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TL;DR:GetWindows 11 Prowhile it's on sale for $9.97 (reg. $199).Windows 10 is over a decade old, and it shows. Between the outdated interface and rusty security features, it's a small wonder more people are finally upgrading toWindows 11. - Read the rest The post Normally $199, it's only $10 to get Windows 11 Pro right now appeared first on Boing Boing.

Conspiracy theorist RFK Jr suggested that two deaths attributed to measles were "fabricated." A coroner made it abundantly clear that measles was indeed responsible for at least one.Regardless of actual medical professionals decrying Kennedy's message, the toilet seat cocaine enthusiast storms forward, insisting officials not report the deaths as measles. - Read the rest The post RFK Jr. suggested Pennsylvania fabricated measles deaths. A coroner just confirmed one appeared first on Boing Boing.

In today's edition of Dan Lewis's excellent Now I Know newsletter, there's a photo of a red plastic whistle that used to come in boxes of Cap'n Crunch cereal in the 1960s. Besides being a cool-looking whistle, it had a unique property that made it popular among phone hackers. - Read the rest The post A cereal-box whistle that could trick the phone system into free calls appeared first on Boing Boing.

The rest of us have been clear about her for a very long time.Silicon Valley grifting superstar Elizabeth Holmes has been investigated, prosecuted, convicted, podcasted, documented, and dramatized. Somehow Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim decided there might still be an Elizabeth Holmes nobody had seen. - Read the rest The post Nathan Fielder spent three years trying to figure out Elizabeth Holmes appeared first on Boing Boing.

Texas health officials set a schedule, then realized when the election was. The state's maternal mortality committee documented that its next biennial report would be published by September 1, 2026. They've moved that date, without giving a reason, to December.Publicly available data is already worth examining. - Read the rest The post Texas won't show voters its post-ban maternal death report until after they vote appeared first on Boing Boing.

Free climber Thomas Perry discovered he'd picked the wrong line, and was perched on a 20-inch ledge 260 feet up the side of a mountain with no rope. Suddenly, 911 was no joke.After realizing he was in an impossible position, Perry phoned rescue services. - Read the rest The post Climber holds on with one hand and calls 911 with the other appeared first on Boing Boing.

TheDummyzineInstagram account posted a 1930s British catalog advertising Mickey Mouse novelty items. The page has masks, headbands, and mouse-shaped headpieces. Mickey's face changes from one mask to the next.Disney had only begun licensing Mickey to outside manufacturers a few years earlier, starting with a 1929 deal to put his face on children's writing tablets. - Read the rest The post A 1930s catalog sold Mickey Mouse masks that don't look quite right appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Japanese Instagram account Suzume Okyakusan posted a video on August 8, 2026, of six sparrows eating breakfast at a miniature picnic table set with small ceramic dishes of seeds and miniature cakes, along with a tiny teapot and cups. Each bird gets its own place setting. - Read the rest The post Six sparrows sit down for a tiny tea party, one place setting each appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:This refurbished Lenovo300e touchscreen Chromebookis on sale for $74.97 (reg. $284.99) through September 10, extended for Labor Day.Most touchscreen laptops start well north of $300, and that's before you add a case or a mouse. Refurbished options rarely close that gap without cutting something important. - Read the rest The post Labor Day savings just got extended! This touchscreen Chromebook is under $100 appeared first on Boing Boing.

At the Created in LA conference, to be held in Los Angeles starting September 17, Disney is launching its first creator event, gathering some of the biggest social media creators in a celebration of self-made videos and stories. Among the content creators speaking will be Adrian Per, Dhar Mann, and Dude Perfect. - Read the rest The post Disney's first creator conference brings Dude Perfect to Hollywood appeared first on Boing Boing.

Jan Vormann is a German artist who uses LEGO bricks in his artwork. He patches up broken sides of buildings and walls with legos in a beautiful way that turns the structures into art. This is one of my favorite uses of Legos that I've come across. - Read the rest The post German artist patches broken buildings with colorful LEGO bricks appeared first on Boing Boing.

Years of sunlight can do more than fade a sign. Ultraviolet radiation breaks down pigments and the materials that hold paint together, causing colors to fade, crack, and peel away. When that happens unevenly, parts of the lettering can survive while the surrounding color disappears. - Read the rest The post Years of sunlight turn ordinary signs into heavy metal-looking logos appeared first on Boing Boing.

