5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (349+ words) There's a pretend country called Bookland. If you're an avid reader, there's a good chance that you have a book on your shelf that has been labeled as being from this pretend land. Bookland was created to serve as a…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (452+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Get Windows 11 Pro while it's on sale for $9.97 (reg. $199). Windows 10 is over a decade old, and it shows. Between the outdated interface and rusty…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (445+ words) Officials have shared an image demonstrating what the threatening reel could look like. [Assumption Parish] Sheriff [Leland] Falcon stresses that this attached image was created by the sheriff's office strictly as an example and is not an actual threat that…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (349+ words) ASCII CITY is an explorable cyberpunk city rendered in three dimensions with plain text characters. You can run the streets, enter buildings and take lifts to see it all from different elevations. There's no audio, story or "game" in there…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (392+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro adds security, virtualization, and business tools like BitLocker, Hyper-V, and Windows Sandbox, and a lifetime license for one compatible PC is…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (342+ words) Don't want a giant ghost building full of power-sucking, heat-generating computers at the end of your street? Enjoy being "backwards and poor," says Diaper Don. Folks building data centers for the AI bubble now eye neighborhoods with excess power and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (310+ words) In order to get MoveWriter up and running on your Paper Pro Move, you'll have to put it into Developer Mode. Once that's done, open the MoveWriter app on your Windows or Mac PC, connect your tablet via USB C…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (387+ words) No? What about everyone's hate for Mark Zuckerberg? Can we all rally around that? That feels like it'd be hella healing too. Instead of being adored by one faction and reviled by the other, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is simply…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (421+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: AskAnyModel AI lets you compare responses from up to six AI models side by side, with 30 unlimited standard models and 500 monthly premium credits. Lifetime…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (409+ words) A new lawsuit sheds some light on all those CSAM problems with Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk's Grok: it claims Grok was trained on child pornography, resulting in the child pornography problems created by Grok. More detail is shared on claims…...