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The Trump administration has fast-track approved two new data center chemicals that can result in cancer, neurological damage, reproductive harm, and even sudden death, according to a lawsuit just filed by the Earthjustic nonprofit.Tom Perkins writes in The Guardian:

If I'd told you five years ago that The Witcher 3 would be getting a new expansion in 2027... well, you'd probably say "sounds about right." CD Projekt Red's masterpiece monster-hunting RPG received a veritable firehose of DLC in the wake of its 2015 release, including two full-sized expansions - one of which was good enough to go up for Game of the Year all on its own. - Read the rest The post Witcher 3's Songs of the Past expansion gets its first gameplay reveal appeared first on Boing Boing.

Google regularly murders fine products and leaves them for others to bury. Microsoft, though, just renames theirs constantly. The Rebrand Registry now exists to help us keep track of Redmond's insatiable taste for fresh paint.

TL;DR: Thisrefurbished, second-generation Apple iPhone SE (2020)is now just $104.99 (reg. $359).If you're looking to go back to basics with a phone that offers simplicity and smooth performance, this second-generation Apple iPhone SE (2020) may be just what you're looking for. - Read the rest The post Downsize without sacrifice for $105 with this refurbished iPhone SE (2020) appeared first on Boing Boing.

Texas banned drag shows. A judge again struck down that ban this week, telling people who are offended by drag performances that they can simply choose to not watch them."The solution is relatively simple..." wrote U.S. District Judge David Hittner, "just don't go." - Read the rest The post Texas judge rules again that ban on drag shows is unconstitutional appeared first on Boing Boing.

Criterion recently invited director Terry Zwigoff into its famous closet filled with its DVDs and invited him to talk about his favorite movies. Zwigoff directed Crumb, the 1995 documentary about underground cartoonist Robert Crumb, and Ghost World (2001), based on a comic by Daniel Clowes, who co-wrote the screenplay with Zwigoff. - Read the rest The post Ghost World director Terry Zwigoff names his five all-time favorite films appeared first on Boing Boing.

Rack-01 is an web-based techno synth and sequencer where all the controls are right there on a single page. Despite being an extremely polished app, it's all right there in the View Source: you can download the HTML file and it'll run from wherever you put it. - Read the rest The post Techno synth and sequencer in a single HTML file appeared first on Boing Boing.

When Swedish artist Johan Karlgren had children, he started playing around with Perler beads, tiny plastic tubes that come in lots of different colors. They are kind of like physical pixels: you place the beads on a plastic grid of pegs and then heat them with an iron, making the beads fuse together. - Read the rest The post This artist turns melted plastic beads into pocket-sized video game pixel art appeared first on Boing Boing.

A virtual urban menace plaguing the United Kingdom has now struck Glasgow. While folks across the Irish Sea are clear on what's going on, the Scots are having a time of it.Initially, the Gardai in Wexford, Ireland, debunked the extra creepy incarnation of Dr. - Read the rest The post Cosplaying AI Cat-in-the-Hat virtually strikes Glasgow, residents in panic, sort of appeared first on Boing Boing.

Gary Leff, who runs the View From the Wing website, posted an Instagram reel from a woman who said American Airlines kicked her family out of business class seats on a flight from Miami to Milan so that deadheading pilots could occupy those seats. - Read the rest The post Airline bumped a family from business class to make room for pilots - because they paid with miles appeared first on Boing Boing.

Democratic leadership hasn't been what we'd hoped and has, quite frankly, been weaker and lamer than anticipated. Hakeem Jeffries, however, has found a new way to capitulate.After Chuck Schumer's blood pressure-raising tirade about guac and chips, I think most people just put the Dems' leadership on mute. - Read the rest The post Hakeem Jeffries takes time out from boldly leading the resistance to suck up to Jared Kushner appeared first on Boing Boing.

Weirdo JD Vance has a funny story about disregarding his wife's wishes over extremely important life choices.Shady JD is proud he got his way. After yelling at his kid to shut up and let him kiss some ass to get the VP gig, it's unsurprising that Usha Vance had given him a choice: "You can be VP, or you can have a fourth child." - Read the rest The post JD Vance brags about getting his wife to have the baby she didn't want appeared first on Boing Boing.

