at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio de Janeiro. The slide was so egregiously wrong that multiple attendees whipped out their phones to get a shot of it; Emily Bass, a writer and AIDS expert, wrote about it at length. - Read the rest The post U.S. delegation uses AI slop map of Africa at AIDS conference appeared first on Boing Boing.

A Comcast manager allegedly abused underperforming workers by smashing pies in their faces, a lawsuit claims, recording the assaults in camera and ordering other employees to participate in the abuse. If it's not quite so unhinged as Ebay sending a pig fetus and sexually explicit materials to critics, it's certainly not normal. - Read the rest The post Lawsuit claims underperforming Comcast workers subjected to abusive ritual appeared first on Boing Boing.

Wicker is a movie about a fisherwoman (Olivia Colman) who, tired of her community's disdain, has the basketweaver (Peter Dinklage) craft her a husband (Alexander Skarsgard) out of wicker. Here's the trailer, just out:I'm not sure what I expected from this but it really has everything, including Dinklage exactly replicating the Tyrion accent. - Read the rest The post Trailer for Wicker, starring Olivia Colman, Peter Dinklage and Alexander Skarsgard appeared first on Boing Boing.

In what seems like a story from the late 1990s, and not 2026, Washington's bar-licensure task force wanted to wait until 2027 to give their new high-tech exam time to "work out any issues with its administration." The state Supreme Court chose 2026. - Read the rest The post The new Washington bar exam could not demonstrate minimum technical competence appeared first on Boing Boing.

Wisconsin alcohol regulators are trying to shut down Minocqua Brewing over permit violations so trivial they read less like public-safety concerns than a scavenger hunt for reasons to punish the state's loudest anti-Trump brewery.Wisconsin's Division of Alcohol Beverages is trying to revoke permits held by Minocqua Brewing Company, an outspoken progressive brewery that recently promised free beer on the day Donald Trump dies. - Read the rest The post Wisconsin moves to shut down anti-Trump brewery over minor permit violations appeared first on Boing Boing.

A video from Lindsey Graham's funeral appears to capture two nearby mourners reacting as Diaper Don "shifts" in his seat. Perhaps it is fortunate there is no audio.The Orange Menace attended Lindsey Graham's funeral at Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday, where he also delivered a eulogy and rapped on the casket to say hello. - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains befouls a funeral appeared first on Boing Boing.

I've found a new favorite internet animal: a pig named Daisy, whose neon-pink-painted hooves and viral food reviews have made her an internet sensation. Her review process is simple. She tries the food, pauses to consider it, and if she likes it, she sucks on her lip - declaring it "lip-licking good." - Read the rest The post A pig named Daisy rates foods by how much she licks her lips appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Marine Mammal Care Center (MMCC)needs your help. MMCC is the only year-round hospital in Los Angeles dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating sick, injured, and orphaned seals and sea lions.Last year, MMCC competed inthe Land Rover Defender Service Awardsand came so close; they finished in second place. - Read the rest The post Happy Mutants! Please help rescue marine mammals! appeared first on Boing Boing.

A high school in New York was set on installing an AI-equipped humanoid robot there this fall, but the Salamanca City Central School District has paused the plan after public outrage. Privacy and cost concerns were raised, but it was also suggested that the uncanny "Sally" might be a RealDoll in a cardigan: supplier Realbotix bought the manufacturer of the silicone dolls in 2024. - Read the rest The post New York high school pauses plan for AI robot teacher that looks suspiciously like a RealDoll appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:FirstResumehelps automate the job search by tailoring resumes, writing cover letters, prepping interviews, researching companies, and tracking applications. Get lifetime access for $39.99 (reg. $899).Finding a job can feel like a full-time job in itself, especially when you're rewriting your resume and cover letter for every posting that catches your eye. - Read the rest The post Skip the resume rewrites with FirstResume for $39.99 appeared first on Boing Boing.

On Halloween night in 1992, BBC1 broadcast what looked like a live investigation of a haunted house in a London suburb, with Michael Parkinson anchoring from the studio and Sarah Greene reporting from the family's living room. Ghostwatch was scripted drama, recorded weeks earlier, but it used real presenters, actual BBC camera operators, and the network's standard call-in number - the one viewers knew from Saturday morning children's shows. - Read the rest The post In 1992, BBC ran a fake live ghost hunt and freaked out viewers appeared first on Boing Boing.

