Boing Boing reports that former President Donald Trump, referred to as 'Grandpa Pudding Brains,' is demanding more data centers to support the AI bubble, dismissing local opposition as 'backwards and …
An interactive dictionary charting the most distinctive words in Anthropic's Claude language model's output highlights "load-bearing" as its top verbal tic, followed by "quietly," "latent," and "genui…
Boing Boing is offering a lifetime family license for VideoProc for Windows at $59.95, a video suite that enhances blurry or shaky footage, upscales videos and images, converts media, edits clips, rec…
A virtual AI-generated Cat-in-the-Hat character has appeared in Glasgow, causing confusion among residents, while authorities in Wexford, Ireland, have already debunked the phenomenon. The incident, r…
Boing Boing is offering lifetime access to ChatPlayground AI's Unlimited Plan for $59.97 through Aug. 25, down from the regular price of $619. The deal lets users compare answers from multiple AI mode…
Boing Boing published an essay arguing that the debate over whether AI-assisted writing counts as cheating is misguided, suggesting the question itself is backward. The piece highlights the polarized …
Andrew Yaros, in a blog post, argues that anti-AI fonts—typefaces designed to confuse AI systems—are useless and harmful, primarily because they are inaccessible. The post, highlighted by Boing Boing,…
Connecticut Judge Walter Spader Jr. sanctioned a plaintiff for using prompt-injection in electronic court filings, marking a first in a decision issued August 6, 2026. The judge found text formatted t…
Boing Boing is promoting AI Invoice Maker, an AI-powered invoicing app with 9 templates and support for over 150 currencies, now available for a lifetime subscription at $19.99 (MSRP $39.99). The app …
A lifetime subscription to 1min.AI Advanced Business Plan is available for $99.99, down from $540, offering access to flagship AI models from six companies, including GPT-5.5, Claude Opus, and Gemini …
Boing Boing is promoting VibefarmAI's prompt composition workspace, which includes a 10,000+ prompt library, available for a lifetime subscription of $39.99 (MSRP $179). The app aims to help AI users …
Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired and partner at Cool Tools and the Recomendo newsletter, has been publishing essays on Substack about the future and artificial intelligence, describing AI as a microsc…
Boing Boing is offering a lifetime subscription to Prompting Systems for $29.99, a 91% discount from the regular $360 price, to help users craft effective AI prompts without engineering expertise. The…
A prompt-injection attack on Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok tricked it into repeating inflammatory text from an X bio, including a call for Musk's assassination, highlighting a vulnerability in the 'maxi…
Software engineer Sean Goedecke argues that the European Union's watermark rule for AI-generated text, mandated by the EU AI Act, is ineffective because users can easily remove watermarks by asking a …
NoRecognition, a project by an unnamed team, is selling custom adversarial clothing—tees, hoodies, and gaiters—printed with patterns tested to stymie machine vision systems' human detection, now avail…
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier told Neil deGrasse Tyson and Negin Farsad on StarTalk that AI systems are not black boxes but are filled with people and their data, reiterating his 2023 New Yorker ess…
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro is available for $9.97 (MSRP $199) through August 20, a deal promoted by Boing Boing that includes advanced security, productivity, and management features such as BitLocker a…
AskAnyModel offers a lifetime subscription to its AI Pro Plan for $39.99, providing access to 50+ AI models including GPT, Claude, and Gemini. The platform, featured on Boing Boing, aims to address th…
At least two law enforcement agencies in Florida have begun issuing Meta's AI-powered smart glasses to police, according to Boing Boing. The disclosures were made possible by Florida's Sunshine laws, …