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 of the article: IP Crawl exposes that insecure web camera you never locked down
Despite temperatures over 100 degrees, tens of thousands of people attended Budapest's first post-Orbán Pride march. Orbán's far-right government had prohibited such events, but LBGTQ Hungarians and their friends defied… Read the rest of the article: Budapest enjoys first Pride march since Orbán voted out
Australia's ban on social media accounts for children has failed to produce an immediate drop in use among adolescents, according to an analysis published this week in The BMJ. The… Read the rest of the article: Australia's social media ban not working, study finds
Almost half of American adults now use AI chatbots, but only 16 percent think the technology will have a positive impact on society—and most expect AI to make society worse.… Read the rest of the article: Americans increasingly hate AI, but love chatting with it
Doctors in Spain suspected that a man suffering from chronic headaches had brain cancer. A scan showed a number of poorly-defined lesions, typical of cancer that has spread from elsewhere… Read the rest of the article: Suspected brain cancer turns out to be pork tapeworm infestation
SpaceX stock soared to $251 after its launch then came back to Earth. It traded today at $149, less than ther $150 it opened at following the $135 IPO. Virtually… Read the rest of the article: SpaceX stock took a predictable trajectory
Sony unceremoniously announced that it would be deleting 551 movies from PlayStation customers' accounts in the U.K.: no apologies, no refunds, just a cold reminder that the only thing bought… Read the rest of the article: Sony deleting 551 movies from own customers' accounts
As a child, I used to be fascinated by the indicators on old radios for faraway cities: magic places such as Warsaw, Nador, Ulaanbatar… and Droitwich. Longwave radio was surely… Read the rest of the article: The BBC ends longwave radio service today
Apple sharply raising the prices of laptops and other gear brought home that the datacenter-driven computer parts shortage is only getting worse. It will be years before prices fall, with… Read the rest of the article: Reviving old PCs with Linux now that new ones cost an arm and a leg
Tim Langdell found success publishing computer games in the 8-bit era, but became more famous for his extractive policing of trademarks around the word "Edge." This enterprise seemed to come… Read the rest of the article: Famed "trademark troll" Tim Langdell back on the Edge
Administrators at East Brook Middle School in Paramus, New Jersey, announced that "we immediately collected the yearbooks so the image would not remain in circulation" after it turned out that… Read the rest of the article: Hitler baby photo in school yearbook
Roost Social is an app that geolocates each user and slows transmission to the speed of bird flight. You start with a pigeon, but can add other species to your… Read the rest of the article: Roost: an app that sends messages at the speed of birdflight
When troops from Ohio's National Guard were deployed to Washington D.C. to menace locals as part of President Trump's crime "emergency" there, Sam O'Hara followed them around playing The Imperial… Read the rest of the article: Man detained after playing Imperial March to troops in D.C. wins "substantial" settlement
When the White House appointed conspiracy theorist Gregg Phillips (previously) to a top job in the Federal Emergency Management Agency, that was not his most interesting sudden movement. Phillips claimed… Read the rest of the article: FEMA official who teleported to Waffle House teleports out of agency
Nicholas Rossi fled the United States after faking his own death, hoping to avoid prosecution on rape charges. Recognized by staff at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, and… Read the rest of the article: Rapist who faked own death reportedly dead again
OS9Map is a new OpenStreetMap browser for Mac OS 9, which was last updated 24 years ago: three years before the volunteer-maintained mapping service was even founded. The app requires… Read the rest of the article: A new map app for Mac OS 9
A 19-year-old man from Wales admitted to deliberately fouling a public swimming pool 18 times, forcing staff to close it repeatedly to collect the matter and sanitize the water. Dyfed-Powys… Read the rest of the article: Man shat in public swimming pool 18 times
Cornell University researchers have restored worn lithium-ion battery packs to 95% of their original capacity by dissolving the "passivating electrode–electrolyte interphase"—the crust— that builds up on them. Direct electrode-to-electrode regeneration… Read the rest of the article: Dissolving crust on dead lithium batteries allows restoration to 95% original capacity
Most PC manufacturers are raising prices to cope with component shortages caused by big tech's AI mania, but buyers of Framework's modular laptops are getting an unexpected deal instead. The… Read the rest of the article: Framework lowering pricing on a forthcoming laptop
JPMorgan Chase has terminated a senior executive seen on video taking a city trash can during the New York Knicks' championship parade, TMZ reported. The bank told the New York… Read the rest of the article: JPMorgan Chase cans executive who stole trash can
