- newFlorida sues OpenAI over ChatGPT's alleged body count
Florida has become the first state to sue OpenAI and Sam Altman over alleged harms from ChatGPT.The lawsuit, filed by Attorney General James Uthmeier, accuses OpenAI of rushing unsafe products into the world, marketing ChatGPT as safe and reliable, and ignoring warnings about how the chatbot could affect children, vulnerable users, and people planning violence. — Read the rest The post Florida sues OpenAI over ChatGPT's alleged body count appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 15 hours ago 2 Jun 26, 12:16am -
- newA deleted recording blows up Melania's Epstein story
A former model with a messy history around Trumpworld and Jeffrey Epstein has made a new, disputed claim about how Melania Trump met Donald Trump. Just about the only people claiming Epstein didn't introduce the two odious pairs are the pair themselves. — Read the rest The post A deleted recording blows up Melania's Epstein story appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 17 hours ago 1 Jun 26, 9:44pm -
- newMicrosoft Office 2019 is yours forever for less than the price of dinner
TL;DR: A lifetime license to Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 for Windows is on sale for $19.97 (regularly $229) right now.Here's something Microsoft would rather you forget: there's still a version of Office that doesn't require a monthly payment to keep working. — Read the rest The post Microsoft Office 2019 is yours forever for less than the price of dinner appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 18 hours ago 1 Jun 26, 9:00pm -
- newSnow sheds let alpine roads survive massive avalanches
Last April, a powerful spring snowstorm swept across parts of the Alps, triggering dangerous avalanche conditions in multiple regions. In some areas, avalanche danger reached Level 4–5 on Europe's standard scale.This incredible clip shared by @imlukesnow shows an avalanche protection gallery, also known as a snow shed. — Read the rest The post Snow sheds let alpine roads survive massive avalanches appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 20 hours ago 1 Jun 26, 6:52pm -
- newWhat does a rock sound like when it's shaped into an instrument?
At the Svaram Sound Garden in Auroville, simple sculptures combine sound and art in a mesmerizing way. In this video, a visitor strikes a stone instrument with a smaller stone. It produces a clear, xylophone-like sound that makes me wish I could play in this sound garden, too. — Read the rest The post What does a rock sound like when it's shaped into an instrument? appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 20 hours ago 1 Jun 26, 6:47pm -
- newA couple and their pickup truck vanished in 2005, never found
Just before midnight on Saturday, February 19, 2005, Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone Jr. left Abilene's bar on South Street in Philadelphia and walked toward Petrone's parked Dodge pickup. Nobody has seen them since — or the truck. It was never recovered either. — Read the rest The post A couple and their pickup truck vanished in 2005, never found appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 21 hours ago 1 Jun 26, 6:30pm -
- newNothing says regret like a $150k Cybertruck
Doug DeMuro has a new video on Cybertruck values, and the short version is that paying $150,000 to be first now looks a lot like lighting $150,000 on fire.The truck may be bullet-resistant. The resale value is not.Previously:• Is a Hearse or Cybertruck the perfect family car? — Read the rest The post Nothing says regret like a $150k Cybertruck appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 21 hours ago 1 Jun 26, 6:26pm -
- newThe brain-in-a-bucket drug lab is here
Bexorg has found a way to make drug testing sound like a deleted scene from RoboCop: remove a dead person's brain, hook it to a machine, and see what experimental drugs do.Bexorg, a New Haven biotech startup, is using donated postmortem human brains to test experimental drugs. — Read the rest The post The brain-in-a-bucket drug lab is here appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 21 hours ago 1 Jun 26, 6:15pm -
- newGrandpa Pudding Brains says the Supreme Court he rigged is rigged
He wanted originalism until the original words got in the way.Hoping to somehow convince the country that birthright citizenship isn't a longstanding right, Grandpa Pudding Brains got very mad at the court he himself rigged, because it isn't doing exactly what he wants. — Read the rest The post Grandpa Pudding Brains says the Supreme Court he rigged is rigged appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 21 hours ago 1 Jun 26, 6:05pm -
- newTrump's watch comes with a hilarious typo
A Rhode Island Trump supporter bought his wife a $640 pink Trump-branded watch, expecting "the integrity of the President of the United States." He got RUMP.Tim Petit, from Middletown, Rhode Island, treated his wife Melanie to a $640 pink limited-edition Trump-themed timepiece from GetTrumpWatches.com, — Read the rest The post Trump's watch comes with a hilarious typo appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 21 hours ago 1 Jun 26, 5:52pm -