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LG monitors install spyware; LG TVs make wiretapping your problem
17+ hour, 52+ min ago (291+ words) "Surveillance Monitor" gets a new meaning. LG's screens have apparently entered their "consent is someone else's problem" phase: some monitors can trigger silent Windows software installs, while some LG TV terms reportedly tell you to warn guests they may be…...
Tesla's latest offering is a $225 bike for toddlers
17+ hour, 40+ min ago (436+ words) Tesla is finally selling a bicycle, something the company's fans have apparently been speculating about excitedly for years. This bike, however, is not an e-bike and is not for adults. It's a toddler balance bike. The $225 "Balance Bike for Kids…...
Crowdfunding campaign for $100k Charlie Kirk statue languishes
22+ hour, 12+ min ago (389+ words) To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio. "Is it cursed? Maybe. I don't know," he told the Guardian. New York City removed Furnari…...
Microsoft Office is just $28, but only through July 26
15+ hour, 50+ min ago (515+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office Professional 2021 for Windows for $27.97 instead of $219.99. The one-time purchase includes eight familiar productivity apps for one PC, with no recurring subscription…...
Humanoid robot keeps fighting, even after his block was knocked off!
16+ hour, 45+ min ago (479+ words) China's humanoid robots continue to improve their kung fu and have expanded into MMA cage fighting. The Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend tournament is a showcase for EngineAI's humanoid robot, the T800. The model is seemingly unironically named after the Terminator model…...
A prison manuscript maps the periodic table onto Tarot and the zodiac
17+ hour, 42+ min ago (347+ words) The black-and-white pages match a batch of Leary papers auctioned in 2012 that were expected to fetch $30,000 to $50,000, and a different version of the manuscript is still listed for sale at $3,999.99. The New York Public Library handed over its scans for…...
William Shatner has a metal band, and they are playing at Riot Fest
16+ hour, 53+ min ago (289+ words) "… Shatner will take the stage with an all-star band featuring Marcus Nand, Phil Soussan, Britt Lightning, and Fred Aching to perform reimagined songs from his musical catalog and preview tracks from his upcoming heavy metal album," according to the announcement....
This Oklahoma boy is truly a "bird caller extraordinaire"
17+ hour, 38+ min ago (185+ words) Go see for yourself on his Instagram, and prepare to be wowed! Americans will lose about $250 billion gambling this year, reports Joey Politano, a number that's up 60% in half a decade. And that doesn't include "prediction markets" and cryptocurrencies, both…...
Bethesda provides "studio update" on its franchises
17+ hour, 35+ min ago (597+ words) For the past decade and a half, one question has been at the forefront of gamers' minds: what the absolute hell is Bethesda Game Studios up to? Although no AAA dev cycle could ever reasonably be accused of being snappy,…...
Cyclospora: Trump’s FDA shits the bed
20+ hour, 12+ min ago (330+ words) Trump's FDA appears to have shat the bed on the cyclospora outbreak: a major lettuce recall disrupted the food chain, the outbreak kept spreading, and now the agency says its positive product test was wrong. On July 19, FDA said its…...