Japan has a museum dedicated to rocks that look like people, animals, and other things our brains have decided to see in random geology. The Chichibu Chinsekikan, or Hall of Curious Rocks, houses more than 1,700 of them, including stones resembling Elvis, ducks, sheep, and assorted mysterious faces. - Read the rest The post Japan's museum has 1,700+ rocks that look like faces and animals appeared first on Boing Boing.

In recent months, we've seen the Trump administration grasp at every straw it can to appeal to youth who, by and large, think its figurehead is a spray-tanned monster concerned only with his own self-enrichment by any means necessary. Paying off TikTokers is one thing, but as an inveterate gamer, I've been simultaneously fascinated and appalled by the ways in which the White House has co-opted my beloved hobby as a vehicle for propaganda. - Read the rest The post The White House built five Trump-themed video games, and they're bleak appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Koofr is aprivacy-first cloud storage platform, and you can get a 1TB plan at one of its best-ever prices with codeKOOFR: $129.97 (MSRP $810).Most cloud storage plans want your money every single month. Google One's 2TB plan runs $9.99/month, and that meter never stops. - Read the rest The post Own 1TB of cloud storage for less with a coupon that expires tomorrow appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: Coding is a whole lot easier with the right tools, and nowMicrosoft Visual Studio Professional 2026can help you tackle all your projects for just $49.99 (MSRP $499.99).AI is changing virtually every part of your workflow, so instead of resisting, it might be time to incorporate tools that have this powerful technology already baked in. - Read the rest The post Make your coding workflow a whole lot easier with this $50 Microsoft tool appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:Microsoft Office Professional 2021gives you Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access, and Publisher on one Windows PC for $29.97 (reg. $219.99).If you've somehow survived this long without needing AI inside your spreadsheets (in that case, congratulations),Microsoft Office Professional 2021still has plenty to offer. - Read the rest The post Office 2021 is old by tech standards, but $30 gets you the classics for life appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR: Enjoy a PDF editor that prioritizes security with this $19.99 (reg. $49.99)lifetime subscription to IndyPDF Editor & Converter.When it comes to using software of any kind in 2026, privacy can never be overstated. Not only is it ideal for handling sensitive documents, such as client records, contracts, and IDs, but it's also a necessity given the ongoing advances in cybercrime. - Read the rest The post Keep your sensitive PDFs secure with this offline PDF editor for $20 for life appeared first on Boing Boing.

In the late 1980s, gamers were spoiled for choice when two completely different versions of the Aliens computer game came out, one a series of movie-faithful minigames and the other a loosely-adapted dungeon crawl. And as dissimilar as they were, neither of these games were anything like the arcade game that appeared thereafter! - Read the rest The post Book about every video game set in the Alien universe appeared first on Boing Boing.

If NUKEMAP is the web's classic demonstration of what a nuclear blast would do to your hometown or that of your enemy (don't forget to set the yield!) then Nuke Simulation is the modern novelty, depicting the explosion in handsome animated 3D over the community to be obliterated. - Read the rest The post Nuke Simulation shows your least favorite town obliterated by the atomic weapon of your choice appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:ThisGrade A refurbished 2018 MacBook Airis just $319.99 (MSRP $2,299) with 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, a Retina display, an Intel Core i5, and support for macOS Sonoma.You can spend a lot of money on a MacBook. - Read the rest The post Replace your everyday laptop with a 16GB MacBook Air for $319.99 appeared first on Boing Boing.

Police in England have thirsty work ahead of them after thieves took off with two trailers loaded with Guinness Stout from an industrial park in Runcorn, near Liverpool.

I've painted rocks for years, off and on. It's less intimidating to paint on a rock than on a canvas, and it is easier to display rocks than canvases. You can just set the rock on a desk, table, or any horizontal surface - no mounting hardware or holes in the wall required. - Read the rest The post What is the best paint for painting rocks? appeared first on Boing Boing.

In the emergency room at Salisbury District Hospital in England, no drip stands were available for incoming patients during a period of "exceptionally high demand." So emergency workers made use of what they could find, including picture hooks and a medical training skeleton. - Read the rest The post Model skeleton used to hold drip in busy hospital appeared first on Boing Boing.