The cash-strapped university system spent $17 million to give everyone ChatGPT, watched sign-ups trickle in, and responded by dumping another $39 million to it.As its campuses struggle with layoffs, cuts, and a $2.3 billion budget deficit, the CSU system is pouring money into OpenAI. - Read the rest The post California State University system uses AI as a money incinerator appeared first on Boing Boing.

Most stars drift gracefully along their galactic orbits, the constellations reforming only on unimaginable timescales. But some stars are in a rush, and astronomers have spotted their fastest yet: an otherwise unremarkable star, S301, orbiting a black hole at up to 8% the speed of light. - Read the rest The post Fastest star yet seen orbits black hole at 8% speed of light appeared first on Boing Boing.

At this point, new videos from Epic Rap Battles of History feel a bit like Halley's Comet. If you're lucky, you get two a year, which doesn't quite square with their average runtime of three minutes until you start thinking about all the work involved. - Read the rest The post Epic Rap Battles of History pits Tom Cruise against Evel Knievel appeared first on Boing Boing.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has upgraded its recall of frozen blueberries to the highest level of risk. The berries, sold at Publix stores, tested positive for E. coli contamination and have caused at least 12 illnesses and 4 hospital visits across 8 states. - Read the rest The post FDA upgrades Diarrhea Blueberries recall appeared first on Boing Boing.

Golden Axe, the 1989 Sega arcade game vaguely inspired by Conan and other sword-and-sandals classics, is to be a kids' animated television show from Paramount. Here's the trailer; it debuts next month!

Death Valley is not being coy about any of this.After getting their car stuck, a 68-year-old tourist and his travel partner attempted to walk out of Death Valley. The scorching 113F heat quickly left him unable to continue. By the time rescue personnel were able to reach him, he was dead. - Read the rest The post It is called Death Valley as a warning appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Master the songs you love on the piano no matter your skill level with a5-year subscription to the Classic Plan from flowkey Piano Learning Appfor just $67.97, 92% off the $899 regular price.If you've been meaning to take your piano playing to the next level, this is your time. - Read the rest The post Play piano like an expert with a 5-year subscription to flowkey for $67.97 appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Hamberdgular has been overeating. Diaper Don managed to pack on 14 pounds while under doctor's orders to lose weight.Famed for bringing in McDonald's for athletes, mistaking his own love of NY taco salads as respect for Mexican people, and sharing awesome cake with a dictator, it's no wonder Grandpa Pudding Brains is inflating. - Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains has had too much pudding appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Get a lifetimeAcePDF Converter & Editor license for Windows and Macfor $23.97 instead of its $99.99 MSRP.PDFs are useful right up until one arrives with the wrong page order, an enormous file size, or a typo trapped inside a scan. - Read the rest The post Pay $24 once to edit, split, convert, and generally show your PDFs who's boss appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Getlifetime access to ChatPlayground AI's Unlimited Planfor $59.97 through Aug. 25 (reg. $619).One AI answer can be useful. Several AI answers sitting side by side are much better at revealing which robot understood the assignment-and which one wandered into the woods. - Read the rest The post Let ChatGPT, Gemini & more fight for your approval-ChatPlayground is just $60 for lifetime access appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Headway Premiumturns bestselling books into 15-minute summariesand costs just $49.97 (reg. $299.95) for lifetime access.Your unread book pile means well, but it's starting to feel less like an enjoyable hobby and more like a judgmental stack.Headway Premium makes those big ideas easier to reachby condensing bestselling fiction and nonfiction into summaries you can read or hear in roughly 15 minutes. - Read the rest The post A one-time $49.97 gives you 2,000+ bestselling book summaries for life appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: Update toMicrosoft Windows 11 Profor just $10.49 (Reg. $199) - that's over $190 in savings for a limited time only, with code SAVE30.Is it time to upgrade to a newer version of Windows? Whether your computer was running outdated office apps or you're looking for new capabilities, you can't go wrong with a switch toMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro. - Read the rest The post Update to Windows 11 Pro for less than $11 with this limited deal appeared first on Boing Boing.

Seafoam green has always been one of my favorite colors. One of the reasons is that it has a mid-20th-century feel to it (at least for me), an era I associate with good industrial design.Recently, designer Beth Mathews visited the Manhattan Project site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. - Read the rest The post Why seafoam green was used in control rooms appeared first on Boing Boing.

