TL;DR: The MagTag Tracker Card is an ultra-slim, travel-friendly smart card compatible with the Apple Find My app to help you keep track of your belongings. Get it now for just $23.99 (reg. $59.99) and enjoy up to 5 months of battery life from a single charge. — Read the rest

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Today in "things I never thought I would type:" Refrigeration units in multiple military commissaries across the United States may have been hacked.

On the otherwise quiet Substack Signal and Silence, "M. Elizabeth" posted an investigation into a string of refrigeration failures at military installations. — Read the rest

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A chill dog-merging card game is now on mobile. Dogpile combines Suika Game and Balatro to form an adorable, time-wasting masterpiece.

Dogs of the same suit, ace through king, merge into the next largest suit, and man, do they get large. — Read the rest

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I'm looking forward to reading A Ghost Arm Made of Angry Ghosts, the new graphic novel from writer/colorist Oliver Mertz and artist Alex Diotto. And not just because that is one hell of a killer title.

The book is set in the Washington, DC punk scene of the 1990s, where teenager Ari Ackerman is trying to navigate the usual adolescent minefield while dealing with something decidedly less usual: his cancer-stricken father keeps dying and coming back to life. — Read the rest

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Gabriel Kennedy (aka Prop Anon), author of the acclaimed biography Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson, is currently running a crowdfunding campaign to bring his definitive history of underground icon (and Boing Boing patron saint) Robert Anton Wilson to life in an official audio format. — Read the rest

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Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH new names for American geographic features are humbly proposed

-> Please join the team that makes it possible for your friendly neighborhood comic strip Tom the Dancing Bug to exist in this hostile Trumpverse! JOIN US IN THE INNER HIVE, and be the first kid on your block to get each week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic – before it's published anywhere, plus lots of other stuff! — Read the rest

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Cedartown Police Department in Georgia has no explanation for why one of its officers shot and killed HeeHaw, a miniature donkey, while supposedly searching for a lost child. Police chief Jamie Newsome posted a video to Facebook in which he said "it is with heavy heart that I report that a Cedartown police officer shot and killed a donkey." — Read the rest

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TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to Internxt's 10TB encrypted cloud storage plan frees up space on your devices, and it's on sale for new users at $269.97 (reg. $2,900).

Storage warnings pop up right when you can't afford to deal with them. — Read the rest

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The Restroom Archive is an online repository of toilets, bathrooms and other publicly-assessible venues for spending a penny or two. It currently has 94 restrooms archived from 35 cities, representing the work of 166 archivists.

'Everyone uses restrooms, yet as spaces, they are considered taboo, rarely discussed, acknowledged, or considered," writes the site's creator, designer Jake Welch. — Read the rest

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Are you tired of paying a few dollars for a whole package of toothbrushes that clean your teeth without providing live footage of them or optimizing the task with machine intelligence? Dyson's $500 AI-powered CameraJet toothbrush will waterfloss your choppers and its built-in camera will show you them from every angle. — Read the rest

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LightInk is an e-ink wristwatch (compare to Watchy) that can run exclusively on solar power. A tribute to the solar watches of yore, the inexpensive ESP32-based design brings WiFi, Bluetooth, LoRa and GPS to a tiny wearable device with a 200×200 1.54-inch display panel. — Read the rest

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The Consumer Rights Wiki documents anti-ownership and anti-consumer shenanigans ranging from planned obsolescence to subscription traps, with every shady and sketchy practice in between. Right-to-repair restrictions are far from history despite it becoming the law of the land in state after state. — Read the rest

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Florida's Department of Transportation has revoked permits for Flock surveillance cameras installed on state roads, effectively ordering local law enforcement to remove those in their jurisdictions within 30 days. In a memo sent to agencies statewide, FDOT cited widespread reports of abuse and said it will no longer approve new requests. — Read the rest

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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is warning wholesome American consumers not to microwave squishy toys. Viral videos showing the heat causing the items to expand, mutate or explode are racking up millions of views online: "These demonstrations are dangerous and should never be attempted or imitated," the commission states. — Read the rest

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The Supreme Court of the United States today allowed construction of a massive ballroom on the White House grounds to continue, though Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that it's "probably illegal." The majority instead dodged the issue, ruling 5-4 that the National Trust for Historic Preservation had no standing to challenge the project in the first place. — Read the rest

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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 currently $7.97 (reg. $199).

