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Boing Boing, March 17, 2026
Xbox One hacked after 13 years, happiness classified as a disorder, and olive oil physics
 • Boing Boing
Honest Trailer tackles “Big Trouble in Little China”
One of the greatest bad movies of all time, Big Trouble in Little China is a classic.
 • Jason Weisberger
Insect farming startups going bankrupt
The pitch was irresistible: feed agricultural waste to bugs, grind the bugs into protein meal, replace soybean and fishmeal, save the planet.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
OpenAI’s own advisers call ChatGPT erotica a “sexy suicide coach”
OpenAI’s handpicked council of mental health advisers unanimously told the company not to launch sexually explicit chat in ChatGPT.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Sparkling water reduced cognitive fatigue in esports players, study finds
Fourteen gamers played three hours of virtual soccer while drinking either plain or sparkling water.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The “unhackable” Xbox One has been hacked — and Microsoft can’t patch it
For 13 years, the Xbox One sat there like a locked vault nobody could crack.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A 1992 paper proposed classifying happiness as a psychiatric disorder
In 1992, psychologist Richard P.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Physicists calculate exactly how long it takes to completely drain a bottle of olive oil
You’re tilting a bottle of olive oil over a pan, waiting for the last bit to slide out.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Mike Johnson: Trust us, this war totally had to happen
Trump bootlicker “MAGA” Mike Johnson says Iran was an “imminent threat” and the U.S.
 • Jason Weisberger
Dune: Part 3 trailer released
This trailer for the third installment in Dennis Villenueve’s take on Dune is here.
 • Jason Weisberger
Lightning strike survivors describe what 100 million volts feels like
A defibrillator delivers up to 1,000 volts.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Valvoline’s magic oil tested (by Valvoline)
There are a lot of videos on YouTube discussing Valvoline Restore and Protect, since the claims that the oil does good things for your engine seem too…
 • Jason Weisberger
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