- newPerhaps man with username "MrChildPorn" wanted to be caught
A man from Morgantown, West Virginia with the username "MrChildPorn" was arrested by Virginia State Police after no less than 48 reports of him "boasting of his large cache of 'child porn'," reports WBOY.Garrett Highlander, 20, posted about CSAM on…
- 9 hours ago 29 Aug 26, 2:52pm -
- newBelbury Poly turns its haunted synths to 80s fantasy
Belbury Poly's brilliant 2012 album The Belbury Tales (previously at Boing Boing) was a high point of hauntology, right at the point it wandered into folk horror and related aesthetics of "this municipal library used to be an auroch burial ground and…
- 9 hours ago 29 Aug 26, 2:20pm -
- newAfterglow brings classic screensavers to modern Macs
Afterglow is a modern MacOS app that runs the classic Macintosh After Dark screen savers. Flying Toasters, Fish, Starry Skylines once helped cathode ray tube-monitors avoid burn-in and became a popular commercial software category in their own right.…
- 10 hours ago 29 Aug 26, 1:07pm -
- newThis $40 AI hub lets GPT, Claude, Gemini, and more duke it out
TL;DR: AskAnyModel AI lets you compare responses from up to six AI models side by side, with 30 unlimited standard models and 500 monthly premium credits. Lifetime access to its Pro Plan is on sale for $39.99 (reg. $499).Asking one AI for an answe…
- 14 hours ago 29 Aug 26, 10:00am -
- Far-right pro-Trump ex-gay still-British commentator Milo Yiannopoulos detained by ICE
"Zero immigration for the next 20 years. No ifs, no buts," wrote political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on social media last year. Today the Briton was taken into custody by ICE, having allegedly overstayed in the U.S. He last legally entered the co…
- 1 day ago 28 Aug 26, 5:53pm -
- FBI drops ban on hiring people who have had sexual encounters with prostitutes
Applicants who have had used the services of sex workers are not eligible to join the FBI, a prohibition the bureau now plans to drop. It will consider "in a more holistic manner" those candidates who have "engaged in the practice," reports the Assoc…
- 1 day ago 28 Aug 26, 5:35pm -
- Steve Jobs told his stepbrother to keep his old stuff. Good call!
Steve Jobs couldn't be bothered to retrieve his old eighth-grade science project from the family home. He told his stepbrother to keep it instead. That decision just turned into $34,375.Jobs made "What is the SCR?" while attending Cupertino Jr. High…
- 1 day ago 28 Aug 26, 4:04pm -
- Pay $79.99 Once and Put ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini Under One Roof
TL;DR: Get lifetime access to 1min.AI, a multi-model AI workspace built for writing, images, documents, PDFs, audio, and more for just $79.99—for just 2 more days.Using one AI tool for writing, another for images, and a third for PDFs is how a p…
- 1 day ago 28 Aug 26, 4:00pm -
- Why a jar of Costco Dijon mustard was 10 times hotter than normal
When Jake Edmiston, a reporter for the Toronto Star, tried a spoonful of Maille Dijon mustard from his local Costco, it was so hot that it burned his mouth. It was the brand he'd used a lot in his mustard chicken recipe, so he knew something was off.…
- 1 day ago 28 Aug 26, 3:13pm -
- Decades before ChatGPT, video games were sold as having AI
A lot of video games from the 1970s and later were touted as having AI. Jason Scott of the Internet Archive has a fun retrospective about these games, with links to playable versions.Here's what Scott says about a title from 1985 that I didn't know…
- 1 day ago 28 Aug 26, 3:12pm -