News Rolling blackouts warning for 3 million California homes Xeni Jardin

News California faces rolling blackouts again as 'heat storm' strains electrical grid Xeni Jardin

chill out Video: How long can food stay frozen once the power's out? Séamus Bellamy

Boing Boing Gadgets Keep your devices and appliances running with this portable power station Boing Boing's Shop

Space Watch NASA's fiery and magnificent time-lapse video of 133 days on the Sun's surface David Pescovitz

texas Rolling blackouts expected this week for Texas's libertarian power grid Rob Beschizza

earthquakes A 7.3-magnitude earthquake hits Fukushima area of Japan Carla Sinclair

Boing Boing Gadgets Save nearly $500 on a home battery backup and solar panel generator for power outages Boing Boing's Shop

climate change Proudly wear your own US Forest Service Lunar Orbit Adjustment Program patch in honor of congressman Louie Gohmert's (R-TX) genius climate change mitigation idea David Pescovitz

Boing Boing Gadgets The Gravita is a trippy lamp that shines while levitating in thin air Boing Boing's Shop

adventures Meet the man who shipped himself overseas in a wooden crate David Pescovitz

politics Aung San Suu Kyi deposed by military in Myanmar coup Rob Beschizza

bitcoin Iran's government blames smog and massive blackouts on bitcoin mining operations in its country Mark Frauenfelder

explosion $300 million in aid pledge to help the survivors of massive Beirut explosion Séamus Bellamy

politics 'Sandworm' hacking group linked to Russian GRU's Main Center for Special Technology, says U.S. Xeni Jardin

books Notpetya: the incredible story of an escaped US cyberweapon, Russian state hackers, and Ukraine's cyberwar Cory Doctorow

science fiction Paolo Bacigalupi's "A Full Life": climate apocalypse with a side of intergenerational warfare and science denial Cory Doctorow

eff More than 130 European businesses tell the European Parliament: Reject the #CopyrightDirective Cory Doctorow