- newGet ChatPlayground AI: 25 AI platforms in one app for 87% off
TL;DR: Compare Multiple AI models at the same time with ChatPlayground AI, an all-in-one AI platform that gives you the best of all your prompts for just $79 (Reg. $619).At this point, using AI is your best bet at getting ahead. — Read the rest The post Get ChatPlayground AI: 25 AI platforms in one app for 87% off appeared first on Boing Boing.
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- newBritain's Home Secretary wants AI so "the eyes of the state can be on you at all times"
Shabana Mahmood, Britain's Home Secretary, dreams the dream of the interior minister: total surveillance of everyone, everywhere, at every moment of their lives. Evoking the Panopticon—the circular prison devised by philosopher Jeremy Bentham to allow a single observer to see into every prisoner's cell—she said she hopes for an "AI version" so that "the eyes of the state can be on you at all times." — Read the rest The post Britain's Home Secretary wants AI so "the eyes of the state can be on you at all times" appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 4 hours ago 26 Jan 26, 8:48pm -
- newDying star lights up the Helix Nebula
In the Helix Nebula, a star much like our own is dying. Its death, though, creates a spectacle for us to appreciate now we have the James Webb Space Telescope to observe it. Knots of bright gas, fierce stellar winds, the dust that new things come from-and the possible eventual fate, NASA reports, of our own solar system. — Read the rest The post Dying star lights up the Helix Nebula appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 26 Jan 26, 8:01pm -
- newScientists research how Greenland sharks live for hundreds of years
Scientists estimate that Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) may live for 500 years, and have dated one living example to 392 years old—old enough to have followed pilgrims making their way across the Atlantic to colonize the Americas. — Read the rest The post Scientists research how Greenland sharks live for hundreds of years appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 5 hours ago 26 Jan 26, 7:42pm -
- newICE a "protected characteristic"on BlueSky?
Artist and comedian Leon Chang, known online as leyawn, was handed two "stikes" by BlueSky over a post that violated anti-discrimination guidelines protecting groups with "protected characteristics" such as "age, asylum-seeking/refugee status, caste, disability, disease ethnicity, gender identity, immigrant status, religious affiliation, sex, or sexual orientation." — Read the rest The post ICE a "protected characteristic"on BlueSky? appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 6 hours ago 26 Jan 26, 6:59pm -
- newThis Shark FlexBreeze Indoor & Outdoor fan is 56% off
TL;DR: The Shark FlexBreeze fan comes equipped with 5 fan speeds, 2 natural breeze modes, and up to 24-hours of cordless low-speed runtime — now just $79.99 (reg. $179.99). At this point, fans should be classified as essential items. Not only is the climate getting hotter in general, but too much hot weather makes doing the most mundane tasks feel like you're moving in slow-mo. — Read the rest The post This Shark FlexBreeze Indoor & Outdoor fan is 56% off appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 9 hours ago 26 Jan 26, 4:00pm -
- newUK's far-right Reform Party looks more like last Tory government with every defection
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman is the latest former Conservative Party member to defect to the U.K.'s far-right Reform Party, which is way ahead in the polls there. Joining former Conservative Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi there, the presence of well-known non-white political figures may soften Reform's racist reputation: its members are regularly in the news for telling remarks, not least leader Nigel Farage and his youthful Hitler fandom. — Read the rest The post UK's far-right Reform Party looks more like last Tory government with every defection appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 10 hours ago 26 Jan 26, 3:17pm -
- newFunctional Lego typewriter
Marvel at Koenkun Bricks' Lego typewriter. Unlike Lego's own typewriter from 2021, it actually types! Without using custom pieces! "Before I started, I had a massive issue to resolve," he says. "A typewriter works with typebars … so going with ink will be impossible. — Read the rest The post Functional Lego typewriter appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 11 hours ago 26 Jan 26, 2:33pm -
- newClayton Stroup's chill covers of game themes
Percussionist and "passably decent" instrumentalist Clayton Stroup performs the Overworld Theme from Super Mario Bros. 2. It's not all games, but gamers shouldn't miss his rendition of the theme for Street Fighter 2's fabulously vain Vega. — Read the rest The post Clayton Stroup's chill covers of game themes appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 11 hours ago 26 Jan 26, 1:56pm -
- newThe floppy disk music scene
Exploring the possibilities of ultracompressed and low-bitrate audio, the floppy disc music scene is alive. "Linked to strong punk movements with a DIY aesthetic," it is an anti-capitalist niche exploiting a medium considered dead. Alexis Ong, at The Verge:There are almost 2,300 floppy releases listed on Discogs.com, — Read the rest The post The floppy disk music scene appeared first on Boing Boing.
- 11 hours ago 26 Jan 26, 1:43pm -