Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 27/10/2025Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told ABC he's a soybean farmer who feels farmers' pain. He's actually a $500M landlord who owns $25M in farmland and collects up to $1M yearly in rent from actual farmers while negotiating China crop deals. boingboing.net/2025/10/27/t... 0164
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 02/04/2025Scientists are on the verge of achieving what's eluded them for 25 years: creating a working computer simulation of the simplest brain we know — that of a tiny worm with just 300 neurons. boingboing.net/2025/04/02/s... 3465
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 02/04/2025When Jake Eaton was a teenager, he was driven to the brink of insanity by the way his father's jaw popped at the family dinner table. Eaton didn't know it at the time, but has a condition called misophonia, where everyday sounds can trigger intense distress. boingboing.net/2025/04/02/y... 030
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 28/03/2025boingboing.net/2025/03/28/a... Electronics expert Big Clive bought a deceptive WiFi repeater on eBay that does absolutely nothing except power a bright blue LED — yet buyers keep leaving positive reviews for the non-functional device. 171
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 28/03/2025"The ones providing the money, the ones pushing the lies and propaganda, we're going after them." boingboing.net/2025/03/28/e... 020
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 28/03/2025Half of American parents are subsidizing their adult children's survival expenses. Average monthly support: $1,474. This is what happens when wages don't keep pace with living costs. boingboing.net/2025/03/28/h... 0145
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 27/03/2025Two people in Belgium calmly walked away from their car stuck on railroad tracks just seconds before a train demolished it — but their suspiciously unhurried behavior has led to skepticism about whether it was truly an accident. boingboing.net/2025/03/27/o... 020
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 27/03/2025The computerized voice, while remarkable for the time, was primitive compared to today's synthesized voices and utterly alien to most people. Domino's hung up on the synthetic voice. Three calls later, a sympathetic employee at Mr. Mike's pizzeria took the order. boingboing.net/2025/03/27/i... 062
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 27/03/2025A babysitter in Kansas peeked under a child's bed to prove there were no monsters hiding there, and she was right. All she found was an intruder staring back at her and some dust bunnies. boingboing.net/2025/03/27/k... 160
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 27/03/2025DC Cops now treating snarky notes on Tesla windshields as hate crimes boingboing.net/2025/03/27/d... 120
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 27/03/2025Musk simps spread fake story about their hero saving sick kid with brain chip, get busted by Snopes boingboing.net/2025/03/27/m... 0104
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 27/03/2025boingboing.net/2025/03/26/h... Serbian activists toppled a dictator by turning him into a carnival game, proving that mockery can be a powerful weapon against authoritarianism. 081
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 27/03/2025Turns out your brain isn't falling for that zero-calorie sleight of hand. In fact, it's getting even hangrier about it. boingboing.net/2025/03/26/y... 050
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 26/03/2025Emmanuel Lidden, 24, faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to breaching Australia's nuclear non-proliferation laws. He ordered radioactive materials from a U.S. science website and had them shipped to his parents' suburban Sydney unit. boingboing.net/2025/03/26/a... 010
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 25/03/2025If you feel like you're living in an episode of The Twilight Zone right now, you would not be wrong. boingboing.net/2025/03/25/1... 0163
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 25/03/2025The only way to activate the rinse cycle is to download an app onto your smartphone, connect the dishwasher to Wi-Fi, and sign up for Bosch's cloud service. boingboing.net/2025/03/25/n... 1125
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 24/03/2025Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the hospital, here comes Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus that's spreading faster than war plans texts from Pete Hegseth. boingboing.net/2025/03/24/l... 1155
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 24/03/2025The soulless corporate ghouls at Warner Bros. Discovery just tossed 40 years of beloved Looney Tunes shorts into the digital void, because bringing joy to children isn't a profitable enough business model in 2025. boingboing.net/2025/03/24/t... 285
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 24/03/2025After North Korea used Tornado Cash to launder a billion dollars worth of Bitcoin, federal agents raided Storm's home in 2023 and arrested him. His trial starts this summer and he faces up to 40 years in prison. boingboing.net/2025/03/24/c... 041
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 21/03/2025The head of an AI advertising company that promised "a world free of fraud" just got sentenced for fraud. boingboing.net/2025/03/21/t... 064
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 21/03/2025PG&E — famous for burning down half of California while making record profits the last two years in a row — just filed a request to jack up rates again, because six rate hikes in 2024 wasn't enough. boingboing.net/2025/03/21/c... 1124