Eight bucks doesn't buy much anymore, but apparently it can buy Windows 11 Pro. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Curiosity Stream is a full documentary streaming platform, and a lifetime subscription is on sale now for $149.99 (reg. $399.99).

Netflix has like three good documentaries every year. For dedicated documentary lovers, that's nothing. If you want to really get your fix on educational content and soothing narration, check out Curiosity Stream. — Read the rest

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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 yet, but buying it buys access to future version and continued development. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office 2024 Professional Plus for $49.97 (reg. $249.99), with lifetime access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Access on one PC.

Microsoft 365 keeps Office on a recurring payment schedule, but that's not the only way to get the desktop apps.  — Read the rest

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Open Waters is a game in development designed to induce thalassophobia: the intense and supposedly irrational fear of large bodies of water. The teaser trailer had me clenched within seconds and that was before that thing even showed up.

You are LOST in Open Waters.

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Lawmakers in Mato Grosso, Brazil, find their work increasingly disrupted by capybaras wandering into the state legislature in Cuiaba, which was built next to a wildlife park. The large rodents, native to South America, are famously relaxed but not particularly interested in parliamentary procedure. — Read the rest

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Evidently, George Santos is too low for Kalshi.

Kalshi gave the already convicted fraudster its first-ever lifetime ban! Santos bet on himself, then allegedly tried to manipulate the market by lying about whether he'd show up to Trump's State of the Union. — Read the rest

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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched yesterday on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida and will soon begin its mission as NASA's latest eye on the final frontier. If the James Webb Space Telescope is the telephoto, this one is our wide-angle shot. — Read the rest

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Transportation Secretary and former "Real World" cast member Sean Duffy has uncovered a transportation problem demanding immediate federal attention: some truck drivers do not speak English.

DHS claims it's targeting improperly issued commercial driver's licenses and fraudulent medical certifications. But Duffy made it abundantly clear who he wants off the roads. — Read the rest

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ICE has imprisoned a 76-year-old for more than two months despite knowing Loreto Javar is fighting Stage 4 prostate cancer. His family says he's missed critical doctors' appointments, is losing weight, and can not reliably take his cancer drugs on schedule because the detention center sometimes serves lunch at 6 p.m. — Read the rest

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A Baltimore woman says that her father's nurse took the deed to his home before his death and only told her he had died after she drove to South Carolina to find out why he wasn't responding to calls.

Robert Rowland, 75—a vulnerable adult with Parkinson's disease and a brain injury—was cared for by Sarah Smalls of Griswold Home Care in the last months of his life, according to WMBF News, and his daughter Nora Rowland said she heard from him less and less in his final months. — Read the rest

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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 space. — Read the rest

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A Star Wars: The Phantom Menace-cobranded Pepsi vending machine somehow survived decades outside a Pittsburgh fire station to become an ironic tourist attraction. Pepsi, alert to its growing fame, donated $10,000 to the firefighters who kept it stocked. But it disappeared last week, replaced by a similar machine crudely painted to resemble it. — Read the rest

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Defrag98 is a fully-featured Windows 98 Disk Defrag tool simulator "faithfully reborn in your browser," complete with teal backdrop, bitmap-fonted gray user interface, and even the hollow clicks of a Microsoft Intellimouse. Once you click start, you are treated to the soothing grind of a Western Digital Caviar. — Read the rest

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I saw a video about Monge's theorem on Instagram and thought it would be fun to vibe code an interactive demo. 

Monge's theorem states that given any three circles, you can draw a line tangent to each pair. Those tangent lines will cross at a point. — Read the rest

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