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boingboing.net > 03/27/2026 > lonelywiki-shares-wikipedias-most-overlooked-articles.html

LonelyWiki shares Wikipedia’s most overlooked articles

3+ hour, 28+ min ago  (280+ words) LonelyWiki collects obscure Wikipedia articles that almost nobody reads. Each day, the site posts a new one " selected not for clicks but for quality. To qualify, an article must have received between 1 and 1,999 views in the past year, be written…...

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boingboing.net > 03/23/2026 > microsoft-plans-to-let-you-turn-off-windows-updates.html

Microsoft plans to let you turn off Windows updates

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (268+ words) Given that Windows users haven't had a choice about updates for over a decade, this is fabulous news. If you're interested in what else Microsoft is doing to make us love them again, The Verge's Tom Warren put together a…...

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boingboing.net > 03/21/2026 > fedramp-reviewer-called-microsofts-federal-cloud-a-pile-of-shit.html

FedRAMP reviewer called Microsoft's federal cloud "a pile of shit"

5+ day, 23+ hour ago  (373+ words) A reviewer at FedRAMP " the federal program that certifies whether cloud services are secure enough for government use " described Microsoft's GCC High cloud product " used by the Justice Department, the Department of Energy, and defense contractors " as "a pile of…...

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boingboing.net > 03/18/2026 > earleaf-an-offline-audiobook-app-built-out-of-frustration.html

Earleaf: an offline audiobook app built out of frustration

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (203+ words) The New York Times has started blocking the Internet Archive's web crawlers, going beyond standard robots.txt rules to cut off access entirely. The Guardian is doing the same. The stated" READ THE REST OpenAI's handpicked council of mental health…...

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boingboing.net > 03/18/2026 > artist-creates-clever-stop-motion-animation-using-rubber-stamps.html

stamps a figurine's face 200 times to build one animation

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (312+ words) This unique animation process by artist Phillipa Rice is ingeniously clever. She uses what looks like a pigment-covered, kneaded eraser to make impressions of a plastic figurine's face. Then she stamps the face imprint onto a piece of paper. Rice…...

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boingboing.net > 03/17/2026 > nvidia-reveals-absolutely-laughable-ai-upscaling-for-your-video-games.html

NVIDIA reveals absolutely laughable AI upscaling for your video games

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (301+ words) For a long time, I thought there was absolutely nothing one could possibly do to make Starfield worse. I really wish I hadn't been proven wrong. There really aren't words in the English language to describe how insultingly terrible this…...

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boingboing.net > 03/16/2026 > apples-cheapest-laptop-is-also-its-most-repairable-laptop.html

Apple's cheapest laptop is also its most repairable laptop

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (206+ words) Y'all know about my love of the game that Bethesda fans love to hate: Starfield. People call it boring, glitchy, and say it lacks the pizzazz of Skyrim and Fallout" READ THE REST Fake RAM sticks, with the board and…...

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boingboing.net > 03/16/2026 > fake-ram-sticks-popular-as-prices-driven-up-by-ai-industry.html > amp

Fake RAM sticks popular as prices driven up by AI industry

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (236+ words) Fake RAM sticks, with the board and LED lights but no memory chips under the heatsinks, are becoming a popular accessory among PC builders eager to fill up the slots on their motherboards. They're sold as Light Enhancement Kits, and…...

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boingboing.net > 03/13/2026 > roblox-will-now-have-ai-politely-rewrite-your-trash-talk.html > amp

Roblox will now have AI politely rewrite your trash talk

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (207+ words) Roblox is rolling out a new AI system that doesn't just block profanity in chat: it rewrites it. Rather than just censoring bad language, the platform's new system automatically rephrases profanity into something more polite while keeping the original meaning…...

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boingboing.net > 03/13/2026 > apples-cheapest-laptop-beat-a-cloud-server-with-4x-the-memory.html

Apple's cheapest laptop beat a cloud server with 4x the memory

2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (319+ words) Apple's cheapest laptop " the new $700 MacBook Neo " just beat a cloud server with four times more memory and ten more processor cores at crunching 100 million rows of data. The Neo runs on the same chip as the iPhone 16 Pro, ships…...