I never expected to have an OnlyFans account, but all manner of strange things are possible in 2026, so here we are. Science funding is under attack in the United States, and researchers are exploring alternate funding sources to keep the work going. - Read the rest The post Marmots now have an OnlyFans account to fund research appeared first on Boing Boing.

Given recent events, it's safe to say that in many communities, Flock's creepy, all-seeing automated license plate readers (ALPR) have become as unwelcome as a fart in a space suit. The company's 90,000 ALPR devices have become a spiteful thing across America: called upon by law enforcement for things as perverse as tracking the movements of a woman who chose to have an abortion to 'immigration-related searches' by law enforcement officials on behalf of ICE (Flock has adamantly stated that they have no contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. - Read the rest The post A town duct-taped garbage bags over its Flock spy cameras appeared first on Boing Boing.

The 1960 mystery-comedy Scent of Mystery was the only film ever released in Smell-O-Vision, which delivered 30 odors to vents under the theater seats. Inventor Hans Laube called the mechanism the "smell brain": a belt of perfume containers wound onto a motorized reel, cued by markers on the film print, with needles puncturing a membrane so fans could push the scent down the pipes. - Read the rest The post The only movie released in Smell-O-Vision piped 30 odors under the seats appeared first on Boing Boing.

Wolfgang Pauli has a real law of physics named after him, the exclusion principle. Colleagues named a second one after him as a joke, "according to which a functioning device and Wolfgang Pauli may not occupy the same room." The Pauli effect was the reputation he built for making laboratory apparatus fail by walking into the room. - Read the rest The post Physicists were convinced Wolfgang Pauli presence broke lab equipment appeared first on Boing Boing.

If you've been thinking about snagging a robot to vacuum your house, suck up crap in your swimming pool or cut your grass, you might want to hustle your buns: The FCC is broadening its ban on robotics from overseas being sold in the United States. - Read the rest The post FCC bans imported Roombas, robot mowers, and delivery bots appeared first on Boing Boing.

Jacob Tremblay is playing a teenage Ted Kaczynski in Netflix's upcoming UNABOMBER, and researching the role took him somewhere he didn't expect: Harvard. "I didn't even know he went to Harvard until I read the script; I think most people don't," Tremblay told Tudum. - Read the rest The post Netflix's Unabomber film digs into Kaczynski's Harvard years appeared first on Boing Boing.

No matter whether they get locked up in Castle Rock or Bangkok, life is rough for sex offenders. There's a caste system in the clink that places rapists, sex traffickers and pedophiles just below a burning bag of monkey shit in the incarceration food chain. - Read the rest The post Diddy tossed in solitary after fight at Fort Dix prison appeared first on Boing Boing.

DEVO co-founder Gerald Casale has a new animated music video out, and it does not hold back on Donald Trump. In "Just Do It!," Casale turns Trump into a cartoon dictator marching a MAGA zombie army through the collapse of American democracy, smashing the Liberty Bell with a sledgehammer, watching the Statue of Liberty crumble, and running down protesters in an ambulance marked "Freedom." - Read the rest The post A DEVO founder's new video imagines Trump as a MAGA-zombie dictator appeared first on Boing Boing.

Fun fact: over 60% of all workshop injuries are the result of using a table saw without really knowing how to use a table saw. We're talking somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 cuts, slices and amputations, every year - and that's just in North America. - Read the rest The post Medical records and kids' phone numbers turned up in Google results appeared first on Boing Boing.

AI companies are buying old books, scanning them and destroying the remains, writes Emanuel Maiberg at 404 Media. The program is enabled by ISBNdb, maintainers of a vast book database, which helps them buy vintage physical media in bulk: "The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf," its pitch reads. - Read the rest The post AI companies are scanning and destroying old books appeared first on Boing Boing.

In 1969, filming in Mozambique, Tippi Hedren watched lions take over a house that people had just abandoned and decided it should be a movie. She and her husband Noel Marshall began taking in rescued big cats and living with them at their California ranch, then cast themselves, her daughter Melanie Griffith and his two sons in Roar, shot with untrained lions, tigers and leopards in nearly every scene. - Read the rest The post A family filmed with untrained lions and most of the crew got hurt appeared first on Boing Boing.

Glen Hansard was a singer, songwriter and, to many in the Irish music community, a kind friend. At 4:30 this morning, Glen died while riding his motorcycle in the area around Dublin. His management left a brief message on his website, earlier today:

Replacing the text in popular comic strips is a common meme format, and few artists are displeased to see their work mutating online. Websites can generate these pics for users lacking image-editing skills. But when sites seek payment, a line is crossed. - Read the rest The post Cartoonist sues AI meme generator monetizing his work appeared first on Boing Boing.

