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Librarian spent 5 years fighting Proctorio lawsuit for sharing public YouTube videos

A Canadian librarian spent five years fighting a lawsuit and burned through his life savings ten times over for doing something millions do every day: clicking the "share" button on YouTube videos. Ian Linkletter's nightmare began in 2020 when he ...

boingboing.net — 8 days ago

Microsoft makes Zork source code freely available

Microsoft has released the source code for Zork I, II, and III under the MIT open-source license, making the legendary text adventure games freely available for anyone to study, learn from, and play. "Our goal is simple: to place historically ...

boingboing.net — 8 days ago

AI startup lets you chat with dead relatives for monthly fee

I know this gets thrown around a lot, but in this case, there was literally a Black Mirror episode about this. With the AI bubble continuing to swell and venture capital-backed tech bros continuing to throw shit at the wall to see what sticks in the ...

boingboing.net — 12 days ago

Canadian spy chief warns: China and Russia targeting us for years

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) announced today what will likely surprise no one who has paid attention to global developments over the past 60 years: Chinese and Russian agents have been operating in Canada for some time. China and ...

boingboing.net — 15 days ago

How fake E-Z Pass texts became a $1 billion criminal empire

Those fake E-Z Pass and UPS texts flooding your phone are part of a billion-dollar scam operation that Google is finally taking to court, reports Ars Technica. Google filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against what it calls a "cybercriminal group in China"

boingboing.net — 17 days ago

This site captures laptop sticker collections before they disappear

The cover of a MacBook Pro tells a story: a Patagonia logo sits next to a DevOps conference sticker from Portland, while a faded National Geographic decal peels slightly at the edges. These laptop backs have become our digital age's equivalent of ...

boingboing.net — 17 days ago

Russian AI robot face-plants on stage in viral Moscow debut disaster

Russia's new AI humanoid robot AIdol made its grand debut in Moscow last week -- and immediately face-planted on stage. The moment was captured on video as the robot, entering to the iconic "Rocky" theme song, attempted a simple wave before losing ...

boingboing.net — 17 days ago

Elon Musk threatens to buy D&D after company removes racist content

A halfling can't become a great fighter. At least, that's what the 1970s Dungeons & Dragons rulebook insisted--racial determinism baked right into the fantasy. When Elon Musk told Hasbro to "burn in hell" last November for acknowledging those old ...

boingboing.net — 18 days ago

Testing shows cheap powder beats premium dishwasher pods

Technology Connections' Alec Watson has settled one of the kitchen's most heated debates with cold, hard data. In his latest video, "I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it," he presents independent lab testing that reveals the ...

boingboing.net — 23 days ago

Company bricks $300 vacuum when owner blocks it from spying

An engineer named Harishankar N. got curious about his iLife A11 smart vacuum and discovered it was secretly mapping his home and sending that data to China. The device had been using Google Cartographer to build a detailed 3D map of his home and ...

boingboing.net — 23 days ago

Does Duolingo actually work? One man's 2,000-day experiment (video)

YouTuber Evan Edinger spent 2,000 days learning Spanish exclusively through Duolingo to test whether the popular language app can deliver real results. After five years of daily practice, he reached B1-B2 level Spanish: upper-intermediate proficiency ...

boingboing.net — 24 days ago

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