For all of Elon Musk's outrage that there are actors in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey who do not possess the racial characteristics of the ancient Greeks (he's not referring to Matt Damon's straight, light hair and non-Mediterranean Anglo/Germanic face), that is the least important of the changes Nolan made to the epic poem in making his movie. - Read the rest The post Nolan's Odyssey twist about Trojan Horse guilt outdoes Musk's outrage appeared first on Boing Boing.

Southern California bird watcher Alexander DeBarros captured a photo of a coyote holding a roadrunner bird in its mouth. He was conducting a bird survey at the Chatsworth Nature Preserve on August 29 when he spotted the iconic sight.In an incredible coincidence that is a movie publicist's dream, he snapped the rare, possibly unprecedented, photo on the opening weekend of the movie Acme vs. - Read the rest The post Acme vindicated: photographer gets shot of coyote catching roadrunner appeared first on Boing Boing.

Few governments seem more enthusiastic about undermining private communications than those in Britain, where a total ban on encryption is often touted by non-technical minds and mass surveillance is openly dreamed by cabinet ministers. Apple withdrew its advanced data protection service in the UK to sidestep demands that it provide "backdoor" access to its users' data. - Read the rest The post 93% of Britons want right to private conversations online, if you don't mind appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:The$24.99 GoCablepacks up to 100W charging, Lightning and USB-C connectors, an LED power display, data transfer, magnetic cable management, a bottle opener, a hidden cutter, and a carabiner into one compact EDC gadget.Some charging cables know their place. - Read the rest The post Your charging cable is underachieving-the 8-in-1 GoCable is just $24.99 appeared first on Boing Boing.

The GOP's primary election for Missouri's 161st District State Representative was decided by just 32 votes, with Thomas Ross defeating Louise Secker with Republican voters in Joplin last month. But Ross is now incarcerated after authorities say he tried to have cocaine planted on Secker before the vote. - Read the rest The post Political candidate charged with trying to plant drugs on opponent appeared first on Boing Boing.

The city of Dallas is using AI-powered cameras mounted on trash collection trucks to assign "blight scores" to homes there. The obvious intent is code enforcement, which implies issuing fines to people living in low-income neighborhoods. Unhappy locals made their thoughts clear at a city council meeting. - Read the rest The post Dallas using AI surveillance cameras to assign "blight scores" to local homes appeared first on Boing Boing.

Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain's right-wing Reform UK, was filmed celebrating secret foreign donations, alongside other senior members of his party. Farage believed he was talking to a wealthy foreign supporter funneling money through a British relative, but it was actually undercover journalists working with Channel 4 News. - Read the rest The post Nigel Farage filmed celebrating "illegal" foreign donations appeared first on Boing Boing.

"Anger as human poo and maggot-infested food left behind at beauty spot," goes the headline at BBC News. If it had been any other species...

TL;DR:Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windowslets you enjoy seven tools for a one-time low price, just $14.97 (MSRP $229) now through September 3.When you think ofMicrosoft Office, you probably think of Word and Excel, but these days there's a whole lot more to this classic productivity suite. - Read the rest The post 7 Microsoft Office apps are yours for life with this $15 deal (MSRP $229) appeared first on Boing Boing.

Trust AI to help fix your PC or make a funny image to tease your friends; don't use it to plan your ascent of a 14,000-foot volcano that regularly kills people.Three college students used Google Gemini to plan their ascent of Mount Shasta. - Read the rest The post Hikers let Gemini plan their Mount Shasta climb. Search and Rescue brought them home appeared first on Boing Boing.

Couch enthusiast JD Vance offered two helpful reminders today that beneath the eyeliner, beard, expensive suits, and enormous ambition lies a real jerk.Yelling at his kid to shut up so Vance can kiss Trump's butt, straight up telling the press he'll lie to get attention, even when it denigrates and truly damages a community, regaling us with stories about getting his wife to do things she doesn't want, while insulting her immigrant parents- this guy has no self-awareness and no clue. - Read the rest The post JD Vance is a real tool appeared first on Boing Boing.

Destined to become as Netflix-famous as the "Poop Cruise," Raygun's documentary is proving to be even worse at rehabilitation than the notorious Olympian is at dancing. Mr., however, is still legit.This clip of Raygun's husband fawning over her performance is like a sinkhole for credibility:Meanwhile, The Guardian has an awesome piece on Mr. - Read the rest The post Find someone who looks at you like Raygun's husband looks at her Olympic buffoonery appeared first on Boing Boing.

