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Top blog site Boing Boing said Monday it had been hacked and that its website had temporarily redirected readers to a dangerous malware page. Boing Boing, which is among the most widely read blogs ...
A classic animated short based on a Dr. Seuss story about a little boy who talks in sound effects is finding a new audience thanks to a new DVD release. Animation critic Charles Solomon offers and ...
A child scratched a Mark Rothko painting worth worth over $50 million at a museum in Rotterdam, reported the BBC. A spokesperson from the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen said the toddler-inflicted ...
Playboy has filed a lawsuit against Boing Boing, accusing the offbeat news blog of copyright infringement for linking to an Imgur gallery and a YouTube video that showed every Playmate centerfold.
On Friday, the extremely popular Boing Boing blog was hacked by an unknown party who planted malicious code into the site’s WordPress theme. Around 11:30 EST on January 10th, An unknown party logged ...
And by the mid-2000s, Boing Boing had become one of the most-read and linked-to blogs in the world. We know what happens next: This hobby morphs into a successful business. But Boing Boing’s ...
Electric scooter company Bird has demanded that the publication Boing Boing take down a story that discusses a $30 way to hack Bird scooters, citing copyright infringement. The argument doesn’t ...
Boing Boing was not responsible for any of the content; all it did was link to it. But Playboy had sued it anyway, accusing it for profiting from those unauthorized images.
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In addition, it said, because Boing Boing runs ads on its site, it had benefited commercially from sharing the link. Playboy is seeking damages of $150,000 (£108,000) per image. 'Fair use' doctrine ...
At the time, Boing Boing editor Xeni Jardin said the images were "amazing" for the insight they gave into "how our standards of hotness, and the art of commercial erotic photography, have changed ...