security Google says it can mitigate Spectre with "negligible" effect Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Lytepop Electrolyte Infused Popcorn is an organic, low-calorie, gluten-free and tasty treat Boing Boing's Shop

elections A vast network of shadowy news sites promote conservative talking points mixed with floods of algorithmically generated "news" Cory Doctorow

star wars R2-D2 popcorn maker Rusty Blazenhoff

Science The Life Cycle podcast talks transhumanism with Kernel CEO Bryan Johnson and "To Be a Machine" author Mark O'Connell Mark Frauenfelder

podcasts The Life Cycle is a quirky new futurist podcast Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Teardown of Apple's lightning-to-HDMI adapter, which turns out to be a tiny computer with 256MB of RAM Rob Beschizza

linux Why was a BogoMip bogus? Jason Weisberger

Food Cotton and jelly sandwich? David Pescovitz

happy mutants An "obsessive," "anti-imperialist" Turing Complete computer language with only one command Cory Doctorow

Japan Enjoy this shrimp-flavored popcorn for breakfast Thersa Matsuura

Robots powered by popcorn? David Pescovitz

cuisine Enjoy this fitted normal distribution of popcorn popping Rob Beschizza

books Cult of Personality: Two crime writers discuss the allure of cults in their own dark fiction Alex Segura

security Virtually every modern computer is vulnerable to a pair of devastating attacks, and there's only a fix for one of them, and it sucks Cory Doctorow

Trick or Treat Watch 221 pieces of candy corn perfectly spiral and fall like dominoes Carla Sinclair

Boing Boing Shop 10 products that take the annoying parts out of cooking Boing Boing's Shop

security Real people don't (just) need encryption Cory Doctorow

storytelling If you insist on telling your dreams to others, here's how to do it Mark Frauenfelder

web theory To understand trumpism, study the self-professed "betas" of 4chan Cory Doctorow