gadgets Western Digital still selling defective Sandisk-brand SSDs that it refuses to answer questions about Rob Beschizza

gadgets Framework taking pre-orders for its $549 12-inch laptop today Rob Beschizza

gadgets A Mac Mini M4 USB dock that matches the machine Rob Beschizza

gadgets Chunky business-class all-in-one PC has built-in dot matrix printer Rob Beschizza

Audio Master recordings of 90s music on slowly dying media Thom Dunn

Games New Raspberry Pi 500 all-in-one hinted at in data Rob Beschizza

crime Memory smuggler caught with hundreds of SSD drives taped to waist Rob Beschizza

gadgets A non-Mac Mini PC without a power brick? Rob Beschizza

art Celebrating the 35th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation with mixed-media meme art Gareth Branwyn

useful stuff Portable solid state drives are so cute! Mark Frauenfelder

video games KFC is releasing a video game console with a chicken warming compartment Thom Dunn

tech How storage ended up tiny Rob Beschizza

china Chinese enthusiasts are serving global Thinkpad fans by making modern motherboards that fit in classic chassis from the Golden Age of the Thinkpad Cory Doctorow

infosec A detailed technical rebuttal of Bloomberg's "backdoored servers" article Cory Doctorow

scholarship Your old CD-ROMs are probably rotting Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Why are the data-formats in Star Wars such an awful mess? Because filmmakers make movies about filmmaking Cory Doctorow

Business A Spotify bug thrashed subscribers' drives for the past five months Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Linux "lockout" tangle snarls Lenovo Rob Beschizza