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vendredi 13 décembre 2024, 21:23
The U.S. Department of Defense conducted a test Thursday. The test was disclosed on the department's official website and was described by officials as asfasfasdfasfdasdfasfasfasfsadffffffffffffffffffffasdfsfsafsfdwfgasdgbdfbgdsgasdgdsbdb. Though the test was brief, the...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! In 1944, the US Office of Strategic Services—now the CIA—published the 'Simple Sabotage Field Manual,' a top secret guide teaching the average citizen-saboteur how to fuck shit up without specialized ...
A University of Kansas medical student's life hangs in the balance after Blue Cross and Blue Shield denied coverage for an $8,000-per-month medication that could prevent fatal internal bleeding, reports FOX4KC WDAF-TV. Kaitlyn Sy, whose medical studies at KU are now on...
A dropped cellphone and boastful Instagram posts led investigators straight to the thieves behind a brazen $2.7 million jewelry heist in Beverly Hills, resulting in an 80-month federal prison sentence for one of the axe-wielding robbers. Jimmy Lee Vernon III, 33, was part of ...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. The longstanding design and visual culture magazine Print compiled its list of '100 of the Best Book Covers of 2024.' — Read the rest The post Best book...
The U.S. obsession with guns and violence is a fast-spreading contagion that just landed a Florida woman who threatened an insurance company in jail. On the heels of alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione, Briana Boston ended her call with Blue Cross Blue Shield blurting out a...
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The California Department of Motor Vehicles is sorry for issuing a vanity license plate mocking the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas. The license plate reads 'LOLOCT7' and was mounted on a Tesla ...
Two mathematicians have cracked a centuries-old puzzle about prime numbers using an approach that no one saw coming. Ben Green of Oxford University and Mehtaab Sawhney of Columbia University proved there are infinitely many primes that can be written in a specific...
In the early hours of February 1, 1976, Elvis Presley's private jet touched down in Denver with a mission — to satisfy The King's craving for what might be the most decadent sandwich ever created. The Fool's Gold Loaf, a colossal creation from the Colorado Mine Company...
The enshittification of social media left her doomscrolling through a polarized feed, her brainrot deepening with every bratty meme war. Enshittification, brainrot, brat and now polarization have been selected by major dictionaries as their word of the year. Merriam-Webster...
French President Emmanuel Macron obviously didn't want to pick François Bayrou as his prime minister: the job interview reportedly went badly and the accouncement was made after Macron's own self-imposed deadline. But more right-leaning centrism it is for the increasingly...
In 1393, a French king who believed he was made of glass hosted a masquerade ball that ended in flames. The Bal des Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men) became one of history's most notorious party disasters, made even more bizarre by the host's deteriorating mental state. —...
Republican snowflake Scott Jennings had a meltdown on CNN when Democratic commentator Bakari Sellers gently touched him on the arm during a roundtable discussion about grocery prices. 'Don't touch me!' the frigid MAGA panelist snapped, triggering a burst of laughter from...
IEEE Spectrum reports on the discovery and scanning of a 1968 IBM demo of its Executive Terminal. Back then, it was a top of the line gadget for future-oriented businesspersons. It may now form a fantastic double-bill with another famed tech demo from that magical year. —...
Before a vaccine was developed in the 1950s, Polio killed millions and left many survivors so weak they depended upon machines to breathe. The last person to require an iron lung, Paul Alexander, died March 13, 2024 at the age of 78—a sad but heartening reminder that...
This is a viral example of pareidolia, a psychological phenomonenon that causes us to see meaningful things in nebulous stimuli, most famously faces. But the caption it comes with—'Does this image upset you?'—is even cleverer. In blacksmithing, 'upsetting' refers to the...
Oh my horses, there's going to be an M4 MacBook Air. Great googly moogly in a bouncy castle! And it might have a better camera. Jumpin' jellyfish on a unicycle! References in the latest edition of MacOS reveal the device's forthcoming availability. — Read the rest The post M...
Sean Hodgins made Become Anyone 2.0, an LED face mask that lets its wearer adopt the glowy, low-resolution appearance of anyone they please. If humans are not fooled, they will at least be entertained. And some surveillance systems may be fooled. — Read the rest The post...
Watch a horse scratch its head and make a funny face that is impossible not to laugh at. When this horse had to scratch an itch on its neck, it didn't hold back. The horse bends its head almost completely upside down, and has a field day rubbing against a fence. — Read the re...
You either put up with whatever piece of junk you can scrape together or you compete against the AI industry to get your hands on a decent GPU: life has been pricey for gamers of late. But Intel's $250 Arc B580 video card, already exciting buyers, is proving its mettle in...
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