Many people willed their remains to Harvard Medical School on the understanding they would be used in research and education. But the school's morgue manager sold these body parts on the black market, was caught, and now Harvard has agreed to pay $53m to settle class action lawsuits filed by 47 grieving families. - Read the rest The post Harvard Medical School to pay $53m after donated body parts sold on black market appeared first on Boing Boing.

A scramble is a type of corner pedestrian crossing where vehicles from all directions stop while pedestrians cross freely from one street to the other, often crossing diagonally. The most famous one is the Shibuya Scramble in Tokyo. Up to 3,000 people walk across it when traffic stops every two minutes. - Read the rest The post This Tokyo intersection lets up to 3,000 pedestrians cross at once, and you can watch it live on YouTube appeared first on Boing Boing.

I'm fascinated by the range of human reactions to the increasing use of AI, especially when it comes to writing. A lot of people have made up their minds about it: It's garbage. It's evil. It's evil garbage. It's going to usher in a post-scarcity world and eliminate poverty. - Read the rest The post Does AI-assisted writing count as cheating? This essay says the question is backward appeared first on Boing Boing.

Oswaldo Pirela, the San Diego Padres' (Major League Baseball) minor-league catching coordinator, was arrested at an El Paso, Texas airport as he prepared to return to his home in Peoria, Arizona, where he lives with his wife and two children, aged 9 and 4. - Read the rest The post Padres catching coordinator arrested at airport, held by ICE appeared first on Boing Boing.

Game studio Embark has teamed up with Subway to promote its extraction shooter ARC Raiders. Purchasing a meal will earn players a code for a new skin, complete with a removable (unbranded) Subway sandwich, or possibly a wrap, tethered to the front and curiously categorized as "tech." - Read the rest The post ARC Raiders' first promotional tie-in is with... Subway appeared first on Boing Boing.

Bizarre or misshapen typefaces designed to confuse or stymie AI (previously and previously at Boing Boing) regularly go viral. But they're works of art making a point rather than something to actually use in production."Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful," writes Andrew Yaros, not least because they are inaccessible. - Read the rest The post Anti-AI fonts considered harmful appeared first on Boing Boing.

HTML Can Do That is a pleasantly minimal website by Chris Burnell, explaining some of the interesting tricks you can do without javascript or even styles. Did you know you can do popover modals now just with markup? Isn't that wonderful. - Read the rest The post The latest HTML trickery for web designers appeared first on Boing Boing.

The pomato is a plant that grows cherry tomatoes on its vine and potatoes in the soil. Tomatoes and potatoes both belong to the genus Solanum, so you can graft them together. You can make one by cutting the stem of each plant, strapping the two together, and waiting for the cuts to heal. - Read the rest The post A single plant can grow tomatoes on top and potatoes below appeared first on Boing Boing.

This past week, Lord Vader took time out of his busy schedule to drop by a city council meeting in San Diego, California to say how much his Master is enjoying Flock. According to Vader, it's proven great for following children to playgrounds and stalking his ex-girlfriend. - Read the rest The post Emperor Palpatine loves Flock appeared first on Boing Boing.

Trumpian United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro has a very weird idea about "sabotage."In a desperate attempt to keep her boss- not the Attorney General, but Donald Trump- happy, Pirro is somehow trying to keep open a door to subject former Olympian David Hearne to more legal abuse. - Read the rest The post More reflecting pool nonsense appeared first on Boing Boing.

Mr. T's The Man with the Gold is one of my treasured books, so Netflix finally spending some Untold money on Laurence Tureaud feels like someone finally got something right over there.In a time when Netflix is pissing money away on Melania and rehabilitating the DOA Raygun, it is a pleasant surprise to see Mr. - Read the rest The post Mr. T's extraordinary life gets the Netflix Untold treatment appeared first on Boing Boing.

Four Renaissance paintings by Antonello da Messina, including three of five surviving panels of his San Gregorio Polyptych, were heisted from the Regional Interdisciplinary Museum of Messina in Sicily. The thieves came and went without triggering alarms, police say, and they don't know who is responsible. - Read the rest The post Museum heist bags four Renaissance paintings, with two more dumped in the street appeared first on Boing Boing.

