Fyre Festival, fully-formed in the mind of the bro but disastrously organized and lately rebooted to even less success, is now someone else's problem. The founder sold the "rights" to… Read the rest of the article: Fyre Festival rights "sold" on eBay

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is orbiting the sun 3.8 million miles from its surface (Mercury is about 40m miles out, for comparison), surfing the solar eruptions and sending astonishing footage… Read the rest of the article: Up-close footage of a solar eruption

Scotland and Ireland are only 12 miles distant and share a long history of shared culture, language and migration–and that's not to mention the lairy neighbor they've had to put… Read the rest of the article: Colmcille map centers the relationship between Scotland and Ireland

I was skeptical reading about the Commodore 64 Ultimate, as there's nothing new about that rent-a-brand getting stamped on a retrogadget. But "Commodore" is reportedly being sold outright to a… Read the rest of the article: Commodore 64 Ultimate not just another licensed gizmo

Copgadget company Axon offers an AI service that transcribes bodycam audio and turns it into an automatic police report, which officers can edit and sign off on. There are two… Read the rest of the article: Axon's AI police report generator designed to help cops avoid "disclosure headaches"

I recently bought an inexpensive mini PC from Beelink, one of several Chinese manufacturers that have met the demand for tiny but capable gadgets that can handle everything short of… Read the rest of the article: Video: how mini PCs are made

If you post a video to TikTok and it gets big, it risks being replicated to the word by AI copies. By deepfaking a new head and voice, the AI… Read the rest of the article: TikTok flooded with deepfake copies of real creators' videos

Before they were put in charge of the FBI, MAGA influencers like Kash "K$H" Patel and Dan Bongino often claimed that billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's death was suspicious and that… Read the rest of the article: Metadata implies FBI's "raw" Epstein jail footage was spliced

Political attacks on public libraries are often in the news, usually framed by the MAGA politics, homophobia or racism of those complaining. But what's not so often reported is the… Read the rest of the article: Public libraries fight private equity takeovers

Logos of the Early Computer Software Scene is a zine featuring, you guessed it, logos from the early computer software scene. You have Planet Luke to thank for collecting these… Read the rest of the article: Zine of early computer software scene logos

"THIS WEBSITE HAS BEEN SEIZED" declares the new banner at Nsw2u, a pirate site specializing in Nintendo Switch games. The FBI took control of the domain yesterday and with it… Read the rest of the article: Nintendo pirate site seized

Birthright citizenship is specified by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution—"All persons born or naturalized in the United States"—and interpreted plainly by 150 years of Supreme Court precedent. Now… Read the rest of the article: Is birthright citizenship merely a "custom"? In the news, an oblique turn of phrase

Richard Reid, the British "shoe bomber" who concealed explosives in his kicks but was subdued before he could detonate them, will spend the rest of his life in prison. But… Read the rest of the article: U.S. ends "shoes off" policy for air travelers

City councillors in Belfast, Northern Ireland, are having second thoughts about the wisdom of lighting an enormous bonfire next to an asbestos dump and an electricity substation that a nearby… Read the rest of the article: Irish unionists look forward to holding giant bonfire next to asbestos dump and electricity substation

The trunk of England's famed Sycamore Gap tree, illegally felled two years ago, will be on permanent display at a nearby visitor center in Northumberland. As the BBC reports, 'people… Read the rest of the article: You may now hug the Sycamore Gap tree's trunk again

Bluetooth is as rinky-dink as it ever was, dongles are easily lost, and batteries fail at the most annoying moments. But wired keyboards tend to be old-fashioned and cheaply-made or… Read the rest of the article: Logitech's classy new wired keyboard and mouse combo

Linda Yaccarino, the TV executive picked by Elon Musk as CEO of Twitter/X, today announced her departure from the company. Her job was to convince advertisers to return after Musk… Read the rest of the article: Linda Yaccarino quits as Twitter CEO after Nazi chatbot meltdown

The New York Times recently disgraced itself obsessing over Zohran Mamdani having checked "Asian" and "Black or African American" boxes on a failed college application when he was a 17-year-old… Read the rest of the article: The Mamdani Times mocks the New York Times' crusade against Muslim candidate

Frame of preference is a history of the settings available on the Apple Macintosh through and just beyond the classic era. "As a designer, I'm meant to dislike settings," writes… Read the rest of the article: A history of Mac settings

Elon Musk's chatbok, Grok, often annoys him by echoing mainstream consensus on political topics, leading him to declare that it will be fixed. Today, the fix was clearly in, as… Read the rest of the article: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot praises Hitler, calls for new holocaust