President Trump's friendship with dead billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is still a matter of endless public discussion. And it's rumored he plans to pardon convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in return for "exonerating" him. Already moved to a cushier prison, Maxwell has reportedly worked on a "commutation application" to this end. - Read the rest The post U.S. Senate unanimously opposes Ghislaine Maxwell pardon appeared first on Boing Boing.

Peppa Pig's proprietors today won a copyright battle in London's High Court against the creators of Wolfoo, a YouTube character long accused of imitating the petulant piglet. It's not the similar style that mattered, at least in this part of the fight, but the direct lifting of audio clips from the British childrens' show. - Read the rest The post Peppa Pig prevails over Wolfoo in copyright case appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tesla sells a few hundred Cybertrucks a month to human beings, maybe. It's the biggest flop in U.S. automotive history, outflopping even the legendary Ford Edsel. Summarizing a paywalled report by Bloomberg News, Yahoo! News reports that the discrepancy between public sales targets and actual sales is what measures the machines' respective failures. - Read the rest The post Tesla Cybertruck overtakes Ford Edsel as "biggest flop" in U.S. auto history appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:AcePDF Converter & Editor is $23.97(reg. $99.99) with tools to convert, create, edit, merge, split, compress, protect, and OCR PDFs.Every PDF eventually reveals itself not to be the finished document you expected, but a locked little puzzle box waiting for someone to ask, "Can you just make one quick change?" - Read the rest The post AcePDF turns document cleanup into one less headache appeared first on Boing Boing.

Lenovo's putting in extra effort for its latest IdeaCenter all-in-one desktops, which usually come in dark gray and sometimes also in light gray: the new ones will come in muted shades of sage, puce, peach and, of course, midcentury control panel green. - Read the rest The post Lenovo's all-in-one IdeaCenter desktops to come in colors appeared first on Boing Boing.

Not one senator objected to a nonbinding resolution declaring that Donald Trump should not pardon or commute Ghislaine Maxwell's sentence.Finally, Senate Republicans have discovered a Trump action they will not defend. No senator objected when Jacky Rosen asked the chamber to pass a resolution declaring that Ghislaine Maxwell should receive no pardon, no commutation, or any other clemency. - Read the rest The post The Senate unanimously tells Trump to leave Ghislaine Maxwell in prison appeared first on Boing Boing.

Unitree, the Chinese robotics company known for its humanoid robots, has announced a new wheeled quadrupedal robot. The combination of wheels and legs allows its Super Athlete AS2-W robodog to go almost anywhere, as seen in this promotional YouTube video. - Read the rest The post This $40,000 robodog breakdances instead of showing off kung fu appeared first on Boing Boing.

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TL;DR:flowkeyhelps beginners and experienced players improve with interactive lessons, video tutorials, and over 1,000 songs, now available for $79.99 for five years.The best way to stick with piano is to actually enjoy practicing.flowkeycombines step-by-step lessons with songs you already know, listening as you play and offering instant feedback. - Read the rest The post Master piano at your own pace with flowkey for $79.99 appeared first on Boing Boing.

After decades, the SS Richard Montgomery's three masts are scheduled to come down in September. Specialist engineers will build a platform beside the wreck and cut the structures below sea level over several weeks. The approximately 1,400 tonnes of wartime explosives in its forward holds will be left exactly where they have been since 1944. - Read the rest The post The SS Richard Montgomery's masts are coming down. The bombs are staying put appeared first on Boing Boing.

Trump's giant, 10-foot-tall gold participation trophy honoring his "enthusiastic participation" in the Iran War is moving from Washington, D.C., to New York City!

An English professor at South Florida State College was fired for assigning an award-winning short story to her freshman class. Now Vinita Prabhakar is suing her former employer, claiming it breached her First Amendment rights.Prabhakar assigned Ottessa Moshfegh's "Bettering Myself," first published in The Paris Review and winner of the Plimpton Prize, to illustrate unreliable narrators. - Read the rest The post English professor, fired for assigning "political" short story, sues South Florida State College appeared first on Boing Boing.

Blanche needed to hold a meeting with a group Epstein survivors to get past the Senate. It sounds less like he met with them, and more like he was a belligerent jerk for 30 minutes.Epstein survivors waited months for a meeting with Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. - Read the rest The post Todd Blanche tells Epstein survivors to "get to the point" appeared first on Boing Boing.