Alexey Marushchenko, founder of a small Russian private military company named Yastreb ("Hawk"), is off to the gulag for 18 years after pleading guitly to charges of extortion, fraud, kidnapping and murder. With official support from a Russian general, Alexander Dembitsky, Yastreb recruited men to fight in the Ukraine war, but extorted money from those who signed up and brutalized those who refused to pay. - Read the rest The post Gulag for Russian mercenary who beat soldier to death with dildo appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Get lifetime access to AI Invoice Maker, anAI-powered invoicing appwith 9 templates and 150+ currency support, for $19.99 (MSRP $39.99).Nobody got into freelancing or running a small business because they loved making invoices. Yet somehow, invoice creation eats up more time than it deserves, especially when you're reformatting the same document every month or scrambling to remember which template you used last time. - Read the rest The post This $19.99 app turns a pile of receipts into a professional invoice in seconds appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:A1min.AI Advanced Business Plan lifetime subscriptionis $99.99 (reg. $540), with flagship models from six AI companies plus image, audio, and video tools.Every six weeks, some lab publishes a benchmark chart, declares itself the new champion, and a few million people cancel one $20 subscription to start a different $20 subscription. - Read the rest The post $100 gets you GPT-5.5, Claude Opus, and Gemini 3.1, with no monthly fee appeared first on Boing Boing.

Engadet explains the benefits of a Mirrorless camera and why you don't really need one if you are hanging on to an SLR or another camera that works just fine.I used to think I got all the benefits of a mirrorless camera from the reduced camera shake in my Twin Reflex Cameras, but it turns out there is more to it than not having a mirror slapping around inside your camera. - Read the rest The post Mirrorless cameras remove the reflex, digital removed the fun appeared first on Boing Boing.

Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH the intrepid MAGAs magically travel back to the time when America was Great!-> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! - Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug: The MAGAs go back to when America was Great appeared first on Boing Boing.

Having the right to repair your hardware doesn't matter much if you don't have hardware you can repair. As phones have become more svelte and complex, they've also become significantly more difficult to take apart. Even with the right tools and detailed instructions from a joint like iFixit, replacing the battery in a recent iPhone can leave you having nightmares for a month. - Read the rest The post Fairphone finally sells its repairable phones directly in the US appeared first on Boing Boing.

Klasse Wrecks is a record label and publishing company based in London and Hong Kong. I haven't listened to their records or cassettes yet, but I've been tempted to buy some of their 22 KFAX zines.Each is about 100 pages long and consists of black-and-white reproductions of logos. - Read the rest The post Logos of the early UFOlogy scene and Japanesel love hotels appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: Get thislifetime license to Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for Windowsfor just $54.99 (reg. $249.99).If you're a working professional, small business owner, or part of an organization with a controlled IT environment, Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for Windows is a fitting software choice. - Read the rest The post Enhance your workflow with this $55 MS Office 2024 Pro Plus lifetime license appeared first on Boing Boing.

Geoff Pack made Sun Clock is a neat online visualization of the hours of daylight and darkness, casting it against a regular (but 24-hour!) clock face. You can tweak with the appearance and hands, set location and direction manually, and turn off the moon. - Read the rest The post 24-hour clock face shows the hours of darkness appeared first on Boing Boing.

Researchers from theSouth Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropologyare looking for a 500-year-old coastline to find a 500-year-old lost flagship. The ship hasn't moved, but the coastline has.South Carolina's coastline has changed so much since a Spanish flagship ran aground near Winyah Bay in 1526 that its remains could now be reasonably close to any coastal waterfront. - Read the rest The post A lost Spanish flagship could be under the ocean, under a river, or even a beach appeared first on Boing Boing.

As reported by wdwmagic.com, last week, Disney Enterprises, Inc. published a patent for "a way to make a flat ride track feel like it's climbing or dropping, without the track actually changing height."U.S. Patent PublicationThe core version of the trick needs no moving parts and no screens at all, just angled walls and stairs, though the patent leaves room for add-ons like video projection and set pieces that shift or change dimension as a vehicle passes, layered on top of the static illusion for a stronger effect. - Read the rest The post Disney patent for a fake-elevation ride trick matches new Encanto ride appeared first on Boing Boing.

This excellent doggo saw a good time fly by his face and decided it was playtime.This skater is having a ball until he isn't! Those awesome wallrides had the dog just wanting to play!

MMA loses to the MMPA.The gentleman in question was most assuredly NOT Max Holloway. Tyler Muehl approached a resting California sea lion at La Jolla Cove, assumed a fighting stance, invoked the UFC star's name, and started kicking. The sea lion tried to flee. - Read the rest The post Sea lion-kicking young man discovers the Marine Mammal Protection Act appeared first on Boing Boing.