The president of Taipei's Shih Hsin University told graduates to end their own lives if they couldn't handle the workforce, remarks that led to widespread anger. Yang Mien-chieh and Jake Chung of _The Taipei Times_ add that he subsequently requested a two-month suspension of his duties and pay to atone. — Read the rest
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The Freedom 250 concert series, pitched as a "Great American State Fair" to take place on the National Mall over 16 days in July, looks like an enjoyable American birthday boozathon featuring a variety of contemporary and oldschool musical acts. When its Trump connections became clear, though, the scheduled acts started dropping off the roster. — Read the rest
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Introducing a forthcoming hypothetical $250 bill featuring President Trump's mugshot, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent seemed unable to suppress a faint air of amused _dégoût_ — though it might be argued this is simply his customary manner of addressing other human beings. — Read the rest
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A Google employee was charged with fraud Wednesday after allegedly winning $1.2m betting on Google trends at gambling site Polymarket. Michele Spagnulo, 36, used insider info, prosecutors say, to run the table.
Arrested in New York, he faces counts of commodities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering, according to a federal criminal complaint [PDF, justice.gov]. — Read the rest
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Sz´The Trump Phone was supposed to be made in America, but ended up being a white-label knockoff of something or other. If it finally exists (if not as a shipping product quite yet), the talent behind it might want to work on their security skills: a security flaw on the official website exposed personal information of those who filled out a pre-order form. — Read the rest
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A reported corpse in the bushes of an English neighborhood was a discarded sex doll, according to the Peterborough Telegraph, ending a brief panic in the Orton Wistow area on May 21.
A local councillor woke to 12 messages, four blurry photos and questions about whether the find was "council related," the paper reported. — Read the rest
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A budget retro gaming handheld carrying Lenovo branding and loaded with thousands of copyrighted game files has surfaced on AliExpress, and the company has confirmed it is real. The Lenovo G02 [aliexpress] sells for roughly $73 and was initially mistaken for a counterfeit before Lenovo acknowledged the device was produced under license for the Chinese market. — Read the rest
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and private equity managerial Gloria Caulfield, addressing graduates, both got booed recently as they talked up AI. You'd think commencement speakers would get the memo. But Scott Borchetta did _not_ get the memo before speaking at Middle Tennessee State University. — Read the rest
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Trump phones were sent out to reviewers, but today _The Verge's_ Dominic Preston reports that they are the only models shown to exist. "The Trump phone is not here," he writes, despite the company having claimed it was shipping them. — Read the rest
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Supposedly to be found on the Springfield, Missouri Facebook Marketplace, this unusual vintage Dell laptop has an Intel Core 2 duo processor, 2GB of RAM, a 120GB hard drive, and Windows XP. Justifying the $850 price tag, perhaps, is an unusual power supply: a 2-stroke engine. — Read the rest
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Ratings at CBS News fell further in the latest ratings data published by Nielsen. Even right-wing media seem to consider the management of editor-in-chief Bari Weiss a disaster for the network. Here's The New York Post:
For the week ending April 20, "CBS Mornings," co-hosted by Gayle King — who recently reupped with the network — drew just 1.8 million viewers, far behind NBC's "Today" at…
Police responded to the Pasadena Best Buy early Wednesday after an employee reported that cameras showed someone inside the store. Storming in, officers found Patrick Keys, 45, and arrested him on suspicion of burglary.
There was no sign of forced entry, though, and nothing in his possession. — Read the rest
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A snippet of air traffic control audio racked up millions of views online because two pilots started meowing and barking at each other.
The drama unfolded on April 12 over an active air traffic control frequency tracking planes at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. — Read the rest
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Utsav Gupta examines the risks of AI use on the battlefield, arguing that "AI outputs may inform but must not replace human judgment."
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In late-stage testing of a distributed AI platform, engineers sometimes encounter a perplexing situation: every monitoring dashboard reads “healthy,” yet users report that the system’s decisions are slowly becoming wrong.