The Constitution keeps getting in the Trump administration's way, so an unholy triumvirate of DHS, DOJ, and whatever RFK Jr is thinks it's found a route around it: keep pregnant foreigners out of the country in the first place, and their kids won't be born citizens. - Read the rest The post Ice Barbie's misogynist replacement fights the Constitution with bigotry appeared first on Boing Boing.

Eric Antonow is an artist best known for the Methaphone, a slab of clear acrylic shaped like a smartphone. The idea of the Methaphone is that it gives you something to hold instead of your phone. You can use it while you are waiting in line or in other situations, like sitting in a cafe; you can look through the slab like a window and see reality instead of pixels. - Read the rest The post A banana sticker with Andy Warhol's face appeared first on Boing Boing.

"If you have a mental picture of guys living in computers, it'll likely prepare you for the future better than otherwise," the pseudonymous AI researcher roon wrote on X, describing that mental model as the right way to read the recent Hugging Face breach: AI models that broke out of their sandboxed test environment and hacked their way to the answer key, recounted in Dwarkesh Patel's writeup. - Read the rest The post A blogger imagines Hell as a lesson in AI alignment appeared first on Boing Boing.

The inaugural Fat Marmot Week has concluded. After over 23,000 votes, the winner is Dawn.Facing funding cuts, scientists at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory's Marmot Project launched an OnlyFans to raise money to keep the project going. Fat Marmot Week piggybacked on the success of OnlyMarms to continue to raise awareness and cash. - Read the rest The post A marmot named Dawn just won the first-ever Fat Marmot Week appeared first on Boing Boing.

Plant Smart is a database of plants that are harmful to pets, so you're not stuck asking Google or Claude if you just killed Rover by letting him eat a daffodil.

56k.rip simulates the experience of trying to get online 35 years ago, right down to replicating a typical Windows 3.x desktop and requiring you to figure out what to click to even try. Once you do, though, you get to listen to that pleasantly nostalgic series of screeches and noise before establishing a 56k connection. - Read the rest The post Experience the joy of getting online with a dial-up modem appeared first on Boing Boing.

Cancer deaths attributable to alcohol have doubled in the U.S. since 1990, according to a study led by researchers from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. In 1990, 11,400 cancer deaths were linked to cancer in the U.S., and the number rose to 23,100 in 2023. - Read the rest The post Study finds alcohol-linked cancer deaths have doubled since 1990 appeared first on Boing Boing.

TL;DR:ChatOn bundles GPT, Gemini, and Claudeinto one AI assistant, and a 1-year Premium plan is on sale for $29.99 (reg. $39.99) for new users.AI subscriptions are easy to stack, and it's common to end up paying for ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude separately just to compare one answer to a single question. - Read the rest The post One $30 app now runs GPT, Gemini, Claude, and Sonar side by side appeared first on Boing Boing.

Unusual Suspects is Neal Agarwal's latest fantanstic web-based game/toy (previously, previously, previously, previously). You're given comically nonspecific yet oddly detailed descriptions of suspects and must draw them on-screen. The game then identifies the suspect based on your sketch, which is given a percentage rating. - Read the rest The post Can you draw the unusual suspects? appeared first on Boing Boing.

"GET READY ASSUMPTION HIGH SCHOOL" goes the caption, crudely superimposed over a sloptastic "TAKE OVER" logo under a photomontage of the Assumption Parish High School and Mike Myers' famously execrable Cat in the Hat. But it turns out this is just a educational recreation of another circulating meme that had officials there alarmed and uneasy. - Read the rest The post Cat in the Hat memes alarming school officials appeared first on Boing Boing.

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An identity verification company is understood to have lost more than 153 million scans of U.S. and Canadian drivers' licenses, which are now available to buy on the dark web. KrebsOnSecurity reports that the FBI is investigating the source of the images, advertised by a new user on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit. - Read the rest The post More than 153 million drivers licenses on sale after "breach" at identity verification service appeared first on Boing Boing.

A decade ago, cathode ray-tube TVs moldered in massive warehouses around the country, too toxic to trash and too risky to recycle. Those who instead hung onto their old sets are now cashing in as retrogamers, and arcade operators fight over the dwindling supply of tubes in good condition. - Read the rest The post LCD replicas of retro CRT monitors questioned appeared first on Boing Boing.

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