- newGhislaine Maxwell reportedly finds her mean-girls table in prison
Raw Story, citing the Daily Mail, says Maxwell has formed a "highly secretive" group at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas, where she allegedly whispers with three women she considers among the "finest and best educated" prisoners. The reported crew has a certain country-club-crime theme: a doctor convicted in a bogus billing case, a former CFO accused of raiding company funds, and a bookkeeper who wrote herself very generous checks. — Read the rest The post Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly finds her mean-girls table in prison appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 21 mins ago 16 Jun 26, 4:25pm -
- newExploring Grand Theft Auto 4's hidden history
You have to promise to pretend to be a little surprised when I tell you that Grand Theft Auto 4's Liberty City was based on real-life New York. I'm not asking for a full send, just gasp a little or something. — Read the rest The post Exploring Grand Theft Auto 4's hidden history appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 42 mins ago 16 Jun 26, 4:04pm -
- newSaul Goodman returns to celebrate America's 250th
It's a funny world when Breaking Bad's comic relief lawyer Saul Goodman has more integrity than the sitting President. I did not tune into Trump's UFC fight, but you better believe I sat up when Better Call Saul co-creator and showrunner Peter Gould posted a celebration of his own. — Read the rest The post Saul Goodman returns to celebrate America's 250th appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 43 mins ago 16 Jun 26, 4:03pm -
- newRobots can kung fu, but can they summit Everest?
Pemba, a modified Unitree G1 humanoid robot, is on an expedition slated to culminate with a summit of Mount Everest. Unitree's robots can pull off impressive kung fu and parkour, but all bipedal robots struggle on uneven terrain. (And sometimes even on level ground.) — Read the rest The post Robots can kung fu, but can they summit Everest? appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 45 mins ago 16 Jun 26, 4:01pm -
- newGet uncomfortably, viscerally close to the Knicks celebration
Sixty-three arrests. Four stabbings. One shooting. When New York City gets out to celebrate, they celebrate. The city's reaction to their hometown heroes winning the NBA championships has become the stuff of legends in mere days, and not for no reason. — Read the rest The post Get uncomfortably, viscerally close to the Knicks celebration appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 47 mins ago 16 Jun 26, 3:59pm -
- newCrankGPT is an offline AI box for the apocalypse
CrankGPT is a fully offline AI box that you power by turning a crank. There's no battery and no internet connection: just a single-board computer (Raspberry or Orange Pi) that runs speech recognition, a small language model, and text-to-speech locally. Crank, speak, and get a spoken answer back. — Read the rest The post CrankGPT is an offline AI box for the apocalypse appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 16 Jun 26, 12:03pm -
- newBritish police officer accused of using AI to fabricate evidence
A Derbyshire Constabulary officer is under criminal investigation over claims they used artificial intelligence to fabricate evidence. The BBC's Samantha Noble reports that it's thought to be the first case of its kind in Britain.The officer is alleged to have perverted the course of justice, but no arrests have been made, police added. — Read the rest The post British police officer accused of using AI to fabricate evidence appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 16 Jun 26, 11:42am -
- newTrump Arch in D.C. to be tremendously large and golden
When President Trump first showed reporters a model of the proposed United States Triumphal Arch, CBS News's Ed O'Keefe asked who it was for. "Me," said Trump. "It's going to be beautiful."The arch, formally in honor of the United States' 250th anniversary, would rise 250 feet—one foot per year of independence—on Memorial Circle on Columbia Island, between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. — Read the rest The post Trump Arch in D.C. to be tremendously large and golden appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 6 hours ago 16 Jun 26, 11:13am -
- newMoneroeville Mall hosts final Dawn of the Dead tour
The sprawling Monroeville Mall outside of Pittsburgh is most famous as the setting for George A. Romero's 1978 horror film Dawn of the Dead: the shambling zombies return out of instict, says one character, becuase the place "was important in their lives." — Read the rest The post Moneroeville Mall hosts final Dawn of the Dead tour appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 6 hours ago 16 Jun 26, 10:41am -
- newWoman cheers Knicks win, LAPD bursts in and kills her dog
A Black woman yelled, "Oh my god," because the Knicks won, someone called the LAPD, and police reportedly responded by bursting into her apartment and killing her golden doodle.According to Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's Threads post, the dog was wearing a Knicks jersey and ran over when police entered the apartment. — Read the rest The post Woman cheers Knicks win, LAPD bursts in and kills her dog appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 21 hours ago 15 Jun 26, 7:32pm -