Engineers are trained to recognize failure in familiar ways: a service crashes, a sensor stops responding, a constraint violation triggers a shutdown. Something breaks, and…
A federal judge today ordered the Trump administration to stop work on the White House ballroom project unless and until Congress approves it. Judge Richard Leon, appointed by George W. Bush in 2001, concluded that "no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have." — Read the rest
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A Secret Service agent assigned to Jill Biden's security detail shot himself in the leg, according to authorities. Though he was stuck in Philadephia International Airport at the time, it was reportedly an accident. Dr. Biden was not nearby when the "negligent discharge" occured Friday morning. — Read the rest
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A Florida judge can expect an official reprimand over two courtroom shenanigans: one in which he told attorneys to "shut up," and another where he asked a Black defendant if she "ever chopped cotton." Florida's Judicial Qualifications Commission determined that Judge John E. — Read the rest
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Crimson Desert, a new action-adventure role-playing game developed by Pearl Abyss, won praise for its vast and beautiful scenery but some criticism for its indistinct worldbuilding and bland storytelling. That there'd be various examples of AI-generated artwork in it (I like one exquisitely nasty example of early-version Midjourney slop) is no surprise. — Read the rest
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"Shy Girl," a horror novel by Mia Ballard, was withdrawn by publisher Hachette this week after extremely convincing allegations that it was written using AI. Already out in the U.K., with at least 1,800 print copies sold, the book won't be landing on store shelves in the U.S. — Read the rest
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TikTok psychic Ashley Guillard claimed that the University of Idaho killer was professor Rebecca Scofield, posting in video after video that Scofield murdered four students in a house in Moscow, Idaho in November 2022. But the killer was in fact criminology student Bryan Kohberger, convicted and sentenced last summer. — Read the rest
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“David Hume was not a Humean.” So says Galen Strawson, regarding the so-called Humean account of causation and what Strawson takes to be Hume’s actual account, in a recent post at his newsletter (a position he has advanced before). Previously, philosophers have told us that Hume is not a Humean about practical reason (Millgram, Schafer), nor a Humean about testimony (O’Brien), nor even a Humean…
[](https://boingboing.net/2026/02/28/operation_furry.html "GOP congressman John Rutherford praises Operation "Epic Furry"")
Congressman John Rutherford, representing Florida's fifth district since 2017, is a standard-issue contemporary Republican: an elderly, gray-haired former sheriff's deputy, firmly aligned with Donald Trump. When he announces his love for "Epic Furry," then, the internet…
Can I lick it? is the periodic table of elements as befits the table where you eat. It's been so widely copied that the original is hard to discern, but this image on Imgur via Jason Kottke] might be it. Some of its conclusions strike me as suspiciously encouraging: I would not lick uranium under any circumstances. — [Read the rest
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Professional disability doesn't necessarily leave someone unable to move, walk or play: it only limits their ability to work. But an LAPD officer on disability benefits since he "hurt his elbow" on duty in 2023 should have thought through the consequences of continuing his skydiving trips. — Read the rest
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OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude and Google Gemini all have something in common: if you assign them war game simulations, they insist on using nuclear weapons to achieve their aims.
The scenarios involved intense international standoffs, including border disputes, competition for scarce resources and existential threats to regime survival.
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Designing and decorating a beautiful and personal home is more than just stylish decor – it’s about creating a space that reflects your lifestyle and feels good to live in every day. Even with the best intentions, it’s easy to fall into common design traps that make your space feel less cohesive and more chaotic. [...]
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[](https://boingboing.net/2026/02/23/tourettesyndrome.html "BBC edits out "Free Palestine" at BAFTAs, leaves in racial slur from man with Tourette Syndrome")
The BBC did people with Tourette Syndrome no favors by broadcasting a racial slur at the BAFTA awards. That they could have spared audiences was evident from the two-hour tape delay and the editing out of Nigerian filmmaker Akinola Davies…
Musician Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies are like a Tarot card deck full of whimsical ideas meant to break up a creative-block situation, particularly in the recording studio. They’re loads of …read more
[](https://boingboing.net/2026/02/10/florida-man-pulls-gun-on-walmart-worker-are-you-scared-now.html "Florida man pulls gun on Walmart worker: "Are you scared now?"")
Florida man Pascual Santana, 79, was arrested Friday and charged with armed assault after threatening a Walmart worker with a gun from the seat of his mobility scooter. Miami-Dade County Sheriff's Department told media that Santana…