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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
Mar 17, 2026
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Photo: Mark Frauenfelder

Happy Tuesday! An unpatchable voltage glitch just cracked the Xbox One wide open after 13 years. A 1992 satirical paper made the case that happiness qualifies as a psychiatric disorder (the evidence is disturbingly solid). Brown University physicists used the Navier-Stokes equations to figure out how long you’ll wait for the last…

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