- newFetterman struggles to answer reporters' questions, stammers through defense of Iran strikes
Video clips of Sen. John Fetterman stammering through questions from reporters went viral on Tuesday, shared by journalist Aaron Rupar and racking up tens of thousands of views. Fetterman, who relies on real-time transcription devices due to auditory processing issues from his 2022 stroke, struggled to articulate answers on Iran, war powers, and his widening break from the Democratic Party. — Read the rest The post Fetterman struggles to answer reporters' questions, stammers through defense of Iran strikes appeared first on Boing Boing.
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- newHow to stop forgetting how to do things you've done a dozen times
Ellane W needed to watermark some PDFs. She'd done it 10 to 20 times before. She could not remember how. Two years had passed since the last time, and the process had completely evaporated from her brain. So she built a system to make sure it wouldn't happen again, and wrote up her method. — Read the rest The post How to stop forgetting how to do things you've done a dozen times appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 9 hours ago 3 Mar 26, 11:31pm -
- newA consciousness on an old drive tells its awful story
A postdoctoral researcher finds an unindexed drive in an archive. On it is a consciousness — a former mathematician, recruited by a company with a DARPA contract and transhumanist credentials, who agreed to be uploaded out of his failing body. What follows is an intriguing piece of science fiction by Henry Weikel. — Read the rest The post A consciousness on an old drive tells its awful story appeared first on Boing Boing.
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- newThe Supreme Court won't hear the AI copyright case, ending the last legal path to protect machine-made art
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Stephen Thaler's case arguing that AI-generated artwork deserves copyright protection, according to The Verge. The decision leaves intact a chain of lower court rulings that all said the same thing: if a human didn't make it, it can't be copyrighted. — Read the rest The post The Supreme Court won't hear the AI copyright case, ending the last legal path to protect machine-made art appeared first on Boing Boing.
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- newThree scientists who said no to Jeffrey Epstein explain how
In 2010, a mysterious emissary took 29-year-old MIT computer scientist Scott Aaronson to lunch and pitched him on funding for DNA cryptography research. Instead of Googling the benefactor, Aaronson asked his mother. She emailed back: "Be careful not to get sucked up in the slime-machine going on here… Since you don't care that much about money, they can't buy you." — Read the rest The post Three scientists who said no to Jeffrey Epstein explain how appeared first on Boing Boing.
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- newChina is testing a 280 mph bullet train while America can't build a rail line between two cities
China is testing a new bullet train that cruises at 250 mph, with a top speed of 280 mph — making it the fastest conventional rail vehicle on the planet, Executive Traveller reports. The CR450 prototype is already running laps in Beijing and on dedicated trial sections. — Read the rest The post China is testing a 280 mph bullet train while America can't build a rail line between two cities appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 10 hours ago 3 Mar 26, 10:58pm -
- newA US government iPhone hacking tool leaked to criminals
An estimated 42,000 iPhones have been compromised by a cybercriminal version of Coruna, a hacking toolkit that security researchers believe was originally built by or for the US government, according to Wired. The criminal variant plants malware that drains cryptocurrency wallets and steals photos and emails. — Read the rest The post A US government iPhone hacking tool leaked to criminals appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 10 hours ago 3 Mar 26, 10:53pm -
- newThe Mondrian estate is threatening people over a public domain painting
The Mondrian/Holtzman Trust has a creative legal theory: a 147-year-old Spanish statute and a Spanish Supreme Court ruling should govern the copyright status of a Dutch painter's work in the United States. That's what the Trust told an art magazine when asked about Piet Mondrian's Composition II with Red, Blue, and Yellow, which became free to use on January 1, 2026, as Copyright Lately reports. — Read the rest The post The Mondrian estate is threatening people over a public domain painting appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 10 hours ago 3 Mar 26, 10:25pm -
- newGOP senator rips Noem for killing her dog and calling it leadership
"You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time in training," Sen. Thom Tillis told DHS Secretary Kristi Noem at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today. "And then you have the audacity to go into a book and say it's a leadership lesson about tough choices?" — Read the rest The post GOP senator rips Noem for killing her dog and calling it leadership appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 10 hours ago 3 Mar 26, 10:15pm -
- newDonald Knuth, the godfather of computer science, says an AI solved a math problem he was stuck on for weeks
Donald Knuth is 88 years old. He's been writing The Art of Computer Programming — the most important book series in computer science — since 1962, and he's not done yet. He gave up email in 1990. He pays $2.56 to anyone who finds an error in his books. — Read the rest The post Donald Knuth, the godfather of computer science, says an AI solved a math problem he was stuck on for weeks appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 10 hours ago 3 Mar 26, 10:10pm -