Valve is said to be selling 12,000 Steam Machines a week (previously at Boing Boing), despite an indefinite waitlist and a much higher price than originally anticipated (not their fault). If you've got one, then, you'll be pleased to see iFixit's comprehensive repair guide—also interesting if you just want to see inside one. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Access 1,000+ developmental courses with EDU Unlimited by StackSkills for a one-time purchase of $19.97 (MSRP $600) until Sept. 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

Gun for a promotion, make that career switch, or just spend your free time on education; with a lifetime subscription to EDU Unlimited by StackSkills, you can gain expertise in IT, design, marketing, coding, business, AI, and more. — Read the rest

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The Trump Administration has done an excellent job of hiding the damage Iranian drones and missiles have wrought on US bases across the Middle East.

The Pentagon's inspector general now says Iranian attacks damaged or destroyed hundreds of structures across eight countries. — Read the rest

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A dad named Dave said he got called into a meeting with his boss to explain the $118,000 bill on his company credit card.

The culprit was his 9-year-old son, who bought ads on YouTube to promote his Minecraft and Roblox videos. — Read the rest

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A 30-year-old Polish programmer, Pawel Szydlowski, built an app that sends an alert if someone nearby is using Meta's perv glasses.

Szydlowski bought several pairs of the stealth video glasses, which are a favorite tool for incels who like to record women they harass and then post to Meta's Instagram site. — Read the rest

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Long derided for putting just about anything on a pizza, California has two pizzerias in the world's top 5, according to the Italian culinary guide "Top 50 Pizza."

BBQ chicken pizza ain't so funny now, is it?

On Tuesday, Italy-based culinary guide 50 Top Pizza released its global rankings for 2026 — and three pizzerias with California ties scored spots in the top five.

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Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk ranted and raved that Grok would make a better, more "historically accurate" Odyssey than Christopher Nolan ever could, and held a contest to get others to do the work for him. His $100k grand prize winner has a three-eyed cyclops. — Read the rest

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I kind of like magic shows, but I really like finding out how magician's tricks are done. For me, it's almost all the fun. It's not in the magician's best interest to have their tricks revealed, and they have a code (among themselves) to keep their secrets secret. — Read the rest

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Maybe you learned that thousands of years ago, a now-extinct species of cheetah sped across the plains of North America. New genetic evidence shows that these animals weren't cheetahs, but were more closely related to American pumas. Paleontologists had been fooled by the animal's morphological similarity to African cheetahs, but it turns out that similarity was just an instance of convergent evolution. — Read the rest

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To this day, I can't think of the Republican National Convention without also thinking about Nick Lutsko's generational RNC song, which does more to capture the spirit of the median GOP voter than a million paid-off TikToks. It's an indictment of increasingly factional American politics, then, that Lutsko's intentional parody was wholly outdone by the RNC itself this year. — Read the rest

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After decades of convincing the world its wines deserve the reverence of French varietals, a new winemaker takes Napa Valley in an exciting direction: sparkling rosé in a fairly anatomically correct penis-shaped bottle.

Some wine bottles are designed to evoke history, and then there is Just the Tipsy. — Read the rest

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Curiosity has been plugging away on Mars for over 14 years. While sometimes overshadowed by its younger, more advanced cousin, Perseverance, and its tiny helicopter (RIP), Curiosity is still making regular contributions to science. Perhaps to ensure that Curiosity isn't forgotten, NASA has created a breathtaking panoramic postcard from images the rover sent back to Earth. — Read the rest

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Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Dementia Donnie runs a demented campaign!

-ANNOUNCING The Tom the Dancing Bug Community Saves America Drive! For every Tom the Dancing Bug book(s) order through the end of September, $20 will be donated to Spread the Vote to help voters VOTE. — Read the rest

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Now we have Grandpa Pudding Brains' definition of a "high-IQ person." Low-IQ ones are the people who disagree with Dementia Don in any way.

The entire story is a lie, but aside from that, who does Grandpa think he is impressing? — Read the rest

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Apple's Dimensional Drawings site is a fascinating collection of images of some of its products. Not schematics but orthographic drawings of iPhones, iPads, the MacBook Neo, Apple Watches, AirPods and various accessories. Below, see some corners to check out on the watch; the roundrect has evolved into the squircle. — Read the rest

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TL;DR: Microsoft Visual Studio 2026 is available until Sept. 20 at 11:59 p.m. PT. for just a one-time purchase of $29.97 (MSRP $499.99).

