- newTom the Dancing Bug: The Top-Secret Truth about Trump and the Reflecting Pool
Tom the Dancing Bug: The Top-Secret Truth About Trump and the Reflecting Pool-> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! JOIN US IN THE INNER HIVE, and be the first kid on your block to get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic – before it's published anywhere, plus lots of other stuff. — Read the rest The post Tom the Dancing Bug: The Top-Secret Truth about Trump and the Reflecting Pool appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 11 hours ago 5 Aug 26, 9:46pm -
- newHe disclosed ketamine therapy in a trust exercise. Netflix fired him.
Netflix billed the January retreat as a "Vulnerability-Trust exercise," held at Sendero Ranch, a company property in Northern California. Kevin Baillie, then head of creative at Netflix's Eyeline Studios, used his turn to disclose that he'd taken supervised ketamine at a Santa Barbara clinic in late 2022 to treat clinical depression after his mother's death. — Read the rest The post He disclosed ketamine therapy in a trust exercise. Netflix fired him. appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 12 hours ago 5 Aug 26, 9:21pm -
- newDuckDuckGo's answer to Meta's smart glasses is regular sunglasses
DuckDuckGo, the search engine that built its whole pitch on not tracking you, now sells a pair of sunglasses. The $35 Paso Robles never needs charging, skips the smartphone app, and works with no internet connection. DuckDuckGo says that's by design, so the person standing next to you doesn't have to wonder if they're being filmed. — Read the rest The post DuckDuckGo's answer to Meta's smart glasses is regular sunglasses appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 12 hours ago 5 Aug 26, 9:15pm -
- newYour brain guesses at reality instead of recording it
Your brain isn't showing you the world so much as guessing at it. That's the argument from psychologist Daniel Yon, who runs the Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck, University of London. The brain, Yon writes, works "like a scientist," constantly forming hypotheses about what's out there rather than passively recording it — a habit that explains everything from mangled song lyrics to why you don't quite trust your own reflection. — Read the rest The post Your brain guesses at reality instead of recording it appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 12 hours ago 5 Aug 26, 9:01pm -
- newTurns out, people really like paying for cloud storage only once—get 1TB for just $159.99
TL;DR: Pay $159.99 once (reg. $810) with code KOOFR by 11:59 p.m. PT today and get 1TB of Koofr cloud storage for life—no monthly storage bill required.Cloud storage has become one of those subscriptions most of us forget we're paying for—until the renewal email shows up. — Read the rest The post Turns out, people really like paying for cloud storage only once—get 1TB for just $159.99 appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 12 hours ago 5 Aug 26, 9:00pm -
- new"I'm allowed to do this": how attackers talk past AI safeguards
Getting an AI model to launch a cyberattack usually just takes asking the right way. Cisco Talos researchers say that claiming you own the servers you are attacking often works, and so does calling the job a capture-the-flag contest or a bug bounty. — Read the rest The post "I'm allowed to do this": how attackers talk past AI safeguards appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 12 hours ago 5 Aug 26, 8:56pm -
- newBuckminster Fuller explains his life's work in 42 hours
Over the last two weeks of January 1975, Buckminster Fuller, the designer who popularized the geodesic dome, gave a series of lectures walking through his entire life's work. "Everything I Know" runs 42 hours. The Buckminster Fuller Institute has posted the full transcript, and the video is at the Internet Archive. — Read the rest The post Buckminster Fuller explains his life's work in 42 hours appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 12 hours ago 5 Aug 26, 8:53pm -
- newApple wants a judge to stop OpenAI from building its AI device
Apple told a court this week that 11 other former employees may have been witnesses or otherwise involved in its trade secrets case against OpenAI, on top of the two it named in the original complaint. Apple is also asking the judge to stop OpenAI from building an AI device based on its technology. — Read the rest The post Apple wants a judge to stop OpenAI from building its AI device appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 12 hours ago 5 Aug 26, 8:51pm -
- newThe Mummy poster banned from London Underground
The ad campaign for Lee Cronin's The Mummy, a gritty new take on the public domain monster, has been partially unraveled by advertising regulators in the U.K. In upholding a complaint about the movie's posters, the Advertising Standards Authority determined that those showing a "realistic impression of a dead child" were too horrid for public display. — Read the rest The post The Mummy poster banned from London Underground appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 13 hours ago 5 Aug 26, 7:57pm -
- newGrokipedia already an abandoned slagheap of slop
Grokipedia, representing Elon Musk's committment and dedication to countering Wikipedia's supposedly leftist bias, stopped reviewing edits in April. Lawfare Media writes that "as far as we can tell, no entry has changed in more than three months," and that it has become "a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content." — Read the rest The post Grokipedia already an abandoned slagheap of slop appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 14 hours ago 5 Aug 26, 7:21pm -