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Business Insider view of the cash-for-gold ripoff Cory Doctorow

Business In-game Ponzi nets US$50K Cory Doctorow
Science Blood-red rain fell on India for two months and some physicists blamed a comet Ellsworth Toohey
gadgets Leica's SL3-P loses the dot, gets 8K open-gate video Rob Beschizza
privacy Facebook employee data exposed in Meta's own surveillance program Séamus Bellamy
politics CDC buried this COVID vaccine study, so scientists published it anyway Séamus Bellamy
Boing Boing Gadgets Deal Days knocks this HP EliteBook workhorse down to $275 Boing Boing's Shop
Grandpa Pudding Brains pens backstory for nefarious Reflecting Pool vandal Jason Weisberger
Games 8BitDo's button-only arcade controller gets a tiny screen Rob Beschizza
Boing Boing Gadgets Learn 14 languages from 100+ linguists while this Deal Days Babbel offer is still valid Boing Boing's Shop
History In 1916 a con man ran a car on water and fleeced Henry Ford Ellsworth Toohey
mental health Mushrooms got him off antidepressants, so he built TripSitter Ellsworth Toohey
Whiskey Pete discovers viruses do not respect vaccine freedom speeches Jason Weisberger
AI Companies discover AI is expensive when employees actually use it Jason Weisberger
dementia Grandpa Pudding Brains visits a truck factory, makes haunted chew toy noises Jason Weisberger
cars Kevin Mitnick left the man who helped jail him enough for a Porsche 911 Ellsworth Toohey
Technology AI-designed radio chips look like QR codes and beat human ones Ellsworth Toohey
law enforcement What luck, America! Kash Patel's girlfriend joins Trump's talent-fleeing Freedom 250 event Jason Weisberger
Technology Microsoft CEO wants people to shut up about AI being bad for us Séamus Bellamy
youtube Comedian guilt-trips audience into laughing Grant St. Clair