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 21/03/2025Researchers taught a robot dog to skateboard, using an approach that mirrors how humans learn complex physical skills. boingboing.net/2025/03/21/r... 140
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 20/03/2025NY Times adorably still pretending Trump administration might not do the fascist thing boingboing.net/2025/03/20/n... 184
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 20/03/2025Turns out Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore got paid exactly what any random bureaucrat gets for a Hampton Inn stay in Toledo — a whopping $5 per day in "incidentals." No overtime. No danger pay. Not even weekend rates for literally living at work. boingboing.net/2025/03/20/g... 041
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 20/03/2025ChatGPT generated a fictional account claiming a man had killed two of his sons, resulting in a 21-year prison sentence. The response included accurate details about the man — like his hometown and the fact he has three children — but the allegations were fiction. boingboing.net/2025/03/20/c... 03015
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 20/03/2025Someone has created the most addictive social media feed ever by snooping on pilots' private chatter. boingboing.net/2025/03/20/t... 071
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 19/03/2025The removal of is part of a Pentagon purge that has erased articles about Native American Code Talkers, Japanese-American WWII soldiers who served while their families sat in internment camps, and two Marines from the iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising photo. boingboing.net/2025/03/19/p... 0101
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 19/03/2025The German foreign ministry's revised guidance now explicitly warns that even minor visa infractions or criminal convictions can lead to arrest and detention. boingboing.net/2025/03/19/p... 0328
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 19/03/2025Turns out when you're the richest person on Earth, you can keep throwing money at your favorite $44 billion impulse purchase. boingboing.net/2025/03/19/e... 041
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 19/03/2025The relationship between our waking selves and our dreaming selves is something like the relationship between Severance's Outies and Innies. open.substack.com/pub/boingboi... 030
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 19/03/2025"The fluorescent lights shined on us 24/7. Everything felt like it was meant to break you. Nothing was explained to us. I wasn't given a phone call. We were locked in a room, no daylight, with no idea when we would get out." boingboing.net/2025/03/19/c... 032
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 19/03/2025Commuter gamed the UK rail system by deliberately booking trains likely to be delayed, securing 100% refunds through Avanti West Coast's delay compensation program. boingboing.net/2025/03/19/c... 1262
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 19/03/2025In today's episode of "Republicans Living Their Best Christian Values," Minnesota state senator Justin Eichorn decided to spice up his Monday by allegedly trying to hire a teenager for sex boingboing.net/2025/03/18/m... 0127
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 18/03/2025BYD's stock hit record highs, while Wall Street analysts are getting increasingly skeptical about Tesla's future of robotaxis and self-driving cars that Musk has been promising since the time he said he was building a submarine to save those kids trapped in a cave. boingboing.net/2025/03/18/s... 072
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 18/03/2025Dear Leader is stuck feeding tiny amounts of his $5 billion in stolen crypto through mixing services that can only handle about $10 million per day. boingboing.net/2025/03/18/k... 021
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 18/03/2025boingboing.net/2025/03/18/s... Owners of cited high-risk dogs were 9 times more likely to have crimes involving children, 14 times more likely to have alcohol convictions, and 7 times more likely to have drug charges compared to people with licensed low-risk dogs. 230
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 17/03/2025Turns out getting your sentence commuted instead of pardoned means you're still technically a domestic terrorist. Dagnabbit! boingboing.net/2025/03/17/p... 4639
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 17/03/2025It was all fun & games when the immigration gestapo was supposed to target "Bad Hombres." But now his Peruvian wife is in a Louisiana detention center, and Bartell's discovering that "cracking down on immigration" means exactly what it says on the tin. boingboing.net/2025/03/17/m... 121
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 17/03/2025O'Reilly brilliantly compares Tate's spiel to gambling addiction: both target economically vulnerable young men with promises of easy money while preying on their insecurities. boingboing.net/2025/03/17/y... 032
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 17/03/2025When Lumon (a glazing company) posted a job opening in Poland, applications quadrupled normal levels. boingboing.net/2025/03/17/c... 0171
Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 14/03/2025Pro tip for Elon: When you spend your morning defending actual Hitler on your Nazi-friendly social media platform, people aren't calling you Hitler — they're just quoting your tweets. boingboing.net/2025/03/14/i... 0152
