I'm taking a week's worth of much-needed holidays at a safe-house in an undisclosed location. Don't send me interesting links for Boing Boing, send them to the suggest a link form (you should do this anyway, but for the next week, I'll be throwing out links sent to me without reading them). If you've got something you want to ask or tell me and it's not fantastically urgent, wait until May 3. I need some time off and don't want to come back to a giant backlog, OK?
Taking some holidays
Americans now lose a quarter of a trillion dollars a year gambling
Americans will lose about $250 billion gambling this year, reports Joey Politano, a number that's up 60% in half a decade. And that doesn't include "prediction markets" and cryptocurrencies, both… READ THE REST
A million passports leaked online by marijuana club portal
An Irish software firm managing membership of cannabis social clubs left more than a million member records and roughly 985,000 identity-document photos sitting on a server that required no password,… READ THE REST
IP Crawl exposes that insecure web camera you never locked down
IP Crawl is a browseable library of camera systems exposed to the internet. Currently on the favorites list are a swimming pool in Austin, Texas, a boxing ring in New… READ THE REST
Play 500+ games with 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $62
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: The Ultimate 3-Month Xbox Game Pass gives you access to over 500 high-quality games, in-game add-ons, consumables,… READ THE REST
Your camera roll is a disaster — This app fixes it for $60
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: If your camera roll is a graveyard of screenshots and duplicate photos, CleanMyPhone uses AI to sort through… READ THE REST
Learn 150+ languages for life for $70 with uTalk
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Get lifetime access to the uTalk language learning app and learn from native speakers for $69.97 (reg. $300),… READ THE REST
