Antarctica IT worker stationed at South Pole takes photos of the last egg they'll have for five months. Mark Frauenfelder

gadgets Sony updates its decade-old RX10 superzoom Rob Beschizza

politics Mississippi District Attorney's "depraved" AI slop posts a reminder that "everyone is 12 now" Rob Beschizza

politics TED-stage futurist/longevity salesman says mass surveillance will make us behave Séamus Bellamy

youtube YouTube to label AI videos automatically Rob Beschizza

books Here's a terrific search hack for the Internet Archive Book Images Flickr photo stream Jennifer Sandlin

History Digitizing vintage proportional typewriter fonts Rob Beschizza

Design awards charmed by Kodak's $35 Charmera Rob Beschizza

movies Yoshi popcorn buckets are being repurposed in the funniest ways imaginable Popkin

Technology This guy used AI to document his grandmother's life on a personal Wikipedia and now you can, too Ellsworth Toohey

Technology Earleaf: an offline audiobook app built out of frustration Ellsworth Toohey

gadgets Rob Beschizza

gadgets Reviewers love the Super 8-style Instax Mini Evo Cinema, but not its price tag and problems Rob Beschizza

Technology It took an hour to reach desks from garage thanks to new security turnstiles Ellsworth Toohey

high noon Hollywood lied to us about Old West pistoleers Jason Weisberger

Off the rails Grok generated sexualized images of kids, and xAI hopes silence will fix it Jason Weisberger

America's anti-litter campaign was corporate PR in a recycling costume Jason Weisberger

Culture Tim Ferriss's audience is larger than NYC. He now carries a gun, uses fake names at hotels, and gets monthly death threats Ellsworth Toohey

art Seemingly blatant AI use denied by comic artist Rob Beschizza