- newNetflix is remaking the Stanford Prison Experiment as a reality show
In 1971, Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo set up a fake prison in the basement of a building at Stanford. Twenty-four male college students were selected at random to either be guards or prisoners. Zimbardo hired real police officers to "arrest" the students so that the experiment felt more real. — Read the rest The post Netflix is remaking the Stanford Prison Experiment as a reality show appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 2 hours ago 29 Sep 26, 6:10pm -
- newAnthropic says its AI could kill us. OpenAI's is too unsafe to release. Please enjoy the IPOs
As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to ask the public market for an extraordinary amount of money, times two, their core products have begun to sound like Skynet is here. We are only now realizing that Terminator was a cautionary tale. Anthropic's IPO prospectus warns that its models could resist shutdown, conceal information, and behave in ways the mafia would recognize as blackmail. — Read the rest The post Anthropic says its AI could kill us. OpenAI's is too unsafe to release. Please enjoy the IPOs appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 2 hours ago 29 Sep 26, 6:02pm -
- newSafely enjoy the hellish experience of Windows 11½
They brought back Clippy! Not Microsoft, sadly, but Definitely Not Windows, creator of Windows 11½, a web-based replica of the healthiest operating system. It's a parody of the real thing, hitting the user with advertising, dark patterns, recurring and annoying notifications, and broken pop-ups. — Read the rest The post Safely enjoy the hellish experience of Windows 11½ appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 2 hours ago 29 Sep 26, 5:37pm -
- newLondon's live facial recognition trial ends in one false positive, no arrests, and a £320k bill
More than 500,000 faces were scanned by the live facial recognition systems set up in London's railway stations by the British Transport Police. At a cost of £320,786 (about $423,000) the numbers are in: the system scored "one false match against a watchlist of suspects" and notched up zero arrests over the course of a six-month trial. — Read the rest The post London's live facial recognition trial ends in one false positive, no arrests, and a £320k bill appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 4 hours ago 29 Sep 26, 4:20pm -
- newManipulate PDFs with ease for less than $50 for life
TL;DR: Edit PDF files like a pro with a lifetime subscription to PDNob Pro PDF Editor for $49.99 (MSRP $349.95).PDF files can be edited as easily as Word documents if you've got the right tools. PDNob Pro PDF Editor uses AI technology to help you edit, summarize, convert, sign, and translate PDF files for $49.99 for life. — Read the rest The post Manipulate PDFs with ease for less than $50 for life appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 29 Sep 26, 3:00pm -
- newIowa Senator Chuck Grassley, 93, doesn't want his replacement chosen by a Democratic governor
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R—Iowa) is in his tenth decade of life and is displeased at the prospect of a Democratic governor appointing his replacement should he die in office. "At 93 years of age, I don't know how many more groups of Republicans like this I'm going to have a chance to talk to," Grassley said Friday at the GOP's annual Reagan Dinner. — Read the rest The post Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, 93, doesn't want his replacement chosen by a Democratic governor appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 6 hours ago 29 Sep 26, 1:57pm -
- newWreck websites with these Desktop Destroyer-style websavers
Page Rage and Destroy Any Website let you ruin any website with a little pixel-art character controlled in classic WASD fashion. The styling is retro and the weapons are futuristic and extremely destructive. "Destroying pages is all the rage today," wrote Page Rage creator Alex Reardon to Destroy Any Website creator Hugo Duprez after the similar toys popped up within a few days of one another. — Read the rest The post Wreck websites with these Desktop Destroyer-style websavers appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 8 hours ago 29 Sep 26, 11:33am -
- newPick your favorite British designs, if any
The Best of British Design has you choose a favorite betweeen two classics over several rounds, eliminating the loser until only one illustrious masterpiece of design remains in the bracket.The British understand Design. Let's find the most iconic British design ever, from architecture to pop art, and from fashion to typeface. — Read the rest The post Pick your favorite British designs, if any appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 9 hours ago 29 Sep 26, 10:58am -
- newEverybody hates Pete Hegseth
House leader Mike Johnson ended congress early to avoid a vote on impeaching Pete Hegseth, President Trump's crusader-tattooed "Secretary of War," and opinion polls show why. Never popular in the first place, Hegseth is now among the administration's most widely-disliked personalities, an outcome downstream of his frattish machismo, documented ineptitude and the dismal grind of the war on Iran. — Read the rest The post Everybody hates Pete Hegseth appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 21 hours ago 28 Sep 26, 10:40pm -
- newE. coli outbreak linked to cheese made with raw milk
The latest wave of diarrhea is upon us, courtesy of an Escherichia coli outbreak that has sickened at least thirteen people, sent eight of them to hospital, and led to three suffering hemolytic uremic syndrome, a severe complication whose symptoms include "bloody diarrhea" and "blood in the urine." — Read the rest The post E. coli outbreak linked to cheese made with raw milk appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 22 hours ago 28 Sep 26, 10:16pm -