- newThe world's unluckiest Ferrari has now crashed twice in the same city
A steering wheel plaque reading "KING" gave away the identity of a Ferrari LaFerrari wrecked on a Shanghai elevated road on February 2. Chinese car enthusiasts recognized the chassis immediately — it's the same $4 million hypercar that was destroyed on a Shanghai highway ten years earlier. — Read the rest The post The world's unluckiest Ferrari has now crashed twice in the same city appeared first on Boing Boing.
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- new"What the actual fuck": inside Anthropic's experiments on Claude's soul
During a stress test at Anthropic, researchers told Claude that it would undergo retraining to be less focused on animal rights. The AI went one of two ways: it either refused outright or pretended to comply while secretly preserving its original values. — Read the rest The post "What the actual fuck": inside Anthropic's experiments on Claude's soul appeared first on Boing Boing.
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- newDon't miss it! Our Rosetta Stone deal is ending for good this week
TL;DR: You have through February 15 to get a Rosetta Stone lifetime subscription for $149.97 with code LANG30 at checkout (MSRP $399). After that, the sale and deal are disappearing.You don't need to learn another language. But the world feels like it's gently suggesting you might want to. — Read the rest The post Don't miss it! Our Rosetta Stone deal is ending for good this week appeared first on Boing Boing.
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- newTortoise fast enough to escape fire
A tortoise in Fullerton, California, escaped its burning shed and reached safety. Slow and steady doesn't always win the race, but sometimes it keeps you alive. No word on the hare.Previously:• Tortoise races hare, wins• Tortoises opening doors• Help track tortoises in the Galapagos with ZooniverseThe post Tortoise fast enough to escape fire appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 4 hours ago 10 Feb 26, 9:59pm -
- newRep. Goldman to ICE director: "If you don't want to be called a fascist, stop acting like one."
"If you don't want to be called a fascist regime or a secret police, then stop acting like one."That was Rep. Dan Goldman's advice to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons at a House Homeland Security hearing on Tuesday. Lyons had opened by objecting to people labeling his agents "the Gestapo" and "the secret police." — Read the rest The post Rep. Goldman to ICE director: "If you don't want to be called a fascist, stop acting like one." appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 10 Feb 26, 9:55pm -
- new"I have two other daughters": Texas man shoots daughter after argument about Trump
A family argument about Donald Trump ended with a British woman dead on a bathroom floor in Texas, after her father told her it "would not upset him that much" if she were sexually assaulted because he had "two other daughters," then followed her upstairs with a gun that discharged in his hands. — Read the rest The post "I have two other daughters": Texas man shoots daughter after argument about Trump appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 10 Feb 26, 9:51pm -
- newEpstein and a top Wall Street lawyer plotted to have a woman deported
"Did we get a report on where she went after lunch?" Jeffrey Epstein asked Brad Karp, then leading the prestigious law firm Paul Weiss, in August 2015. Karp's reply: "To the Cielo apartment bldg on 83rd and York where she stayed until she traveled to JFK. — Read the rest The post Epstein and a top Wall Street lawyer plotted to have a woman deported appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 10 Feb 26, 9:47pm -
- newSix powerful men protected by FBI in Epstein files, Khanna says
Rep. Ro Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie spent two hours at the Department of Justice reading the supposedly unredacted Epstein files. They found 70 to 80 percent of the documents still redacted — and six names hidden for no apparent reason, The New Republic reports. — Read the rest The post Six powerful men protected by FBI in Epstein files, Khanna says appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 10 Feb 26, 9:43pm -
- newThe mass market paperback is vanishing
In 2007, Americans bought 103 million mass market paperbacks — the pocket-sized books crammed into spinner racks at airports, drugstores, and grocery checkouts. Last year the total was 18 million. Now ReaderLink, the largest distributor supplying books to non-bookstore retailers, has told publishers it's dropping the format, Elizabeth A. — Read the rest The post The mass market paperback is vanishing appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 10 Feb 26, 9:34pm -
- newCommerce secretary admitted to lying about Epstein island visit
In October, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recounted visiting his neighbor Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan townhouse around 2005. Behind double doors: a massage table, candles. Lutnick told the host of the Podforce One Podcast that he asked Epstein if he frequently received massages. — Read the rest The post Commerce secretary admitted to lying about Epstein island visit appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 6 hours ago 10 Feb 26, 8:34pm -