google Reddit reportedly plans to block Google's search crawler Rob Beschizza

privacy The answer to the Clearview AI scandal is better privacy laws, not anti-scraping laws Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The citation graph is one of humankind's most important intellectual achievements Dario Taraborelli

scholarship Quantifying the influence of 4chan's alt-right trolls on normies' discourse Cory Doctorow

Food IHOP server fired after 13 years service for buying pancakes for hungry person Rob Beschizza

Business What are those blue dots on coin cell batteries? The real story behind them Mark Frauenfelder

microplastics Cooking with black plastic might not be good for you Rob Beschizza

google Google fined $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 by Russian court Rob Beschizza

crime Man arrested for 1988 murder after spitting on the sidewalk in 2023 Thom Dunn

surveillance Russian soldiers pick smartphones over safety Jason Weisberger

video Deeply satisfying video of guy scraping gunk off a lobster boat Popkin

slopcore aesthetic Akamai: 42% percent of web traffic is bots Rob Beschizza

police Burlington cops arranged for pretend school shooter to open fire with simulated gunshots at terrified children Rob Beschizza

google Google's AI-enhanced search suggests users add glue to their pizza and eat one small rock a day Natalie Dressed

politics Trump Media shares fall after it posts $327.6 million loss for first quarter Rob Beschizza

elon musk Judge slams Twitter's attempt to silence hate speech watchdog Mark Frauenfelder

architecture White Gates, iconic mid-century home in Phoenix, facing demolition by new owner Jennifer Sandlin

copyright New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming copyright infringement Rob Beschizza

Boing Boing Gadgets The multi-tool Geekey, the Swiss Army knife's cooler cousin, is only $24.99 Boing Boing's Shop

law California judge dismisses parts of lawsuit targeting art-scraping AI Rob Beschizza