Shannon Marie Harris of Tyrone, Georgia, was charged with trespassing after the plane she was on had to return to the gate because she refused to end her phone call.… Read the rest of the article: Woman refused to end call for plane safety instructions

XOXO was a festival for internet artists and creators hosted by Andy McMilland and Andy Baio, held in Portland throughout the 2010s and again in 2014. After more than a… Read the rest of the article: XOXO festival archived online

There are various LLMs that focus on public domain texts, for ethical or experimental reasons, but most also incorporate modern material (such as Wikipedia) so they have a fully contemporary… Read the rest of the article: Talkie is an AI language model trained only on pre-1931 texts

rip.so is a "graveyard of dead internet things," with a handsome old-web aesthetic (there's even a <marquee>!) with which to enjoy the sites that capital forgot. The internet moves fast.… Read the rest of the article: Rip.so, the graveyard of dead internet things

Trump's widely-despised import tariffs were ruled unconstitutional, and everyone is suing someone—his administration, the delivery companies that collected it, the retailers—to get their money back. FedEx and UPS at least… Read the rest of the article: FedEx and UPS promise to pass on Trump tariff refunds to customers

Customs officers in Sri Lanka scored the island nation's biggest weed bust of all time on Sunday, finding 242 pounds of potent Kush cannabis in the luggage of a group… Read the rest of the article: 22 Buddhist monks arrested in drug bust at Sri Lanka's main airport

On MacOS, there's a wealth of beautifully elegant and powerful text editors to choose from. On Windows, there's Notepad++. And now, on MacOS, there's… Notepad++! Notepad++ is now available as… Read the rest of the article: Beloved Windows text editor Notepad++ now on Mac

Tom the Dancing Bug, published weekly here at Boing Boing by Ruben Bolling, was nominated for a National Cartoonists Society Award for Editorial Cartooning. Congrats, Ruben! The NCS's Reuben Awards… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug nominated for Reuben Award for editorial cartooning

Noise below the range of human hearing from old pipes and mechanical systems can induce stressful sensations, according to a study published by Canadian researchers in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.… Read the rest of the article: Study finds infrasound the likely horror in hauntings

The Free Universal Construction Kit is a 3D-printable set of adapters that allow you to connect 10 popular construction toy systems, including Lego, Duplo, Fischertechnik, Gears! Gears! Gears!, K'Nex, Krinkles… Read the rest of the article: Free Universal Construction Kit: 3D-printable adapters to connect Lego, Duplo, K'Nex, Stickle Bricks and other systems

The European Union decided that all charging thingies must use USB-C, at least for smaller gadgets such as phones, tablets, cameras, headphones and low-power laptops that are sold there. By… Read the rest of the article: Europe's USB-C charger rules come into force

The good news for Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien is that Singapore's draconian attitude toward petty crime won't get him caned. But filming himself licking a straw and putting it back… Read the rest of the article: French teen arrested for licking vending machine straw in Singapore

A few years ago, Kotakenotokeke's short but unnerving game The Exit 8 trapped the player in a looping but slowly-changing subway platform; to advance one would have to linger at… Read the rest of the article: Exit 8 movie escapes subway, opens in America

Trump Media, which is to say the Twitter clone Truth Social, is ditching CEO Devin Nunes (formerly a congressman, also cows and relentless complaints) after what the Associated Press reports… Read the rest of the article: Trump Media shakeup after stock collapse

You've likely heard of the menacingly brutalist AT&T Long Lines skycraper in Manhattan, a massive telecommunications center believed to house an NSA surveillance facility and the inspiration behind the Oldest… Read the rest of the article: Mini-documentary about Pittsburgh's Long Lines telecom fortress

My first experience of emulation was ZSNES in the late 1990s, letting me return to what then seemed like ancient history: the early 1990s. I could finally finish Secret of… Read the rest of the article: Legendary emulator ZSNES rewritten from scratch

Two 18-year-olds got a flying start on their lives as Florida men Saturday, driving a lawnmower through the Target in Ocala and allegedly damaging a door. Janek Szkaradek and Luke… Read the rest of the article: Florida teens arrested after riding lawnmower through Target

A 17th-century brass astrolabe, said to be the "perhaps the largest in existence" by Sotheby's Benedict Carter, is up for auction in London on Wednesday. The BBC reports that it's… Read the rest of the article: Giant 17th-century astrolabe could fetch millions at auction

Academic freedom is declining around the world, according to the latest update in the 2026 Academic Freedom Index (AFI), with dozens of countries getting worse and only nine getting better… Read the rest of the article: U.S. sinks in world Academic Freedom Index

Fits on a Floppy is a "manifesto for small software" inspired by the storage limit of a standard old-timey 3.5-inch floppy disk: 1.44MB. "Software has lost its way," writes Matt… Read the rest of the article: Does your app fit on a floppy?