Coding doesn't have to be the hold up anymore — fix bugs, use suggestions, and collaborate easily to code more quickly than ever with Microsoft Visual Studio Professional. — Read the rest

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I recently got a Portable Car Refrigerator from Euhomy. This compact portable refrigerator can fit 19 liters of food and drinks. It's easy to move and carry, and it plugs into a regular wall outlet or your car's power outlet. My favorite thing about this refrigerator is that you don't need to add ice cubes, and you can even use it as a freezer by adjusting the temperature. — Read the rest

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Watch someone turn a tin of mints, some tape, black paint, and rolls of film into a DIY film camera on the go. They make it look so simple, but that's because it actually is. This is just their own take on a classic pinhole camera. — Read the rest

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If leeches make you feel squeamish, then you will absolutely despise this video. The video starts out like a daredevil who knows what they're doing. They put their rubber boot into a pond filled with a disgustingly enormous amount of leeches. — Read the rest

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I've been looking to try something outside the Amazon ecosystem for my color e-reader, and I wanted to add note-taking. The Boox Note Air6C looks really cool and is supposedly fast enough to use.

Unlike Kindle and Kobo, Boox is an Android-based tablet that happens to use e-ink as its screen. — Read the rest

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Suno is the "best" music-generating AI platform, at least as benchmarks have it, but the newest model launched last week to mixed reviews. On one hand, Suno v6 cranks out songs fast and they more closely meet the specifications in prompts. — Read the rest

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This e-ink display is mounted in a picture frame and sits near a window overlooking a bird feeder in Arne Giacomo's yard in Bergen, Norway.

A microphone next to the birdcage picks up visiting birds' tweets and sends them to the Raspberry Pi mounted in the picture frame. — Read the rest

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Usenet-Rewind is the a vast archive of Usenet postings (previously at Boing Boing) covering text from 1981 to the present day. It contains 1,059,610,453 messages and has the "advanced search" features you're looking for.

Usenet-Rewind is a research archive for the newsgroup conversations that predate the modern web — early tech support and software debates, scientific and academic discussion, hobbyist and fan communities, entertainment and news commentary, and firsthand accounts of internet history as it happened on Usenet.

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When the Trump Administration proudly introduced its new Space Force uniforms, everyone thought they were very reminiscent of the Nazi SS, or just former immigration dunce Greg Bovino. Now we know why…

Dozing Donald saw a clip from Starship Troopers and came away impressed by the uniforms. — Read the rest

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The trailer for a film about Sam Altman's dishonesty landed him a wild few days of being fired and rehired at ChatGPT.

Altman is notably odd and off in most of his interviews. This movie trailer, however, fits a slasher far better than it does a story about Silicon Valley bloviating. — Read the rest

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GAO estimates federal agencies spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave in 2025, including about $6.7 billion tied to DOGE's deferred resignation program. Good work, Elon.

DOGE's celebrated plan to shrink the US government involved telling federal employees to stop working immediately, and they could keep collecting their salaries for months before resigning. — Read the rest

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A gentleman allegedly reached for a gun to settle an argument and promptly shot himself in the leg. Paramedics patched him up, and then the police booked him.

The thing about guns is they have only gotten more dangerous. Striker-fired pistols don't even have a hammer to warn you they are ready to go off, and trigger pulls are frequently down in the 3-4 lb range. — Read the rest

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Dolly Parton is being immortalized in corn mazes across the U.S. and Canada, a trend honoring the famed singer-songwriter and entrepreneur who died last month aged 80. At least twenty farms have created a maze of their own, each depicting the country legend and her flowing locks. — Read the rest

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Chester Zoo in England, delighting youngsters with its world-class menagerie since 1931, admits that tickets for a 'child predator tour' could have been worded better. The 90-minute bus ride features creatures such as tigers, lions and Komodo dragons, not Sidney Cooke or the embalmed corpse of Richard Huckle. — Read the rest

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Elias 2-24b is less than a million years old, writes Nasa's Ashley Balzer, making it the youngest planet yet observed by astronomers. Still "whirling in its natal disk of dust and gas," it orbits a similarly young orange dwarf 453 years from earth. — Read the rest

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